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colinsarkany

Self Marketing | What is Self Marketing? - 0 views

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Trends education job skills mastery self-marketing

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  • An increasing amount of skilled workers are competing for a shrinking pool of jobs
  • This is made worse by the fact that the world now has a globalized labor market, forcing United States workers to contend with highly qualified candidates from other countries seeking lucrative jobs and contracts.
  • It gives candidates more opportunities to effectively communicate their values, skills, experiences, and vision to potential employers. Successful self marketing helps employees separate themselves from the hundreds of other applicants who may be competing for the same job
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  • Today's workers must use the tools of the Internet and marketing techniques to frame their skills and experiences in the best possible ways to avoid losing themselves in the pack
  • There are two groups of people who are most interested in self marketing, inluding those candidates who are seeking jobs, looking for promotions, or trying to switch jobs
  • Freelancers are the second group of people who must aggressively market themselves.
  • These independent contractors will need to self market continuously to keep clients aware of their brand, their abilities, and their reputation..
  • job seekers must identify what kinds of jobs they want, what their biggest strengths and weaknesses are, and how they are perceived professionally
  • The process of building a personal brand is labor intensive. Job seekers must constantly update blogs, respond to emails, maintain correspondence, and refine their overall image. Their self marketing plan should describe in clear language a systematic approach to the job hunt. It needs to identify daily tasks, key contacts, ongoing projects, and new networking opportunities, giving potential employees a clear sense of when, where, and how they will promote themselves.
  • At the outset, the self marketer needs to set goals for themselves.
  • colinsarkany on 23 Nov 14
     
    This short article from a marketing school resource outlines key themes for self-marketing and the need for skill mastery in the changing workplace. While also providing more general advice to job-seekers everywhere in the form of how to put yourself out there. 
colinsarkany

High-Stakes Testing: Policies in the U.S., Finland, & S. Korea | Globalization101 - 0 views

www.globalization101.org/he-u-s-finland-and-south-korea

globalization testing policies

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  • The recent decision by the College Board to completely revamp the SAT by 2016 has sparked a national debate on the merits of the SATs, ACTs and standardized testing in general. Some believe the current SAT hurts poor students since many are not able to afford the expensive test preparation courses
  • The new exam will try to help those who cannot access expensive preparation courses by better aligning the test to skills gained in high school courses, such as critical thinking, problem-solving, data analysis, evidence-based reading and writing and analysis of primary documents.
  • The new SAT seems to align with the Common Core, which focuses on building the same skillset
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  • Changing the test does not address other inequities in the U.S. education system, which result in real difference in college performance
  • South Korea uses high stakes testing to determine high school and college admission. Social status, marriage eligibility and work prospects are all determined by the test outcomes. So, preparation for this test often begins at preschool. (Dalporto, South Korea’s School Success, n.d.). The testing culture is so intense that suicidal thoughts are high amongst low scorers on the exams (Wang, 2013).
  • Furthermore, teachers are selected from the top ten percent of college students and teacher education students get funding to receive a free master’s degree from a Finnish university.
  • Nor does Finland use standardized tests to compare and contrast primary and secondary school students and their schools. Assessment is carried out at the local level. Teachers determine the design and timing of the exams, which are used to monitor student progress
  • Some believe that middle class South Koreans are emigrating to the U.S. to avoid this high stakes testing culture. Others believe the low birth rate in South Korea is also tied to the high stakes testing culture as well (Choi, 2009).
  • The steps that the College Board is taking to improve the SAT to align more with the common core seem to be a step in the right direction. At the end of the day, there needs to be emphasis placed on school equality and teacher quality as well because an improved test will not fix a broken school system.
  • colinsarkany on 26 Oct 14
     
    The website Globalization101 is a vast resource covering many topics regarding the globalization phenomenon. The article High-Stakes Testing in particular looks at different educational systems, and how US admissions are undergoing reform, while being compared to other educational system styles. The major link between this article and the first chapter of the World is Flat is the focus on skills, not job titles or location. The new standardized admissions tests will focus on skill development opposed to grades which may level the playing field for people to find internationally connected jobs. 
andreafaulkner

