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Let's Help Psychology Students Become More Employable

Let's Help Psychology Students Become More Employable. Megan Rodgers, M.A Michael Stoloff , PhD. Overview. Challenges- Liberal Arts Assessment of Goal 10 Employability Models Employability in Psychology Connection with the 10 APA Goals Open Discussion

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Let's Help Psychology Students Become More Employable

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  1. Let's Help Psychology Students Become More Employable Megan Rodgers, M.A Michael Stoloff, PhD

  2. Overview • Challenges- Liberal Arts • Assessment of Goal 10 • Employability Models • Employability in Psychology • Connection with the 10 APA Goals • Open Discussion • How does the Psychology major prepare students for life after graduation? • Could we be doing more?

  3. Special Challenge- Liberal Arts Susan Betty • Both seniors • 3.7 GPA • Seeking employment Nursing Major Psychology Major Was college equally valuable for both of these students?

  4. APA Goal 10 • Career Planning and Development • Students will emerge from the major with realistic ideas about how to implement their psychological knowledge, skills, and values in occupational pursuits in a variety of settings. • Commonly referred to as: • The psychology major’s preparation of students for life after college

  5. Establishing Objectives Assessment of Goal 10 APA Goal 10: Preparing students for life after college

  6. Employability Definitions • Employability: one’s potential to be employed • Independent of economy, personal choices of students • This construct can be assessed • What does it take for students to gain that potential? Q1. What are the traits, skills, and characteristics that make a student employable?

  7. Employability Models • SCANS Report • U.S. Department of Labor, 1991 • Employability Assets • Hillage and Pollard, 1998; United Kingdom • Degree Qualification’s Profile • Lumina Foundation, 2011 • Our study and model

  8. SCANS Report • Secretary’s Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS), Department of Labor, 1991

  9. Employability Assets • Hillage & Pollard, 1998 • Employability Assets • Basic, intermediate, high level assets • Deployment of assets is key

  10. Degree Qualifications Profile

  11. Our Study When brainstorming, did anyone come up with these skills/ personal characteristics? • Employer Survey to Harrisonburg employers • What characteristics, traits, abilities, and/or skills are you seeking when you hire a college graduate?  • 40 responses • Analyzed using Open Coding Personal Characteristics Skills

  12. Let’s take this information and build a model of employability!

  13. New Working Model of Employability

  14. Psychology Employability? • Landrum & Harrold (2003) What Employers Want from Psychology Graduates • Q2 • Which are the most important? • Interpersonal Skills • Teamwork • Work Ethic

  15. Connections How do Psychology majors develop these skills? How well do the APA Goals relate to employability objectives? Which Goals can be mapped?

  16. Discussion • Do you think that the Psychology major prepares students for life after graduation? • Should we be preparing students for life after college? • In what ways do we prepare students for life after college? • Could we be doing more? • Where and how?

  17. Future Research • How important is it for students to be knowledgableabout psychological principles? • Fully define a theory of employability for the Psychology major • Create an assessment instrument

  18. Questions? Comments? Thank you!

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