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“Positive things happen to positive people.”

“Look for the good, and you will find it.”

“Every time you think ‘I can’t’, instead, say ‘Why not’.”

“If they can do it, why can’t I?”

“Every ‘I can’t’ means ‘I won’t’.”
(SERIES OF 8 VIDEOS below)

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Career Counseling:  Improving self esteem

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Supplemental lecture on ways to strenthen self esteem, used for online career counseling class.

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"Career counselors should be dream restorers and social activists, they should empower people to resist the status quo if that brings with it discrimination and oppression" (Gysbers, 2014).

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“What is the experience in life that you most want to have?”

“Get aligned with your design.”

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“How do women break internal barriers and the external barriers that exist?”

“When people care about themselves, they care more about the world.”

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There is a 'Sort and Select' idea that happens when a kid walks into school on day one. They are already categorized, and, therefore, they are kept from the challenging courses. They are kept from the meaningful academic experiences. They're kept from the enrichment programs. So, it's a self-fulfilling prophecy.

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African-American Careers: Dr. James L. Moore III

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An associate professor in counselor education at the Ohio State University, James L. Moore III is also an affiliated scholar at The John Glenn Institute, an affiliated scholar for the Ohio Collaborative at The Ohio State University, and a LASER Research Associate at the Center for Action Research on Urban Schools and Effective Leadership at the University of South Florida.

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Finding More Time as a Working Mother

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Parenting and Careers: Finding More Time as a Working Mother

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Parenting and Careers: Finding More Time as a Working Mother - as part of the expert series by GeoBeats. As a busy working mom, you may find that you do not have enough time or energy in the day to get it all done.

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“A lot of people who come to see me are hopeless.”

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Linda Ginac, M.S. in Career Development, Master Professional in Career Management (MPCM) speaks about her passion helping others reach their career aspirations. A certified career coach will help find the right career. Learn how to apply your talent to a new industry, develop in your chosen career path, or transform yourself.

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The leading career development platform dedicated to fostering the professional growth and success of black women.

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College students who graduate with degrees in undergraduate college majors like pharmaceutical science and computer, chemical and industrial engineering tend to go on to earn high incomes over the course of their careers. The problem is African Americans tend to be under-represented in those majors - less than any other group - and what you major in while at college, it turns out, is more important than ever when it comes to earning more money over the course of a career.

This according to a report released earlier this year by Georgetown University's Center on Education and the Workforce (CEW). African Americans who graduate with degrees in industrial and manufacturing engineering, for example, go on to earn about $76,000 in median annual wages over the course of a career. But, African Americans - who represent 12% of the U.S. population - only represent 5% of graduates in that major. Those graduating with degrees in Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Administration go on to earn $84,000 in annual median income, yet African Americans only represent 6% of those grads overall, according to the CEW's study. (See below for our gallery on the 10 Highest-Earnings Majors for African Americans.)

Also, African-Americans were also found to represent only 7% science, technology, engineering, and mathematics majors, or STEM.

So where are all the African-American students if they're not in the top-earning majors? On the other end of the spectrum, it turns out. CEW's study showed that they tend to be over-represented in college major programs that, on average, lead to lower wages. For example, they represent 21% of Health and Medical Administration Services majors, which brings in a median annual wage of $46,000. African-Americans represent 21% of Human Services and Community Organization, and 19% of Social Work majors, which each lead to median salaries of $41,000 or less.

Other groups - whites, Asians, Hispanics - also experienced higher or lower career wages after graduating with certain degrees. But African-Americans are underrepresented in the top-earning fields of study, over-represented on the low end and tend to earn the least amount of money over the course of a career as a result (Asians tend to earn the most of all groups), says CEW Director Anthony Carnevale, one of the authors of the report.

