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Articles on career readiness
Articles on what career readiness means, how to name and assess the skills behind it, and how to help students close the experience gap before they graduate.
Start with the guide: Career readiness: definitions, frameworks, and assessment →
7 articles on career readiness.
How to assess career readiness at an institutional level
Four assessment methods, why they disagree in a predictable direction, and how to build a career-readiness measure that survives program review.
Career readinessCareer readiness vs. employability vs. work readiness
Career readiness describes the person, employability describes the market, and career preparation describes the institution. Swapping them costs you a metric.
Designing a career-readiness program from scratch
Five structural elements, a developmental sequence from exposure to articulation, and the two capacity questions that decide if the program survives.
Career readinessDurable, soft, transferable: naming career-ready skills
The same skills have been called basic, soft, 21st-century, transferable, human and durable. Each label encodes a claim, and the newest changes how you assess.
Career readinessWhat career readiness means in higher education
Institutions, employers and students judge career readiness against different evidence, which is why the same class can be 83.8% ready and 37% ready at once.
Career readinessTeaching students to articulate the skills they already have
Students build durable skills and then fail to name them. Articulation is coachable inside structures you already run: advising, co-curriculars, peer groups.
Career readinessRaising college internship participation: the real levers
Most students who want an internship never get one, and awareness campaigns do not fix it. Participation targets, employer pipelines, and placement do.