Title: SchooltoCareer The Importance of Career Development A Paradigm Shift in Career Development and Plann
1School-to-CareerThe Importance of Career
DevelopmentA Paradigm Shift in Career
Development and Planning Collaboration and
Effective Career Development
- Santa Barbara County STC Collaborative
School-to-Career Meeting 4.29.04
2Todays Goals
- Understand the importance of career development
or Why career development? - Share the need for a new kind of career
development. - Highlight the need for collaboration to develop
an effective career development system.
3- The Critical Importance
- of Effective
- Career Development
4Why Career Development?
- Results in improved matches between people and
their work which manifests itself in improved
utilization of education and training resources,
higher level of worker satisfaction, preferred
patterns of employment stability and mobility,
increased income and benefits, and many attendant
benefits to families and communities. - Extensive body of evidence regarding the
educational, social and economic value of career
information and services that foster informed and
considered career decisions - 17 percent of Americans change jobs each year (20
million job changers) and 10 percent of the
workforce need career planning (14 million people)
5Without Effective Career Development
- Too few students see personal relevance in their
studies - 28 of 12th-grade high school students believe
that their school work is meaningful - 21 believe their course work is interesting
- 39 percent believe that school work will have any
bearing on their success in later life. (National
Center for Education Statistics and reported in
The Condition of Education 2002) - In the largest 32 urban districts in our country,
only 50 of students who enroll in high school
actually graduate (The Carnegie Institute of
Washington) - California has a 37 dropout rate from public
school
6Without Effective Career Development
- Most career decision-making is unintentional and
uninformed. - 10 of high school students say they have never
received meaningful career guidance at school - gt 65 of 11th and 12th graders never had a
one-on-one meeting with their school counselor to
discuss post-secondary and career opportunities - 78 of students credit their parents as the top
adult influence regarding career planning Source
Ferris State University, April 2002 - 65 of working adults do not believe they are in
the right job - (NCDA/Gallup, 1999)
7Recent Research ShowsWith Effective Career
Development
- Educational Outcomes
- Improved educational achievement
- Improved preparation and participation in
postsecondary education - Better articulation among levels of education and
between education and work - Shorter time to graduation and lower dropout
rates - Higher graduation and retention rates
- Social Benefits
- Benefits to family, peers and community
- Higher levels of worker satisfaction and career
retention - Shorter path to primary labor market for young
workers - Lower incidence of work-related stress and
depression - Reduced likelihood of work-place violence
- Source The Educational, Social, and Economic
Value of Informed and Considered Career
Decisions Scott Gillie and Meegan Gillie
Isenhour, Fall 2003
Handout!
8With Effective Career Developmentcontinued
- Economic Consequences
- Higher incomes and increased tax revenues
- Lower rates and shorter periods of unemployment
- Lower costs of worker turnover
- Lower health care costs
- Lower incarceration and criminal justice costs
- Increased worker productivity
- The Educational, Social, and Economic Value of
- Informed and Considered Career Decisions
- Scott Gillie and Meegan Gillie Isenhour, Fall
2003
9Alignment of Career Development with NCLB(No
Child Left Behind)
- Encourages interest in education and academic
learning by showing the personal connection with
students lives - Encourages accountability (American School
Counselor Association (ASCA) standards, Support
Personnel Accountability Report Card (SPARC),
Research i.e. Gillie Paper)
10Career Development Is Everyones Responsibility
- Infusing Career Development throughout the
curriculum to be taught by not only counselors
but teachers, parents, business representatives,
etc.
11Defining terms
Exercise
- A job is defined work role with a specific
organization (paid or unpaid) Example biologist
at XYZ Biotek Company. - An occupation is a wide category of jobs with
similar characteristics. Example physician,
engineer, educator, or scientist. - A career is a lifetime journey of building and
making good use of your skills, knowledge and
experiences. It is the total of all events and
relationships in our lives family, friends,
education, work, and leisure activities. - Career Development is the total constellation of
psychological, sociological, educational,
physical, economic, and chance factors that
combine to influence the nature and significance
of work in the total life-span of any given
individual. (Engles, 1994.)
12Changing Work DynamicWhat todays youth will
experience lifelong
- There is a need for a new kind of Career
Development. - Movement from the industrial era to the knowledge
era - Global competition made possible by rapidly
evolving technology - Organizations continuously re-defining their
missions and right-sizing - Re-definition of jobs and work - up to 25 jobs
in 5 different occupational sectors (from career
ladder to career lattice) - Think things rather than do things
- More opportunities than ever, often in Cool
Jobs (Dog Walker)
13The Old and New Workplace
- OLD
- Office
- Success Career ladder
- Authority
- Entitlement
- Loyalty to company
- Salaries and benefits
- Job security
- Identity job, position, and occupation
- Attention to supervisors
- Employees
- NEW
- Virtual space
- Success valued skills
- Influence
- Marketability/impact
- Loyalty to work and self
- Contracts and fees
- Personal freedom and control
- Identity life circumstances contribution to
work, family and community - Attention to customers
- Vendors, entrepreneurs and team members
14Paradigm Shift in Career Development and Planning
Source Phil Jarvis, Vice President National
Life/Work Center
15Paradigm Shift in Career Development and
Planning continued
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Source Phil Jarvis, Vice President National
Life/Work Center
16In Summary
- The concepts of career and career development
have changed over time to reflect - holistic views of paid employment as one facet
of an individuals life - dynamic interaction between individuals, paid
employment and life - a constantly changing world of work
- the necessity for individuals to be proactive
life/career managers
17Student Cornerstones of the New ParadigmCareer
Management Principles
- Focus on the journey, not the destination. Become
a good traveler. - Know yourself, believe in yourself and follow
your heart. - Youre not alone. Access your allies, and be a
good ally. - Change is constant, and brings with it new
opportunities. - Learning is lifelong, and its good. We are most
alive when we are learning.
