Blog 14

When reading the beginning of chapter 18, I thought that Brown (2012) was trying to say the future predictions are important, but they are not always right.  It is like taking future predictions like a grain of salt.  They are important to consider but don’t always completely say that something is going to happen because the future is always unpredictable.  Then based on the work of Herr and Gybers and their future predictions of future careers, Brown (2012) thinks that showing specific future trends are harder to believe than those that are more broad and can be easily changed.  When things are broader, I feel that it is easier to relate something to it rather than having a more specific trend.  Usually when you have something that specific, it tends to be either true or false.  So thinking back to the last chapter that we read for class, that specific list of what will be available in the future might not be true.  I guess that something could happen that could change those careers like a brand new technology or a natural disaster. 

            I continued to read when I came across the future trends in the job hunt.  Brown (2012) describes that the jobs that are currently available will be online for people.  People then will submit all of their information through the web instead of by hand and in person.  I can honestly say this is true now and is thriving.  I was in the high school group and we wanted to have a hard copy of a job application for our sample portfolio but when we went to different stores, they all told us to go online to apply for the position.  This for us was a hassle because in order to get the application, you had to create a username and password to exactly get the info that we wanted.  I feel like now the process is not personal anymore.  It’s faster and you can get a lot more accomplished but it was just odd for all of those stores to tell us to go online to apply.  Brown (2012) then goes into saying that they might have software that looks through the applications and resumes to pick out key words before someone actually sees them.  I don’t know if this is true, but I feel that it’s a terrible way to go through applications and resumes.  I also feel that the system could crash and then no one can get a job.  This process also gets rid of another job for someone because people don’t want to take the time and look through applications.  I just hope that this is not true and that people still look at all the applications and resumes.

Brown, D. (2012). Career information, career counseling, and career development (10^th ed.). New York, NY: Pearson Education, Inc.