The Illinois Essential Employability Skills Framework and Self-Assessment offers standard statewide definitions of the employability skills to align instruction and plan programming.

The WIN Initiative offers job search and career planning workshops with an emphasis on building participants’ social- and self-awareness of factors influencing employment and job growth.

The Working Stronger and Smarter Handbook from SRI International provides learning principles and instructional practices ideas for educators and employers to help technical education students build employability skills.

Workplace Skills Tutorials are learning modules for Career & Technical Education (CTE) professionals that cover workplace skills such as communication, problem solving techniques, and supervisory skills.

The Chicago Jobs Council Career Readiness Framework describes evidence-based best practices for how to organize client-centered workforce development programming.

Developing Soft Skills in CTE (Career and Technical Education) course for instructors offers strategies for personal and workplace success skills instruction, integration into programming, and measurement of skill development.

The Job Skills of 2022 is an e-book presenting the results of a two-year study of skill trends and employment shifts, identifying the most up-to-date, in-demand workplace skills.

The IDEAL Distance Education and Blended Learning Handbook guides adult educators through the process of creating a distance education or blended learning program design.

Digital Skill Sets for Diverse Users is a digital and life skills framework that is used as a comparison with existing digital skills frameworks and curricula.

The Life/Career Competencies Framework helps teachers recognize and provide feedback on classroom behaviors and competencies associated with career readiness.