Career Trends

Presenter: Debbie Gravelle

CSU Channel Islands

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Overview

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There are hundreds of major out there chances are with enough research you will get pretty close

Starting college without having a major isn’t a bad thing. It’s chance to explore and educate yourself.

Studies find that most students change majors at least once, and many switch several times before they settle on one.

Reality is that you’ll probably take only a quarter to a third of your college courses in our field of study.

Career oriented majors such as business and engineering are exceptions to the rule.

Major vs. Career

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Research is the best way to ease the anxiety around making a choice

What is a Major

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Making a Choice

 
 

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The approach to career/major choice that you use will probably be some mixture of the above approaches.  While the Logical Approach is advocated here, any method that you use should include considerable thought, effort, and doing something active, rather than passively waiting and avoiding a decision.  Many students get on the "General Education Train" and ride it to the "end of the line", thus putting off a career/major choice until they have enough units at the community college to be considered a junior. This adds time, uncertainty, and loss of control to your major/career choice process.

Different students prefer different starting points and have different questions depending on those preferences.

Ten Commandments of Career Success

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Know your strengths as well as areas that need work. You need accurate assessment in order to create realistic goals

Know what compensation and employability is for the kind of work you would like to do and what types of work

Research the industry you are interested in employers, journals, organizations

Networking organization meetings, student clubs, memberships Get to know people in related field.

Goals Dreams with deadlines. Short term semester goals for week month and year, leading to long term ultimate goal graduation and employment

Be positive resilient, positive, flexible and professional able to deal with rejection

Interpersonal skills stay healthy, practice interview and presentation skills

Keep good records and follow up

Consultant-look a situation from all sides sell yourself

Soul-Remind yourself what you are doing and why keep your focus and motivation…values

One of the most important considerations when choosing a career is the level of education that is required to enter that career.  Some examples are given below:
 

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Because level of education is tied to career choice it is important to understand the various levels of degrees and estimated length of times that it takes to achieve them.  Also note that there is a difference between what the level of education "technically" is for a specific career and what the "implicit" or unstated requirements are.  For example, although nowhere does it say that you must have a college education to be president of the U.S., all modern presidents (except Harry Truman) have had college degrees.
 

Decisions Making Career/Major

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Diagram of a cyclical, circular decision-making process.

Step 1. Reach a decision point

Step 2. Research, both self and career-related. Self research includes interests, skills, values, temperament, lifestyle factors, and leads to the generation lifestyle and career criteria. Career research includes education programs and occupations, and leads to the generation of alternatives.

Step 3. Evaluate Alternatives and Make a Decision

Step 4. Take Action

Step 5. Review the Decision

After Step 5, branch off or repeat Step 1 and begin again.

Which Adjective Describes You?

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Reality Check …

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Top 5 Personal Qualities Employers Look For

  1. Communication

  2. Honesty/Integrity

  3. Interpersonal skills (relates to others)

  4. Motivation/Initiative

  5. Strong Work Ethic

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Leadership skills

Dimensions of development

U.S. Bureau of Labor and Statistics
The more you learn the more you earn

Salary Survey, NACE Summer 2007

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Job Market for Class of 2007

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Working-life Jobs & Careers

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The very rapid labor force growth over the 1970’s reflected two dramatic changes: the baby-boom generation reached working age, and it became more common for women to work outside the home. Since the 1970’s the labor force has continued to grow, but at slower rates. A substantial slowdown in the pace of labor force growth is projected for the 2015-25 period, as the baby-boom generation retires. Did you know that the baby-boom generation was born from 1946 to 1964. The oldest baby boomers turn 55 in 2001.

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The Labor Force is getting older. The median age of the labor force is rising. It will approach 41 years by 2008 -- a very high level by historical standards. (The median age is the age at which half of the labor force is younger and half of the labor force is older.) Many of the changes in the age structure of the labor force reflect the aging of the baby boom.

