Career Pathways

Accelerating Opportunity
Resources for adult educators and researchers categorized by topic. Topics include: curriculum and instruction, model development, finance, and policy guidance & innovation.

Accredited Online Colleges and Degrees

ACT WorkKeys
ACT WorkKeys is a job skills assessment used by employers to hire, train, develop, and retain employees.

Adult Career Pathways Training and Support Center

AOL Jobs (In Partnership with CareerBuilder)
Site includes job search engine and resources for job seekers.

Arlington Education and Employment Program (ESOL lesson plans)

Best-Trade-Schools.net
Provides prospective students with a hub for locating nearby schools and colleges, while researching specific details about the trades they're considering. Rather than doing an extensive internet search, individuals can locate specific trades, industry details and the locations nearest them all in one convenient platform.

Bureau of Labor Statistics

Business English Site (Online Tools)
Grammar and vocabulary exercises for the business minded ESL students.

California Career Zone (Job Assessment and Exploration)

Career One-Stop
Career One-Stop is portal for discovering career pathways, training, and jobs sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor.

CalSolutions: Designing and Delivering Workforce ESL Instruction

CalSolutions: Issues in Improving Workers' English Language Skills

CalSolutions: Workplace Instruction and Prep for Adult Immigrants

Campaign to Invest in America's Workforce

CAELA: Factors to Consider When Planning for Setting Up, and Evaluating a Workplace Program for Immigrant Workers

Center for Postsecondary and Economic Success
Articles, information, and statistics about how policy affects low-income people in America.

College Affordability and Transparency Center College Scorecard

College and Career Readiness Standards for Adult Education

College for Adults

Council for Adult and Experiential Learning

Employ Florida
Job listings and job search resources specific to the state of Florida.

Employability Skills Framework

English For My Job
English vocabulary and grammar exercises for those employed by the hospitality industry.

ESL Flow
Lessons and activities for teaching job seekers how to apply for a job and succeed in interviews.

Florida CHOICES
Career exploration resources for adults and educators.

The Four Keys to College and Career Readiness

GPS for Success
Easy to understand guide to teaching adult basic skills and professional development.

A Guide to Not-for-Profit Online Universities

Higher Education After Incarceration Guide

ISeek

Jobs for the Future
Organization that promotes college readiness and career advancement to underprepared young people.

KET FastForward
College and career readiness site that offers GED, HISET and TASC test prep courses.

Learnhowtobecome.org
A career exploration portal whose mission is to maintain up-to-date resources and advice for today’s job seekers.

Learning That Works For America

Making Career Pathways Work: Curricular Design and Instructional Practice

My College Guide

My Next Move
Career exploration portal that allows you to brow career pathways by key words, industry, or career interest quiz results.

National Career Pathways Network

National Center for Innovation in Career and Technical Education

National College Transition Network

National External Diploma Program
The National External Diploma program offers an applied performance test that assesses high school level skills of adults and out-of-school youth.

National Transitional Jobs Network

National Skills Coalition

NYSED/CUNY CareerKit Project
The NYSED/CUNY CareerKit project is a comprehensive career preparation resource for teachers and counselors. Its goal is to equip students with the skills necessary to make informed choices about their career paths. CareerKit activities are written at the HSE/Upper ESL level, with adaptations possible for Pre-HSE and intermediate ESL levels. Each of the CareerKits addresses one of ten industry sectors and integrates reading, writing, research and math skills.

Occupational Outlook Handbook
Site run by the Bureau of Labor Statistics which provides information and statistical data on a variety of different occupations and their projected growth.

Office of Disability Employment Policy

O*Net Online
Site that offers job search engine and occupational information.

Opportunity Works
OW is a Florida based staffing company that focuses on employing people with disabilities.

Planning and Maps for a Career Pathways Program

Prescription for ESL Student Success

Project Care (Online Tools)
Project Care is a resource for intermediate to advanced ELLs who would like help communicating with medical personnel as they care a loved one.

