(DOWNLOAD) "Worker Contentment: Facing the Realities of Today's Workplace (Preparing the New Workforce)" by Jeff Garton ~ eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
eBook details
- Title: Worker Contentment: Facing the Realities of Today's Workplace (Preparing the New Workforce)
- Author : Jeff Garton
- Release Date : January 01, 2010
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 60 KB
Description
Is it possible for graduating students to have a traditional career in the new millennium? How should they prepare for their careers when workers are being forced to take jobs they don't really want, and stay longer in jobs they don't really like just to have a job? This article proposes a holistic approach to career education that gives hope to students and their ability to have and enjoy their best career without depending on employers to make them happy. Preparing students to enter the workforce has historically involved narrowing their career choices and enhancing their marketability with polished resumes, custom cover letters, and expert interview skills. Throughout this learning process students are conditioned to expect that in return for their investment in education, plus their good labor and loyalties on the job, employers will make them satisfied with wages, benefits, training, and so forth. Employers reinforce this expectation by leveraging the idea of job satisfaction as the principal carrot to attract, motivate and retain workers. This enduring approach to employment and career seems reasonable until an examination of new workplace realities reveals gaps in education that can't be filled by apprenticeships or internships. Missing is the development of a student's mental and emotional abilities to compete for fewer jobs, and to persevere despite undesirable jobs and circumstances that employers can't, or won't make satisfying.