Students Plan Your Career - eBook
Students Plan Your Career - eBook
First 10 pages (185 pages total)
Description
There is a growing disparity between school and work and between the sunset jobs of yesterday and the sunrise jobs of tomorrow. Changes in the global economy, failure to update our current education system, the poor learning ability or lack of understanding by many American students, technology, and the need to develop a ?knowledge-based? workforce, have combined to significantly limit the ?employability? of millions of Americans.
The period of time between creating something and its obsolescence becomes shorter and shorter, including workers skills. Every 36 months the skills of many technology-related workers need significant updating. Our knowledge-based economy has created the obsolescence of many traditional industries most processes and a great deal of traditional education and training practices. This underscores the need to quickly develop new and innovative ways to create employable workers to remain competitive. China, the sleeping giant, is poised to compete with 800 million workers willing to work harder and longer for less money than the 100 million workers in the U.S. Global competition is real! Plan your careers now!
