1. ALIGNING MY COLLEGE EXPERIENCE WITH MY CAREER INTERESTS
A tool to help students set a career direction relative to an institution's degree options, academic programs, and course offerings that are pre-aligned with the realities of occupational knowledge/skill requirements of “today’s” occupational options.

2. A Good Memory and Analytical Skills
DO I WANT TO …
Be a Veterinarian ?
A Vet Tech ?
Be a Bioinformatics Analyst ?
I Have
A Good Memory and Analytical Skills
Organic Chemistry
Knowledge Topic:
Drug Therapy for Canines
Skill: IV Insertion

3. US ECONOMY & COMPETITIVE STANDING
Technological
Innovation
COMPETITIVELY PRICED NATURAL RESOURCES
MOTIVATED, SKILLED & KNOWLEDGEABLE WORKFORCE
Retiring boomer population
Technological acceleration
Wall street pressures
Corporate “politics” as usual
Changing performance expectations
Educational system lagging industry needs for qualified resources
Blessed with abundance

4. Must get off on the right
GOAL: MOTIVATED, SKILLED & KNOWLEDGEABLE WORKFORCE
Collaborate To Create
COLLABORATORS
Higher Ed
Corporate
Students
Advisors &
Counselors
Parents
Faculty
Hiring
Managers
Line
Managers
Must get off on the right

5. Be provided clear, detailed description of career options
STUDENTS NEED TO …
Be provided clear, detailed description of career options
Develop technical and interpersonal skills that complement knowledge gained from taking courses
Select academic programs and degrees that match their interests, abilities, and selected career option(s)
Understand the detailed processes, activities and performance expectations surrounding different occupations
Continuously refine their chosen career direction and selected academic offerings as new insights develop
Avoid going home

6. HIGHER-ED FACULTY NEED TO:
CORPORATIONS NEED TO:
Provide process/activity and requisite skill database content
HIGHER-ED FACULTY NEED TO:
Revise curriculum and courseware with increased emphasis on skills
ACADEMIC ADVISERS NEED TO:
Bridge the understanding gaps of Students and Faculty regarding occupational knowledge & skill requirements

7. LEVERAGING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
To Store, Analyze, Report, and Selectively Retrieve What Students Need
Academic Programs & Degree Options
Career Options & Job Descriptions
Student Interests, Abilities, & Academic Performance
Process Models
Job Activities
Related K/ S Sets

8. Concept Poses A Moderate Level of Complexity & Data Diversity
K/S Inventory
Academic Programs
Degree Options
My Current K/S
Course Offerings
Course Schedule
K/S to Develop
Alignment
AP Alignment to Industry CO-BP-JA-K/S
K/S Delivered
(per course)
My Career Option(s)
Related AP/DO options and associated K/S Rqmts per a Targeted Career Option
Alignment
Activity
K/S Requisites
Job Activities
APs-Courses Matching My Selected COs
Incremental K/S and Courses Needed to Match a What-If Change to My Selected AP and
Career Option
My Source Schedule & Plan
Business Processes
Gaps to My Selected AP/Degree Option
AP – Academic Program
BP – Business Process
CO – Career Option
DO – Degree Option
JA – Job Activity
K/S – Knowledge/Skill
Career Options
(Occupations)
Industries

9. FUNDAMENTALS WHO: WHAT: WHEN: WHERE: WHY: HOW:
2 Pilot Universities, TTG, US Department of Education, Salesforce.com
WHAT:
A functional prototype
WHEN:
ASAP
WHERE:
Doesn’t matter
WHY:
US Competitiveness; Student “Success”
HOW:
A government grant

10. STRATEGIES
Government funded/supported with contractor development assistance
Concurrence/support of top-level Higher-Ed institution administrators
All “Collaborators” represented to capture all perspectives
Cloud-based
Process activity and skill models become a nationally accessible repository representing “state of the art” practice
Higher-Ed administrators and faculty re-engineer curriculum and courses to be “current” with emphasis on skill development as well as knowledge accrual

11. STRAWMAN PLAN Funded: $850K Form team Refine concept & reqmts
Design functionality
Code & Test
Pilot in two universities
Consolidate lessons learned
Refine product
Develop rollout strategy
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