"African American women especially are highly concentrated in low earning majors, oftentimes to do with community service-a lot of psychology, a lot education, a lot of humanities," says Carnevale. "The education majors get jobs but at low wages." African-American men, he added, are distributed a bit more broadly among majors, but still experience the same trend. There is, Carnevale stresses, nothing wrong with choosing one major over another, but that decision can have a profound impact on earning power over the course of a career. "They're going to choose majors based on their interests and values but they should at least know what the economic consequences are and there is no system in place to (inform them) and that's especially true for lower income populations, where there's a very high concentration of African Americans."

Carnevale says that since the 1980s the overall value of a college degree - in terms of its impact on career earnings - has doubled relative to a high school degree. "What is even more striking and a stronger shift has been the difference in value among fields of study-it's grown even more, from an economic point of view."

Carnevale says he hopes the study enlightens those about what kind of monetary return they can expect from the degrees they pursue, noting that nowadays there are about 1,100 distinct occupations to choose from (according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics) and 2,500 college majors at schools in the U.S. "I think it points out the need for more transparency in helping students and administrators and other people as well, figure out the economic value of fields of study or college majors."

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Highest Earning College Majors For African Americans

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College students who graduate with degrees in undergraduate college majors like pharmaceutical science and computer, chemical and industrial engineering tend to go on to earn high incomes over the course of their careers. The problem is African Americans tend to be under-represented in those majors - less than any other [...]

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Jobs and Careers for African-American Professionals | AMightyRiver.com

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We list 300,000 jobs from employers specifically recruiting African American talent. Apply now and start your new career with a better company.

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Attached is a Word document of my outline.

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African-American women should be identified as challenged in at least two demographics.  Because of their ethnic heritage and their gender, African-American women are doubly apt to be overlooked and underrepresented in the realm of careers.  An added factor with any women, is the issue of relationships and families and the responsibilities which seem to be inherently tied to the role of womanhood.  Education is a very relevant issue, especially for underrepresented persons in the work world.

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Black Unemployment Rate:
June 2017: 7.1%

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Although African Americans have an unemployment rate almost double that of the overall population, the Black workforce is just as diverse. Because the federal government was one of the first to integrate, African Americans have been over represented in that sector.

More than 20% of the Black working population over 16 years old are employees of the federal, state, or local government which is just over 5 percentage points higher than the national average. On the other end a much smaller percentage of African Americans are self-employed (3.6%) than the national average of 6.2%.

Occupations of African Americans

Black women have made the greatest strides recently. In 2011 33% of Employed Black women have jobs in management or professional occupations compared to 23% of employed Black men. As a matter of fact 64% of working African American women hold "white collar" occupations compared to 50% of African American men. Thirty six percent of employed Black men hold "blue collar" occupations compared to 8% of Black Women.

The below chart categorizes the African American workforce by industry. As you can see we are again over represented in government jobs such as education, social assistance, and public administration. African Americans also have a large presence in the health care industry which is expected to see substantial job growth for the foreseeable future.

Among the major race and ethnicity groups, Hispanics continued to have the highest labor force participation rate (68.5 percent) in 2008, while the participation rate for blacks was the lowest (63.7 percent). The participation rates for whites (66.3 percent) and Asians (67.0 percent) were roughly midway between the rates for blacks and Hispanics, continuing a long-term pattern. (by Shandira Pavelcik)

SOURCE: 2010 U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

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Although African Americans have an unemployment rate almost double that of the overall population, the Black workforce is just as diverse. Because the federal government was one of the first to integrate, African Americans have been over represented in that sector.

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Monthly unemployment rate of women in the United States from September 2016 to September 2017

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U.S. unemployment rate for women: September 2017, seasonally adjusted | Statistic

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This statistic displays the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate of women in the United States on a monthly basis. Seasonal adjustment is a statistical method for removing the seasonal component of a time series that is used when analyzing non-seasonal trends. The national unemployment rate of the female workforce stood at 4.2 percent in September 2017.

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Occupational employment by race and ethnicity, 2011 : The Economics Daily : U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

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Among employed men, 17 percent of Asians and Whites worked in management, business, and financial operations occupations in 2011, compared with 10 percent of Blacks or African Americans, and 8 percent of Hispanics or Latinos.