The 5 best skilled trades jobs in Canada - Canadian Living - 1 views

www.canadianliving.com/...lled_trades_jobs_in_canada.php

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  • andreafaulkner on 18 Oct 14
     
    In this Canadian Living Article, the author describes what he considers to be the top 5 skilled trade jobs in Canada at this time. I think this could come in handy for job seekers looking to explore the skilled trades and I really appreciated that for each of the trade jobs listed, this article linked further sites containing more detailed information.
amycloutier

Canadian education and skills-details and analysis - 0 views

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  • amycloutier on 24 Nov 14
     
    Key Messages: Canada earns an "A" on its Education and Skills report card, ranking 2nd among 16 peer countries. Canada's strength is in delivering a high-quality education with comparatively modest spending to people between the ages of 5 and 19. Canada needs to improve workplace skills training and lifelong education. Unfortunately Canada earns a "C" in the "science, math, computer science, and engineering" category as well as the "high-level science skills" category.
mcnarine

Self study on the internet - rare and valuable skills - 1 views

In our book Shift, it states that skills and competencies become valuable because they are rare, and are seen to be rare. I was curious to know more and in so doing I researched and found this sit...

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christinawright

Josh Kaufman: It Takes 20 Hours Not 10,000 Hours To Learn A Skill - 1 views

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mastery 10 000hours

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  • christinawright on 30 Nov 14
     
    "For career skills, the focus is on performing well enough to produce a result that's meaningful to you. For personal skills and hobbies, the focus is on enjoying the process and having fun. In these instances, the "10,000 hour rule" and the idea of "mastery" can actually serve as barriers to sitting down to practice - if you believe it takes that long to see results, you're less likely to start in the first place. The real priority is to practice enough to get the results you're looking for, not to attain a certain level of status or competitive performance."
kthoonen

Workplace Literacy and Essential Skills | ABC Life Literacy Canada - 1 views

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  • kthoonen on 17 Oct 14
     
    Workplace education helps provide a foundation for lifelong learning as people and businesses grow together. Literacy and essential skills are at the... This website gives helpful information to employers on implementing literacy and essential skills training programs in their workplaces. It identifies and defines the nine essential skills.
missjillian

Harper Government supports opportunities for women in the skilled trades - 3 views

www.newswire.ca/...or-women-in-the-skilled-trades

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  • missjillian on 22 Sep 14
     
    TORONTO, Aug. 25, 2014 /CNW/ - Ted Opitz, Member of Parliament for Etobicoke-Centre, on behalf of the Honourable Dr. K. Kellie Leitch, Minister of Labour and Minister of Status of Women, spoke on Saturday about the importance of recruiting and advancing women in the skilled trades.
michellewain

Master real-world skills with hands-on projects. - 0 views

www.skillshare.com

mastery skills global learning collaboration

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  • michellewain on 16 Sep 14
     
    Join a global learning community to create, connect, and collaborate with students around the globe. Skillshare offers online classes to fit your schedule with bite-sized lessons from industry leaders that will help you turn ideas into action. Lynda Gratton mentions in "The Shift" that in the future we will have to differentiate ourselves from the crowd by creating a body of knowledge and skills to achieve mastery, as well as connecting with others around the world.
arlaynacurtin

Canada needs a federal education and skills strategy, executives say - 0 views

www.theglobeandmail.com/...article19504136

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  • arlaynacurtin on 24 Nov 14
     
    This article discusses the quality of Canada's education and skills training. It also focuses on looking at how Germany delivers education to its citizen. The two education systems are compared.
Trish Gill

Seven Skills Students Need for their Future - 0 views

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Trends education

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  • Trish Gill on 11 Dec 14
     
    I recently attended a parent student council meeting and the principle indicated that there are a lot of schools paying attention to the works of Dr. Tony Wagner in order to enhance innovation skills within the high schools in Ontario. He also has a book called "Creating Innovators". Really interesting, think I am going to purchase it to read over the holidays!
michellewain

