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What Counselors Should Know about 21st Century Competencies
The webinar discusses the shift in the economy from high school to postsecondary training, emphasizing the skills and competencies employers value today. Key factors for workforce success include analytical and social skills, along with the decline of mechanical skills in favor of cognitive abilities. Counselors play a crucial role in guiding students through these changing career pathways and understanding the necessary competencies.
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- 1. What Counselors Should Knowabout 21st Century Competencies February 3, 2016 2:00 pm ET #CEWEquity #counselors #collegeaccess #schoolcounselors #NCSW16 #competencies #scchat Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Employers Want Helping students think of how to prepare for their futures
- 2. Center on Educa-on and the Workforce Presenters Anthony Carnevale Founder & Director Nicole Smith Chief Economist Jennifer Landis-‐Santos Counselor Webinar Moderator
- 3. Webinar Agenda The webinar is being recorded and will be posted on our website 1) Why the economy has shiCed from requiring high school to postsecondary training (10 minutes) 2) Employers’ most valued skills and knowledge factors for today (5 minutes) 3) Keywords for resumes and cover lePers (5 minutes) 4) Answering live audience quesRons (20 -‐ 30 minutes)
- 4. 1. Productivity improvementsthat allow a shift from goods to more education intensive services 2. Upskilling due to the production of new kinds of value 3. New education intensive production recipes to achieve new kinds of value in every industry 4. New information technology automates repetitive tasks and leaves non- repetitive tasks to workers 5. New organizational networks for production and service delivery WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT Reasons the U.S. economy has shiGed from an industrial economy (driven by high school) to a service economy (driven by postsecondary) in recent years:
- 5. Today’s jobs use a variety of cogniRve and non-‐cogniRve skills at various degrees of intensity Interconnec-vity of various competencies (cogni-ve and non-‐cogni-ve) is required for success in the workforce.
- 6. Mechanical skills and those requiring physical prowess have declined as a requirement for success in occupa-ons over the last 150 years
- 7. The use of analy-cal and informa-on processing skills in occupa-ons has increased drama-cally over the last 150 years
- 8. Business, management, and informa-on technology are the most important knowledge factors across occupa-ons today.
- 9. Analy-cal and social skills are highly valued throughout the workforce.
- 10. Intellectual ability is more highly valued throughout the economy than physical and mechanical abili-es.
- 11. Cogni-ve abili-es have increased, though some -‐ like oral comprehension and oral expression -‐ more than others.
- 12. Counselors hold a unique and important role in helping students understand their career pathways.
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- 14. Live Ques-ons and Answers #CEWEquity #counselors #collegeaccess #schoolcounselors #competencies #scchat #NCSW16 Please fill out a brief survey: hPps://www.surveymonkey.com/r/GN8QLMY The webinar is being recorded and can later be found on our website: http://cew.georgetown.edu
- 15. DATA SOURCES 1. Center on EducaRon and the Workforce’s Analysis of U.S. Department of Labor’s O*NET database (17.0 and 20.1) 2. Center on EducaRon and the Workforce’s Analysis of Historical Census Data (American Community Survey 2010 -‐ 2012 pooled data) 3. Center on EducaRon and the Workforce’s Analysis of Burning Glass Technologies online job posRngs data (2012) 4. Center on EducaRon and the Workforce’s Analysis of Burning Glass Technologies online job posRngs data (2013)
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