Promoting College & Career-Ready Standards in Adult Basic Education

Women Employed

Workforce 3 One

Workforce Strategies at the Aspen Institute

Workforce System Strategies: Research and Data for Informed Decisions

USAJobs Resource Center
Job search engine and resources focusing on federal government jobs.

Wall Street Journal: Explore a Path to a Profession

WorkSource: Tools for success geared towards Job Seekers

Your Career Success Blog

• The Undereducated America
  
  
• A Cross-Case Analysis of Career Pathways
  
  
• A Framework for Measuring Career  Pathways Innovation
  
  
• A New National Approach to Career Navigation for Working Learners
  
  
• Accommodations and Modifications for Students with Disabilities in Career Education and Adult General Education
  
  
• Adult Learning in Focus: A State-by-State Analysis
  
  
• Aligning Secondary and Postsecondary Education: Experiences from Career and Technical Education
  
  
• The Alliance for Quality Career Pathways Approach: Developing Criteria and  Metrics for Quality Career Pathways
  
  
• A Skills Beyond School Review of the United States (Florida case study)
  
  
• Autonomy and Innovation: Systemic Change in a Decentralized State
  
  
• Beyond Basic Skills: State Strategies to Connect Low-Skilled Students to an Employer-Valued
  
  
• Beyond the GED: Promising Models for Moving High School Dropouts to College
  
  
• The Best of Two Worlds: Lessons from a Community College- Community Organization Collaboration to Increase Student Success (March 2012)
  
  
• Breaking Through: A Tool forHelping Low-skilled Adults Gain Postsecondary Certificates and Degrees
  
  
• Bridge Programs in Illinois: Summaries, Outcomes, and Cross-Site Findings
  
  
• Bridging the Gap: Meeting the Challenge of Universal Access Through Community Partnerships
  
  
• Building a Higher Skilled Workforce: Results and Implications From the Bridgeconnect National Survey
  
  
• Building a Comprehensive Youth Employment Delivery System: Examples of Effective Practice (February 2010)
  
  
• Building Career Ladders for the Working Poor Thorough Literacy Training
  
  
• Building Pathways to Postsecondary Success for Low Income Young Men of Color: A Community Intervention Strategy (November 2010)
  
  
• Career Clusters: Forecasting Demand for High School Through College Jobs
  
  
• Career Pathways Toolkit Produced by ETA
  
  
• Career and Technical Education: 5 ways that pay along the way to the B.A.
  
  
• Connecting Curriculum, Assessment, and Treatment in Developmental Education
  
  
• Contextualized College Transition Strategies for Adult Basic Skills Students: Learning from Washington State’s I-BEST Program Model
  
  
• Courses to Employment Update (Number 2) The Price of Persistence: How Nonprofit Community College Partnerships Manage and Blend Diverse Funding Streams
  
  
• Creating Postsecondary Pathways to Good Jobs for Young High School Dropouts (October 2008)
  
  
• Crossing The Bridge: GED Credentials and Post-Secondary Educational Outcomes
  
  
• Education, Job Openings and Unemployment in Metropolitan America
  
  
• Education to Employment: Designing a System that Works
  
  
• Enhanced Transitional Jobs Demonstration
  
  
• Engaging Employers to Support Adult Career Pathways Programs
  
  
• Farther Faster: Six Promising Programs Show How Career Pathway Bridges Help Basic Skills Students Earn Credentials That  Matter (August 2011)
  
  
• Funding Career Pathways and Career Pathway Bridges: A Federal Policy Toolkit for States (October 2010)
  
  
• Green & Sustainability Skills Statements
  
  
• Hard Times:  Not All College Degrees are Created Equal
  
  
• Help Wanted: Projections of Jobs and Education Requirements Through 2018
  
  
• Improving Employment and Earnings for TANF Recipients
  
  
• Integrating Career Awareness Curriculum
  
  
• Integrating Industry-Driven Competencies in Education and Training Through Employer Engagement
  