Skills and training by the numbers - 0 views

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skills training statistics

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  • michellewain on 28 Nov 14
     
    I found this article very interesting, even though it is just statistics. One stat that stayed with me is the ratio of guidance counsellors to students in Canadian high schools is 371:1. I was surprised at this ratio, considering that the decisions a student makes in high school will have a great affect on their postsecondary education, training, or occupation options.
Melinda Mah

New @ NOC 2011 - 0 views

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week 6 noc 2011 new hrsdc

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  • Melinda Mah on 13 Oct 14
     
    Page about the updated NOC codes. For example, management jobs are now sorted according to skill types: jobs with 0 or 1 as the second number require the most post-secondary education.
colinsarkany

CanadianCareers.com - 0 views

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job self-marketing

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  • These days, it is expected that you'll be asked to submit your resume electronically.
  • Attachments can also sometimes get messed up when the receiving computer tries to decode the information in a different way than your system coded it.  In other words, there are many reasons to learn how to create effective formatted ASCII resumes.
  • Tips for ASCII and scannable resumes: do not try to use bold, italics, underlining, or special fonts as these do not appear in ASCII text (try using capital letters for emphasis instead); keep things simple do not use tabs (use the spacebar if necessary) don't use bullets (you can use asterisks or dashes if you want) left justification is standard; use hard carriage returns to insert line breaks and make sure lines are no longer than 65 characters in length use nouns instead of action verbs to describe your skills and experience consider putting a skills/keyword summary section near the beginning proofread to make sure everything looks right after saving it to ASCII text
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  • In other words, keep it simple!
  • If in doubt, call the company and ask
  • If you are sending attachments, consider putting only your resume in an attachment and putting your cover letter in the body/text of the e-mail message.  Whatever you do, don't leave the body of the e-mail blank.  Otherwise the end result will be something like sending a photocopied resume; it will look like you though extra effort wasn't worth it (you don't really want a job with them; you just want any job).
  • The reason for this is that all information submitted gets stored into their database for easy retrieval later, automated e-mail replies, etc.  Much of the information you will enter can be copied and pasted from your regular word-processed resume but do read the forms carefully and be sure to provide the information they ask for.
  • colinsarkany on 13 Dec 14
     
    This article is a set of tips for handing a resume in online, which is how many employers request their information with the increased reliance on technology!
michwilson

Building connected networks is the most important skill of the 21st century - 0 views

http://www.itbusiness.ca/blog/building-connected-networks-is-the-most-important-skill-of-the-21st-century/51052 This article talks about the importance of building networks in the 21st century, wh...

networking the shift careers job Canada barriers

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meganrowe

Making a Living Sustainably: Green Jobs and Sustainability Careers - 0 views

www.edu.gov.mb.ca/...green_jobs.pdf

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  • meganrowe on 07 Sep 14
     
    While this is a brochure put together by the Manitoba government, I believe it is still relevant to this week's discussions. It is a simple breakdown of how the workforce is changing, why jobs in sustainability are important, and what jobs, from all skill levels, can contribute to a growing and sustainable economy. I like that it breaks down the different types of sectors: green energy, manufacturing, green building and transportation, agriculture and natural resource management, green hospitality, community engagement, and economic development... You begin to see that there are sustainable jobs out there for anyone of any skill level.
fawneferguson

Canada to open the door wider to 'higher calibre' immigrants - 0 views

www.theglobeandmail.com/...article21417126

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  • fawneferguson on 09 Nov 14
     
    I chose this article because Friedman discusses in these chapters how the glob population is exploding and countries such as China and India have populations who are catching up to the Western World in terms of their skills. This article shows how this is already happening as Canada is actively seeking skilled professionals to enter the country to live and work here
sarahbunting

