Career Pathways: Five Ways to Connect to College and Careers

This report from the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce offers five ways to better integrate education and workforce data to improve career pathways for students. Those five ways include: using education projections, business expansion, and workforce quality tools; aligning education programs with labor market demand; aligning curriculum with workforce requirements; providing counseling and career pathways tools for advisors; and conducting job placement and skills gap analyses. Each section provides examples of how states have used the five ways to improve education and employment outcomes for students completing a career pathway.