Workforce Readiness
Keys To Your Future: College & Career Readiness™
- Career Success
- Choosing a Path
- My Life Goals
- Preparing in High School
- Starting Your Career
- Success in College
Why Adopt This Course?
This workforce readiness course prepares students to make informed, goal-oriented decisions about their future and develop the skills they need to achieve them. Through interactive real-world scenarios, students explore career pathways and post-secondary options, navigate the college admissions and job search process, and build the essential soft skills, from goal setting and time management to relationship building, communication, and adaptability, that lead to success now and in the future.
At-A-Glance
Grade Level
8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12thLength
6 digital lessons (20 minutes each) and up to 5.5 hours of offline learning
Language
Standards
Advisory, Homeroom, Social Studies, Counseling, and Career & Technical Education (CTE)
Curriculum Fit
Common Career Technical Core (CCTC); American School Counselor Association (ASCA) National Standards; CASEL Competencies
Students learn the importance of setting short-term and long-term goals, gain exposure to a variety of occupations, evaluate their own skills and interests, and gain insight into the different pathways they can take to pursue their career.

This lesson explores how learners can prepare for their future by succeeding in high school. Learners earn the key to success of developing strong academic skills by practicing goal setting, study skills, organization, prioritization and time management.

Students learn how their long-term career goals connect to shorter-term decisions and goals related to post-secondary education.

This lesson focuses on the soft skills of balancing daily life through the experience of higher education. Students will learn the skills to successfully navigate academic, social, financial and personal aspects in life to achieve well-being while pursuing long-term goals.

The focus of this lesson is on the relationship building aspects of the job search such as determining if a job is the right fit and using personal networks to secure introductions and insight.

This lesson focuses on the skills needed to thrive in a career. Lifelong learning and adaptability are two themes that are woven throughout this lesson as students learn how to do well on the job and prepare to advance or respond to changes in their own employment status.
