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School-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
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Todays 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.

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• The Critical Importance
• of Effective
• Career Development

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Why 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)

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Without 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

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Without 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)

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Recent 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!
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With 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

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Alignment 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)

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Career Development Is Everyones Responsibility

• Infusing Career Development throughout the
  curriculum to be taught by not only counselors
  but teachers, parents, business representatives,
  etc.

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Defining 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.)

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Changing 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)

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The 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

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Paradigm Shift in Career Development and Planning
Source Phil Jarvis, Vice President National
Life/Work Center
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Paradigm Shift in Career Development and
Planning continued
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Source Phil Jarvis, Vice President National
Life/Work Center
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In 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

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Student 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.

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21st 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.

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To 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
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Implications 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

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Bottom 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.

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Collaboration
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).

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Collaborationcontinued

• 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.

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A 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

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Guidance Couns.
Academics
Follow-up
Alt. Education
Mentoring
Assessment, ISS, Case Mgmt
Jobs
Leadership Dev.
Occup.Skills
SupportServices
Workexperience
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Career devment
Academic Support
Boys Girls Club
Juvenilejustice
Assessment, ISS, Case Mgmt, Follow-up
Foster care
Jobs
Teen Parents
Big Brothers
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We 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

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Career Development Tools for Effective School
Programs
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California 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
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Smart 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

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• 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)

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National Resources

• Career Development Facilitators Training
• www.online.onetcent.org
• www.careeronestop.org
• www.careervoyages.gov

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Thank You For Coming

• For more information contact
• Art Fisher and Tom Spadoro
• Santa Barbara County Education Office
• [phone], ext. 4400
• Careers_at_sbceo.org
• www.sbceo.org/careers