Want to learn more?
See how you can get students on a pathway to career success
A platform that provides career development tools to help prepare students for today’s workplace.
See how you can get students on a pathway to career success
When it comes to preparing for their future, students often don’t know where to start. Get them on the right path with Pearson Career Success.
An online career preparation platform, Career Success provides access to a roadmap that helps students explore and understand where they want to go, how they're going to get there, and what they need to do to stand out from the crowd.
To accomplish this, a sole focus on academic readiness is no longer enough. Students today need to be provided with a holistic approach that includes both academic and career readiness. This helps make the connection between experiences in the classroom and the skills needed to obtain a job post-college, and beyond.
Connect your students with the career they desire by providing them with access to career readiness tools.
Prepare students with the skills employers want — and expect.
Improve your students’ chances to stand out from the crowd.
If your students haven’t already started preparing for their future, they’re running behind. Career Success empowers and enables them to build on their understanding of “how” and “what” they need to do to get the future they want.
Oftentimes, students don’t know where to start when it comes to career preparation. We help students think strategically and practically about how to pursue their goals in the most effective ways. It starts with your students understanding who they are (career interests, values, skills) and how that translates to their academic and career plan.
Next, Labor Market Insights data gives students an inside glimpse into job market trends to better understand the career landscape. This helps them make an informed decision based on job opportunities, geography, and interests.
Our career preparation tools helps students make the connection between their experiences in the classroom and their post-college career goals.
In the 21st century workplace, meeting the technical skill requirements of a job is expected. In addition to academic knowledge, displaying a strong set of professional skills in the workplace shows employers your students have interpersonal capabilities, which provides them a competitive advantage.
Career Success helps students hone these skills through a series of aligned assessments that use a range of formative and summative, evidence-based assessment techniques to evaluate students’ proficiency in each skill area.
Throughout their Career Success career prep journey, students will:
These steps help build a student’s professional identity. Digital tools found in Career Success allow students to visually document these successes and share their story with employers.
Students can bundle their accomplishments into one digital package that goes beyond a static resume alone to showcase their professional skills along with their on-the-job and experiential learning achievements.
These tools include:
Digital credentials that increase transparency and establish effective communication between job-seeking graduates and prospective employers.
An ePortfolio that allows students to collect and display their digital credentials, academic successes, extracurricular activities, and work experience — helping them visually show off what a resume can’t.
The GRIT™ Gauge pre- and post-assessment, the only validated assessment that measures and reports all facets of GRIT — Growth, Resilience, Instinct, Tenacity, and Robustness.
We also cover the basics, like resume and cover letter writing, interviewing skills, networking, and establishing a presence on LinkedIn that give students an edge over their competitors.
Pearson is committed to understanding and identifying the needs of employers who are hiring new college graduates, along with serving the needs of institutions who are preparing students for the workforce. This research, along with decades of cumulative research by prominent leaders in the field, has served as the basis for developing the broad suite of assessments and instruction built into the Career Success platform, including:
Pearson has collaborated with The Partnership for 21st Century Skills (a non-profit K-12 educational think tank) to author a series of white papers on the major skill areas most sought by employers.
Skills for Today: What We Know About Teaching and Assessing Collaboration
Skills for Today: What We Know About Teaching and Assessing Critical Thinking
Skills for Today: What We Know About Teaching and Assessing Creativity
Skills for Today: What We Know About Teaching and Assessing Communication
Career Success can be incorporated into any career planning and preparation initiative in programs (any discipline, internship prep), courses (Capstone, Career Development, Professionalism), services (Career Services, Student Services), and institution-wide opportunities.
Career Success was intentionally designed to be incorporated with any initiative that requires career planning and preparation. It can be integrated into FYE programs or orientation.
You can also use it for Summer Bridge programs, counseling and advising sessions, or with employees already on the job looking to upskill. A number of institutions are using it for entire academic departments or even entire professional colleges, unconnected to any specific course.
Our work began with research by a global team at Pearson who identified and normalized a dozen “soft” skills systems and tools, including those from P21, NACE, and the AAC&U as well as others from around the world.
The end product of our work was a single framework of the most commonly referenced personal and social capabilities identified with career and college success. Aligned to this framework, we built a curriculum (courseware) that helps students to develop these skills, based on research and sound instructional design and available as instructor-led materials or in self-paced formats.
Go here to learn more about using Career Success at your institution.
It was designed with undergraduates in mind. However, its purpose is to help all students develop a process for career preparation and planning that, once learned, can be replicated after college when students are looking to upskill or change positions, companies, or industries.
With an institutional adoption, the length of access for Career Success is two to four years. Students have the option to renew their access on a subscription basis by contacting Foliotek directly and registering for yearly renewal.
When adopted in the traditional way (as with course materials), students bear the cost and buy access codes to the program from the bookstore or from Pearson directly.
Some schools may prefer to add it to the student’s fees, and some may pay for it with special grants earmarked to enhance the school’s performance on employability. There will be an option for schools to spread payment over an agreed-upon number of years; however, these cases would need to be set up for direct billing.
You’ll want to consult with us to identify your goals for the implementation and, most importantly, what data you want to track as a result of students working through the program. Following this initial discussion, we’ll initiate course set up, ordering, and training.
Your Pearson rep will work with our product team for all such integrations and begin by setting up a meeting with your LMS administrators/key faculty. The integration process takes about 3–4 weeks to set up.