Parents as Partners in Career Planning

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Parents as Partners in Career Planning

• John Pritchett, Career Counselor
• Waukesha County Technical College
• Career Development Services

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Parent Concerns for their Children

• Happy
• Healthy
• Safe
• Successful
• Self Supporting

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What is a Helicopter Parent?

• A person who pays extremely close attention to
  his/her child termed due to hovering closely
  overhead, whether their children need them or
  not.
• First reference to this term, by Cline and Fay in
  1990 "Parenting with Love and Logic Teaching
  Children Responsibility".
• College administrators began using term in the
  early 2000s as the Millennial Generation began
  reaching college age.
• Hovering is increasing in the PreK-12 environment
  and among employers in the hiring process.

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The Research

• 38 of students reported that parents had called
  or attended meetings with academic advisors.
• 31 of students reported that their parents had
  called professors to complain about a grade.
• Vanguard Group 7 of 10 college recruits that are
  offered positions state "'Let me talk to my
  parents. I'll get back to you.
• According to the 2006 Recruiting Trends, 31 of
  employers reported receiving student resumes from
  parents.
• Parents have highest influence on career choice
  for Generation X (31) and Millennials (42)

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Helicopter Parents in School and the Workplace

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Parents as Partners in Career Planning - Workshops

• Communication and Career Planning using the MBTI
• Realizing the Dream
• Post High School Options

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Communication and Career Planning using the MBTI

• Personality types are used as a tool to aid in
  communication between parents and their children
• MBTI results are used to explore careers based on
  type and temperament

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Realizing The Dream Agenda

• Welcome and Workshop Overview
• Registration
• Introductions
• Realizing The Dream
• Video Introduction

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Realizing The Dream Agenda

• Activity 1 (Self Concept)
• Activity 2 (Interests)
• Activity 3 (Abilities)
• Activity 4 (Preferences)
• Overview of remaining activities
• Career Research

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Post High School OptionsAgenda

• Workshop Overview
• Welcome / Registrations / Introductions
• The Career Planning Process
• Occupational Family Tree
• Labor Market Trends

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Post High School OptionsAgenda

• Informational Interviewing
• Decision Making
• Goal Setting
• IDEAS (Interest Assessment)
• Career Development Services Web Links
• WISCareers

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Choosing a career is a big decision

• Planning for the future is not something you do
  once. It's an ongoing process. Career planning
  has three steps that your child will cycle
  through and repeat throughout his or her working
  life.

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The Career Planning Process
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The Three Steps in the Career Planning Process

• Step One Know yourself
• Evaluate yourselfyour interests, abilities,
  skills, and work values.  
• Step Two Explore options and choose a direction
• Gather information to consider regarding career
  options that relate to what you know about
  yourself.  
• Step Three Make plans and take action
• Consider issues that can affect your plans and
  take appropriate actions to accomplish your
  goals.

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The Career Constellation

• Most people consider their career to
• be a series of progressive and related
• jobs or occupations, but a career is
• what we do to make a life, not just
• earn a living.
• LeeAnn Bernier-Clarke, MEd, NCC, NCCC

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Post-High School Education and Training Options

• On-the-Job Training
• Military
• Apprenticeship
• Trade School
• Technical College
• Community College
• 4-Year College

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Reasons noted as very important in deciding to
go to college

• To learn more about things that interest me
  76.8
• To be able to get a better job 70.4
• To get training for a specific career
  69.2
• To be able to make more money
  69.0
• To gain a general education andappreciation of
  ideas 64.3
• To prepare myself for graduate or professional
  school 57.7
• To make me a more cultured person 41.7

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Reasons noted as very important in deciding to
go to college

• Parents wanted me to go 46.4
• Wanted to get away from home 21.1
• A mentor or role model encouraged me to go
  17.2
• I could not find a job 5.6
• Nothing better to do 4.1

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College-Going Decisions

• 46.4 cite parents wanted me to go as a very
  important reason

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College-Going Decisions

• Why go to any college?
• 21.1 to get away from home
• 8.7 in 1978
• Why pick your particular college?
• 19.6 Living near home was very important
  reason in selecting college

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College-Going Decisions

• Parental influence at both ends of the spectrum
• Students go to college near home
• Students go to college to get away from home

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Source The American FreshmanNational Norms
for Fall 2006 Sylvia Hurtado John H. Pryor
January 19, 2007

• Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP)
• Higher Education Research Institute (HERI)
• Graduate School of Education Information
  Studies
• University of California, Los Angeles
• http//www.gseis.ucla.edu/heri/heri.html

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Occupational Family Tree

• Families play a major role in shaping their
  childrens educational and career decisions.
• An Occupational family Tree can help explore
  family values, traditions and expectations

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Informational Interviewing

• One of the best sources for gathering
  information about whats happening in an
  occupation or an industry is to talk to people
  working in the field. This process is called
  Informational Interviewing.

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Labor Market Trends

• Skills Gap
• Training Requirements
• Aging Workforce

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Projected Skilled and Unskilled Worker Gap in
2010 and 2020 in the US
2010 2020 Skilled Worker Gap 5.3
million 14 million Unskilled Worker Gap 1.7
million 7 million Total Estimated Gap 7.0
million 21 million
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Requirements for Full-Time Openings May 2006

• No education or experience required 16
• High School Graduate, No Experience 4
• Certification, license, AA, or experience 49
• 4-yr. college or more
  6
• 4-yr. college or more plus experience 25
• Source UWM Employment and Training Institute

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Where Youth Will Be Needed
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When Gray is Golden Business in an Aging America

• Health Care
• Home Products
• Recreation and Leisure Services
• Financial Services and Products
• Educational Services
• Business Consulting
• Wellness and Youth-Enhancing Products
• Source The Futurist July-August 1992

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Career Decision Making

• Steps to Decision Making
• Decision Making Grid

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Goal Setting

• Planning is a matter of probabilities.
  Sometimes your plans will turn out and sometimes
  they wont. Setting goals can help increase your
  probability of success.

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IDEAS

• Interest, Determination, Exploration
  Assessment System

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Web Resources

• Waukesha County Technical College
  http//www.wctc.edu
• WCTC Career Development Services-Youth Services
• http//www.wctc.edu/web/career/careerdev/youth.php
  
• WISCareers http//wiscareers.wisc.edu

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For More Information or Questions
John Pritchett, Career Counselor Waukesha
County Technical College [phone] jpritchett
_at_wctc.edu