  
• Is College Worth It For Me? How Adults Without Degrees Think About Going (Back) to School
  
  
• It’s a Matter of Time: Low-Income Students and Community Colleges
  
  
• Labor Market and Demographic Analysis: A National Picture of Short-term Employment Growth by Skill
  
  
• Learning from the Youth Opportunity Experience: Building Delivery Capacity in Distressed Communities(February 2006)
  
  
• Leaving No Worker Behind: Community Colleges Retrain the Michigan Workforce - and Themselves - 2011 (US)
  
  
• Noncredit Enrollment in Workforce Education
  
  
• Not all College Degrees are Created Equal
  
  
• Online Learning: Does it Help Low-Income and Underprepared Students? (Community College Research Center, March 2011)
  
  
• Partnering with Employers to Promote Job Advancement for Low-Skill Individuals
  
  
• Passing the Torch: Strategies for Innovation in Community College ESL
  
  
• Pathways through College: Strategies for Improving Community College Student Success
  
  
• Portable, Stackable Credentials: A New Education Model for Industry-Specific Career Pathways
  
  
• Program Memorandum: Use of Funds Provided Under the Adult Education and  Family Literacy Act (AEFLA) for Integrated Education and Training (Department of Education, June 2010)
  
  
• The Promise of Career Pathways Systems Change (Jobs for the Future)
  
  
• Promoting college and Career Readiness: Bridge Programs for Low-Skill Adults
  
  
• Reach Higher, America: Overcoming Crisis in the US Workforce
  
  
• Reading for Working: A functional Literacy Anthology (1975)
  
  
• The Road Ahead: A Look at Trends in the Educational Attainment of Community College Students
  
  
• ROI From Investing in Workforce Development
  
  
• The Role of Language and Literacy in College and Career Ready Standards: Rethinking Policy and Practice in Support of English Language Learners
  
  
• Sound Investments: Building Immigrants' Skills to Fuel Economic Growth
  
  
• Shifting Gears: State Innovation to Advance Workers and the Economy in the Midwest (July 2010)
  
  
• Strategies to Support Employer-Driven Initiatives to Recruit and Retain Employees with Disabilities
  
  
• Strengthening State Systems for Adult Learners: An Evaluation of the First Five years of Shifting Gears
  
  
• A Stronger Nation Through Higher Education:  How and Why Americans Must Achieve a Big Goal for College Attainment
  
  
• Take Charge of Your Future: Get the Education and Training You Need (US DOE July 2012)
  
  
• TANF Education and Training Resources
  
  
• Testing and accountability in Adult Literacy Education: Focus on Workplace Literacy Resources for Program Design, Assessment, Testing and Evaluation (November 1999)
  
  
• Tough Choices or Tough Times: The Report of the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce
  
  
• Transitions Integration Framework (TIF)
  
  
• Understanding Accelerated Learning Across Secondary and Postsecondary Education (College & Career Readiness &Success Center)
  
  
• Update Issue 4: Sector Initiatives and Community Colleges: Working Together to Provide Education for Low-Wage Working Adults
  
  
• Why Access Matters: The community College Student Body (February 2012)
  
  
• Women in Community Colleges: Access to Success
  
  
• WorkAdvance: Testing a New Approach to Increase Employment Advancement for Low-Skilled Adults

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Post-Secondary Education or Training for Adult Leaners

Job Search

What’s my next move? A guide to exploring careers

Exploring Career Pathways Worksheets

Operation Montserrat Worksheet

Jamestown Community College: Choosing a Career Worksheet

Matrix Resources Career Chart

University of California Career Assessment Worksheet

Career Cruising Worksheets

US Department of Education Adult College Completion Tool Kit

Keys to Success: Assessment for Career Pathways Program

Building Employability Skills

Developing Career Pathways for Adult Education Students: Lessons Learned
June 23, 2011