About 25% of all occupations require a college degree (the professions: physician, attorney, teacher, etc.)

CTG teaches what careers are hot and what skills one needs to be successful in a profession. You have to be smart and plan ahead. College pays off for those who use their heads. Sadly, college doesn't often pay off for those who fail to plan....remember if you fail to plan, you plan to fail.

In terms of career development, when an adolescent becomes 13 or 14, they can begin to realistically (in a cognitive sense) start to plan constructively for their futures.

Remember Middle School when thinking about just the next five seconds was stressful ?

And, research shows that such an ability to plan for the future does not become fully operational (if ever) until a young is 17 or 18.

To think constructively about the future requires the cognitively abilities of:

Reflection -What happened when? (an event of the past where the lessons are abstracted into principles)

Projection -What will happen if ? (when such principles are applied to new situations and experiences)

Reflection and Projection are necessary skills for career development. By the time a young adult is in college, this cognitive development must be firmly set. See my reasearch on "Formal Operations" and "Analogical Thinking" on this web site for more details.