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Escaping the College Industrial Complex with Discover Praxis – Epi-3489

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Philosophy, Society & Culture

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πŸ—“οΈ 1 May 2024

⏱️ 111 minutes

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Today Mitchell Earl, CEO of Discover Praxis joins us to discuss how young people can opt out of the college-industrial complex and prioritize real world experience and skills. Along with why this approach has worked well for so many Praxis … Continue reading β†’

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0:00.0

There's a better way to do this.

0:09.0

Let me show you a better way.

0:11.0

A better way.

0:20.0

and you don't have to be another face in the crowd. And we are live, welcome folks to episode 3,489 of the survival

0:25.8

podcast. Today's show is what I'm really excited about. I found or I should

0:30.9

say discovered Discover Praxis a few years ago and was unable to connect with anybody

0:37.1

there and get them on the air and then they showed up one day and said, hey, we want to be

0:39.8

like this is awesome.

0:41.4

Better than that, they sent Mitchell Earl the CEO over for an

0:46.3

interview I think it's going to be really great to talk to him practice is a unique

0:50.1

way in their words to avoid the college industrial complex. I'm a little jealous.

0:56.5

I kind of wish I would have come up with that term. You know, you guys know me, I am not

1:01.3

somebody that just hates on college for the sake of

1:04.2

hating on college I think there's probably you know 25% of people are probably

1:08.4

about the right head count to enter the university system versus you know 40 50 60 or whatever insane goal they have now

1:16.0

it leads to what we call degree inflation that's where like there's more more

1:20.0

degrees but more and more people who have degrees that don't really bring a lot of values to the table, and the degree costs more than it ever did, but since there's so many of them, the employer values the degree less than before even though it costs you more. I've told

1:36.2

the story before but back before I was doing the podcast one of the companies that I

1:40.4

was a co-owner in we were a contract recruitment firm and I talked to a guy at a chamber

1:45.2

commerce meeting and he was looking for a whole bunch of CSRs.

1:48.3

It was kind of below our level of what we did.

1:50.6

We were more technical, but I was like, you know, with that could probably do something what do you need he goes you know excellent communication schools keyboarding

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