Segue Career Path Mentors

1. Segue Career Path Mentors Natalie Berger Keith Bergh Alexandra Johnson Alejandro Sangiovanni

2. Mission: • The Segue Program helps youth help themselves, take responsibility for where their lives are headed, choose productive careers, and avoid life’s negative paths. • The mission of the nonprofit is to empower students to explore, choose, and achieve their goals.

3. What Segue does: • Brings professionals from the community into classrooms • High school classrooms in the Ventura County Area • Already implemented in four schools • With an online sign up, speaking is a breeze

4. Everest Consulting • Segue needed Everest Consulting to aid in four critical areas: • 1. Research • 2. Expansion • 3. Personal Cost Estimator • 4. Identifying potential partners

5. Phase 1RESEARCH Natalie Berger

6. Phase One: Research • 30% of nations students don’t graduate high school • At risk youth are least likely to participate in extracurricular activities • Ex. Career days and Job shadowing • Prove: Guest Speakers in classrooms provide benefits to youth

7. Leading by example: • Creating awareness • Accounting Careers for Tomorrow • Giving students a chance to hear from someone different • Patricia A. Mullins • Enhance students learning

8. Cost to Society: • 2003 RAND study: • Dropout students cost anywhere from 243,000 -388,000 dollars • UC Berkley Study • Graduation Rates 1% higher • Decreased crime (approx 100,000) • Save estimated 1.4 billion dollars

9. Diploma versus GED • High school graduates are favored in entry level positions • Statistically get paid more • 15% of GED recipients opposed to 65% diploma recipients to go college

10. Support for Speakers • Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) • professional development • "activities to enhance professional career growth" • The North Central Region Education Laboratory • importance of implementing development programs • essential link to higher student achievement • Segue fits the definition of a “professional development” program • focus on different career paths • hearing from professionals from a number of different jobs.

11. National Center for Education Statistics • Guidance programs effective previously • programs are becoming redundant • lack of educational funds • In lieu of guidance programs: NCES says: Guest Speakers! • show students alternatives rather than being “taught at” • Difference • Guidance programs show options but can only give minimal information on details • Guest speakers can explain experiences • what successes/what failures • “real life” situations they might face if they enter that specific field

12. Oh the possibilities: • 90% of students planning on dropping out, in the Ventura county area, said that, as a result of Segue, they see a positive future and plan on remaining in school • 89% of students said they have increased their knowledge of potential career options after participating in the Segue program • 86% realize more effort now equals more options in the future.

13. Phase 2EXPANSION TO PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY Keith Bergh

14. Phase Two: Expansion • Many students still unaware of what they want to do after college • Concept Statement • Meet with Career Center • Can’t be a “free standing” program • Affiliate the program with courses, divisions, or school-affiliated clubs • PAN • Survey

15. Survey Results Most students certain of career path

16. Survey Results Most students are interested in Segue however

17. Survey Results Students only want Segue 1-2 times per month

18. Survey Results Wednesdays prove to be the best time 6-8pm time slot Monday-Thursday

19. Survey Results Segue Program should last 45 minutes on average

20. Survey Results • Students want to get a better knowledge of careers

21. Survey Results • Other reasons students want to attend? (free response) • Networking • Knowledge about careers in the market • How to find the best career for a student

22. Survey Results • Why students would not be interested? (free response) • TIME!!! • Not interesting or helpful • Speaker not applicable

23. Survey Results Integration into classes is a well liked

24. Survey Results Most students are Business, Communications or Social Science majors

25. ADDITIONAL OPPORTUNITIES AT PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY • Advisory Council • Student Group

26. Newly Formed Business Div. Advisory Council • ~20 Professionals invited to bring in outside consultation to all Professional Majors • Inspiration • Investment • Interest • Internships • Seeking membership • Participation approved after review by Business Division • Entry fee = $2,000 • Must be a successful business person • Affiliated to Pepperdine in some way (alumni, previous work, family)

27. Cooperation with Student-Led Clubs • New Business Division committee of student organizations • SIFE = Students In Free Enterprise • Pepperdine Rotaract • Accounting Society • Business Fraternity • AH Scholars • Finance and Investment Group

28. Strategies for Implementation • Partner with student organizations • Develop program through academic divisions • Business • Communications • Social Science

29. Phase 3BENEFICIAL ADDDITIONS TO SEGUE’S WEBSITE Alejandro Sangiovanni

30. Personal cost Estimator -Designed to teach students what they will need to earn or how many hours they will need to work. -Will be able to create it according to what they want to afford one day. -Regional specific databases for costs cost of living indicators are comparative between cities or countries

31. Personal Cost Estimator • Housing- Rent/Mortgage • Utilities- Electric/Gas/Water • Food- Groceries/Dining Out • Transportation- Public transit/Car payments/Maintenance/Gasoline • Insurance- Medical/Life/Home/Auto • Other Living Expenses

32. Calculating life at CA Minimum wage • Calculated on a monthly basis • California min. wage= $8.00 • shows how many hours a month/week the student would need to work to be able to afford a set monthly cost

33. Database of Average Incomes According to Industries • Bureau of Labor Statistics • CPI Calculator • Economic Time Series • What is the Dollar Worth? • Cost of Living Index (American Chamber of Commerce) • Relocation Salary Calculator • http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/steccpi.html

34. Phase 4Identifying Potential PartnersFor Segue Alexandra Johnson

35. Goal • Our goal is to find potential companies/ organizations/ groups that would be interested in partnering with Segue. • Segue is looking for potential partners who share their value on education, as well as someone who can expand the scope of Segue.

36. Partners • The Wildwoods Foundation • An organization that helps children achieve a sense of responsibility for their community by reaching out to nature. This in turn will hopefully give students a goal and drive to do great things with their lives. • The BizWorld Foundation • This is an organization whose mission is to 田hallenge and engage children across the cultural and economic spectrum through experiential learning programs that teach the basics of business, entrepreneurship, and money management and promote teamwork and leadership in the classroom.

37. Partners • Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation • Ewing Kauffman invests in people willing to take risks regarding education. They look for opportunities to promote positive education and accelerate entrepreneurship in America. We consider our grants to be investments, and we look for a return on the grant investments we make • Napa County Office of Education • It provides students with knowledge on what to do after high school and the opportunities available. • Located in Napa Valley, Segue could get in contact and expand its reach to other parts of California.

38. Partners • McGraw-Hill Companies • Has a division called “Teaching Today for postsecondary schools” and they emphasize the benefits of speakers in classrooms. • NCREST: National Center for Restructuring Education, Schools and Teaching • Provides aid for programs and schools with unique and innovative learning ideas.

39. Partners • National 4 H Council • National 4-H Council provides grants, establishes programs/initiatives, designs and publishes curriculum and reference materials, and creates linkages fostering innovation and shared learning to advance the 4-H youth development movement, building a world in which youth and adults learn, grow, and work together as catalysts for positive change. • Is a nationally respected organization that shares similar values to that of Segue.

40. Recommendations

41. Concerns with Website • Background is distracting • Slows down computer/web browser • Recommend small frame in corner • Google Analytics • Show who is accessing their site

42. Create a Commercial • Building a visual advertisement is extremely effective • Recording of a presentation in a classroom • Clearly shows the work Segue does • Wider market is reached whether its potential speakers or potential host schools • We recommend Outlet Productions • Zane Witzel (###)###-#### • Current Pepperdine student’s newly formed film company • Will lead to further networking within Pepperdine’s communication division • Recently created a professional promo for Malibu Rotary Foundation

43. THANK YOU ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS?