Giving Compass' Take:

· Virtual Enterprises has developed a career readiness framework for students that identifies the knowledge, skills, and abilities they should develop to meet the demands of employers. Tyler Fugazzie further explains that the students who have developed and can apply these readiness competencies are better positioned for career success.

· What career competency programs are already offered? And what other programs are needed? Have the programs shown to be effective?

· The U.S. is now rethinking the school-to-work pipeline with career and technical education.

Many students don’t feel prepared for the working world. Students who do feel prepared for work may be less prepared than they realize. Or they may be prepared for work that no longer exists.

These are all symptoms of the same problem, the mismatch between what graduating students can offer and what the working world demands, and the desire to solve this problem is currently driving a nationwide push to better incorporate career-focused approaches to K-12 education.

If we are aware of the problem, and increasingly determined to solve it, then what does the solution look like? How can we prepare students for career success?

For over 20 years, we at Virtual Enterprises have been working to prepare young people, high schoolers and now middle schoolers, across the country for successful careers by bringing the workplace into the classroom and providing students with meaningful experiences to better understand the working world. In conjunction with talent experts from Deloitte, we developed and are implementing the VE Career Readiness Framework, which identifies the competencies (or knowledge, skills, and abilities) students can develop that employers demand.

Read the full article about preparing students for future career success by Tyler Fugazzie at Getting Smart.