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Career and Technical Student Organizations (CTSOs)
Employability Skills: CTSO Students Win in Careers
Gretchen Schwambach, Facilitator Karen Olewnick, Today’s Moderator
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?Employability Skills
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Soft Skills Intrapersonal Skills 21
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Century Skills Transferrable Skills
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The Problem
The skills employers are desperate for are not only technical skills, but also
EMPLOYABILITY
skills (teamwork, communications, leadership, goal-setting, etc.).
Professional Development Program
– • Delivers skills employers want • Builds a job portfolio • Teaches workplace values and employability skills • Meets SCANS and state standards requirements • Involves industry in the classroom • Facilitates teamwork between academic and CTE • Easy to implement or modify to meet your needs
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The Difficult job of matching jobs and job
seekers….a study
By KENT GARDNER Policy Wonk Rochester Business Journal October 25, 2013
338 Firms Responded Skills Gap -- 740 Unfilled positions Production occupation were the plurality Basic Employability Skills Lack of skills -- good work ethic, coming to work on time
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Jessica Loden Kirby
Managing Director Apple Barrel Country Store and Cafe Introduction to Myself •3 year Schoharie High School FBLA President •Award winner in Basic Decision Making at FBLA State Conference Current Affiliations • Board of Directors, Schoharie Valley Association • Board of Directors, Schoharie County Chamber of Commerce • Committee Member, NY Rising Community Reconstruction Program • Member, Schoharie Area Long Term Recovery PR and Marketing Committee • Member, Schoharie Alliance • Member, Schoharie County Business Generators Group • Member, Scho-Wright Ambulance Service Achievements •Dual American and British Citizenship •Raised over $65,000 for Schoharie Area Long Term Recovery •New York State Archives Award •Within 1 year have developed new marketing plan that has helped to ncreas business about 20% •Created new online shop for Apple Barrel that is due to launch in coming weeks
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Professionalism Education Involvement • Public Speaking • Conferences • Workplace expectations • Professional look, behavior and presentation • Many practical exercises from resume writing to business management • Basic decision making in business • Other business management exercises • Computer skills • Involvement in extra curricular activities in high school fosters a desire to be involved in organizations through adulthood
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How FBLA helped me in my Career LeeAnn Arnold, Assistant Branch Manager, NBT Bank of Schoharie
past FBLA Treasurer
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Confidence College – Degree in Accounting Aware of deadlines and accountability Continuous Learning – - Bank Teller – Management Successful Business Leader in Our Community
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Agricultural Education, FFA and Employability Successful Practices Network
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Employability is driven by…
Relevance in the Classroom Personal and Supervised Experiences Engagement in Social & Professional Settings
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Skill Development
• Students develop skill through experience. FFA recognizes students for both the time and dedication they show to developing a skill and for the quality of their individual project.
Awards Degrees
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Employer Perspective
• FFA is valuable because… – Engages young people in an industry that is highly needy for employees but often is not well promoted.
– Students develop skills and work ethic through experience.
– Being connected to FFA as an organization connects you to >579,000 young people interested in agriculture as a career. It’s a captive and targeted audience.
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Employer Perspective (cont).
• FFA is valuable because… – Provides proven competence at career specific skills (traditional industry looks for this) – The organization amplifies soft skills such as common sense, reasoning, character, reliability, courage, etc.
– “The cost of hiring an FFA member is less…”
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Student Perspective
“They hired me because they knew I had experience and knowledge of what they wanted me to do… and that’s why they wanted me to find more ways to partner with agriculture students, too.” – Government & NGOs
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“I was given the interview by my company because they had seen the American Degree on my resume and knew that meant I would follow through on what I started.” – Communication
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“Because of my experience in FFA, I have the confidence and the credibility to meet with customers and executives from the start. In the field, I’m a farm girl who has gotten my hands dirty so farmers believe me. In the board room, I’m poised enough they put me in front of one of our corporate VPs in the first year on the job.”– Agribusiness
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Student Perspective (cont).
“If it weren’t for FFA, I’d have been successful - academically. I was valedictorian and didn’t have to try that hard to get there... But the experiences and mentoring I received gave me direction that steered me into my career and my passions. I think I would have floated trying to find where I belonged, even though I was smart. Ag Ed was probably more important to MY career readiness than any of the college preparatory classes I took. It gave me direction as well as skills to succeed.” – Not for Profit
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“The single most valuable thing I got from FFA in terms of employability was… the connections… And similarly, I have a personal connection to a known brand. I’m part of something that has a label and already has a recognized value to it.” – Agribusiness
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Josh Miller
– Schoharie High School Class of 2003 Sales Representative
Jack Miller’s Tractor, Inc.
FFA member 1998-2003 2002-2003 NYS FFA president 2002-2003 NYS & North East Star in Agribusiness 2003 Winner NYS Extemporaneous speaker 2003 Winner NYS Livestock Judging Successful Practices Network
Ross Mosher Director of Production Services
The Gigunda Group, Inc
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1998 Graduate of Berlin Jr/Sr High School-Berlin, NY Former FCCLA Member and State Officer Degree in TV/Radio Broadcasting and Production
Disaster Relief Work rk
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Tide Loads of Hope
Duracell and Kelloggs
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Some of the brands that I’ve had the opportunity to work with
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Questions
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• Sent in from today’s listeners:
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NYS CTSO Contacts
• DECA: Mary Peres, [email protected]
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631-525-2678
• FBLA: Jennifer Judge, [email protected]
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315-954-3100
• FFA: Juleah Tolosky; [email protected]
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607-254-2880
• FCCLA: Karen Thomas; [email protected]
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315-788-2006
• HOSA: Sandra Keller, [email protected]
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315-331-6120
• SkillsUSA: Bruce Potter, [email protected]
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585-366-4675
• TSA: Evelyn Weinstein, [email protected]
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607-539-7907 Successful Practices Network
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