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For Our Clients & Their Families
We are committed to your continued success, so we are always on the
hunt for new and useful resources.
NEW ONLINE RESOURCE
As a Career Vision alum, you are eligible for special access to a
website called CareerCruising, an invaluable online resource for
exploring careers, college majors, and colleges and universities
across the country.
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Events Calendar
Click for more information on these events
OPEN HOUSES
11/9 How to Make Great Career Choices at Any Age
11/16 Team Player or Individual Contributor? Different Paths to
Career Success
ADDITIONAL EVENTS
10/4 Neuqua Valley HS, Naperville
10/11 Lincoln-Way East HS, Frankfort
10/13 DePaul University Family Weekend
10/18 Marmion Academy, Aurora
10/24 Plainfield High Schools (North & South)
11/1 Elgin Community College
11/4 DePaul University, O'Hare Campus
11/14 Elgin Community College
Don't see your school, organization or business listed above?
Call us if you would like to host a free
Career Literacy presentation,
or set up an entire series for your parents.
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Career Vision
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Glen Ellyn, IL 60137
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October 16, 2006
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Welcome to our first "Visions" e-newsletter!
Career Vision is thrilled to communicate with you via email - a
quick, cost-effective way of keeping you up-to-date on career tips,
trends and resources. (Aol and gmail recipients: please click the
prompt at the top of this newsletter to view it in a browser.)
Thank you for sharing in the Ball Foundation's mission of helping
individuals discover and develop their potential. It is through your
support, usage, and recommendation of Career Vision that we are able
to change lives - one individual at a time.
If you like this newsletter, let us know. If you have
suggestions or comments, let us know. And be sure to forward this to
family and friends.
Help us spread the word about Career Literacy -- and please tell
others that there is a proven method for finding career success and
satisfaction!
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Research fuels need for Career Literacy
Career Literacy is having the knowledge and skills necessary to
successfully navigate the workplace of the 21st Century. To
understand why Career Vision advocates
Career Literacy,
it is critical to gain a broader perspective on changes that have
taken place in the last several decades and consider the implications
for the future.
The book, "The Ambitious Generation: America's Teenagers,
Motivated But Directionless", (Barbara Schneider and David Stevenson,
Yale University Press, 1999), provides great anecdotal and
quantitative information comparing the educational and career
aspirations of adolescents in the past four decades. Let's look at
some snapshot data:
- 90% today versus 55% of high school students four decades ago
expect to complete a four year degree
- 70% of the students today versus 42% that expect to work in
professional jobs
- There are six times more students expressing career aspirations
to be physicians and five times more students aspiring to become
lawyers than there are jobs available.
This study funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation showed that
these ambitious young students and their families are definitely
concerned about their future and see the college degree as essential
for their success. This is due in large part to the regularly
reported findings that a college degree or level of education is a
good predictor for income level over the lifespan.
What is frightening about their findings is they report that most
of the adolescents are not aware of what it would take to achieve
their career goals.
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Trends and resources: career exploration
The Sloan study also found that teens can find choices about
education and occupations overwhelming. Students are often provided
with self-directed activities such as internet resources and
self-rating assessments to explore and make career choices.
Frequently, students report a lack of confidence in how to use the
information to evaluate what careers fit them best.
The best strategy to assess "best fit" careers (and appropriate
college majors) is for students to participate in a personalized
career assessment and have their results interpreted by a
credentialed career professional. Once the students know how the
information relates to them, they can focus their exploration
process.
Two excellent resources for career exploration come from the
Career Services offices at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville and
Northern Illinois University.
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Recent graduate career change profile
Students belonging to the "Ambitious Generation" who are Career
Literate begin managing their young careers more effectively.
Career Vision client Tanya Luthi was recently interviewed for a
Wall Street Journal article,
"The First Job Blues: How to Adjust, When to Move On."
Tanya chose to move on. Here is her story on how she accomplished
her re-direction using a career assessment and informational
interviews to ensure a smart move.
"I went to college thinking I would major in something math- or
science-related, but got sidetracked and wound up earning my
bachelor's degree in political theory from Princeton in 2000. I found
it to be an interesting subject, and I knew that college was my only
chance to really study something like politics and philosophy. I
decided to ignore the "So what are you going to do with that degree?"
question I got from everyone."
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