Post on 02-Jan-2016
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Strategies for Creating Career Pathways and Life-Long Learning
AGENDA
What is a Career Pathway vs. a Career Ladder?
Why are we talking about Career Pathways?
What are the challenges associated with Career Pathways?
Examples of Career Pathway models. Final thoughts Questions/discussion
What is a Career Pathway vs. Career Ladder?
1.4 million hits on Google for Career Pathway.
Career Pathways are clusters of occupations and careers that are combined together because many of the people within them
share similar interests and strengths.
A Career Pathway is a series of connected education and training programs and support services that
enable individuals to secure employment within a specific industry or occupational sector, and to
advance over time to successively higher levels of education and employment in that sector.
Career Pathways allow students to realistically prepare for promising careers based on their personal
strengths, abilities, and interests. Career Pathways provide a system that create well-marked “paths” of
sequenced courses, and provide both focus and direction to a student’s learning experience.
1.5 million hits on Google for Career Ladders
Career Ladders refer to specific, clearly described plans for internal promotion opportunities
developed for a work unit or department by the hiring authority and approved by the organization’s
HR Department.
Why are we talking about Career Pathways?
Changing Workforce Demographics
Baby Boomers
70 million baby boomers, some highly skilled, will exit the workforce over the next 18 years, with only 40 million workers coming in. (The 2010 Meltdown)
Future Workforce
Literature reading is fading as a meaningful activity, especially among younger people. If one believes
that active and engaged readers lead richer intellectual lives than non-readers and that a well-read citizenry is essential to a vibrant democracy,
the decline of literary reading call for serious action. (Reading At Risk)
Eleven percent of 16-24 year olds nationally, or 3.8 million youth, are out of school and have neither a diploma nor a GED. (Youth
Build RFP)
Changing Work Requirements
According to the U.S. Departments of Labor and Education, 80% of all the new jobs now
being created have specific, high skill requirements.
Community Benefit
Information from the U.S. Census Bureau (released March 28,2005) reinforces the value of education
Workers without a high school diploma earn an average of $18,734 a year.
Workers with a high school diploma earn an average of $27,915 a year. That’s a 49% increase.
Workers with a bachelor’s degree earn an average of $51,206 a year. That’s an 83% increase.
Workers with an advanced degree earn a average of $74,602 a year. That’s a 46% increase.
Over an adult’s work lifetime, high school graduates earn an average of $1.2 million; associate’s degree holders earn about $1.6 million; and bachelor’s degree holders earn about $2.1 million.
What are the challenges associated with Career Pathways?
Education is often viewed as a private good, with benefits accruing primarily to the
individual student rather than a public good like national defense, public safety, or
highways and bridges.
The linear career path model, with workers climbing the company ladder rung is over.
We’re moving to a “hopscotch” model. Workers will jump forward, backward,
laterally, or into a whole new path.
The average person in their 20s entering the job market for the first time this year can expect, on average, 9 to 13 job changes in their working lifetime.
The average job in America now lasts only 3.6 years!
Today’s worker will experience an average of 3 to 5 radical career shifts within their
working lifetime.
Over 7 out of 10 Americans say that they would change jobs tomorrow if they could.
Gaps in the services delivery system
Neither adult basic skills programs, which prepare adults to improve their basic skills and earn a GED, nor college remedial or
developmental programs, which are intended to help students place into college
level Math and English, adequately prepares students to succeed in
postsecondary technical education.(Career Pathways: Aligning Public
Resources..)
Examples of Career Pathways
Building a career pathway is a process of adapting existing programs and services, and adding new ones, to enable students to advance to successively higher levels
and employment in that sector.
Breaking Through
Strategy One:Integrated Institutional Structures and Services
Strategy Two: Accelerated Learning
Strategy Three: Labor Market Payoffs
Strategy Four: Comprehensive Supports
Over half of the students entering higher education credit programs start in
Community College.
