Pearson Career Success

Empowering learners to transform dreams and goals into fulfilling careers: helping them explore where to go, how to get there, and how to stand out.

Pearson Career Success

The complete platform for career success

Pearson Career Success gives institutions and learners a comprehensive platform for all facets of career preparation, from enrollment through graduation and beyond. It will help you complement, extend, and scale your current career development services, and give students the most direct pathway towards achieving career goals.

Pearson Career Success was designed specifically for learners by pedagogy and subject matter experts, thought leaders, and authors, based on deep research into what is most useful, accessible, and effective. Its curated and contextualized modules, practical resources, assessments, focused assignments, and tools guide learners logically and efficiently toward their career goals. Step by step, learners build the skills employers demand today and tomorrow, and learn to showcase their strengths in a difficult job market.

Pearson Career Success is easy to implement. You can configure it flexibly, renew it annually throughout a learner’s academic career, and quickly integrate world-class resources like Pearson Prep digital flashcards and writing support via Pearson Writer. You can even use it to support learners after graduation.

As learners build career readiness and confidence, you get detailed quantitative and qualitative data and analytics to understand progress toward outcomes, identify appropriate intervention, and improve your institution's career development efforts. One platform brings it all together — for students and your institution.

 

Why Career Success?

Centralized career planning

Give learners a unified online career exploration, planning, and development experience that guides them every step of the way to success.

Insight for improving outcomes

Data and analytics tools within Pearson Career Success help you and your learners make more informed decisions for better outcomes.

Human skills development

Guide learners in connecting academic work with future careers, building and showcasing crucial soft skills, and crafting great personal brands.

Career Success complements your existing career preparation and student services by providing early and ongoing access to well-organized career exploration and planning resources, from enrollment through graduation and beyond. As learners move through logically sequenced milestones, they increasingly take ownership of their career journeys, deepen engagement around key areas of college and career development, and become more successful in reaching career goals.

Granular metrics show you how learners are using and engaging with Career Success, marketable job skills built, assignments completed, and progress towards career goals. Rollup data helps you assess each cohort’s overall readiness. That’s invaluable information for assessing your career preparation efforts, planning more effective curricula and interventions, and improving all facets of career development.

To promote more effective career exploration, Career Success empowers each learner with insights into their skills and personalities, linking personal strengths to potentially rewarding career paths. Using these insights, individuals can make more informed decisions about what they want to do — and how to get there.

Career Success includes the research-based Conley Readiness Index (CRI), delivering personalized, specific evaluations of learners’ skills and behaviors, with actionable recommendations; and the GRIT Gauge, the most well-proven, advanced, robust, and valid measure of GRIT (Growth, Resilience, Instinct, Tenacity).

The milestone-based pathway built into Pearson Career Success integrates a wide range of research-based activities, self-assessments, and tools, offering learners a career preparation process that’s intuitive, logically sequenced, consistent, and repeatable.

Practices and assignments help learners focus career development efforts where they’re most valuable, as they move through exploring promising career options, creating a career pathway, working on their personal brand, developing valuable soft skills, showcasing their strengths in comprehensive ePortfolios, and seeking jobs.

New discipline-specific versions

New discipline-specific versions of Career Success give learners even more contextualized support, including examples and assignments based on the specific careers they’re pursuing.  

Research & results

To develop the assessments and instructional activities built into the Career Success platform, Pearson has extensively researched employers’ changing expectations, drawn on decades of cumulative research by leaders in the field, and worked closely with institutions preparing learners for the workforce.

Key elements and examples

Personal & Social Capabilities (PSC) skills

Conley Readiness Index

GRIT™ Gauge instruments

Success stories

American Career College improves student skills, professionalism, and mindset

See how ACC improves career transitions by helping students strengthen professional and soft skills and gain more resilience for overcoming obstacles.

Milwaukee Area Technical College adds value and differentiates key programs

See how MATC helps students accelerate career planning and stand out in a competitive hiring environment – while improving instructor efficiency and helping the institution stand out, too.

University of North Texas delivers innovative pathway to career success

See how UNT customized a four-year pathway that helps students build teamwork, communication, and critical thinking skills, increases engagement with Career Services, and supports key institutional objectives.

Lone Star College-Tomball infuses GRIT to strengthen career readiness

See how the College uses GRIT Gauge to strengthen students’ mindsets, improve persistence, and increase career readiness.

University of Tampa measures and improves career preparation seminars

See how the University employed the Conley Readiness Index and Learning Success modules to identify incoming student skills gaps and modify their curriculum to increase college and career readiness.

Research reports

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Redefining readiness

Learn how definitions of student success have changed in response to the demands of the 21st century workplace.
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Future of skills: 2030

Explore forward-looking career development research combining deep human expertise with machine learning to understand workplace trends and make more nuanced forecasts.
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Demand-driven education

Identify education and training practices most likely to be relevant in the workplace of the future.

Training & support

Get answers to frequently asked questions about how Career Success works and what it can do for your students and your institution.

What are the various ways Career Success can be used?

How can Career Success be a part of a larger educational program at my institution?

Is Career Success based on research?

Who can I talk to about Career Success?

Which student populations is Career Success designed for?

How long do students have access?

Who pays for Career Success if it’s not used in traditional courses?

What information do I need/steps are included in the implementation process?

What is the LMS integration process? What timeframe do we need to be able to link Career Success to an LMS?

Can Career Success be customized to specific disciplines?

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