Bridges is a career research tool and planning guide.  The site also contains college databases and financial aid information. See Ms. Davis for the username and password to access bridges from home

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Why Career Development is Important Today!!!!

The economy and the workplace are changing rapidly at an accelerated pace. We are now in a "New Economy," and here are a few realities facing the American worker:

• A world that three of four new jobs will require a high school education and almost a third will be filled by college graduates.
• Most workers will change their jobs seven to eleven times over their work years.
• The average length of stay on a job is expected to be three to four years.
• Over half the population in the United States began their present career or job without any conscious goal or plan.
• 90% of all scientific knowledge has been generated in the last 30 years.  In the next 10 to 15 years this pool of knowledge will double again.
• Future jobs will be restructured about every seven years.
• The life cycle for electronics products and processes already have collapsed to three to five years.
• As a result, any set of skills can be obsolete in five to ten years.

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