Cuyahoga Community College’sBreaking Through Initiative
Breaking Through InitiativeCareer Pathway
WIA Screening [TABE]
6th – 8th Grade Pool
ABLE Contextual Education
Participants reach 8th
grade level
STNA Plus
Includes Job Readiness & Soft Skills
Interest Survey &
Health Care Career
Exploration
Continued Next Page
Career Path Leaders
First Program Component
Breaking Through InitiativeCareer Pathway (continued)
ABLE Advanced Contextual Education
College Preparatio
n [5 Credits]
Certificate Programs
[30-42 Credits]
Associate Degree
Programs
College Support Services
Career Path Leaders
Health Care Career Pathway
STNA Plus & Pass Exam
STNA PrepBasic Skills Instruction
Get a Job
GEDor
College Prep
Pathwayto
CCC
Tri-CCompass
Assessment Eligibile for
English 1010 & Math 1060
Dental Assistant $13.66Laboratory Phlebotomist $11.00
Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) $17.18Emergency Technician $12.00Paramedic $13.08Dental Assistant $13.66Medical Assistant $11.43Laboratory Phlebotomist $11.00Sterile Processing & Distribution Technician $10.00Pharmacy Technician $10.21Nutritionist $20.10
Dental Hygienist $26.00Massotherapist $25.00Nurse $23.02Physician Assistant $33.98Surgical Technician $12.00Veterinary Technician $11.00Diagnostic Medical Sonographer $23.52Dietetic Technician $12.00Electroneurodiagnostic Technologist $12.00Medical Lab Technologist $21.50Nuclear Medicine Technologist $25.42Occupational Therapy Assistant $19.17Optician $14.90Pharmacy Technician $10.00Physical Therapist Assistant $18.71Polysomnography Technologist $15.40Radiographer $19.00Respiratory Therapist $20.06Early Childhood Educator $10.00Health Information Technician $11.00Social Work Assistant $11.00
Two-Year Associate Degree
Dental HygienistMassotherapy
NursingPhysician AssistantSurgical Technology
Veterinary TechnologyDiagnostic Medical
SonographyDietetic Technology
Electroneuro Diagnostic Technology
Medical Lab TechnologyNuclear Medicine
Occupational Therapy Assistant
Optical TechnologyPharmacy Technology
Physical Therapy Assistant
PolysomnographyRadiography
Respiratory CareEarly Childhood
EducationHealth Information
ManagementHuman Services
Short Term CertificateDental Assisting
Laboratory PhlebotomyDental Office Mgt.
One-Year CertificatePractical Nursing
EMT BasicEMT ParamedicDental Assisting
Medical AssistingLaboratory Phlebotomy
Sterile ProcessingPharmacy TechnicianDietary Management
General Nutrition
P.A.C.E.Pathways and Access to
College Entry
Pathways & Access toCollege (PACE)
INTAKEReferrals from
EFSNeighborhood Family Service
Centers viaProviderGateway
INDI-VIDUAL
SERVICEPLAN
ASSESSMENTS
I. TABE AssessmentsReadingMath
II. Career Exploration Assessment
Community-Based Organization
Cuyahoga Community College
JOB ENRTY PREPARATION #1
Three WeeksMotivation & Self EsteemJob Search & Goal SettingReinforcementSoft Skills Part 1
•Satisfaction Survey
TECHNICALTRAINING
STNAPatient AccessCustomer ServiceMfg. Skills MachiningElectro. AssemblyConstruction
Technical training programs includeContext ualized LiteracyWellnessComputer Skills
JOB ENTRY PREPARATION #2
Three Weeks
Job Search PlanPost-Hire SkillsCareer Planning AwarenessSoft Skills Part 2
Occupational Training Satisfaction Survey
JOBPLACEMENT
ANDFOLLOWUP
180 DAYJOB
RETENTION SERVICES
Overall Program Satisfaction Survey
Continuous Case Management Services
Continuous Career Plan Review – Ongoing Revisions to Preliminary Plan as Necessary
Linkages with Supportive Services
Identification of Appropriate Employers for PACE Participants
Shared Activities
ORIENTATION & ASSESSMENTS
Program requirements,
timeframes and expectations
Final Thoughts
What Career Pathway is not It is not the flavor of the month It is not a quick fix It is not possible without the
support and buy-in from you.
Questions