CSI: Skills for Student Success in the 21st Century

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CSI Skills for Student Success in the 21st
Century
Susan Coleman Orange Coast College
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Handy Activities for Student SuccessLinking
the Classroom to the Workplace

• Based on the best of the QT
• Targeted to faculty in the classroom
• Short, focused, and fun activities that gives
  students
• Awareness about what they are learning in class
  to their lives
• Better understanding of skills employers seek
• Provide career strategies too negotiate the new
  world of work

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Try it out!

• Write a Bio-Poem

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Want More???

• Wblconnections.com
• QT
• Resources
• Student Lessons
• Staff Development
• Contact
• Susan Coleman scoleman_at_occ.cccd.edu
• Rita Jones rjones_at_occ.cccd.edu
• Sign up for On the QT

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On the Horizon

• Partnership with MonsterTRAK for development
  of

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The Case of the Missing Major

• WHAT is it?
• Fun interactive game approach.
• Brief exposure to some basic information
• to entice the student to go further
• Includes action plan/next step strategy
• Includes campus support

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Who are they? Why do they need our help?
The Undecided Student
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WHY THIS PROJECT?

• 32-40 of our student population is undecided
  California Community Colleges
• 50 drop out after the first year of college
  CCSSE 2005 Community College Survey of Student
  Engagement
• 67 of people dont want to go to work each day
  Gallup 1999

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What we know for sure.

• According to the ASTD
• Students need help and support
• It needs to be fast, easy and fun!
• Experiences count!
• Its a lifelong process.
• Reflection is key!
• We need your help!

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Modeling Opportunities

• Job shadow and information interviews.
• Helping students prepare and plan.
• Many students need help setting up these
  experiences.

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Go Outside-Get Experience

• Interview professionals
• Visit the environment
• Job shadow
• Assignment Do 5 things daily you love to do
• Join a club on campus
• Go to an professional association meeting
• Visit academic departments of majors that
  interest you
• Become involved in extracurricular activities
• Find summer jobs and volunteer experiences
• Sign up for an Internship/Cooperative Work
  Experience

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Final words.

• Students who know where they are going and what
  they will be doing as they explore are more
  likely to continue the process.
• Written plans can be adjusted and changed as
  students progress.

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Website www.cccareers.org
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For Instructors

• CQT can be forwarded to faculty.
• Ideas for integrating career information into
  their classes

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What Students Told Us!

• Community College Career Survey
• Sept. 2006

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Who Responded to the Survey? 66 Females/34
Males/ 47 White/25 Hispanic
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57 were under 21 with almost 30 over 25 years
of age.
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54 were seeking a BA/BS or higher, another 30
an AA or AS degree.
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63 felt they would benefit from services offered
at a career center sometime this year.
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30 of respondents had never visited the career
center or used its resources.
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Only 24 said they were currently using a campus
career center to help them find the right career
path.
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82 wanted career centers to contact them via
email or IM.
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This is what was important to them.
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Reasons why students would visit a career center.

• (Percentages) Very Likely Somewhat
• Explore Internet career resources 37.2 30.2
• Use the career library 34.9 30.1
• Take a career assessment 44.5 29.9
• Help choose a major or career
• pathway 52.1 29.0
• Get college info 45.6 33.6
• Identify current Hot Jobs 42.8 30.2
• Help finding a direction 40.2 31.1
• Job placement 48.2 30.9
• Interview skill building or resume
  prep 40.2 30.2
• Connection to employers 47.7 29.6

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What we learned

• Students need and want career information.
• Students are not satisfied with the career
  services they are receiving.
• Students really want help with
• Choosing the right major.
• Building job skills for the job they want.
• Figuring out their personal strengths.
• Students want to connect to their career centers
  via e-mail or IM.

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Next Steps

• We need to work together to leverage our
  resources and impact by
• Developing a powerful brand that represents all
  California Community College Career Centers to
  help us effectively market our career products
  and services.
• Creating and adapting guidelines and customer
  service procedures to help us standardize our
  services and better serve students.
• Introducing and sharing innovative career
  products and resources based on whats important
  to studentslike the new online Missing Major
  Project.

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And in the end we want our students to respond to
this question

• Tell me, what is it that you plan to do with your
  one wild and precious life?
• Mary Oliver