Career Pathways
Partnering up to close the healthcare skills gap
In 2015, the Pharr-San Juan-Alamo Independent School District launched an ambitious Nursing Career Pathway Program that allows students to graduate from high school while simultaneously earning a free nursing associate degree.
Texas OnCourse
Deciding what to do after high school and how to do it can be confusing. Texas OnCourse empowers you to make decisions that will help you, your child, or your student succeed after high school. Thousands of students, educators, and schools across Texas use Texas OnCourse resources.
Jobs Y’all
Anything is possible – that’s what Jobs Y’all is all about. Jobs Y’all is where you can explore good-paying and meaningful careers in growing industries. Here, you’ll discover rewarding and satisfying jobs right in your hometown or elsewhere in Texas. Find the career that matches your interests and goals. Your career starts here.
Occupational Outlook Handbook – Bureau of Labor Statistics
The Occupational Outlook Handbook is the government’s premier source of career guidance featuring information on hundreds of occupations, duties, education and training, pay, and outlook for hundreds of occupations.
Good Jobs That Pay without a BA
New research from the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce finds that nearly half of states have added good blue-collar jobs that don’t require bachelor’s degrees (BAs). The state-level analysis of those 30 million jobs identifies variation among good jobs gains and losses by industry and education across all 50 states. An interactive, companion website features a tool that allows users to sort the 30 million good jobs that pay without a BA by industry, occupation, and education level. Visit GoodJobsData.org.
New Evidence on Integrated Career Pathways: Final Impact Report for Accelerating Opportunity
The Urban Institute, with its partner George Washington University, released its final impact report on Accelerating Opportunity (AO). AO, a Jobs for the Future initiative, is designed to transform how states work with their adult education programs and community colleges to provide training for underprepared adult learners.
Career Pathways: Five Ways to Connect College and Careers
The nation needs a learning and earning exchange to guide individuals in making education and career decisions, advances a new report from the Georgetown Center on Education and the Workforce.
Building America’s Infrastructure Workforce: Partnering with Industry to Meet the Demand for Skilled Workers
Check out Building America’s Infrastructure Workforce for NSC’s recommendations on how sector partnerships can meet the demand for skilled workers.
Employer Roles in Building Pipelines for Middle-Skill Jobs in Health Care
As you strive to create good jobs and ladders of opportunity for workers, new research published by the Urban Institute suggests that one important avenue for building pipelines for middle-skill jobs is where employers provide opportunities themselves or in industry partnerships to upskill their own workforce and create pathways for entry-level workers in their communities.
Regional Talent Pipelines: Collaborating with Industry to Build Opportunities in Texas
The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas and Austin-based nonprofit Center for Public Policy Priorities reviewed national best practices to provide a guiding framework for analysis and then, in partnership with the Texas Association of Workforce Boards, surveyed the 28 regional workforce boards in Texas.
Presentation: Regional Talent Pipelines: Collaborating with Industry to Build Opportunities in Texas
Presentation by Elizabeth Sobel Blum, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, at TAWB May, 2017 meetings.
Shift Happens: The Entrepreneurs, Wonks and Investors Revolutionizing the Learning-To-Employment Landscape
This paper was the work of Whiteboard Advisors, Innovate+Educate and the many leaders revolutionizing the Learning to Employment Landscape.
Learning that Works Resource Center
The resource center houses a variety of resources —research reports, case studies, state policies, guides and tools—organized around key topics such as Access and Equity, Work-based Learning, Credentials and Assessments, Employer Engagement, Instructor and Leader Quality, and Graduation Requirements.
Classroom to Career: Leveraging Employment Data to Measure Labor Market Outcomes
Part of a paper series called Envisioning the National Postsecondary Data Infrastructure, this executive summary and full paper explore sources of employment data and recommend policy reforms that would leverage state and federal data to measure post-college labor market outcomes.
Career Pathways Initiatives
Four career pathways initiatives—the Pathways to Prosperity Network, Alliance for Quality Career Pathways, National Career Cluster Framework and Advanced Career Pathways—are profiled by the College & Career Readiness & Success Center.
Career Pathways Toolkit: A Guide for System Development
Career pathways are an effective strategy to help workers acquire marketable skills and industry recognized credentials by encouraging greater collaboration across adult education, post-secondary education, and other workforce partners. This new guide from DOL builds off the success of the original toolkit published in 2011 and incorporates provisions from the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA).
Serving Out-of-School Youth Under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity
Research Brief from MDRC focuses on strategies for reaching and engaging a greater number of out-of-school youth