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Onsego Review GED and College Tuition Reimbursement

Onsego, an online publisher of GED preparatory materials, has published a list of major American corporations that reimburse or pay upfront for your college tuition.

An increasing number of US corporations have developed initiatives to let their employees earn a GED® diploma, a professional certificate, or even a bachelor’s, master’s, or doctoral degree. Onsego believes that workers who are better educated will have better lives.

These initiatives not only benefit the workers, as they can boost their skills and knowledge at their employer’s expense, but the companies will also benefit since these plans contribute to recruiting, retaining, and developing their staff.

Once the employees have earned their GED, they can continue to get professional certifications or even a college degree. An employee who doesn’t have a secondary education credential (high school diploma or GED) can usually not enroll in credit-bearing college programs, be it online or at a brick-and-mortar school.

Tuition reimbursement plans

Tuition reimbursement plans offer employees the chance to enhance their educational level while being hired by an employer. And the good thing is that the employer will pick up the tab, partly or entirely.

It used to be that most plans reimbursed the workers when they successfully completed an educational program most of the time, but today, the trend is that employers have arrangements with colleges (online or physical) and will pay upfront.

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Unfollow Anti-Social Media Policies

It irritates me when I hear Twitter, Facebook et al, blamed for the loss of productivity and foot-in-mouth faux pas by employees. That inevitably leads to the discussion regarding banning the networks from the workplace or the introduction of a lengthy social media policy within the business. Stop blaming the tools – it’s the people using them.

Extra Thick Crust, Hold the Common Sense

As Scott Stratton (@unmarketing) put it at Jobsite’s FreshThinking seminar, “Stop hiring morons”. That may seem a little harsh, but let’s look at an example.

Domino’s staff filmed themselves doing disgusting things to food in the kitchen before serving it up to customers. They posted it on YouTube and were promptly fired and arrested for their endeavors. That wasn’t YouTube’s fault; it was the morons messing with the pizza.

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How to center a tabbed horizontal CSS menu

This article shows and explains a different method for centering a horizontal aligned tabbed CSS menu without using any width at all on the menu. The menus demonstrated are using of unordered lists and background images.

Traditionally horizontally and centered aligned menus are using a fixed width in some way, like the horizontally and centered menu using fixed-width examples at the bottom of this article.

However, I got a question about how to center a horizontally CSS menu with tabs without using fixed width, and since I couldn’t find some information about it I came up with a solution I have called a Horizontally aligned menu with fluid width. Both examples are using the “Fast rollover without preload” concept.

Horizontally and centered aligned menu with fluid width

This horizontally and centered aligned CSS menu is not using fixed width, no width at all is used. The tabs are also fluid, this is done by using two background images (see images below).

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