Future By Design ACSCI 28th Annual Conference December 5 - 7, 2005 Marriott Kansas City Downtown, Kansas City, Missouri

This conference will focus on personal development that leads to professional development. Participants will be exposed to experiences that will enhance their personal lives and the knowledge gained will add to their professional lives. Research, best practices, new developments, and system operations will focus on addressing personal growth and knowledge as it relates to career and educational planning.

Conference Program

(Four (4) PPTs and links to 29 photos included)

Tuesday, December 6, 2005

8:45 – 10:00 Keynote: Future By Design, Joe Estey

There are two types of people: those who have an artist's palette filled with the colors of their talents, skills and ability, who throw those paints at the canvas of life, hoping to create a life worth living out of whatever abstract image is formed. Then, there are those who have no greater or lesser talents, skills or abilities but they paint a future by design--always getting out of life exactly what they expected. Designing your future means living deliberately--connecting the dots between what you observe and what it means to you personally. Today, we have access to potentially more data than any other generation at any other period in history--but only those who live with purpose will see the opportunity to create knowledge from all that information. A Future By Design means turning your career plan into a marketing plan by working for a cause not just a career, owning your position, growing the scope and power of your network and maximizing your strengths while minimizing your limitations. (PPT 11.4 meg [Very long download time])

10:15 – 11:15 Online seminars, Karen Owen

Assisting online users in career developing using informational interviews and helping parents work with their kids using online tools.


11:15 – 12:15 Junior Achievement Programs Career Overview, Lisa Serrano

Overview of how JA Worldwide incorporates work force readiness skills and careers into our K-12 programs. Overview of the JA Student Center career clusters and assessments. (PPT 121 KB)

1:15 – 4:15 Dependable Strengths, Allen Boivin-Brown

Dependable Strengths is a planned sequence of experiences in which participants identify their strengths and use them to realize their potential. Participants in this program will experience parts of the Dependable Strengths process and learn about curricula they can use to help youth articulate their strengths.
 

Wednesday, December 7, 2005

8:45 – 10:15 Career Resiliency in a Global Economy – New Perspectives, Linda Kobylarz

The global economy presents both challenges and opportunities for each of us. Career resiliency is essential for those who will thrive in the new workplace. Explore new perspectives and a holistic approach to career resiliency with strategies and resources you can use to enrich both your personal and professional lives.

10:30 – 11:30 CareerOneStop Web Services, William McMahon and Marc Breton

This presentation will provide an overview of web services technology, and outline how organizations and agencies can use CareerOneStop web services tools to enhance their web sites. CareerOneStop now offers a range of automated web services that enable organizations to easily obtain a range of career information content, including national, state and local industry and occupation data, as well as additional career development information. CareerOneStop web services also include tools that enable organizations to integrate geographic information system ( GIS) mapping features and functionality with their web sites. The presentation will include a demonstration of CareerOneStop web services, as well as a iscussion of potential uses of web services, and an outline of the technical requirements and procedures necessary for implementing CareerOneStop web services. (PPT 696 KB)

1:15 – 2:00 A New Guide for Occupational Exploration, Laurence Shatkin

Now that the Department of Education clusters have become a widely recognized way of dividing up the world of work, JIST Publishing has developed an adaptation of the classic GOE that combines these 16 clusters and the GOE's work groups to form a two-tiered structure. Learn how this can help career explorers. (PPT 4 meg)

This is the taxonomy that is being used in the JIST publication The New Guide for Occupational Exploration: Linking Interests, Learning, and Careers, Fourth Edition. It combines the interest areas of the Department of Education clustering scheme with the work-group structure that GOE has used since its inception. JIST believes that this approach is a logical evolution of the GOE to fit the current economy, the dominance of the O*NET-SOC occupational classification, and the current economy, and JIST would like to encourage its use. (PPT 105 KB)

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End of Conference Program

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At the bottom of these presentation descriptions will be a topic-search-code like "NFT0062" which stands for NCDA Forums Topic number 62. You will be able to click on it to go directly to the topic. If you want to to post comments on the topic, you must first register at NCDA Forums (NF). While viewing the topic, you should consider clicking on the “Track this topic” button in the upper-right of the topic if you want to get an e-mail notification when someone posts a reply to the topic. If you want to tell others about a topic so they can join you in the conversation, send them a link to NCDA Forums and include the topic-search-code and tell them to use it to search for the topic. Pete