Strategies for Creating Career Pathways and Life-Long Learning

1. Strategies for Creating Career Pathways and Life-Long Learning

2. 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

3. What is a Career Pathway vs. Career Ladder?

4. 1.4 million hits on Google for Career Pathway.

5. Career Pathways are clusters of occupations and careers that are combined together because many of the people within them share similar interests and strengths.

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 1.5 million hits on Google for Career Ladders

9. 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.

10. Why are we talking about Career Pathways?

11. Changing Workforce Demographics

12. Baby Boomers

13. 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)

14. Future Workforce

15. 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)

16. 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)

17. Changing Work Requirements

18. According to the U.S. Departments of Labor and Education, 80% of all the new jobs now being created have specific, high skill requirements.

19. Community Benefit

20. 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.

21. What are the challenges associated with Career Pathways?

22. 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.

23. 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.

24. 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.

25. The average job in America now lasts only 3.6 years!

26. Today’s worker will experience an average of 3 to 5 radical career shifts within their working lifetime.

27. Over 7 out of 10 Americans say that they would change jobs tomorrow if they could.

28. Gaps in the services delivery system

29. 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..)

30. Examples of Career Pathways

31. 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.

32. Breaking Through

33. Strategy One: Integrated Institutional Structures and Services

34. Strategy Two: Accelerated Learning

35. Strategy Three: Labor Market Payoffs

36. Strategy Four: Comprehensive Supports

37. Over half of the students entering higher education credit programs start in Community College.

38. Cuyahoga Community College’s Breaking Through Initiative

39. Breaking Through InitiativeCareer Pathway First Program Component WIA Screening [TABE] 6th – 8th Grade Pool ABLE Contextual Education STNA Plus Continued Next Page Includes Job Readiness & Soft Skills Participants reach 8th grade level Interest Survey & Health Care Career Exploration Career Path Leaders

40. Breaking Through InitiativeCareer Pathway (continued) College Support Services ABLE Advanced Contextual Education College Preparation [5 Credits] Certificate Programs [30-42 Credits] Associate Degree Programs Career Path Leaders

43. P.A.C.E.Pathways and Access to College Entry

44. Pathways & Access toCollege (PACE) Community-Based Organization Cuyahoga Community College Shared Activities INTAKE Referrals from EFS Neighborhood Family Service Centers via Provider Gateway ORIENTATION & ASSESSMENTS Program requirements, timeframes and expectations INDI-VIDUAL SERVICE PLAN • TECHNICAL • TRAINING • STNA • Patient Access • Customer Service • Mfg. Skills • Machining • Electro. Assembly • Construction • Technical training programs include • Context ualized Literacy • Wellness • Computer Skills JOB ENTRY PREPARATION #2 Three Weeks Job Search Plan Post-Hire Skills Career Planning Awareness Soft Skills Part 2 JOB PLACEMENT AND FOLLOWUP • JOB ENRTY PREPARATION #1 • Three Weeks Motivation & Self Esteem Job Search & Goal Setting Reinforcement Soft Skills Part 1 • Satisfaction Survey 180 DAY JOB RETENTION SERVICES • ASSESSMENTS • I. TABE Assessments • Reading • Math • II. Career Exploration • Assessment Overall Program Satisfaction Survey Occupational Training Satisfaction Survey Identification of Appropriate Employers for PACE Participants Linkages with Supportive Services Continuous Career Plan Review – Ongoing Revisions to Preliminary Plan as Necessary Continuous Case Management Services

45. Final Thoughts

46. 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.

47. Questions