Career Pathways

Career Pathways: From School to Retirement brings together leading workforce researchers and practitioners to provide new perspectives on school-to-work and workplace career pathways. This groundbreaking book explains the transformations that have taken place in the workplace over the past several decades and how those transformations have combined to produce a dramatically different career landscape. It highlights the important role of career pathways as a framework for workforce and economic development within this quickly evolving career landscape. Bringing together top figures in the field, this volume addresses a wide variety of critically important career pathway topics such as the role of apprenticeships in career pathways, the gig economy and emerging career pathways, career crafting, the role of data analytics in providing career and workforce insights, and career pathways for late career workers. It includes case study chapters that provide important practical insight into the development and use of career pathways in both educational and workplace settings, demonstrating how career pathways can help individuals and organizations succeed in today's workplace and in the workplace of the future.

Jerry W. Hedge is Senior Program Director of workforce and organizational effectiveness at RTI International. He has more than 30 years of experience in organizational research, working with public and private sector clients to improve workforce productivity. He is a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology and the American Psychological Association.
Gary W. Carter is the Chief Professional Services Officer at PDRI. He has over 30 years of experience designing and successfully implementing results-driven talent management solutions. He is a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology.

Table of Contents
Preface
List of Contributors
1. Understanding the Concept and Promise of Career Pathways
Jerry W. Hedge and Gary W. Carter
Section One: Career Pathways for Workforce Education and Economic Development
2. An Integrative Framework for Evaluating the Impact of Career Pathways
Debra Bragg
3. Pathways to Success through Career Technical Education: Developing and Evaluating Community College Career Pathways Initiatives
Lauren Eyster
4. Apprenticeships and Career Pathways
Czeslaw Noworol
5. The Interplay between Career Support and Career Pathways
Jenny Bimrose and Alan Brown
Case Studies
6. Connecting College and the Workplace through Pathway Development in Kansas
Sandra Staklis, Laura Rasmussen Foster, Debra Mikulka, and Christa Smith
7. Giving Manufacturing Career Pathways a LIFT
Myriam Sullivan and Deborah Kobes
Section Two: Career Pathways for Individuals and Organizations
8. Career Pathways as an Integrative Framework for Talent Management Systems
Jerry Hedge and Gary Carter
9. How to Steer Your Career? A Proactive Approach to Career Pathways
Jessie Koen and Roy Sijbom
10. Job and Career Crafting to Fulfill Individual Career Pathways
Maria Tims and Jos Akkermans
11. Purpose, Meaning, and Career Pathways
Bryan J. Dik, Alexandra Alayan, and Kaitlyn Reed
Case Studies
12. Career Pathways Case Study - Advance Auto Parts
Kenneth T. Bruskiewicz and Lindsay Mach Sherer
13. Career Pathways as a Strategic Human Capital Management Program: MyCareer@VA
Tim McGonigle and Shelly Butler
Section Three: Emerging Issues in Career Pathways
14. Big Data, Data Science, and Career Pathways
Dave Dorsey
15. Emerging Career Pathways: Alternative and Independent Work Arrangements
Gary Carter and Jerry Hedge
16. Career Pathways for Late Career Workers
Jenn Rineer
17. Using O*NET to Identify and Design Career Pathways
Denise Craven and Dave Rivkin
18. Fulfilling the Promise of Career Pathways
Gary Carter and Jerry Hedge