Did you Know?

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Did you Know?
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It Takes A Village..To Reach and Inspire Our
Students

• Susan Coleman
• Orange Coast College

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WHY is it important?

• Without Effective Career Development
• Most career decision-making is unintentional and
  uninformed.
• 65 of working adults
• do not believe they are in the right job
  (NCDA/Gallup, 1999)

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Who needs it?
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TheNext GenerationBorn Between 1980 and
1999

• Millennials
• Screenagers
• Echo-Boomers
• Wired Generation
• Dot-com Generation
• Entitled Generation

75 million
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Getting to Know Them.

• Raised on Technology
• Open-minded about globalization
• Raised to play
• Instant gratification/ coddled
• Improved Literacy
• Work well on teams

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More .

• Work to live, not live to work
• Employee for life is a Myth
• Grew up with both parents working
• 50 grew up with single parents

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Attitudes or qualities they bring to the
workplace.

• Boredom
• Low perception of boundaries
• Willingness to sacrifice benefits for better
  work/life balance
• Unwillingness to think of early job as careers
• Expect employers to be socially responsible
• Acceptance of authority and willingness to follow
  rules

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Why should we care?

• Boomers replacement in the workforce
• Change jobs 19 times
• High turnover of knowledge workers
• We have a lot to learn from the Millennials
• Influence the workplace
• for the next 50 years

80 million
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What can we all do for our students?

• Encourage experiences
• Be a support system
• Affirm who they are
• Share information

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Career Development Is Everyones
Responsibility..
Lets infuse Career Development throughout the
curriculum to be taught by not only counselors
but teachers, parents, and the students too!
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Were here to help

• Grant funded, free resources
• Available to all.

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Try this...

• For
• Students

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Missing Major Project

• Target audience Millennials
• Fast and Easy
• Uses technology
• Start the career development process
• Tool to link students to counselors and career
  centers

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Remember..
Students who have made decisions about their
majors and careers are our most motivated
students. They stay in school longer and get
better grades.
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Try this

• For
• Faculty

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New from the QT Team
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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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Try This

• For Career Centers

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Website www.cccareers.org
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CQT Career Quick Tips

• CQT can be forwarded to faculty
• Ideas for integrating career information into
  the curriculum

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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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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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What are you willing to do?

• Will you return to your campus and talk to just
  one faculty member or counselor about it?

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Want More?

• Contact
• Susan Coleman
• scoleman_at_occ.cccd.edu
• Rita Jones
• rjones_at_occ.cccd.edu