help your students get a clue about their missing major

Help Your Students Get a Clue About Their Missing Major

Today’sProvide an overview of changing workplace trends and the necessary skills for successful employment.

Share free strategies and resources

Demonstrate effective activities for the classroom

The Changing Workplace

Competition is now globalJob security is deadOrganizations continually “right-sizing”Youth will be in jobs that don’t exist todayLife balance is harder to findChange is constant

57% of Employers Say…..

“Fewer than half of graduates have the essential skills they need”:

Global knowledgeSelf-directionWriting skillsCritical thinking

“College Learning for the New Global Century” 1/08

Association of American Colleges and Universities

The top 5 qualities

1. Communication skills (verbal and written)

2. Strong work ethic 3. Teamwork skills (works well with others) 4. Initiative 5. Interpersonal skills (relates well to

others) NACE's Job Outlook 2008 survey

What can WE do?

Tools to Help Students

Three Great Free Resources:On the QTMM/Careerclues bookletHandy Activities booklet

What’s in the QT ??

#1 Skill Employer’s Seek

Listen Up – QT

WHY Listening?“Student’s ability to converse has a huge

impact on their success after graduation”

Stanford University 10 year study

Listen Up ActivitySimple strategies to improve listening:

Pay attention Show we are listening Provide feedback

Can you include the pdf of the activity in the Listen Up QT? capture screen??

What do they need?

HOW CAN WE Build That Skill?:

Try This…..

TEST YOUR TALKING

For FunGo to the Handy Activities booklet and

practice Elevator Speech

Handy Activities Booklet

Survey of 120 Business Leaders showed:

Writing was a ticket to

success in the workplace

Nat’l Commission on Writing Survey of 120 Business Leaders

Build Their Skills

What Employers Want

How do we help How do we help students students develop develop

teamwork skills?teamwork skills?

Free Resources

Click Here

Teamwork Activity Handy Activities Booklet

Students Also NEED to develop:

Self Direction & Initiative

Hot Off the Press….

Self-DirectionHave your students PRACTICE taking

INITIATIVE

An opportunity to develop

InterpersonalSkills

In closing….a simple

reminder for us all

Never miss an opportunity

To BeFABULOUS

Tina Selig from Stanford’s Education Corner

3 minute clip … Be Fabulous.

Questions?Susan Coleman

scoleman@occ.cccd.edu Education 4 Work