Workshop: Planning for an Unpredictable Future: How to Respond to a World of Constant Change
Overview:
Today’s job seekers need to make decisions in a world of constant change. Participants will understand what factors affect career decision-making, which factors are stable, and which factors are not. Participants will understand which factors they can control, and which factors they can’t control, which will allow them to make effective decisions in a world of uncertainty and constant change.
Learning Outcomes:
Participants will understand:
- That the world is in a constant state of rapid change.
- These changes will directly impact their success at reaching their education and career goals.
- What factors are used to make education and career choices.
- Which of those factors are stable and which are not stable.
- Which of those factors should be the foundation of their education and career choices.
- How they can cope and respond to a world of constant change.
- What they can control in a changing world, and what they cannot control.
- Workshop Presenter:
- Downloads:One-Stop Center
- PowerPoint file
- Workshop Handout
- Map A
- Map B
- Information Flyer
- Related In-house Handouts
- Rapidly-Changing World
- Understanding Labor Market Trends
- Decision-Making Variables
- Reaching Career Goals
- Opportunity vs. Security
- Generalist vs. Specialist
- Life-Long Learning Options
- Generational Values
- Success (How do you define success?)
- Delayed Response
- Boundaries
- Hidden Rules
- When Skills are No Longer in DemandOrganizational Cultural Fit
- Locus of Control
- Different Types of Counselors
- So How Do You Find and Get Your Dream Job?
- Setting Effective Goals
- Happenstance
- Power of Expectation in Academics
- Related Video Links:
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- Did You Know? (Shift Happens)
- Did You Know? (Shift Happens)
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- The Chaos Theory of Careers
- Rapidly Changing World
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- Trends Come and Go
- Trends Come and Go
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- Movie: “The Internship”
- Movie: “The Internship”
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- Movie: “Sully”
- Institutional Leader Navigating Changing World — (Eloy Ortiz – Calif. Comm. College Chancellor)
- “Success in the New Economy”
- “4 Skills and 4 Steps to a Successful Career”
- “The Insufficient Degree”
- Automation Eliminating Factory Labor Jobs
- The Evolution of Work
- Digital transformation: are you ready for exponential change?
- 5 Trends Shaping the Future of Work
- The jobs we’ll lose to machines — and the ones we won’t (TED Talk)
- Reminiscing on the ‘good old days’ – “Grandpa” by The Judds
- Elder Generation Lectures Younger Generation – “Dragnet”
- Empowerment of the Masses (oppressed populations) – Learn what life is like for them
- Positive use of technology: Non-profit founder uses own cell phone, social media for publicity, outreach, and donation solicitation. (playful tiger – 2:30min.) – She has almost 3 million followers.
- “Artificial Intelligence Can Write Better Than Humans”
- Media Bias Chart
- Websites & Databases
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- Tracktherecovery.org (A database to track economic recovery to the COVID pandemic)
- Search “Labor Market Trends”
- Metaphorical Images:
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- Wavy and Warped Road – Foundation under the road is warping at a rapid pace, making the road unusable (career pathways in rapidly-changing world)
- Wavy and Warped Road – Foundation under the road is warping at a rapid pace, making the road unusable (career pathways in rapidly-changing world)
Picture: An elderly couple in China refuses to move out of their home so a highway can be built.
Credit: http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/19/asia/gallery/china-nail-houses/index.html. Accessed 5/24/15
- Articles:
- Related External Books:
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- ”Purpose Economy: How Your Desire for Impact, Personal Growth and Community is Changing Our Economy (Our information-driven economy is moving towards a purpose-driven economy)
- ”Purpose Economy: How Your Desire for Impact, Personal Growth and Community is Changing Our Economy (Our information-driven economy is moving towards a purpose-driven economy)
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- Books – Faith based
- Books – Faith based
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