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CTE Employability Assessment

The Results Are In!!!!

Leslie Beller, Program Director, Youth InitiativesChicago Workforce Investment Council

Sarah Rudofsky, Assessment SpecialistChicago Public SchoolsCareer and Technical Education

What skills are needed to be successful in college, career and life?

1. Decide what you want your company to do. Technology, Health Care, Food Service…

2. Create a name for your company.

3. What should your customers expect from your product or service? List three.

4. Decide how you want your company to be ranked against your competitors? Select from a scale of 1 to 100 (1 being highest)

5. Come up with a profile of the type of employee you want to recruit: List six.

Imagine you are starting your own company…

Remember you and your

employees will interact with

other industry professionals

and vendors.

Objectives: As a result of this presentation I will be able to answer these questions…

What is the Employability Assessment?Why is the Employability Assessment Important?What exactly are Employability Skills, Technical

Skills, and Academic Skills?What are my Employability Assessment scores?What is my plan for improvement between now and

the next Employability Assessment?

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Personal-behavior skills that help you succeed in school or on a job. These skills help you unlock what you have learned in school to solve real world problems. These skills help you get a job and move up a career ladder.

What are 21st century employability skills?

What are 21st century employability skills?

Employability skills often referred to as soft skills, behavioral skills, and 21st century skills.

What is the Employability Assessment?

Let’s Discuss Some Important Terms

What do you think “Employability Skills” are?

What is your definition of “Technical Skills”?

And finally, what are “Academic Skills”?

Term/Concept “Dictionary” Definition

Employability Skills

Technical Skills

Academic Skills

The skills necessary for getting, keeping,and doing well on a job in the 21st-Century economy

Job-specific skills related to a specific career pathway

Math and literacy skills that allow a person to be successful in post-secondary education without remediation

What are the Employability Assessment Goals?

To make the definition of Employability Skills concise, concrete and transparent to all teachers, counselors, students, employers and parents

To allow a teacher/instructor to record performance on non-cognitive skills that drive classroom behavior and college and career readiness

To use the teacher’s observations to verify behavior… does the student consistently exhibit the skills over a course of time?

EA targets 16 essential skills in 5 categories:1. Fundamentals

2. Work Ethic | Character

3. Problem Solving

4. Interpersonal

5. Computer Literacy

The CPS|CWIC Employability Assessment (EA) focuses on non-cognitive skills often referred to as soft skills, employability skills, behavioral skills, and 21st century skills.

CPS | CWIC Employability Assessment Criteria

Your Assessment

Fundamentals

AppearanceHygiene

TimelinessOratorySpeaking

Work

Ethic

Attitude

Accountability Integrity Self Control

Ambition Initiative

Problem Solving

Supervision

Procedure/ Rule Following

Problem Solving Approach

Information Management

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Interpersonal

Verbal Communication

Active Listening Feedback

Teamwork

Computer Literacy

What’s Next?

Make A Employability Assessment Resolution/Plan!

• Choose 3 skills from the Employability Assessment where you would like to improve or maintain your scores.

• Create a plan with 2-3 specific actions that you will take for each of the three skills and write them down.

• I will give your plan back to you before the next Employability Assessment in March so that we can discuss your progress.

Readiness is where skills meet opportunity

High School Readiness means that when you go from elementary to high school, you can be successful and take on new challenges.

College Readiness means that when you go to college or a training program, you can channel your strengths to fly even higher.

Career Readiness means that when enter a career path, you can be successful and make a difference in your life, family and community.

Do You Have Any Questions?

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