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- 1. PROBLEM: Companies attempting to hire recent graduates (without work experience) would like the applicants to be more qualified (i.e. prepared for the duties of the position, solid basic skills and capabilities) to do the job they are applying for. Brainstormed Ideas to Better Prepare Applicants While They are Students: 1. Add more business courses to classes 2. Interview companies to find out what they need 3. Ask employers to speak about needs to class 4. Have employers teach classes 5. Invest in better books 6. Include industry magazines in curriculum 7. Help students identify personal talents 8. Help students identify personal strengths 9. Have students work as interns at various companies 10. Take you kid to work day 11. Add more business related research projects 12. Have students start mock businesses 13. Employers provide needs criteria to schools 14. Create schools run by the business 15. Hire consultants to evaluate teachers 16. Have consultants evaluate curriculum 17. Include more creative thinking courses in curriculum 18. Create specialized job training courses 19. Involve school counselors in preparing students 20. Find mentors for students 21. Include more business classes in secondary school 22. Include more vocational arts in schools 23. Involve parents more actively 24. Create additional business related courses 25. Have parents teach their children about business 26. Integrate Junior Achievement into early education systems 27. Have students develop a business (or business plan) 28. Create a study about career beliefs of studies 29. Lower the expectations of hiring companies 30. Extend the amount of requirements necessary to graduate 31. Make “work study” classes a requirement for graduation 32. Improve the knowledge of teachers 33. Make teachers work in various other industries 34. Hire more teachers that have worked in areas other than academia 35. Change the educational system to be less standardized 36. Make HR departments recruit only from specific schools 37. Include more elaborate case studies within study material 38. Create more school/business partnerships 39. Promote adolescents obtaining part time jobs 40. Include more life skills in curriculums 41. Promote entrepreneurship at an early age 42. Promote the armed services as a viable employer 43. Incorporate classes on performing research 44. Increase the expectations made by parents and educators 45. Capitalize on leveraging what motivates the students 46. Have students describe in detail their perception of what is entailed in working 47. Lessen the dependence of technology in education 48. Make working during summer break mandatory 49. Leverage the study of early American History for examples of children’s work performance 50. Make the study of philosophy mandatory