The World Needs You: A New Mindset for Student Career Exploration

We’re asking the wrong question. “What do you want to be when you grow up?” is no longer serving our students.This question perpetuates the myth that all students need to pick one job title — for life. The world has changed. The information age has created thousands of career possibilities. Artificial intelligence is causing major disruptions in almost every industry, and will bring about seismic shifts in the way we work.To prepare students for this new reality, we need a different approach. In The World Needs You, you will discover how the transformative Challenge mindset has shaken the very foundations of career development. How? By helping students explore inspiring challenges to solve, instead of job titles to fit into.Thousands of educators have used the Challenge mindset to broaden their students’ horizons and now, so can you. The result? You will have the freedom to do your best work, and your students will experience an innovative, motivating approach to career exploration that will change their outlook on their future, forever. To find out more, grab your copy today!Early Praise for The World Needs You:“The questions we ask frame our mindset. And as educators, the Challenge Cards give our students a different set of questions and language to define the impact they want to have on the world.”—Christine Y. Cruzvergara, Chief Education Strategy Officer at Handshake“For students to fully realize the value of their college or graduate school experience, higher education must be transformed to make career readiness mission critical. The Challenge mindset makes a valuable contribution to this transformation, unlocking us from traditional questions and approaches, with an innovative, motivating, highly engaging approach that can be used by students, parents, teachers, and career advisors.”—Andy Chan, Vice President, Personal and Career Development at Wake Forest University“Our role isn’t to crush students’ dreams. Instead, we can help them dream about possibilities and how to make the world a better place. These dreams can lead to identifying personal strengths and preparing students for hurdles they may encounter along the way. JP Michel’s Challenge mindset helps students dream through the lens of challenges to solve, so students can foster hope in themselves and others.”—Norm Amundson, Professor Emeritus at the University of British Columbia; Lead Consultant with Doubleknot Works Read more