Want a job? The number of available jobs for skilled
workers grows daily. See this excellent article about our cultural perspective
for education and jobs. http://goo.gl/rRPLH
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
It Takes a Village: IDMyPlan Contribution to the 40 Developmental Assets
The IDMyPlan program can be an instrumental tool in
adding significant assets to a young person's life. See the bolded
assets.
40 Developmental Assets for Adolescents | www.search-institute.org
US Department of
Education reports that the ratio of public high school students to guidance
counselors is 284 to 1 and only 17% of public high school counselors are able
to spend more than 20% of their time on occupational choice and career planning.
Search Institute has identified the following building
blocks of healthy development—known as Developmental Assets—that help young
children grow up healthy, caring, and responsible.
This particular list is intended for adolescents (age
12-18). If you'd like to see the lists for other age groups, you can find them
on the Developmental
Assets Lists page.
Why Know Your Personality Preferences?
People expect a lot from personality assessment reports.
Most want to take the report and get some kind of magic printout and perhaps a
highlight of the perfect job. The reality is that the assessment and cursory
reading of a report is barely the beginning. And so when someone says I have
the taken Myers-Briggs Assessment it really means little.
Now if you are told how the results reflected behavior
patterns, then useful information is starting to surface. The core part of the
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is about determining four basic personality
preferences, how you want to re-energize, process information, make decisions
and present yourself to the outside world.
Here
are 4 reasons why to identify preferences (type):
- Knowing preferences is a path to understanding strengths.
- Working more in your preferences than not will keep you motivated and energized
- Understanding preferences helps you get along with spouse, family members, friends, co-workers, employees, boss, etc.
- Developing your preferences comes naturally, non-preferences do not. You often must intentionally develop non-preference behaviors to be successful and mature.
Monday, June 3, 2013
ACC Quick Career Certificates
Austin Community College offers over 100 certificate
programs for "Quick Career Starts". Listen to this kvue news report:
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