Topics to Be Covered During the Employee's Classroom Visits

"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.