Extension
It Starts With Us
Work Force Preparation
Youth Development
PJ
21st Century Skills (Career & Workplace Development)
Employers are having a difficult time hiring people with quality soft skills. They can find employees with technical skills and subject matter skills, but have been disappointed in their work ethic, team work approach, time management, dependability and attendance to work.
To help provide young people with the necessary soft skills such as awareness of being dependable, trustworthy, team oriented and prompt to work that will make them successfully employable adults.
To help youth understand the consequences of not developing soft skills that make them more employable. To encourage them to practice soft skills of which they become aware.
Youth will learn what soft skills are and why they are important by doing role playing, mock interviews and team building activities.
Initial Outcome: Youth will show progress in awareness of soft skills and why they are important.
Indicator: youth will demonstrate success in greeting people, resumes and mock interviews.
Method: evaluate resumes and interviews; discuss what was learned
Timeline: September - may
Intermediate Outcome: practice soft skills in school and/or work. Receive feedback from supervisors.
Indicator: supervisor feedback
Method: discussions or paper evaluation
Timeline: after each shadowing
Long-term Outcome: youth will become successfully employed adults
Indicator: feedback from local business owners
Method: discussions, staying employed
Timeline: ongoing
Audience: Elementary, Middle and High Schoolers
Project or Activity: variety appropriate to age group
Content or Curriculum: Welcome to the World of Work, new Kentucky curriculum
Inputs: Teachers, 4h agent, business representatives
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Author: Paula Jerrell
Major Program: 21st Century Skills (Career & Workplace Development)
Youth are not aware of the high cost of living and with recent increases, it is more important than ever to have an understanding or the importance of a good job and therefore a good education.A post event survey was conducted with the participants. The principal still has the results as they are having the youth to write a reflection piece on the experience.The audience was Ballard County Middle School 7th and 8th graders. They researched a career they were interested in and found the salary an
