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Today's college student faces a future in which they will have, on average, 25 different jobs through 6 careers. Students don't need to prepare for one jobóthey need a set of skills they can carry with them across numerous transitions. Curriculums need to teach transferable career skillsóthe skills needed throughout a worklife.
In ten years, 80% of working people will have jobs that don't exist today. Learning a specific job skill isn't always practical in a rapidly changing world. Students need a curriculum that teaches them the most useful lifetime skills: how to learn, how to self-evaluate, and how to acquire new skills to carry across jobs.
A high percentage of people today are accessible 100% of the time and many work at home. Management expert Peter Drucker said that this era would be defined not by computers, globalization, or the Internetóbut by the transformation from a leader-managed environment to a self-managed work environment. Proficiency in self-management and the setting of boundaries will define the work experience of today's student.
People no longer work in assembly lines, but in groups, and teams of knowledge workers. Social skills and emotional intelligence are as important as technical skills. More than just teaching about emotional intelligence, a curriculum should instill how to use it. Students need to learn the forces of social dynamics and how to work with people.
Modern organizations are webs of highly interconnected systems. An understanding of systems interactions, processes, and principles is critical. Colleges and universities need to teach students the big picture, the tendencies and habits of interconnected systems.
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