Business Ethics Student Training

BUSINESS ETHICS STUDENT TRAINING (BEST)

The key to Georgia's economic future is a prepared workforce. Therefore, one of the fundamental goals of the Georgia Department of Labor's Workforce Solutions Team is to produce an emerging workforce that is prepared to face the challenges of a global marketplace.
Employee responsibility is often the missing link in the working arena. While most students are graduating from high school and preparing for the future with the appropriate academic credentials, many still lack the soft skills and work ethic to succeed in today's workforce.
A survey of large, medium, and small businesses shows that employers are having difficulty hiring people who possess adequate basic skills, thinking skills, working competencies, work attitudes, and work habits. To address this gap and to give Georgia students

an advantage moving into the workforce, the Department of Labor created GeorgiaBEST.
The training, modeled after the business world where employees are assessed by their employers on performance, teaches ten areas of ethics and soft skills. This type of assessment in a classroom setting allows for leadership development, critical and creative thinking, decision making, problem solving, teamwork, and work-based learning. Guest speakers from the business community, mock job interviews, and rsum tips round out a complete soft skills and ethics training course.
Georgia businesses and hiring managers are recognizing the importance of GeorgiaBEST and understand that these students have gone above and beyond to prepare themselves for the workplace. Getting a foot in the door is the BEST advantage a business can offer.

TEN SOFT SKILLS STANDARDS

Appearance & Professional Image Attendance & Punctuality Attitude & Respect Social Media Ethics Discipline & Character
Oral & Written Business Communication Skills Productivity & Academic Performance Responsibility & Organization Self-Management & Time- Management Teamwork & Work Habits

Required Project -- Job Shadowing, Community Service or Career Research Project

" Unfortunately, many students are not prepared to operate in a working environment. GeorgiaBEST gives students the chance to gain these skills,

while allowing them an advantage in promoting themselves in the highly

" competitive job market that exists today.

- Commissioner Mark Butler

AN INVESTMENT IN TODAY'S YOUTH FOR TOMORROW'S WORKFORCE!
69%
OF ALL FIRST-TIME HIRES LOSE THEIR JOBS BECAUSE OF LACK OF SOFT SKILLS

Be the
BENEFITS TO THE STUDENT
Recognized as a GeorgiaBEST student. Awareness of the value of work ethic components. Develop a sense of awareness of the importance of being prepared for the demands of the 21st Century
workforce and higher education. An understanding of what appearance communicates to customers and co-workers. Training in productivity, goal setting, time-management, problem solving, and self-management skills. Utilize the certificate to their advantage on rsums, college applications, and on job interviews. Gain an advantage over students without a certificate.
BENEFITS TO THE EMPLOYER
Confidence that the student has an understanding of the soft skills needed in today's workplace. Knowledge that the student has volunteered himself or herself beyond the everyday classroom education
and is striving to be a better employee to his/her company. Understanding that the student is among the best in his or her class. A guarantee that the student has exhibited leadership, teamwork, and personal responsibility skills needed
in the workforce.
BENEFITS TO THE STATE OF GEORGIA
Upgrade the skill level of our young and developing workforce. Provide a better product for current and emerging employers. Enhance the State's workforce.

Georgia Department of Labor Commissioner Mark Butler 148 Andrew Young International Boulevard | Suite 600 Atlanta, Georgia 30303 Tel 404.232.7300 Fax 404.656.2683 www.dol.state.ga.us

For more information, contact: Cindy Morley 770.365.2103 cindy.morley@gdol.ga.gov