help your students get a clue about their missing major
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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.
