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Join me for a conversation around takeaways from the Handshake Future Workforce Forum (March 2025). This presentation and conversation will explore essential trends and strategies shaping the future of employment, crucial for educators and student engagement professionals. We'll discuss current developments, including:

Navigating the Hiring Landscape: Understand how Supreme Court decisions and AI advancements are transforming employment, and learn strategies for developing resilient students.

Demographic Shifts and Workforce Dynamics: Discover how the anticipated rise of GenZ as the largest workforce generation by 2030 and sector-specific retirements are influencing industry demands and opportunities.

Enhancing Career Development: Learn innovative ways to prepare students for workforce readiness through the creation of "softer spaces," focusing on soft skills rather than technical skills, and responding to changes in employer recruitment strategies.

In this fast-paced, evolving landscape, effectively navigating the future of work requires insight, innovation, and adaptability. We will share and discuss practical tips for helping our students successfully transition into the workforce and life beyond campus. 

Enhance your understanding of core free speech concepts and apply them to your area of work to honor the right to free speech while better understanding its scope and limitations.

Culturally Tailored ACT is a multi-component modality that can be a useful tool/resource for anyone doing student-facing work, regardless of clinical background or experience. This presentation will provide practical resources, tools, and questions for reflection for anyone doing student-facing work.

"Culturally Tailored Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) provides culturally-relevant metaphors for navigating trauma and pain, including experiential exercises, faith-based mindfulness practices and/or religious references, addresses barriers to receiving mental health treatment, addresses stigmas and cultural views about mental health treatment, reality-based role plays, and addresses experiences of racism and discrimination. - Dr. Jennifer Shepard Payne ."