Learning and Earning in the 21st Century: What You Need to Know and How to Succeed

Several participants were recently heard to say:"This is fun!"

Learning about oneself, one's strengths and enhancing specific areas to strong proficiency can be "fun"! The information, assignments and activities included in the 5th edition of Learning and Earning in the 21st Century: What You Need to Know and How to Succeed provide opportunities to practice and develop skills essential to achieving and maintaining a smooth, almost seamless, successful transition to employer expectations. The 3rd edition Learning and Study Skills Inventory (LASSI) is the pre and post-test and specific, related inventories as well as other evidence-based practices are incorporated throughout the book. New, significant demographic trends and projections; employer needs and in-demand careers for the 21st Century as reported in newly released research are in this 5th edition, as well.

This workbook provides students - in middle school and high school - with important information about understanding their power as learners and how they are contributing to their current and future earnings. For post-high school adults this book provides the necessary learning skills, social emotional, and life-skills readiness that sets them up for economic success. This format also allows students to review their assignments and inventory results, as a refresher, (when needed) and provides objective information about them and their progress with appropriate strategies for improvement.

The 5th edition of Learning and Earning in the 21st Century: What You Need to Know and How to Succeed is a perfect choice for introducing success strategies for life and employment!

FACT: This is a knowledge and skills-based economy.
FACT: A company is only as good as its weakest link in product, sales, and service.
FACT: Employers want "documentation" of your knowledge and specific skill sets!
FACT: Customers vote with their feet! Good sales and service, they return! Adequate or poor, they don't!

This 5th edition of Learning and Earning in the 21st Century: What You Need to Know and How to Succeed gives an in-depth understanding of the many ways people learn! Using Brain-based research related to learning, students identify their personal best way of learning, as well as how to create that learning environment! Strategies to demonstrate the knowledge, important workplace trends, Mindset and Self-Efficacy are all included! In-demand "Soft Skills"that enable Team Building, Problem Solving and Critical Thinking Skills and so much more are included in this 5th edition. Learning and Earning in the 21st Century: What You Need to Know and How to Succeed gets at the "heart" of what it means to thrive economically in the 21st Century!  Your ability to acquire information, understand and use it effectively in the workplace is the best form of "job security"!

Learning and Earning in the 21st Century: What You Need to Know and How to Succeed has been approved as meeting all 6 of the Workforce Badges by Employ Indy through its Job Ready program (the Workforce Development organization in Indianapolis, Indiana). These badges have been incorporated throughout this 5th edition.