Dane Petchul: College Debt Is Hindering Your Ability To Hire the Strongest Talent!

 Student loan debt is certainly a major issue and yet it is not often addressed in the hiring process. Some would argue that the overwhelming pressure to start paying back the loan often results in a person making the wrong career decision out of necessity. Companies could do more to alleviate some of that pain by targeting talent out of their specific industry and creating benefits or incentives to help with this burden.

“When you get in debt you become a slave.” - Andrew Jackson

Show highlights:

The effect student loans have on career choices
How companies might capitalize on debt to help attract talent

Ways in which an individual can reduce the amount of student loan debt:

Planning
Cost reduction programs
Hidden gems of free money?

What are the inherent challenges related to student loan debt:

Default on the loan -7 million people are in default
Limits ability to get a job- ie:govt related
License suspension -nursing, teachers, lawyers, realtors emergency technicians
Shackled to what you hate to pay the bills

When people make poor career choices because of necessity it impacts the company that they join. The regret over poor job choice does not only impact the employee but the employer as well. Job regret leads to:

Apathy
Low motivation
Poor employee performance
Spend work time searching for other employment

How might companies be able to attract the right people by helping to alleviate the student loan debt wound?

benefits
Recruit people from outside industries (look outside the box)- accomplishment based hiring
Opportunity
Provide an avenue
Look at the debt as an opportunity to provide performance incentives to offset the debt

Dane Petchul is the Founder and President of Oracle College Planning. With a long history of helping people with their retirement in the finance world, Dane shifted the focus to help families – parents and children – identify the best path to take for a financially responsible college experience..

Dane committed himself to helping families carefully protect their life-savings from soaring college costs while ensuring that a proper financial pathway would be in place so that students wouldn’t be saddled in debt after graduating. Therefore enabling them to make better career decisions.