This mental map has 25 ideas of what would help my son overcome his immediate and future problems of having a transition from school to work.

1. Ideas generation
1 to 5
1.
Working on summer vacations since child
will ease the transition in the adulthood
whenever is needed
2.
Setting objectives for the work to be done
and match them with the personal
objectives
3.
Search for the companies my son would like
to work for and prepare a resume that
would help him get into that specific
company
4.
If he wouldn't find a company he would like
to work for, then create a resume with him
that would show his strengths,
achievements and success during school
5.
Talk with someone he knows and admires,
so that person would give him pointers of
what to do to search for his ideal job
6 to 10
1.
Visit several companies regardless of his
interest in those companies, so he could see
what he'll find when he works in a company
2.
While searching for a job, he could work at
small shops such as Ice Cream Parlor, Deli's,
7 Eleven's in the meantime, so he could
understand what is responsibility in those
stores
3.
He could work for me at my company at the
lowest position, moving on from area to
area on a monthly frame. So he could
understand what he's best at
4.
Reading books and articles of how to
smooth this transtition from school to work
would help him
5.
Watching videos at YouTube of how people
managed to do the transition in the best
way possible
11 to 15
1.
Talk to his uncles, aunts, cousins who might
be working now and ask them for pointers
2.
Ask anyone in the family if he could work
with them, while he finds a job and in the
meantime learning what it's needed to stay
at a job, regardless of the family link
3.
Asking myself and my wife to stop giving
him his monthly allowance, so that would
help find quicker a job
4.
Go to a startup weekend so he could meet
new people with the same interests and he
could show them his strengths to build a
startup project
5.
Go back to school and ask the Dean, if he
could work as an assistant for a teacher in
the subject he has the most passion
16 to 20
1.
Applying for positions within the clubs,
restaurants and sports facilities he enjoys to
go. So he could feel what is like to work in a
place where he usually enjoys
2.
Creating a YouTube channel and add videos
of his adventure of everything he does to do
the transition of moving from school to
work
3.
Talk to me and my wife of what is to go to
work on a daily basis and why we enjoy
doing it and for whom we gladly do it
4.
Ask his grandpa to become his mentor, so he
could give him pointers and lead him to the
best way of acquiring a job and maintaining
it
5.
Apply for a part time job, so he could set
himself for running a marathon in the other
part time. That way, he would understand
that a job is as important as a personal
objective in life
21 to 25
1.
Set a $ goal for him to achieve over the first
year of work, if he is in the middle of the
year and he foresees no way of achieving
that goal, then he has to move a job where
he could achieve it or create a project that
would allow him to do it
2.
Ask him what he would like to do for life,
regardless of the $ he would earn. Then
helping him achieving that goal
3.
Read biographies of people he admires,
regardless the profession and understood
what he has to do to overcome the obstacles
he might have now and in the future
4.
Read biographies of CEOs of prestigious
companies, so he could find inspiration in
them
5.
Take an online course of what to do and
what not to do while having the transition
of school 2 work
Idea generation.mmap - 11/08/2013 - Roberto Torres