
Topics to Be Covered During the Employee's Classroom Visits
Putnam County Schools and Philips Display Components Company developed the
following list of topics to be covered when a company volunteer would be
speaking to students:
"Education minimums for any work path:
- Basic math and algebra skills
- Science awareness
- Ability to communicate clearly orally and in writing
- Ability to speak a second language is helpful
Minimum personal requirements to be employable:
- Attends regularly, and arrives on time
- Completes assignments on time
- Adapts to increased demands in workload
- Adapts to changes in the work environment
- Makes appropriate choices and decisions
- Accepts responsibility for those choices and decisions
- Accepts constructive criticism and uses it as a learning tool
- Takes pride in their work
- Strives for excellence on the job and in school
Companies are looking for individuals who exhibit:
- The ability to work in teams to solve problems
- The understanding that learning is a lifetime process
- Initiative
- The desire and ability to develop and seek personal goals
- Problem-solving skills
Discuss your job function at Philips and other career opportunities:
- The education needed for your role
- How the team concept impacts you
- How you use problem-solving skills
- The changes you anticipate in your job now and in the future
- Opportunities that may be available in your job function/field in the
future
- Recent education you have undertaken and why
The 21st Century industrial environment:
- Concept of a global economy
- High expectations for product quality
- High education and skill levels required
- Decreasing demand for unskilled labor
- Changes in demographics
- Reduction in management levels"
Reprinted with permission from Putnam County Schools, Ottawa, Ohio,
and Philips Display Components Company.
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