DID YOU KNOW?
One-fifth of men in the labor force are veterans. The median age of these workers is 50 years, compared with 39 years for nonveterans.

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More women are working today than in the past. About 60 percent of all women are in the labor force, compared with nearly 75 percent of all men. (The participation rate is the share of the population 16 years and older working or seeking work.) The long-term increase in the female labor force largely reflects the greater frequency of paid work among mothers.

The slow long-term decline in work activity among men reflects, in part, the trend to earlier retirement.

Women now account for 47 percent of the labor force, up from 40 percent in 1975.

DID YOU KNOW?
Among married-couple families where both the wife and the husband work, about one-fifth of the wives earn more than their husbands.

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Minorities are the fastest growing part of the labor force. Asians and Hispanics have the fastest labor force growth, primarily because of immigration. The higher-than-average labor force growth for blacks reflects a higher birth rate among blacks than among white non-Hispanics.

White non-Hispanics will still be the largest labor force group, accounting for about 71 percent of the labor force in 2008. Hispanics will account for about 13 percent, black non-Hispanics for about 11 percent, and Asians and other groups for about 5 percent.

DID YOU KNOW?
Half of all Hispanics live in California and Texas, but over the past decade nearly all states saw an increase in the Hispanic share of their population.

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Education Pays. College graduates age 25 and over earn nearly twice as much as workers who stopped with a high school diploma. College graduates have experienced growth in real (inflation-adjusted) earnings since 1979. In contrast, high school dropouts have seen their real earnings decline.

From 1979 to 2000, the earnings of college-educated women grew nearly twice as fast as the earnings of men, but these women still earn less than men.

The unemployment rate for workers who dropped out of high school is nearly four times the rate for college graduates. 

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High school graduates are more likely to go on to college today than in the past. Sixty-three percent of the year 2000 high school graduates had enrolled in college by the following fall, up from 52 percent of the class of 1970.

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Some jobs with above average earnings do not require a bachelor’s degree, but most require substantial training. Short-term on-the-job training (OJT): Workers develop the skills needed after a short demonstration or up to 1 month of on-the-job experience or instruction.
Moderate-term on-the-job training: Workers develop the skills needed after 1 to 12 months of combined on-the-job experience and informal training.
Long-term on-the-job training: Jobs require more than 12 months of on-the-job training or combined work experience and classroom instruction.
Postsecondary vocational training: Jobs require completion of vocational school training and may require passing an examination after completing the training.
Associate degree: Completion of the degree program requires at least 2 years of full-time academic work.

 
DID YOU KNOW?
The median earnings for all workers were $23,545 in 1998.

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Workers with computer skills are in demand. Of the 10 fastest growing occupations, the top 5 are computer-related. Three of the top 10 are health-related: personal care and home health aides, medical assistants, and physician assistants.

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Half of all persons age 35-54 participate in adult education, the majority in career- or job-related courses.

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Top ten occupations that will generate the most jobs range widely in their skill requirements. These 10 occupations are projected to add a total of about 5 million jobs during the 1998-2008 period, nearly one-fourth of the projected job growth over the decade. Occupations with the most job growth tend to have a large number of workers already.

 Six of the 10 occupations—retail salespersons, cashiers, general managers and top executives, truck drivers, general office clerks, and registered nurses—each employed at least 2 million workers in 1998.

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Kids start working early. Half of 12-year-olds have some work experience, primarily yard work or babysitting. Nearly four out of ten 15-year-olds hold a job with a regular employer sometime during the year, mostly in service, sales, or laborer jobs.

Ten Industries with the Fastest Employment Growth

Source: United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, .

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Ten Hottest Careers for College Graduates

Source: United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, .

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Experts Predict Where the Jobs Will Be in 2014

Occupations with the Most New Jobs:  Bachelor's Degrees

Source: United States Bureau of Labor Statistics,

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Top Jobs for College Grads

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Selected Resources

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Questions/comments

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Thank You

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