10 things your students must know about 21st century jobs

10

Things Your Students Must Know About21st Century Jobs

1 Their first impression will be created by their online reputation

Good morning mam. I am Hari Sadu...

Hi Hari, we know you! You don’t usually shave. You are polite but write bad English. You boast about being a rough-tough guy &

a biker... Tell me how will you fit in as an HNI Relationship Manager?

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1 Their first impression will be created by their online reputation

What do you tell them about

creating a good 1st impression on

employers?

2 They may lose their job due to bad online reputation

60% of our customers are women… and you are posting such insensitive remarks about women on Twitter and Facebook! We won’t tolerate this. You

are fired.

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2 They may lose their job due to bad online reputation

Do you explain your students why their

employers would be obsessed about the company’s

online reputation?...

3 They will work in virtual teams and their “office” will be the Internet

Are your students prepared for this office?

4 Online collaboration skills are the soft skills of 21st century

Project manageme

nt tools

Emailing

Conferencing

Wikis

File sharingForum

discussions

4 Online collaboration skills are the soft skills of 21st century

How do you train your students for improving their

online collaboration

skills?

5 “Valuable Knowledge Contributors” will achieve fast growth

This Rhea from our India office posts such useful blogs and forum replies… I think she can become

our training manager.

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5 “Valuable Knowledge Contributors” will achieve fast growth

What do you tell your

students about

contributing to the online ‘Knowledge

base’?

6 They will have to become a jack of all… tools.

Spreadsheet

s

Firewall

Backup

SaaS

Cloud

Videos

Photos

DocumentsPresentations

Antivirus

6 They will have to become a jack of all… tools.

Does your academic program ensure that students practice all these tools?

7 Professional knowledge will be online… only online!

7 Professional knowledge will be online… only online!

How do you teach your students the art of online knowledge search?

8 Training and skill development will be ‘Self Service’.

Hello Everyone!

I am Rhea, the new training manager of your company.

I wish to announce that henceforth we shall be not be conducting training sessions anymore. All employees are expected to train themselves on MOOCs and OCWs.

Thanks & Regards,Rhea Khanna

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8 Training and skill development will be ‘Self Service’.

Are you teaching your

students how to leverage

MOOCs and OCWs?

9 Competition will be surprising!

Knowledge worker can be anybody from anywhere!

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They will have to GO GREEN at work

Do you expose

your students

to ‘Paperles

s’ & ‘Travel-

less’ working?

(That’s purely ONLINE WORKING)

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=Internet Maturity is a

Key Employability Skill

What is ‘Web 2.0’How to create & share digital content

Mature way of Social NetworkingMature way of Professional Networking

Online forum discussion skillsBlogging skills for self-expressionHow to search knowledge online

What are ‘OCWs’ & ‘MOOCs’How to be safe online

How to build a positive Online Reputation

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