5 Roadblocks to Bootstrapping a Career (MyWays Report 2)
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Today’s learners face a rapidly changing world that demands far different skills than were needed in the past. We also know much more about how student learning actually happens and what supports high-quality learning experiences. Our collective future depends on how well young people prepare for the challenges and opportunities of 21st-century life.
This report probes five specific challenges facing young people as employers pull back on developing human talent — investing instead in technology, automation, and an on-demand workforce. Young job hunters must also contend with increasingly complex and impersonal online hiring systems that seek “perfect” candidates with pre-existing experience and competencies. (October 2017, 4MB)
Report 2 is the second of five reports in Part A of the MyWays Student Success Series. Part A, “Adolescence in an Age of Accelerations,” analyzes the real-world changes and conditions that are most acutely impacting young people and outlines key developmental tasks of the adolescent years.
The MyWays Student Success Series examines the through-line of four essential questions for next generation learning and provides research and practice-based support to help school designers and educators to answer these questions. The series consists of 12 reports organized into three parts, plus a Visual Summary and Introduction and Overview. For more on MyWays, visit myways.nextgenlearning.org