The sentence “Companies are having a hard time filling positions” may seem odd given the current economic recession, but this sentence is true. The number of open job positions has increased 37% from last year but there are still 15 million unemployed adults, 40%, which have been out of, work for 6 months or longer.

Companies were forced for combine job tasks when doing layoffs last year. Now, someone who hopes to get those jobs must meet the new requirements. For example, accountants must also do financial analysis, factory workers need to program computers to run machinery and information technology workers are being forced to do both the business and technology side of the job.

Unemployed workers are being forced to take courses to learn their new skills and obtain certification. Employers rather wait and hold job vacant then settle for less.

Leadpile works in the education space, check out our EDU offer and help promote degrees to help you get your dream job.

Law schools around the nation are changing their grade point averages to help current law students education and possibly attract new ones as well.
Many graduate law students were having problems acquiring a job after their hard work and effort in law school because of having a slightly lower GPA than desired by employers or practices. Many believed this to be unfair, leading some law schools to not only help benefit their students, but their institution or school as well.
These law schools, including New York and Georgetown, believe it can help to increase their reputation by adding about 0.33 to the last couple of years recorded grades. This way, students who spent over $100,000 in school are given the chance to finish with more than a mediocre GPA.
These schools aren’t the ones attempting to help relieve students’ stress. Other popular and competitive law educators such as Yale and Harvard, cut out the original grading system and replaced it with a pass or fail option.
Still working in the education field? Leadpile has a new education vertical!

Leadpile is excited to announce some great new offers we have for the Leadpile publishers to drive traffic to. If you are someone who has SEO, PPC or email traffic, we want to talk to you about some great new offers.

Bankruptcy:
Great new offer that we are looking for some direct traffic to.
bankruptcyprograms.com is the great new offer we have a text link or even banners available to generate the leads. This offer is consumers that are looking for more information about potentially filing bankruptcy.

Online education:
Another great new offer we are looking for traffic on. This offer is consumers that are looking at going back to school.
Educationplans.com is the offer we currently have available to our publishers through iframe form, banners or direct traffic to the offer.

Pre paid credit cards:
Consumers are always looking for a way to help them re-establish their credit. Leadpile has two great new credit card offers we are looking to generate leads for.

Account Now-
Great pre paid Visa for consumers looking to start establishing their credit again.

Greendot-
Great pre paid offer for consumers looking for a pre paid credit card.

If these offers are something you are interested in working with us on, please contact us to discuss further!

Two words companies have been hearing more of in 2010. In February, the number of employees voluntarily quitting surpassed the number being fired or let-go for the first time since October 2008.

Since the Bureau of Labor Statistics starting tracking such data the average numbers of employees quitting their jobs per month has been about 2.7 million. In October 2008 this number dropped to 1.72 million but now that employees feel the recession is taking a turn for the better this number is steadily increasing. March 2009 showed 1.87 million employees voluntarily quitting their jobs.

Human-resource consultant Right Management conducted a poll at the end of 2009 asking workers if they intended to leave their job when the market got better, 60% said yes.

Experts say there are 2 reasons for this increase. First, the natural turnover of employees leaving to advance their careers by either finding a better position or furthering their education. Secondly, employees were reluctant to leave their current job during the recession, these hang-ups are disappearing.

The cost of turnover can cost up to half of an employees yearly salary after recruitment and training. Companies are trying to find better ways to retain current employees such as concierge services, discounted lunches and hiring bonus. But most employees are looking for less stress at work, improving work-life balance and creating more opportunities internal and externally.

For some employees it may be to late for these types of incentives. What would it take for you to remain at a job you were not happy with? Money? Promotion? Happiness?

Leadpile has recently launched it’s own Education portal! Inquire within to become a lead buyer or seller!

A group of 50 colleges (and this number is growing) are pledging to do fund student financial needs through grants and work-study programs rather than with loans. Limiting loans with the “Project on Student Debt” will help in the efforts of reducing graduates debt amounts leaving them in large financial debt when leaving school.

With the economy in poor standing, this affected all schools – particularly private schools, resulting in tuition hikes and budget hikes.

With student aid, few students will pay the full tuition price for example. Financial aid is defined as the total cost of attendance (tuition, books, room & board) minus a family’s expected contribution. Public colleges threshold for receiving need-based aid is typically $60,000 or less.

For example according to money.cnn.com:

Full estimated tuition price at Harvard per year is $50,000. A family with an income of $120,000 can expect to pay after Harvard’s financial aid $16,000 per year. This same family would pay an estimated $15,800 at Yale and $34,000 at Stanford after receiving financial aid help.

The financial commitment to attend college may be intimidating. Researching your options for financial aid in addition to merit-based scholarships and grants can be a great way to lessen the financial burden. A complete list of schools participating with the “no loan” financial aid packages can be found here: www.ProjectOnStudentDebt.org .

LeadPile is adding Online Education to our list of lead types and will soon be generating leads!

95 percent of college students between the age of 18-24 use some form of social networking. That is defiantly not a surprising statistic. What is more surprising is that the students who are involved in using social networking tools, which includes texting and instant messaging, are more apt to learn. This is because many of the students are using the different social networking tools to network with their teachers/classmates for academic help. It makes for a quick and easy way to get the answers or information that a student needs. This could help increase the performance of the students because they have all their resources right at their fingertips.
I know when I was in college a few years ago, I found texting and social networking tools such as Facebook, to be a huge help. Not only with talking to my teachers on chat, but talking to other students as well. It was a great way to get informed on a class that I may have missed, so that I did not fall behind. It was also extremely helpful for online classes because you can get into chats and discuss as a group what is going on in the class and hear different perceptions on a single topic.
Online classes and community college is also a great way to advance yourself. Everyday LeadPile matches people who are interested in advancing their degree with the right college program. By taking online classes and using some forms of social media, being involved in your studies may be much more beneficial than you may have thought.

