February 14, 2005 www.californiacareers. info 1 Charlsey Cartwright Executive Director California Career Resource Network (CalCRN) Sacramento, CA John Merris-Coots Education Programs Consultant California Department of Education Sacramento, CA Victoria King Career Counselor/Training Coordinator California Career Resource Network (CalCRN) Sacramento, CA
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Charlsey CartwrightExecutive DirectorCalifornia Career Resource Network (CalCRN)Sacramento, CA
John Merris-CootsEducation Programs ConsultantCalifornia Department of EducationSacramento, CA
Victoria KingCareer Counselor/Training CoordinatorCalifornia Career Resource Network (CalCRN)Sacramento, CA
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CalCRN Carl D. Perkins Act, Section 118
• Develops and distributes high quality career information to hundreds of thousands of students, job-seekers, educators and career practitioners in California each year.
• Part of a nationwide program called the America's Career Resource Network (ACRN)
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Creating Effective Career Development Programs
Using Carl Perkins Professional Development funding to CDE, collaborative effort between CDE and CalCRN to:
Provide an overview of effective career development resources and strategies
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Creating Effective Career Development Programs
Three Assumptions:
1. Developing effective life/work self-management skills is critical for leading successful lives.
2. Despite limited resources, we can develop effective, intentional career development programs.
3. Career development is everyone’s responsibility.
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Defining termsA job is a defined work role with a specific organization (paid or unpaid)
Example: biologist at XYZ Biotice 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.
Exercise
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Career Development involves one’s whole life, not just occupation…it
concerns him or her in the ever-changing contexts of his or her life…self and
circumstances — evolving, changing, unfolding in mutual interaction.”•(Wolfe and Kolb (1980)
Helping people learn how to manage their ever changing lives
Help people learn the skills they will need — lifelong — to be self-reliant, resilient citizens, able to find work they love in times of constant workforce change and to maintain balance between work and their other life roles
Source: Phil Jarvis, Vice PresidentNational Life/Work Center
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Assumption 1:
The Critical Importance of Effective, Intentional
Career Development
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Recent Research Shows
Informed & Considered Career Development Works
Educational Outcomes
• Improved preparation and participation in postsecondary education
• Better articulation among levels of education and between education and work
• Higher graduation and retention rates
Social Benefits
• 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
Economic Consequences
• Higher incomes and increased tax revenues
• Lower rates and shorter periods of unemployment
• 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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Most career decision-making is unintentional and uninformed…
• 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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Most H.S. Graduates are Not Ready for Adult Life
Too few students see personal relevance in their studies
• Only 28 percent of 12th-grade students believe that school work is meaningful
• Only 39 % believe that school work will have any bearing on their success in later life
• In the largest 32 urban U.S. districts, only 50% of students who enroll graduate (National Center for Education Statistics and reported in The Condition of Education 2002)
• In California, the 2001 graduation rate was 68.9%. With an 82% rate for Asian students, 75.5% for White students, 57% for Hispanic students, 55.3% for Black students, and 49.7% for native American students. (Who Graduates? Who Doesn't? A Statistical Portrait of Public High School Graduation, Class of 2001 The Urban Institute/Education Policy Center, February 2004)
Increase Relevance • Make the Connection • Increase Relevance • Make the Connection
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Assumption 2:
Despite Funding & Personnel Reductions, We Can Still Have
Effective Career Development
Programs
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Examples of Effective Career
Development Programs
in California
• WorkStart YES, Stockton
• Redwood Middle School, Napa
• Lee Middle School, Woodland
• Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa
• Charles A. Jones Skills Center, Sacramento
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Assumption 3:
Career Development Is Everyone’s Responsibility
For education, this means infusing “Life/Career Self-Management Skills” and showing “relevance” throughout the curriculum to be taught by not only counselors but teachers, parents, business reps, etc.
Increase Relevance • Make the Connection • Increase Relevance • Make the Connection
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Changing Work DynamicWhat the workforce experiences today and in the
future:
• Global competition made possible by rapidly evolving technology
• Organizations continuously re-defining their missions and “right-sizing”
• Re-definition of jobs and work; Youth will face up to 25 jobs in 5 different
occupational sectors;
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The Old Paradigm in Career Development and Planning
Armstrong• Body Smarts• People Smarts (EI)• Self Smarts (EI)• Word Smarts• Logic Smarts • Music Smarts• Nature Smarts• Image Smarts
Handout!
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Coming Soon !
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Career Development Facilitator(CDF) Program
• Increases skills of persons working in career development settings, such as:– Adult counseling/career centers– K-12 school systems– Technical college system– Career resource centers– Employment service, Vocational rehabilitation– Business and industry human resources– One-stop career centers– School-to-Career programs– Community-based organizations
Handout
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CalCRN Website
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Charlsey CartwrightExecutive DirectorCalifornia Career Resource Network (CalCRN)(916) [email protected]
John Merris-CootsEducation Programs ConsultantCalifornia Department of Education(916) 319-0461