PAY IT FORWARD: The Student Finance & Income Share Agreement (ISA) Blog
How Students, Educators, Employers *and* Investors Win Together with ISAs
Online Learning: How to Keep Yourself Focused
Online learning - the realm where work and leisure fight for dominance. In a world where you can roll out of bed to open your laptop 5 minutes before class starts, it can seem like classwork would be a breeze. Now, if you have developed an iron will that allows you to...
Falling out of Love with your Loans? ISAs are a Great Alternative
Some 44 million Americans collectively hold over $1.6 trillion in student debt - and that number has been growing. With more Americans in student debt than ever before, it’s hard to imagine there are alternatives to the traditional loans most students are used to...
Dealing With COVID-19 and Going Fully Online
In light of COVID-19 challenges, many colleges and universities have been working hard to keep their students safe. As the year presses on and the pandemic continues, some schools have now re-configured a majority of their in-person classes in favor of online...
How to Work Your Professional Network During COVID
When you hear the word “networking,” a few things might come to mind - tradeshows and conventions full of handshakes and small talk - you know the drill. Well, these things are hard to come by nowadays with the COVID pandemic, the new normal and all of our efforts to...
Takeaways from a Summer of Successfully Working Together, While Distanced
As Fall 2020 officially begins, the MentorWorks team continues to make significant strides - building on the momentum we gained over the Summer - toward achieving our mission: making education more affordable to both students and professionals from all backgrounds and...
How to Differentiate Your Educational Institution with Online Career Coaching
Learn about the launch of MentorWorks' stand-alone online career platform and how you can bring online, asynchronous career coaching to your educational institution. Our #pandemic2020 project has been all about helping candidates find jobs and we’re excited to...
Student Loans Are Also Income Share Agreements BUT Tax Low Earners More!
Some people have asked me about how loans are different from ISAs. Here is an important fact. At its heart, a loan is also an income share agreement, because you are paying off your loan from your income, thus “sharing” your income! Here is the key difference between...
Paying for College: Why We’re Doing It All Wrong
The dream of higher education, and what that means for subsequent generations, is starting to feel more out of reach for many students today, because of the mountains of debt that’s often required to complete a program. However, accessing loans to fund a degree...
How to Improve Your Most Important Interpersonal Skills for Professional Success
In many job settings, communication is key whether managing a team or executing day-to-day work. Whether you’re brainstorming ideas to solve a problem with your supervisor or navigating an issue with a work colleague, it’s important to not only know how to handle...
Job Seekers: To Attract Recruiters, Build and Maintain a Professional Brand… Everywhere
There is a lot about the 2020 job search that is simply out of anyone’s control. Regardless of how stressful this situation may feel, do your best to create opportunity for yourself. Use this time to better understand the employer recruitment process and set yourself...
5 Ways to Improve Your Resume to Get Interviews and Get Hired
We’ve all heard that having a stellar resume is one of the best ways of improving your chances of landing an interview. But how do you know that you have a great resume? What if you’re not getting any responses after applying for jobs that seem perfect for you and the...
The Income Share Agreement (ISA) as an Investment Hedge – Why is it Safer?
The ideal investment for a financial investor is one that moves with the market in a good economy and against it (or not change much with it) in a bad one. Finding such an investment is hard. The best that investors can typically do is to invest a portion of their...