1. Career Pathways Implementation Strategies for Career Planning – Career Exploration for Low Skill Adults
Martha Meyers
Career Counselor for Adult Education
Manatee Technical Institute
Bradenton, Florida

2. Who is my Student? Level of Education, Past Educational Experiences
Work History/Experience
Financial and Family
Learning Style and Career Inventory
Future Ideal Career

3. Goal Setting - Oral and Written
Short Term
Honesty is the best policy
Barriers (i.e. personal, financial, or job related)
Potential solutions for barriers
Long Term
Realistic timeline
Barriers

4. Ideas that Work Contextualized learning.
Career exploration using videos, internet, shadowing, and innovative approaches.
Quarterly Career check.
Field exploration, Guest Speakers, CTE student demonstrations.
Partnerships, Networking, Businesses, Community building, Use local resources.
Self analysis - Am I still on a path?

5. C C C Consistent and reliable information to students.
Communication on all levels.
Contact of students by many sources: instructors, tutors, counselors and administrators.

6. Adult Career Pathways programs focus on the implementation of proven strategies for identifying needs, developing curricula, recruiting participants, implementing meaningful work experience, and integrating the personal and academic services needed to transform the unemployed and underemployed into the skilled workforce America needs to compete in the world economy.
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