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Employment Starts In School: Balancing the Hard and Soft Skills To Increase Possibilities.

Employment Starts In School: Balancing the Hard and Soft Skills To Increase Possibilities. Hope Crumley, M.S., C.R.C. Employer. Graphic of opening door with clouds beyond the threshold. Objectives for This Session.

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Employment Starts In School: Balancing the Hard and Soft Skills To Increase Possibilities.

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  1. Employment Starts In School: Balancing the Hard and Soft Skills To Increase Possibilities. Hope Crumley, M.S., C.R.C. Employer Graphic of opening door with clouds beyond the threshold.

  2. Objectives for This Session • 1. Understand how skills learned in the classroom can transfer to skills at work. • 2. Learn the 4 top soft skills that employers need in an employees. • 3. Find creative ways to incorporate the soft skills in the classroom, at home, and in the VR relationship.

  3. What is the ultimate goal of secondary school? Post-Graduation SUCCESS!! • What does success look like for our students? • If employment is one of our goals, what does successful employment look like? • Describe a successful employee.

  4. Focus on Hard Skills Education focus: Reading Writing Arithmetic VR focus: Training Resume writing Interviews Graphic of key with “success” as the teeth of the key.

  5. Traditional Job Readiness • Chronological flow of skill building: • Education • Post-secondary training (optional) • Develop resume (optional) • Find opening • Apply for opening • Interview • Get the job • Graphic of cartoon girl saying • “Darn, that’s the end” Graphic of little girl saying “Darn, that’s the end…”

  6. Why is there still such high unemployment? What I noticed… Why were people getting fired/overlooked? Attendance problems. Interactions with co-workers. Not taking correction well. Not focusing on own work. Get the job. Get fired. Rinse and Repeat…

  7. What employers really want: • Be on time, every time. • Get along with your supervisor and coworkers. • Be coachable. • Mind your business.

  8. An alternative perspective… • Employment First based education. • “What skills do my students need to be successful employees? • Education and training is focused on maintaining employment and avoiding termination. • “How would an employer handle this situation?” Graphic of stick figure picture and quote saying “guess what? You’re fired”

  9. 1. Be on time, every time. • What does this mean to you? • How can we untangle this concept for our students? • At home? • At school? • At work? Graphic of clock with boots running.

  10. 2. Get along with your supervisor and, more importantly, coworkers. • What does this look like? • How do we build these skills? • At home? • At school? • At work? Graphic of man hitting people as he walks down a cubicle isle.

  11. 3. Be coachable. • How do students practice receiving constructive criticism without getting their feelings hurt? At home? At school? At work? Graphic of Karate Kid taking direction from Mr. Miagi, “I promise to teach; you promise to learn.”

  12. 4. Mind your business. • Two-fold issue: • Gossip • Focus on own work • How do we define the thin line between social interaction/gossiping and taking responsibility/ tattling? • At home? • At school? • At work? Graphic of Norman Rockwell painting, “Gossip” showing a gossip grapevine through several people.

  13. A couple of other issues worth mentioning… • Social media • Technology Graphic of man on cell phone with a moving forklift in the background headed his way.

  14. Employer Requested • Customer Service Module. • Watch own attitude. Importance of tone of voice. • Don’t take it personally. • Focus on solutions.

  15. Hope Crumley M.S., C.R.C. Director of Okla. Operations Galt Foundation hcrumley@galtfoundation.org 405-235-4490 1-866-496-4159 Ashley Proctor M.Ed

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