1821st Century Skills
- Information and Communication Skills
- Thinking and Problem-Solving Skills
- Interpersonal and Self-Directional Skills
- SourcePartnership for 21st Century Skills.
(2003). Learning for the 21st Century A Report
and Mile Guide for 21st Century Skills.
19To be effective Career Managers,people need
- Human Support (Fading Link)
-
- Information (Exploding Link)
- Career Management Skills (Missing Link)
Source Phil Jarvis, Vice President National
Life/Work Center
20Implications for ongoing education and training
- One size does NOT fit allVarious Gateways
- Post-secondary education
- On-the-Job Training
- Workplace experience
- Internship or Apprenticeship
- Military Service
- Volunteer and Community Work
- Entrepreneurship
- Self-employment
21Bottom line
- Any person can learn how to follow their heart to
a life they loveif theyre given the
opportunity. - At any age, experience is the best teacher.
Through safe role simulations, children and
adults explore work/life roles and feel what is
right for them.
22Collaboration
Handout!
- What do we mean by collaboration?
- Collaboration is a process to reach goals that
cannot be achieved by acting singly (or at a
minimum, cannot be reached as efficiently). As a
process, collaboration is a means to an end, not
an end in itself. The desired end is more
comprehensive and appropriate services for our
youth. - Collaboration results in building of a
comprehensive youth serving system for all youth
to access (networked services).
23Collaborationcontinued
- Why collaborate?
- Californias economic security depends on a
highly educated and skilled workforce. - Californias youth population ages 14-21 is
3,846,495 (US Census). The benefit of having all
of Californias 3.8 million youth properly
prepared to enter the workforce has an enormous
impact on Californias economic vitality and
quality of life for everyone. - Californias K-Adult Education system is the
foundation of the workforce development system,
building the workforce required by our changing
regional economies. Its the largest component of
workforce development and represents a
significant state budget investment. - California State policy expects that the major
components of the overall workforce development
system - - education, workforce preparation, and
economic development - - work as a system, not a
collection of programs.
24 Handout!
25A vision for networked services
- Youth-centered
- Emphasize the centralized brokering role for
framework services - Emphasizes MOA-type understanding between service
partners, not just award contract for individual
service programs - Builds on service inventory, resource map, and
demographic data
26Guidance Couns.
Academics
Follow-up
Alt. Education
Mentoring
Assessment, ISS, Case Mgmt
Jobs
Leadership Dev.
Occup.Skills
SupportServices
Workexperience
27Career devment
Academic Support
Boys Girls Club
Juvenilejustice
Assessment, ISS, Case Mgmt, Follow-up
Foster care
Jobs
Teen Parents
Big Brothers
School- to-work
28We have effective career education services (the
petals)
- Career Centers
- Partnership Academies
- Community Colleges/Adult Education
- Regional Occupational Programs/Centers
- Job Shadow
- Career Days and Trade Fairs
- Business Partnerships
- Work Based Learning
- Web Based Curriculum and Activities
29Career Development Tools for Effective School
Programs
30California Career Planning Guide
(CCPG)2003-2005 intended for students,
teachers, counselors, parents, and anyone wanting
to develop their career/life skills.
- . . . helps people of all ages plan their
futures. It includes - an introduction to career planning
- how to develop good career/life management
skills - self-assessments
- ways to investigate the world of work
- how to identify and meet education and training
needs - how to create a Career Action Plan.
www.californiacareers.info
31Smart OptionsCareer Exploration Based on
Multiple Intelligences
- Gardner
- Bodily-kinesthetic Intelligence
- Interpersonal Intelligence (EI)
- Intrapersonal Intelligence (EI)
- Linguistic Intelligence
- Logical-Mathematical Intelligence
- Musical Intelligence
- Naturalist Intelligence
- Spatial Intelligence
- Armstrong
- Body Smarts
- People Smarts (EI)
- Self Smarts (EI)
- Word Smarts
- Logic Smarts
- Music Smarts
- Nature Smarts
- Image Smarts
32- The Golden State Career Videos feature close to
300 career videos in English and Spanish. - In this three volume CD pack you'll find
information on wages, skills, training, job
trends and more. - The English version also contains closed
captions. - All are linked to current California labor market
information.
- Golden State
- Career Videos
- (Spanish English)
33National Resources
- Career Development Facilitators Training
- www.online.onetcent.org
- www.careeronestop.org
- www.careervoyages.gov
34Thank You For Coming
- For more information contact
- Art Fisher and Tom Spadoro
- Santa Barbara County Education Office
- (805) 964-4711, ext. 4400
- Careers_at_sbceo.org
- www.sbceo.org/careers