Lesson 3

Question 1

5 Today’s Dynamic Workplace

Answer 1

Career Stability,
Lifetime Employment,
Job-Hopping,
Small Businesses,
Independent Contractor

Question 2

What are the 4 Today’s Employment Require

Answer 2

Flexibility
Life Long Learning
Teamwork Skill
Strong work Record

Question 3

In today’s market trend, employers expect more from their prospective employees. They need a candidate with the desired skills and cultural values.

Answer 3

BUILDING YOUTH COMPETENCIES

Question 4

It is the process involves mastering a combination of self-exploration, career exploration, and career planning and management skills. Work-based learning and other hands-on activities and experiences enable youth to develop and practice these skills.

Answer 4

Career Development

Question 5

is a process that prepares young people to meet the challenges of adolescence and adulthood through a coordinated, progressive series of activities and experiences that help them to become socially, morally, emotionally, physically, and cognitively competent. While leadership is most commonly associated with influencing others or having authority within a group, young people also exercise a form of leadership as they begin to assume responsibility for leading their own lives.

Answer 5

Youth Development and Leadership

Question 6

The ability to identify person- al interests, skills, and values to better understand oneself and inform decisions.

Answer 6

SELF-EXPLORATION SKILLS

Question 7

The ability to identify and analyze various career options and interests in terms of what education, training, experience, and competencies are required for success.

Answer 7

Career Exploration Skills

Question 8

Various skills needed to main- tain employability and navi- gate career changes through- out the lifespan. This includes employability skills (e., soft skills), career-specific skills, job search skills, personal competencies, and financial literacy.

Answer 8

CAREER PLANNING & MANAGEMENT SKILLS

Question 9

Career development is a fundamental aspect of youth development and leadership. The following youth development frameworks illustrate this.

Answer 9

Youth Development Framework

Question 10

This organizes youth development competencies into the following five developmental areas: learning, connecting, thriving, working, and leading (Edelman et al., 2004). Within this framework, working refers to the development of positive attitudes, skills, and behaviors around occupational and career direction. Outcomes associated with working include demonstrated work readiness skills and involvement in meaningful work that offers advancement, satisfaction, and self-sufficiency.

Answer 10

1. NCWD/Youth’s Youth Development and Leadership Framework

Question 11

This framework identifies work as one of several indicators of success for youth, especially for youth ages 19 to 21 (Nagaoka, Farrington, Ehrlich, & Heath, 2015). The framework emphasizes that youth need a variety of competencies, as well as agency and an integrated identity, in order to function in different settings as adults. These three factors for success are described by Nagaoka and colleagues as “the agency to take an active role in shaping one’s path, the ability to incorporate different aspects of oneself into an integrated identity, and the competencies needed to effectively navigate a range of social contexts” (p. 21). The framework also identifies the following four components as underlying the development of the key factors: self-regulation, knowledge and skills, mindsets, and values. While the authors emphasize that employment

Answer 11

Foundations for Youth Adult Success: A Developmental Framework

Question 12

This states, “…Young people around the world must grow up to be healthy, educated, employed, and empowered citizens who have financial security, a meaningful stake in governance, and whose rights are respected and upheld”. In order for this to happen, youth need preparation for and access to employment as well as a full range of youth development and leadership opportunities.

Answer 12

Restless Development

Question 13

Youth learn how to develop career and academic goals and how to establish the short, medium, and long-term action steps needed to pursue their goals.

Answer 13

Personal goal-setting skills

Question 14

Once youth discover their career and life goals, they become more motivated to learn how to manage stress and physical, psychological, and emotional distress as well as seek out more positive social
relationships because they realize this is important to helping them achieve their goals.

Answer 14

Health and well-being

Question 15

As they explore their career interests and options, youth increase their understanding of the value and relevance of formal education to pursuing their career goals. This increases their academic motivation and engagement, which leads to increased academic skills.

Answer 15

Academic motivation and skills

Question 16

Youth develop leadership by taking the lead in their personal career development process.

Answer 16

Leadership skills

Question 17

By working with their family, school, or youth program staff, counselors, mentors, and other significant adults, youth practice communicating and other interpersonal skills while building a support network.

Answer 17

Social skills and positive relationships

Question 18

Youth receive training and opportunities to practice a wide range of competencies needed to maintain employability and navigate career changes throughout the lifespan. This includes soft skills and career specific skills, job search skills, financial literacy, and personal competencies

Answer 18

Work readiness skills

Question 19

building activities are a valuable means to increase a wide range of youth development outcomes, including leadership skills. Leadership is, in part, intrinsic, and self-exploration skills are required in order for youth to learn to lead themselves. Possessing self- exploration skills positions young people to be self-aware and to assess their interests and values, leading them to think critically about their futures. “Values motivate how one engages with the world,” affirms Nagaoka and colleagues, “whether it is with a specific behavior or something broader such as an occupation or role”

Answer 19

Career development skill