Lately it seems to be a dog-eat-dog world with all our search engines trying to get the biggest piece of the search engine “puzzle”. Yesterday I spoke about search engines and the need to bring new things to the table in order to stay competitive with other search engines. Ask.com is one of those search engines that is offering a unique service that other search engines are not offering. For instance, Ask.com is great for longer questions you want answered versus entering them in a standard Google search, and having to filter through all the results. Comscore reports that Ask.com’s ranking rose from 10th place to now 6th place, compared to other properties such as eBay and Facebook (in May based on unique users). This explains why a lot of Leadpile publishers are using this search engine to generate traffic to their payday loan, debt, auto finance, online education and other websites. Just like search engines trying to do something different to attract users, affiliate marketing and lead generators have to think of unique ways to generate traffic to their properties. Ask.com seems to be a good option to consider. It appears that others think so too, and that’s why their rankings seem to be headed in the right direction. Another GREAT alternative to the Google BEAST!

Education is important to a lot of individuals. However, many people are unable to find the time to attend a local college or University. However, hope is not lost. With the ever-changing advancements to the world of Education, quality online education and online degrees are now available. Online Education allows for a busy individual to achieve their education goals at home as long as they have a computer and internet access.

With online degrees, people from all walks of life are able to advance their knowledge and credentials right from the comfort of their own home. Higher education has been made affordable for the masses. It is less time consuming than traditional University study, and can be sought after from almost any location around the globe. This is all possible due to telecommunications and online technology. All that is required of the ‘online student’ is basic computer skills, modern computer with internet connection and of course, self discipline.

Universities seeking Online Education Leads turn to the LeadPile Lead Exchange for their many reasons. Leads coming through the LeadPile Lead Exchange for Online Education are from people seeking the following:

• Convenience – Students can work from any location and at a time convenient for them.
• Easily updated – The sessions are easy to maintain
• It is self-paced – The e-learner is able to read a certain topic several times in order to grasp the concept before moving on to the next.
• Lead to better grasp of subject area – Due to the various content of e-sessions like video, charts, and graphs, one is able to commit information to memory better and recall with ease.
• It is less expensive – The e-learner is saved from implicit costs of the daily commute to the institution

If you are looking for online education leads, LeadPile should be your number one source for such leads. LeadPile are real consumers looking for the service of your company right now. The online education leads at LeadPile can be handpicked or real time delivered. LeadPile is your one stop shop for online education leads.

There are not many people these days that have not had some sort of interest in going back to school.  Online degree/online education is a very important subject consumers tend to research online.  Leadpile Lead Exchange realizes this, therefore we have rolled out some banners and a landing site for our publishers to use as a way to connect future students with educators.

Those looking to further their education have some common questions, and they tend to look for these answers on the internet.  Questions such as:

*  How long will it take for me to finish?

*  How much time do I need to dedicate to this schooling?

*  What type of degree program should I do?

*  How much does it cost to do online education?

*  Where do I get connected with people to get information?

Knowing these questions are being asked, Leadpile is trying to connect those interested people with some of the answers.  If you are a publisher interested in connecting this very important group of people, with those that can answer their questions, please contact us.

www.fastonlinedegrees.com is a site our publishers can drive traffic to, or utilize our Leadpile Microclick forms and banners.  Congratulations to all those looking to pursue their education!

The paydaypundit.com has an interesting blog post regarding payday loans. Some articles on the internet are talking about payday loans related to predatory lending and college students. This blog made a good point about students not being able to get a payday loan. A payday loan is based on a “payday”, and the only way a person can get a payday loan is to have that loan linked to a “pay day”. How can a student get this type of loan if they do not work, like many other students?
Predatory lending is very much something that can be controlled by the consumer, if they ask a lot of questions and make sure they know what they are doing. Students or not students, payday loans are something many people need, and lenders will not give a loan to someone if they do not have a “pay day”. Leadpile Lead Exchange wants to work with students needing loans, and also payday lenders wanting payday leads. Unfortunately, the two will probably not be a match.

In recent years, more and more people are going to college and taking out student loans. These loans were once looked at as “good debt”, however there are students that are graduating with $100,000+ in debt. This is equating to $500-$1,000/month in payments for students. Good debt? ALOT of debt!
The excitement of graduating from college is overshadowed by the idea that within 6 months of graduating, you will begin paying back these debts. How can you really get excited about the fact that you have spent the last 4-6 years going to school, and to be finally done?
According to Yahoo, there are students graduating and becoming affected by the high level of stress, because they know that they are going to have to pay this money back. The first stress should be finding that job that they have been going to school for, however with the outstanding debt, it is hard to really focus on getting that “right” job.
This is a very common type of situation that is happening around the country. This makes me wonder if maybe student loan debt should be somehow waived by the government, or some other options being available? Taking on student loan debt is not the same as going out to the department store and charging up credit card debt. Something to think about… any other way to potentially handle student loan debt? We want young adults to WANT to go to college.
On a final note, student loans/student loan consolidation lead type is minimal in our Leadpile Lead exchange. However, I do know there are a lot of students that are out there wanting to consolidate their student loan debt, because of the exact reason of the payments being out of control.