Transcript Strategies for Creating Career Pathways and Life

Strategies for Creating Career
Pathways and Life-Long Learning
AGENDA
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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
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Information from the U.S. Census Bureau (released March 28,2005)
reinforces the value of education
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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’s
Breaking Through Initiative
Breaking Through Initiative
Career Pathway
First Program Component
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
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Career Path Leaders
Breaking Through Initiative
Career Pathway (continued)
College Support Services
ABLE
Advanced
Contextual
Education
College
Preparation
[5 Credits]
Certificate
Programs
[30-42
Credits]
Career Path Leaders
Associate
Degree
Programs
Short Term Certificate
Dental Assisting
Laboratory Phlebotomy
Dental Office Mgt.
Pathway
to
CCC
Tri-C
Compass
Assessment
Eligibile for
English 1010 &
Math 1060
One-Year Certificate
Practical Nursing
EMT Basic
EMT Paramedic
Dental Assisting
Medical Assisting
Laboratory Phlebotomy
Sterile Processing
Pharmacy Technician
Dietary Management
General Nutrition
Dental Assistant
Laboratory Phlebotomist
$13.66
$11.00
Licensed Practical
Nurse (LPN)
Emergency Technician
Paramedic
Dental Assistant
Medical Assistant
Laboratory Phlebotomist
Sterile Processing &
Distribution Technician
Pharmacy Technician
Nutritionist
$17.18
$12.00
$13.08
$13.66
$11.43
$11.00
$10.00
$10.21
$20.10
GED
or
College Prep
Get a Job
STNA Plus & Pass
Exam
STNA Prep
Basic Skills
Instruction
Health Care Career
Pathway
Two-Year Associate
Degree
Dental Hygienist
Massotherapy
Nursing
Physician Assistant
Surgical Technology
Veterinary Technology
Diagnostic Medical
Sonography
Dietetic Technology
Electroneuro Diagnostic
Technology
Medical Lab Technology
Nuclear Medicine
Occupational Therapy
Assistant
Optical Technology
Pharmacy Technology
Physical Therapy
Assistant
Polysomnography
Radiography
Respiratory Care
Early Childhood
Education
Health Information
Management
Human Services
Dental Hygienist
Massotherapist
Nurse
Physician Assistant
Surgical Technician
Veterinary Technician
Diagnostic Medical
Sonographer
Dietetic Technician
Electroneurodiagnostic
Technologist
Medical Lab Technologist
Nuclear Medicine
Technologist
Occupational Therapy
Assistant
Optician
Pharmacy Technician
Physical Therapist Assistant
Polysomnography
Technologist
Radiographer
Respiratory Therapist
Early Childhood Educator
Health Information Technician
Social Work Assistant
$26.00
$25.00
$23.02
$33.98
$12.00
$11.00
$23.52
$12.00
$12.00
$21.50
$25.42
$19.17
$14.90
$10.00
$18.71
$15.40
$19.00
$20.06
$10.00
$11.00
$11.00
P.A.C.E.
Pathways and Access to College
Entry
Pathways & Access to
College (PACE)
Cuyahoga Community College
Community-Based
Organization
INTAKE
Referrals from
EFS
Neighborhood
Family Service
Centers via
Provider
Gateway
ORIENTATION &
ASSESSMENTS
Program
requirements,
timeframes and
expectations
ASSESSMENTS
I. TABE Assessments
Reading
Math
INDIVIDUAL
SERVICE
PLAN
JOB ENRTY
PREPARATION #1
Three Weeks
Motivation & Self
Esteem
Job Search & Goal
Setting
Reinforcement
Soft Skills Part 1
•Satisfaction Survey
TECHNICAL
TRAINING
STNA
Patient Access
Customer Service
Mfg. Skills
Machining
Electro. Assembly
Construction
Technical training
programs include
Context ualized
Literacy
Wellness
Computer Skills
Shared Activities
JOB ENTRY
PREPARATION #2
Three Weeks
Job Search Plan
Post-Hire Skills
Career Planning
Awareness
Soft Skills Part 2
Occupational
Training
Satisfaction
Survey
JOB
PLACEMENT
AND
FOLLOWUP
180 DAY
JOB
RETENTION
SERVICES
Overall
Program
Satisfaction
Survey
II. Career Exploration
Assessment
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
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