career prep

Q3 Employability Introduction

16. Career Prep

INTRODUCTION

Employability refers to the attributes that help a person gain and maintain employment. Employers want to hire employees that have both strong hard-skills (the knowledge and skills specific to a career), as well as soft-skills (character and personality traits that can be applied to any career). It is important to start thinking about how you can continually build hard and soft skills as they are already influencing your future employability.

I CAN STATEMENTS

  • distinguish between hard and soft skills
  • find education or training opportunities that would build hard skills for my career interests
  • identify important soft skills for any career I choose

Discussion Questions to think about while you are playing the video:

  • What is one example of a hard-skill you have?

  • What is your strongest soft-skill?

Hard Skills vs Soft Skills (1:52 min.)

MITECS   Michigan Integrated Technology Competencies for Students, and

ISTE Standards for Students

1. Empowered Learner
a. Articulate and set personal learning goals, developing strategies leveraging technology to achieve them, and reflect on the learning process itself to improve learning outcomes

3. Knowledge Constructor
a. Plan and employ effective research strategies to locate information and other resources for their intellectual or creative pursuits
c. Curate information from digital resources using a variety of tools and methods to create collections or artifacts that demonstrate meaningful connections or conclusions
d. Build knowledge by actively exploring real-world issues and problems, developing ideas and theories and pursuing answers and solutions

6. Creative Communicator
a. Choose the appropriate platforms and tools for meeting the desired objectives of their creation or communication
c. Communicate complex ideas clearly and effectively by creating or using a variety of digital objects such as visualizations, models or simulations
d. Publish or present content that customizes the message and medium for their intended audiences