Navigating the Future: The College Board's Expanded Career Guidance Resources
The College Board is expanding its resources to help students explore career options and navigate the path from high school to college and career. Recognizing that career decisions are personal and that students need access to quality information about diverse pathways, the College Board is rolling out new tools and partnerships to provide guidance without being prescriptive.
BigFuture: A Comprehensive Career Exploration Platform
Many students want to pursue a career they're passionate about, but understanding and planning for the next steps after high school can be overwhelming. BigFuture offers a comprehensive platform for students to explore career options.
BigFuture Career Quiz
For students unsure of their career interests, the BigFuture Career Quiz can be a valuable starting point. After taking the quiz, students receive a list of 30 potential careers to explore. Almost 1 million students have already benefited from this feature.
BigFuture Career Search
Students who already have an idea of what they want to do can search directly for a career via BigFuture Career Search.
Career Profiles
Students can gain a comprehensive view of options by exploring 1,000 career profiles with detailed information on common education level, national and state-level median yearly income, and projected job growth.
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BigFuture embodies the idea that there are different paths to success, ensuring that all students can see themselves in the planning process. The platform also includes information on multiple pathways, with the recent addition of more than 500 career and technical colleges.
Career Insights: Igniting Career Planning Through PSAT Scores
This month, when 3 million students open their PSAT/NMSQT and PSAT 8/9 score reports, it will ignite career planning. Career Insights is a new score report feature that lists six in-demand careers in a test taker’s state.
Strategic Partnerships: Ensuring Evidence-Based Guidance
To ensure that its career and pathway planning tools provide real impact and drive action, the College Board has partnered with experts in the field, such as Jobs for the Future, the Human Resources Research Organization, and the National Career Development Association, to ensure that its offerings are backed by evidence. The College Board also partnered with Morning Consult to better understand student mindset.
Addressing the Information Gap: Exposing Students to a Wider Range of Career Options
Students' access to quality information is lacking. Options for “what’s next” are often limited to careers students have been exposed to in their family, community, or in school. The College Board aims to address this information gap by exposing students to a wider range of career options.
Expanding Access: Partnering with Year Up and Focusing on Multiple Pathways
The College Board is including Year Up in its Student Search Service. The goal is to help all students, including young people facing barriers to attaining a four-year degree after high school, such as needing to earn money sooner to support their family or not having access to federal financial aid because of DACA status. The Year Up partnership is being tested in three markets: Seattle, New York City, and Philadelphia.
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The College Board sees career success as the destination and education as the pathway to get there. Historically, its resources have focused on information about one key pathway-four-year colleges, but it’s been expanding its resources to also provide information on multiple pathways. All students deserve information on multiple pathways-and not all paths to a successful future look the same.
The College Board already reaches millions of students each year through Student Search Service, a free voluntary service that helps colleges and scholarship programs find and get in touch with students who may be a good match.
Rhode Island Partnership: A Holistic Approach to Graduation Requirements
In Rhode Island, the College Board is partnering directly with the state around the SAT suite. The College Board's team is supporting Rhode Island as they are moving to more holistic graduation requirements and are investing in helping students identify career pathways. They have participated in pilots to help the College Board understand the value of the career and postsecondary resources on BigFuture.
The Value of Multiple Pathways: Addressing Concerns About Non-Degree Credentials
About 70% of jobs will require some sort of education or training, but not every path will start with a four-year degree. Some paths to a four-year degree might start with other steps along the way. For example, students may stack credentials, or they may take a more direct path toward a career before returning to higher education. The College Board can help all students select the best pathway by allowing them to navigate through all available options in one place, including exploring a four-year degree.
Many workers are STARs, or “skilled through alternative routes,” rather than through a four-year degree.
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The College Board: A Mission-Driven Organization
The College Board is a mission-driven, not-for-profit organization that promotes excellence in education. It reaches more than 7 million students a year, helping them navigate the path from high school to college and career. The College Board provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, College Board complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which it has facilities.
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