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Equipping people to make the right moves™
Equipping people to make the right moves™
Self-Directing - a critical skill
Why?
Equipping people to make the right moves™
Old Workstyle ParadigmExternal locus of
control (responsibility/control
sits “out there”)
Expectation: Wait until someone in authority tells you what to do. Do what you are told.
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New Workstyle Paradigm
Internal locus of control (a share of responsibility/control sits “in here”)
Expectation: work collaboratively with thosein authority, then be self-motivated andtake self-directedaction.
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Self-Directed/Self-Managed What Does the Evidence Tell Us?
Education System?
Employers?
Individuals?
Government?
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Delivery Mode Requires Achievable Outcomes
1. Intuitive career counselling
• Trained + intrinsically intuitive counsellor
• One-on-one situation
• Next career decision made
2. Exposure to information
• Facilitator• Information generating
activities• Group OR one-on-one
situations
• Has lots of information about:
a. self b. work options
3. Equip them to decide
• Teachable career decision-making framework
• Trained facilitator• One-on-one AND/OR
group situations
• Can find own relevant information
• Next career decision made
• Has tools and skills to apply whenever needed
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Assessing Your Services
The Activity
Activities You Provide Purpose Delivery Mode Option
1, 2 OR 3?
1. Interest Inventory Identify work options
2. Personality Dimensions Get to know and accept self better
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Delivery Mode 3
1.Use an explainable career decision-
making process (clear, quick, adaptable)
2.Put the steering wheel in clients’ hands
3.Leave client with tools they know how to
use – now and for life
4.Evaluate the results (short and long term)
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Delivery Mode 3 – One Example
Evidenced-Based Decision-Making
Career Focusing™……because there is evidence that it works
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Career Decision-Making in a Nutshell
Work That Fits
Work That Fits
Work That Fits
Learning That Fits
•College•On-The-Job Training•University
•Apprenticeship•Private Career
College
Grades
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101112
Repeat as Needed
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The BIG 3 Steps in Defining Work that Fits
Step 2. Doing it in a
way that suits you
Step 1. Doing what you love
Step 3. Doing it in a way that reflects your
realities
Work is a good fit when you are…
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Transportation
Coordinator
Millwright
Blaster/Driller
Para Medic/ Doctor/Nurse
Public Relations Specialist
Film/Artistic/Program Director
Fund Raiser
Urban & Regional Planner
Tour Guide (adventure)
Travel Agent
Electrician
Fitness Instructor
Elem. Teacher/Early Childhood Educator
LawyerLarge Equipment Operator
Figuring out how to get good
things to happen
Jordan
Work That Lets You Do What You Love
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The BIG 3 steps in defining Work that Fits
2. Doing it in a way that suits you
Using your Innate/Natural Preferences (Personality)
Preference Identification Tools
Using your Focus
1. Doing what you love
Work is a good fit when you are…
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Work Remains that Fits In 2 Ways
Figuring out how to get good things to
happen
Jordan “Keep/
Discard”
DC
DC CCP/D/T
Transportation
Coordinator
Millwright
Real Estate Agent
Para Medic/
Doctor/Nurse
Marketing / Sales Rep
Fund RaiserTour Guide (adventure)
Travel Agent Electrician
Fitness Instructor
Elem. Teacher/Early Childhood Educator
Lawyer
Urban & Regional PlannerFilm/Artistic/
Program Director
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The BIG 3 steps to define work that fits
Step 2. Doing it in a way that suits you
Step 1. Doing what you love
Step 3. Doing it in a way that reflects your
realities
Work is a good fit when you are…
• Academic• Financial• Personal• Skills/Experience
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Triple Good Fits
Electrician/Millwright – Apprenticeship
Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) – College, On-the-Job or Armed Forces
Nurse - College, University
Early Childhood Educator – College, University, Apprenticeship
Jordan
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Realities to Consider
Internal – Academic– Financial– Personal– Skills/Experience
External– Current Labour Market Requirements– Financial
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Self-Directing / Self-Managing
Setting his/her plan =
Combine/Sequence/Blend
Plan A, B or C?
BUT if external labour market requirements change, THEN…
…move to next best option
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Evidence
• What? Did this example of Delivery Mode 3 (e.g.,
Career Focusing™) work?
• How? Used Employment Readiness Scale (ERS)
• Where? Northern Canadian high school students
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Method
• 2 Northern Canadian schools
• 2 teachers trained in Career Focusing™
methods & administering the ERS
• Total number of students:
• 67 (90-95%): » 30% were Aboriginal» 51% were female» 81% were in Grade 10
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#1: Career Focusing™ significantly strengthened career decision-making skills for all students, especially female
students
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#2: Career Focusing™ significantly strengthened belief in ability to perform well for all students,
esp. Aboriginals
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Career Focusing™ significantly strengthened job search skills for all
students, esp. Aboriginals
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The Evidence is In…
…More research needed• More data• Various contexts• Long term • ???
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The Point
• When you equip clients to make personally satisfying
career decisions – now and in the future – by using a ‘how to’ career decision-making process
• Then you equip them with the ability to recognize work and learning that fits – every time they have to make another career decision
• Including the work needed in the current labour market
• And you teach them – for life - how to self-manage the information and work/learning option overload
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Outcomes
• They pick, they stick with their choices
• They become highly engaged, fully contributing members of workplaces and communities
• AND they are equipped to close the Skills Gap and meet
employer needs
• PLUS they are equipped to self-direct and self-manage their career journey with confidence
Single Strategy – Multiple Outcomes
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Conclusions
• Delivery Mode 3 delivers powerful and compelling outcomes
• Work that fits’ and ‘going where the work is’ are not • mutually exclusive.
• You start with ‘work that fits’• At the right spot, factor in ‘going where the work
is’• Everyone’s needs are met:
• Employers meet their skills needs, get higher engagement and retention
• Individuals lower their levels of anxiety and frustration
• The education system increases graduation and successful transition rates
• Government expands it ability to meet its economic needs