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Undecided students. Popular California and federal career sites. Labor Market Trends. DeBord Report : CSU Fullerton midyear economic forecast predicts 'growth in the shade' Matthew DeBord/KPCC CSU Fullerton economics professor Mira Farka presents the midyear forecast. It's halftime in America, people! Anil Puri and Mira Farka of Cal State Fullerton presented their midyear outlook and forecast in Irvine today. This is a follow-up to the major forecast they presented last October. Despite encouraging developments, we expect the recovery to proceed at a moderate pace — a notch below the U.S. long-run potential growth and well below the historical rates of previous post-war recoveries.
This pretty well reflects the economic consensus right now (and continues a theme for Puri and Farka, who last year asked "Where's my boom? "). But there's also some relief, particularly in the labor front, as unemployment finally seems to be trending down toward pre-crisis level. The housing market is also showing signs of life, contributing modestly but notably to U.S. Center on Education and the Workforce - Georgetown University. Career decision making | Centre for Career Action. You and the career decision-making process Did you know that most people spend much more time deciding which car to buy than choosing a career? Why do they spend so little time on such an important task?
Because career decision making is hard work! Perhaps you have avoided thinking about this decision for other reasons. You may feel that the start of your career is far in the future. Maybe you have bypassed the process and are pursuing a career that fulfills family expectations. Perhaps you assume that you will be happy working in a well-known field like teaching, engineering, or medicine and see no reason to research the myriad of other possible occupations. If you delay the decision-making process you may find yourself: In a career that doesn't fit with your values, interests, personal attributes, and skills Completing a degree that you have no interest in Feeling your work lacks meaning or challenge Suffering from boredom or burnout Feeling caught between life and work values.
Lesson 1: Career Decision-Making: Building Skills for a Lifetime of Career Exploration.
Careereducation.wikispaces.com/file/view/Career+Decision+Making+Lesson.pdf. EX Lesson Plan: Career Commercials. 1.)Students will be introduced to career information by the teacher. The teacher will give out copies of the Occupational Outlook Handbook for students to complete a research page on a career that interests them. This will take 45 minutes. 2.)Students will use the online version of the Occupational Outlook Handbook to continue to research their chosen career.
This will take about 45 minutes. 3.)Students will use other sites to research their chosen career. 4.)Students will look for images of chosen career. 5.)After students have completed the online research and gathered pictures, they will complete a PowerPoint planning storyboard. 6.)Students will open a blank PowerPoint presentation and enter the information about their career. 7.)Students will create a PowerPoint presentation that includes 7 slides. 8.)Students will create a Works Cited slide for their presentation on which they give credit for the pictures, multimedia, and information used in their presentation.
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MBTI. Tips for Students: Is a Career in Game Development Right for You? The Skills and Qualities Employers Want in Their Class of 2013 Recruits. Spotlight for Career Services ProfessionalsOctober 24, 2012 What skills and qualities are employers seeking in the graduates they’re recruiting from the Class of 2013? Above all, they’re looking to hire candidates with outstanding communication skills and who are team players, according to results of NACE’s Job Outlook 2013 survey.
The top five skills/qualities employers report seeking are the same as last year, although the order has been somewhat shuffled. In this year’s survey, participants rated “ability to verbally communicate with persons inside and outside the organization” (second in Job Outlook 2012) and “ability to work in a team structure” (first in Job Outlook 2012) as the two most important candidate skills/qualities. These are followed by candidates’ “ability to make decisions and solve problems,” “ability to obtain and process information,” (fifth in Job Outlook 2012) and “ability to plan, organize, and prioritize work” (fourth in Job Outlook 2012). Career Clusters and Holland Codes. Why We Wind Up on the Wrong Career Path and What To Do About It - Employment Spot. You don’t have to look very far to find people who are trapped in the wrong job or profession. Carpenters who should have been accountants. Accountants who should have been horticulturists.
Horticulturists who should have opened an animal shelter. Having worked with career changers for nearly a decade, I’ve found there are four reasons why people get, or stay, on the wrong career path. You’ll soon see that the obvious reason — money — didn’t make the list. That’s because, unless you are truly at the subsistence level, I find that money is all too often an excuse used to mask deeper issues. Let’s take a closer look at what some of those issues might be. 1. Billy Wilder once said, "Trust your instincts. I learned the hard way about ignoring these internal yellow, green, and red lights. He seemed like a decent enough guy, confident and amiable in that way people in sales often are.
A flag went up immediately. Of course my instincts were right. 2. 3. 4. Take my friend Donna. By Valerie Young. Mind Tools - Management Training, Leadership Training and Career Training.
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