Last night I shared the privilege with other Augsburg community members to listen to the word of Phil Gardner. Phil spoke about job trends and the current situation in the labor market. He has being doing research on the transitioning period from college to "the real world." Therefore, Phil was able to speak with authority about some approaches students like you and I can take to coast the financial crisis.
One thing I enjoyed a lot of his lecture was the fact that I share a lot of his Ideas about the evolution of the economy in the overall.
Phil strongly suggested the audience, specially student looking for a job, to get acquainted with the new set of requirements that employers are looking for in employees. I think he specially highlighted the fact that in our time is essential for us to be prepared to hear "you figure it out" and actually do it.(that actually has other ties which I will like to discuss in the future). So in short we cannot just sit there and wait for the answers to be given to us. Paraphrasing Phil, once we are out of college there is not syllabus to guide us through; we are responsible to write the syllabus and find the readings and resources.
Another big point that he made was that failure is not a bad thing as long as it is the result of trying to succeed. The key to success is never to take your eyes of the price.
To finish this post I just want to thank the people that made possible for Phil to speak here. Nice Work!!!
A link to Phil's Website
http://www.ceri.msu.edu/staff/p-gardner.html
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