Perhaps more so than ever, it seems that finding a well-paying and rewarding job can be a difficult task for young adults. According to analysis of the 2014 Current Population Survey, median income for people between 25 and 34 has decreased in every major industry since the Great Recession, with the exception of the healthcare industry. In addition, the underemployment rate for recent college grads is still at its highest point since the year 2000 — about 7 percent. According to the New York Fed “the share of underemployed college graduates in good non-college jobs has fallen sharply, while the share working in low-wage jobs has risen.” In a tough…
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4 More Questions To Overcome Blocks to Action
In an earlier blog post, we discussed John Krumboltz’s Happenstance Learning Theory and we offered four powerful questions for you to ponder. Questions aimed at individuals who feel stuck and need some help moving forward with their career goals. If you haven’t read that post yet, then take a look here. Krumboltz recognized that career paths are often formulated through a mix of small decisions, big decisions, and happenstance or luck. He didn’t believe that people should make one plan and stick to it. Especially, if that meant staying in an unsatisfactory occupation just because it was declared to be your goal at one point in time. According to Krumboltz…
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2014 Career Success Plan
Here at OITE, our continued resolution is to help trainees become skilled in a variety of core competencies. We view these four competencies as vital to your career development. They include: 1. Career Exploration and Planning 2. Communicating 3. Teaching and Mentoring 4. Leading and Managing Our goal for the blog this year is to cover a variety of resources and projected outcomes for each of these core competencies. One of the first we will tackle is career exploration and planning. This often involves four phases: Exploration, Preparation, Action, and Adaptation. You will most likely go through these steps more than once because one’s career development very rarely follows a…