Let's worry about skills, not outsourcing - The Globe and Mail - 1 views

www.theglobeandmail.com/...article11084876

week8 outsourcing India capitalism labour market employment

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  • Information technology workers displaced in Canada are being replaced not by cheap Indian workers but by better ones.
  • When businesses save money – and boost profit – good things happen. Because it’s in their DNA to grow, money saved by business is money invested – in new products, in workers, in research.
  • But if the shift were from Ontario to Alberta, would the outrage be as great?
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  • And a dynamic economy isn’t created on paper or by central planning – it’s created by allowing the natural forces of capitalism to work.
  • sarahbunting on 21 Oct 14
     
    Interesting article written in April 2013, when RBC was outsourcing jobs and there was much hype in the media about it.  The author makes some interesting points which I have highlighted for you to read.  Firstly, commenting on the fact that Indian workers are actually as well qualified or more qualified than Canadian workers to get the job done.  Friedman mentions this in his book when talking about his visits to Bangalore.  She notes that when businesses boost profit this is good for the economy because it means they will invest it. However, it was noted by Stanford in Economics for Everyone, that this is not always the case, and the amount of profit being spent on luxury goods rather than investment is currently increasing.  Interesting note the author makes about us vs them.  She mentions that if the jobs had been moving somewhere else in Canada, would the reaction have been just as passionate?  It is important to ensure that we are looking at cultural and racial issues here and taking these into account.   Lastly, she comments that on how we have to allow "the natural forces of capitalism to work".  Stanford also mentions how economists will often refer to capitalism as "natural" and that this is not true.  It is one economic system (which has been created by man) which we currently use, but it is not the only one that can exist, and it certainly did not exist before man did.  It is not natural like the seasons.  
jscharrer

Thinkopolis V: Education Nation - Workopolis - 1 views

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education

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  • we are spending 13 per cent longer in school in 2014 than we were in 2000.
  • 6 per cent more of us now have a bachelor's degree as our top level of education on our resumes. Post graduate studies are increasing as well, with 43 per cent more Canadians having master's degrees on their resumes,
  • 3 per cent of people told us their degrees are not relevant to their jobs. (39 per cent not at all related, and 34 per cent not directly related.)
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  • 56 per cent also say they are over-educated for the requirements of their jobs
  • Employers look at 16,000 resumes a day in the Workopolis resume database to find candidates. The vast majority of their searches are keyword based. However, only 1 per cent of keyword searches are related to degree type or specific education
  • ive degrees (bachelor, masters and PhD) most likely to land you a job in your field: Human Resources (88 per cent) Engineering (90 per cent) Computer Science (91 per cent) Pharmacy (94 per cent) Nursing (97 per cent
  • Salary-wise, Economics grads come out on top, with the average wages for their first jobs being $57,000 a year. The average pay for the first jobs of the other liberal arts graduates is just over $43,000*.
  • From a financial point-of-view, the most lucrative fields of study for first jobs right now are Computer Science, Engineering, Law, Math, and Healthcare.
  • While Canadians are obtaining higher levels of education in 2014 than they were at the turn of the century, the vast majority of employers show more interest in a candidate's skills and experience and where they've worked previously than in their education
  • you are choosing your education based on job market demand, the best return-on-investments currently are in Computer Science and Engineering along with certain healthcare fields such as Pharmacy and Nursing.
  • university educated Canadians are 68 per cent more likely to land leadership roles within five years of graduation
christinawright

Government invests over $6 million to bring entrepreneurship programs to Colleges and U... - 0 views

www.betakit.com/sities-in-southwestern-ontario

trends entrepreneur Labour market information students

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  • christinawright on 11 Oct 14
     
    This week I started on JobBank.gc.ca and searched my local market, York Region (as listed under "Basic LMI Resources - Where to Start" in our course notes). As I typically work with students, this particular site www.betakit.com and an article about funding for youth entrepreneurs was a great source of info to share with my students! Reza Moridi, Minister of Research and Innovation, was at Communitech this morning in Waterloo and announced a partnership with the Campus-Linked Accelerators (CLA) and On-Campus Entrepreneurship Activities (OCEA) to help students interested in building their own business gaining skills to succeed. The CLA is investing $5.8 million and the OCEA providing over $650,000.
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