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Do our colleges and
universities prepare young
people adequately to face
the demands of the work-
place?

Stausucs which point to
low unemployment rates
among graduates of both the
community college system
and universities, suggest
these institutions are doing
their job. But Wayne
Gartley, executive director
of the University and College
Placement Association, says
they could do more.

“IT think the educational

institutions could do an
awful lot more to help
students learn the
techniques of career

planning and the skuls of
finding a job.” he said.

The skills he’s talking
about are ones not learned in
a Classroom. We aren't born
with them, and our parents,
for the most part, aren't
equipped to teach them to
us. That means the
responsibility must rest with
schools.

“Its really up to the
Instituuions to
accept the fact that their
graduates will have to find
employment and to_ help
them to doit.” he said.

That means greater care
will have to be‘taken (o assist
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for careers to which they're
most suited.

According to Gartley, this
isn't always the case.

“The majority of students
aren't selecting the proper
courses because they have
not done any career plan-
ning. They don’t have an
objective in mind and they
don’t know what career they
want to follow, so they've
tended to take the path of
least’ resistanc king
courses that appear to be’the
easiest,” he said.

The problem with that
approach is that they find
out later in life that they've
closed doors that might, at
one time, have been open to
them had they prepared
the mselves academically.

The answer seems to be in
early identification of skills
and a clear idea of how to
tum them into a rewarding
career.

Gartley says that each of
us has about 700 specialized

skills that weren't
necessarily taught in the
classroom.

The important thing is to
awaken these hidden talents
soon enough to avoid the
problem of becoming a very
unhappy square peg in a
round hole.

Usabel Wegg is Director of
Consumer Relatons for the
the Canadian Life’ and
Health Insurance

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