question archive Why Do “Basics?” Assignment   Assignment Directions Read the ‘Why Do I Have to Do “Basics?”’ topic of the course materials for this unit/week and answer the following questions

Why Do “Basics?” Assignment   Assignment Directions Read the ‘Why Do I Have to Do “Basics?”’ topic of the course materials for this unit/week and answer the following questions

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Why Do “Basics?” Assignment

 

Assignment Directions

Read the ‘Why Do I Have to Do “Basics?”’ topic of the course materials for this unit/week and answer the following questions.

 

1. Under the ‘Employability’ sub-topic, you have the list of 10 top skills that employers look for when hiring. In your opinion, which THREE (3) of these is the most important for work and life in today’s world and why? Write at least TWO (2) sentences for each explaining your reasoning. (12 points, 4 points each)

i.

ii.

 

iii.

 

 

2) Is there ONE (1) skill from your selected list of three (or from the others on the list of 10) that you feel you are particularly good at? How do you know that this is one of your strengths? Write no less than TWO (2) sentences to provide an example of a time when you used this skill to your success. (5 points)

 

 

 

 

 

 

3) Is there ONE (1) skill from your selected list of three (or from the others on the list of 10) that you feel you can work at to improve and develop further? Why do you feel that this is a particular weakness? Write no less than TWO (2) sentences to explain. (5 points)

 

4) Since transferrable skills, like “hard skills,” are sharpened through practice, reflect on which General Education classes might help you develop the skills you need to succeed. Use the Student Planning Software to learn of the general education classes required for your major and the electives you could choose. Follow the directions to access the Student Planning Software and then answer the question below.

 

Student Planning Software Access Directions

i. Log into your OCCC portal at www.occc.edu using your student email/password

ii. Go to the Self Service tab, choose Academic Plan & Registration, and then click on Planning and Registration.

iii. You will see the home screen of the MineOnline Self Service. Choose the Student Planning tab. 

iv. This will bring you to the dashboard of Student Planning. You will be able to see the major(s) you have officially declared at OCCC, you current GPA, as well as your current schedule of classes.

v. Click on the ‘My Progress’ tab/link on this page. There you will see a list of all the classes required for your degree program

vi. Under ‘Requirements,’ look for the list of General Education Courses. For many of you, you might have already planned your classes with your Student Success Advisor and will see the courses you have chosen. If you have not made an academic plan as yet, click on the course number to read more about it in the Course Catalog. If there is no class listed (electives), click on the ‘Search’ button to see all the courses that would fulfill that requirement. Pick a class (or classes) that you find interesting and which would help you build the skills you have identified above as needing improvement. Click on ‘Add Course to Plan,’ and select a term, if you want to save it to discuss with your Student Success Advisor later. If you need additional help with the software, go to http://www.occc.edu/get/student-planning.html for helpful video tutorials

From the General Education classes listed on your ‘My Progress’ page of the Student Planning Software, select THREE (3) and make a note in the table below of the Status (whether planned, in-progress, complete, or blank if unplanned), Course Number and Name, Term, and Credits for each. (6 points, 2 points each).

 

 

 

Status

Course Number and Name

Term

Credits

i

 

 

 

 

ii

 

 

 

 

iii

 

 

 

 

 

 

5. Which skill(s) of the 3 that you have identified as most important in Question 1 (or from the others on the list of 10 in the course materials) would you get to learn and practice in EACH of the 3 General Education courses you have noted in the table above? Write no less than TWO (2) sentences each to explain. (12 points, 4 points each)

i.

ii.

iii.

 

 

6. Which General Education class(es) from your selection would allow you to practice the skill(s) that you have identified in Question 3 above as needing improvement? How would this class help you to practice the skill? Write no less than TWO (2) sentences to explain. (5 points)

 

 

 

 

 

 

7. From the ‘Why Do I Have to Do “Basics?” discussion in this unit/week’s course materials, you have learned that today’s world of work requires a person to have a breadth of knowledge and the ability to apply one area of learning to another in order to innovate and solve problems. Consider now what Daniel H. Pink, author of A Whole New Mind,* writes regarding the type of people and leaders that the jobs and careers in the decades ahead will demand:

“The last few decades have belonged to a certain kind of person…computer programmers, who could crank code, lawyers who could craft contracts, MBAs who could crunch numbers. But…the future belongs to a very different kind of person with a very different kind of mind—creators and empathizers, pattern recognizers, and meaning-makers…These people…will now reap society’s richest rewards and share its greatest joys.”

* Daniel Pink, A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future (New York: Riverhead Books, 2006) 1.

Now think about what you have learned from the discussion under the ‘Adaptability’ and ‘Broad-Based Education’ sub -topics of ‘Why Do I Have to Do “Basics?”’ in this unit/week’s course materials and answer the following questions:

a. Does Pink’s vision of the 21st century worker relate in any way to Seligo’s discussion of IBM and the “I” and “T-shaped” persons? Discuss by writing no less than FIVE (5) sentences. (10 points)

 

 

 

 

b. Do you see any connection between the facts and figures presented in the Shift Happens 2019 video included in the ‘Adaptability’ sub-topic and the need for the type of worker Pink describes as suited for 21st century jobs? Discuss by writing no less than FIVE (5) sentences. (10 points)

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