5 Roadblocks to Bootstrapping a Career (MyWays Report 2)
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Today’s learners face an uncertain present and a rapidly changing future that demand far different skills and knowledge than were needed in the 20th century. We also know so much more about enabling deep, powerful learning than we ever did before. 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