California Career Resource Network (CalCRN)

Handouts and Presentations

The following handouts are available for download:

1. Creating Effective Career Development Programs (CECDP)—PowerPoint Presentations

   "Basic CalCRN Overview"
   PowerPoint Presentation, February 2007, 2.4MB

   "The California CareerZone and Reality Check"
   PowerPoint Presentation, February 2007, 2.9MB

   "Creating Effective Career Development Programs"
   Burlingame Partnership Academy Conference, February 2006, 3.6 MB

   "Increasing Personal Success with Effective Career Development Resources"
   Community Day School Conference, Ontario, January 2006, Charlsey Cartwright, 4.1 MB

   “Career Simulator:Help Students Travel Into Their Future”
   CALCP/CAROCPG Conference, November 2005, Phil Jarvis, 5.5 MB

   “Increasing Personal Success with Career Development Resources”
   CALCP/CAROCPG Conference, November 2005, Sacramento, Charlsey Cartwright, 2.9MB

   Eleventh Annual Educating for Careers Conference (Tech Prep)
   February 2005, Anaheim, Charlsey Cartwright, John Merris-Coots, Phil Jarvis, 3.1 MB

   “Helping Students Become Intentional Career Self-Managers”
   Woodland, CA, April 2004, Phil Jarvis, 6.2 MB

2. Managing Life, Learning and Work in the 21st Century (Australian Blueprint), 240k PDF

   This paper, written by Mary McMahon, Wendy Patton and Peter Tatzam, has been commissioned by Miles Morgan Australia to raise awareness of the important issues that an Australian Blueprint seeks to address. It synthesizes the theoretical, policy and practice perspectives that will help to inform the development of the Blueprint within the Australian context. It also provides a useful, concise and informative resource for those with an interest in assisting people to effectively manage their lives, learning and work in the 21st century.

3. California Counties Using The Real Game Series™, 1000k PDF

   Map illustrating counties where the Real Game Series™ is being used.

4. Career Management Paradigm Shift: Prosperity for Citizens, Windfall for Government, 84k MS Word

   Abstract: The United States is on the verge of a workforce crisis from which, paradoxically, it could emerge with citizens enjoying a higher standard of living, and governments and corporations enjoying both increased revenues and reduced expenditures. Needed is a career management paradigm shift to help citizens navigate the new work environment. The industrial age vocational guidance mind set that still prevails simply isn't working for too many people, and the costs in both financial and human terms are intolerable. A cornerstone of the paradigm shift is the National Career Development Guidelines, a national framework of competencies (skills, knowledge and attitudes) citizens of all ages need to be self-reliant career managers. The looming skills crisis provides compelling reasons to redouble our commitment to helping many more people acquire knowledge age career management skills to assure increased prosperity for citizens and corporations, windfalls for governments and an even brighter future for the nation.

5. Creating Effective Career Development Programs graphic, 708k PDF

6. Decisions without Direction, 132k PDF

   Following a series of four pioneering studies of the post-high-school plans of Michigan young people conducted in spring and fall of 2000 for the Ferris State University Partnership for Career Decision-Making (www.ferris.edu/partnership/), EPIC-MRA was commissioned to complete a study of the attitudes and career plans of the nation's high school juniors and seniors.

7. What Are the Expected Benefits Associated with Implementing a Comprehensive Guidance Program? 108k PDF

   The Lapan, Gysbers, and Sun (1997) article is an evaluation of impact of comprehensive developmental guidance implementation on student outcomes. The evaluation included data from a statewide group of 236 high schools is the state of Missouri.

8. Secondary Career Development Interventions, 116k PDF

   Dykeman and colleagues (2001) have developed a taxonomy of career development interventions used in U.S. secondary schools that can help practitioners evaluate and improve the effectiveness of guidance programs. They consulted career guidance practitioners, researchers, and literature and identified a comprehensive list of 44 interventions. Each intervention was rated on five variables: time (short term/long term), mode (active/passive), control (adult/youth), place (school/community), and size (group/individual). Cluster analysis produced a taxonomy with four types of interventions: introductory, advising, curriculum based, and work based. This In Brief describes examples of each type of intervention and how they can be used to achieve desired outcomes.

9. The Educational, Social, and Economic Value of Informed and Considered Career Decisions, 256k MS   Word

   As policymakers deliberate and formulate policies that affect career information and services, America's Career Resource Network Association (ACRNA) urges policymakers to consider the extensive body of evidence of the educational, social, and economic value of career information and services that foster informed and considered career decisions.

10. S. 1853 (Perkins Act) Section 118, 28k MS Word

11. California Real Game Sites, 111k, MS Word

    The document of sites where individuals have been trained to use The Real Game Series. The list is alphabetized by school name.

12. 21st Century Skills, 280k PDF

    Excerpted from: Partnership for 21st Century Skills. (2003). Learning for the 21st Century: A Report and Mile Guide for 21st Century Skills.