Pearson Career Success

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Pearson Career Success

Career readiness tools for student 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.

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Why Career Success?

Empower & enable

Connect your students with the career they desire by providing them with access to career readiness tools.

Job skills for the 21st century workplace

Prepare students with the skills employers want — and expect.

Demonstrable results

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:

  • discover more about themselves
  • develop their personal brand
  • get the scoop on real job opportunities
  • show their competitive value to employers

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.

Research & results

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:

Personal & Social Capabilities (PSC) skills

Acclaim digital credentials

Conley Readiness Index

GRIT™ Gauge instruments

Research reports

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Redefining readiness

Today’s definition of student success has evolved. Learn more about how it’s been redefined in response to the demands of the 21st century workplace.

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Future of skills: 2030

Our forward-looking research combines the best of human expertise with the power of machine learning to understand the trends and make more nuanced forecasts than previously possible.

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Demand-driven education

This report provides a lens with which to identify the education and training practices most likely to be relevant in the workplace of the future.

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Success stories

University of North Texas leads with innovative pathway to prepare students for career success.

Our partnership has led to a customized four-year pathway that supports key institutional objectives, including promotion of teamwork, communication, and critical thinking, and increasing engagement with UNT Career Services.

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Lone Star College-Tomball infuses GRIT to strengthen career readiness

See how the College infuses GRIT to strengthen mindset capabilities and increase persistence and career readiness.

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The University of Tampa assesses effectiveness of first-year seminars

By adding formal assessment to its custom assignments and activities, the university is identifying educationally effective practices for continuous improvement.

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For institutions: Skills for today

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

Training & support

You’ve got questions; we’ve got answers. To help guide you through what you can expect, we’ve put together a list of the most frequently asked questions. 

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 in 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-Foliotek to an LMS?

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