Workshop:  Supporting Those Whose Skills are No Longer in Demand:  Help Your Students/Clients Navigate a Changing Workplace

• Overview:

  Today’s world of work is changing so fast that it affects peoples’ jobs and resulting job loss in multiple industries. Should displaced workers try to find other employment, they may discover limited prospects with their current skill-set. Career development professionals who support these people must understand the challenges they face. This session will include information and resources to help your students and clients navigate the changing workplace.

• Learning Outcomes:

         Participants will:

• Help clients identify emotional responses

• Define who is most at risk for having challenges transitioning into new employment

• Generate helpful tools for providing support

• Identify and narrow some options to consider

• Research appropriate options

• Identify appropriate sources for options exploration

• Identify and address collaborative resources

• Workshop Presenter:

  • Kathleen E. High, M.Ed., CCSP, FCD-I

• Workshop Downloads:

  • PowerPoint File

  • Workshop Handout

  • Needs of the Unemployed

  • Unemployed Resources

  • Decision-Making Variables

  • So How Do You Find and Get Your Dream Job?/Different Types of Counselors

• Mt. SAC

  • Faculty Layoff Workshop

• CCDA Conference Presentation (5/2019)

  • Presentation PowerPoint file

• Resources for Career Professionals:

  • Related Client-Facing Workshops:

    • When Skills are No Longer in Demand (Client-facing webpage)

    • Unemployed and Looking for Answers

    • Managing Financial Responsibilities

    • Managing Life’s Transitions

    • Identifying Your Transferable Skills

    • How to Get Your Dream Career

  • Workforce Development vs Career Development (used with permission)

  • Someone you love is out of work and stuck. Really stuck.

  • Article: "The Emotional Side of Unmet Expectations"

  • Article: Federal workers are dealing with chaotic work environments. Here’s how to manage the uncertainty

  • The Hope Center for Student Basic Needs

  • Sequel Careers:

    1. Book: Sequel Careers

    2. Video: Sequel Careers

  • Mt. SAC - Student Achievement Workshops (most helpful for this situation)

    • Know Your Audience

    • Coping Strategies for Academics (used with permission)

    • Power of Expectations in Academics

    • Clarify Priorities for Academics

    • Needs vs Wants in Academics

  • Academic Research Papers:

    • The American Displaced Worker: Who Are They, And What Are Their Options

    • Community College Adult Education - Interview Evaluation

    • Meeting the Needs of Displaced Workers

• Client-Facing Related Handouts:

• Understanding Labor Market Trends

• Decision-Making Variables

• Job Search Websites

• Create a Resume

• Identifying Potential Survival Job

• Understanding Labor Market Trends

• Start Your Own Business

• Start Your Own Business - Career

• Reaching Career Goals

• Networking Savvy

• Volunteer Interests

• Higher Education Research Tools

• Career Exploration Research Tools

• Emotional Intelligence

• Locus of Control (personal responsibility)

• Delayed Response

• Discerning Seasons

• Paradigm Shifts

• Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

• Happenstance

• Timeline

• Setting Effective Goals

• Opportunity vs. Security

• Generalist vs Specialist

• Success

• Life-long Learning Options

• Striving but Not Arriving?

• Hungry, Tired, Stressed Affecting Your Grades?

• Getting Hired by a Community College

• Related Resources​

  • American Job Center/One-Stop Center

  • American Jobs Center/Career One-stop – Service Locator (Where to find help looking for a job)

  • Career Counselor Search

  • Find Professional Associations

  • Research Labor Market Trends

  • Find a Program at a California Community College

  • Small Business Association (SBA) – Help starting a for-profit business

  • Center for Non-Profit Management — Help starting a non-profit business

  • Social Security Administration — Retirement planning resource

  • Caregiver Action Network — Resources for caregivers

  • Become a Caregiver to Medicaid Recipients:

    • Home Health Aids - Job Description (O*net online)

    • In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) Program (California)

    • California’s Long-Term Caregivers Union

• Related Videos:

  • Technology is replacing jobs. Are you ready? (Slope of the Curve)

  • Did You Know? (Shift Happens)

  • The Sequel: How to Change Your Career without Starting Over

  • How to Improve Your Job Security

  • FutureWork: A Story of Yesterday & Today

  • FutureWork: The Model of The Future (apprenticeship training) Linotype and letterpress printing –

    • (Once state of the art technology requiring highly skilled trades workers)

  • Movie Trailer: “Cast Away” (A life in transition)

  • Movie Clip: “The Sixth Sense (illustration of a paradigm shift)

  • Article: "The Emotional Side of Unmet Expectations"

• Related Links:

  • California Community Colleges — Vision for the Success (Vision for Future)

  • Change Cycle

  • ​Stages of Change Model

  • Life Transitions Articles

  • Grief.com

  • Anticipatory Grief

  • Overcoming anger and fear after layoffs

• Related Articles:

  • 37 jobs that are quickly disappearing in the US

  • If You’re Over 50, Chances are the Decision to Leave Your Job Won’t be Yours

• Related Books:

  • The Importance of Work in an Age of Uncertainty: The Eroding Work

  • The Sequel: How to Change Your Career Without Starting Over

  • Transitions

  • On Death and Dying (stages of grief)

  • On Grief and Grieving: Find the Meaning of Grief Through the Five Stages of Loss

  • Luck is No Accident (2nd. Ed.): Making the Most of Happenstance in Your Life and Career

  • Stages of Faith: The Psychology of Human Development and the Quest for Meaning
    

• Related Movies/Videos:

  • Up

  • Up in the Air

  • Larry Crowne

  • Castaway

  • Me Before You (Does not adapt well to his transition)

  • Joni Eareckson Tada (True Story – Does adapt well to transition)

  • Reminiscing on the ‘good old days’ – “Grandpa” by The Judds