The Changing Workplace: Are your students prepared

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The Changing WorkplaceAre your students
prepared?

• Susan Coleman Rita Jones
• Orange Coast College

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Creating Effective Programs

• Provide an overview of workplace trends and
  necessary career development skills for the 21st
  century

Today's Goal
2. Share resources that have been developed to
implement effective career development strategies
Today's Goal
3. Demonstrate effective career development
activities
Today's Goal
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The Critical Importance of Career Development

• Most career decision-making is unintentional and
  uninformed.
• Research conducted shows that
• 65 of working adults do not believe they are in
  the right job. (NCDA/Gallup 1999)

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At Post-Secondary Level

• 60 of high school graduates go to post-secondary
  by the age of 24.
• What happens to them???
• 40 change programs or quit in the first year
• 50 NOT in jobs related to their major two years
  after graduation

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There is a Need for aNew Kind of Career
Development
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Changing Work Dynamic A Few Wake-Up
Statistics

• The average twenty-something entering the job
  market for the first time this year can expect,
  on average, 9 to 13 job changes in a working
  lifetime.
• The average job in America now lasts only 3.6
  years.
• An average of 3 to 5 radical career shifts within
  a working lifetime.

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Changes Since 1977

• Competition is now global.
• Customers are exponentially more fickle.
• Job security is dead.
• Life balance is harder to find.
• A new two-tiered society
• Haves are the information workers.
• Have nots are the routine production service
  workers.
• Effective work has to be both high-tech
  high-touch.

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Six Survival Qualities

• In a world like that, how do you survive
  thrive?
• Six key qualities that will take on an
  increasingly make-or-break quality in the next 25
  years
• Portability
• Diversification
• Entrepreneurship
• Buoyancy
• Balance
• Connectivity

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Portability

• Portability means have skills, will travel.
• Have a set of marketable problem-solving skills
  that you keep sharp and polished, so youll
  always be in demand.

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A Few Words About Skills

• Know Your Strength
• Peter Drucker Its much easier to move from
  competence to excellence than it is to move from
  mediocrity to competence.
• Build on your strengths, rather than wasting
  energy trying to shore up your weaknesses.
• Portability knowing whats in your backpack
• Your storehouse of abilities, knowledge, skills
  and marketable traits that you carry with you
  from job to job. Think of this as your
  transition survival kit.

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How do we help students develop portable skills?
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Experiencing a QT

• Complete the At My Best worksheet
• Turn paper over and draw three columns,
• Fill them in with
• Things I do splendidly
• Things I do adequately
• Things I should not do without supervision
• How could this information be helpful to you?

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Diversification

• Diversification means that you simultaneously
  develop from 3 to 5 generalizable, transferable
  skill sets.
• Keys to effective diversification
• Pick skill sets that are different, yet
  rationally related.
• Pick skill sets that represent natural gifts.
• Your best transferable skills probably started
  emerging by the time you were 5 or 6 years old.
• If youre stuck, ask yourself, What were you
  good at in grade school?

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How do we help students develop more
diversified skill sets?
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Think Entrepreneurship

• Remind students
• a paycheck is not an entitlement, but the natural
  outgrowth of someone (a customer) being satisfied
  enough with something (a desired product or
  service) that s/he will part with cold, hard cash
  in return for it
• their benefit to the employer must be greater
  than their cost.

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How do we help students understand what it takes
to be an entrepreneur?
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Buoyancy

• Buoyancy, or resilience, means the ability to
  bounce back from hard times, to see the
  possibility rather than the threat side of
  change, to keep growing and learning, to see
  meaning rather than meaninglessness in the
  patterns of your life.  It is as much of an
  attitude as a skill, as much art as science.
• It is the best statistical predictor of such
  desirable traits as longevity, mental health, and
  even career success.

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Balance

• Work in our culture is about three things
• Make a living.
• Paying the bills, saving for retirement.
• Making a life.
• A lifestyle, a way of spending or structuring
  time. Think hard about this one, because money is
  gained by making lifestyle sacrifices.
• Making a difference.
• Your mission, your purpose, your psychological
  legacy.

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Connectivity

• No man is an island, wrote John Donne in one of
  his most famous lines.
• Connectivity matters because you can't do
  everything, and you need to work with others who
  are weak where you're strong (and vice versa). 
• It matters because people hire people whom they
  know and trust or are known to someone they know
  and trust.

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Helping studentslearn to connect
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Try this..

• The most dependable and up-to-date information
  on jobs and careers is not found in books or on
  the Internet. Its found by going out and talking
  to people.
• -Richard Bolles What Color Is Your
  Parachute
• In the Career Journey Road Map booklet turn to
• p.16 Informational Interview

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Capture coastcareers.homepage
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Students Need Lifelong Skills

• Self-reliance
• Resiliency
• Ability to find work we love in times of constant
  workforce change
• Ability to maintain balance between work and
  other life roles

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Students Need Career Development

• Information
• Services
• Counseling
• Assessment
• Connection to the Real World of work
• Experience

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Career Development Tools for FREE!!

• Coast Careers
• httpwww.coastcareers.com
• Career Professionals
• http//www.cccareers.org
• Work-Based Learning QT Newsletter
• http//wblconnections.com

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ROI. for students with Career Development skills

• More successful in the workplace
• Make more money
• Fewer health problems
• Produce more goods and services
• Experience shorter unemployment periods

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ROI for us.

• Students are
• more successful in their classes
• have higher retention
• have higher graduation rates
• Andthey keep coming back!

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Career Development Tools for FREE!!

• Coast Careers
• httpwww.coastcareers.com
• Career Professionals
• http//www.cccareers.org
• Work-Based Learning QT Newsletter
• http//wblconnections.com

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Contact Information

• Rita Jones
• Rjones_at_occ.cccd.edujones_at_occ.cccd.edu
• Susan Coleman
• Scoleman_at_occ.cccd.edu