The FHI 360 College and Career Readiness: A Guide for Navigators provides a framework-based guide with specific activities for college and career readiness instruction, advising, and coaching.

The BurlingtonEnglish Career Exploration & Soft Skills blended course helps students learn English, identify career and academic pathways, and develop the personal and workplace success skills needed for career success.

English for Specific Careers from BurlingtonEnglish offers specialized career courses with contextualized vocabulary, workplace success skills, and real-life workplace scenarios to help students succeed in current or new careers.

This article describes how one in four employers now use pre-hiring assessments to find prospective employees. The assessments’ popularity is fueled by employers who no longer consider a college degree to be a measure of career preparedness and therefore no longer require a college degree. Employers also use pre-hiring assessments to ensure more equitable hiring, since fewer African Americans hold college degrees. Advances in technology and artificial intelligence make it possible to create assessments that measure whether an applicant can work in teams, communicate well, and make good decisions. Tech employers have been drawn to hackathons to find talented students who demonstrate their drive and ingenuity to solve a problem. Since COVID-19, with an increased number of job candidates, and health risks making it hard to meet in person, the use of pre-hiring assessments is growing faster than in the past.

CareerLabsVR offers interactive and immersive virtual reality experiences for career exploration with instructor guidance and accompanying curriculum materials.

CareerPrepped offers employability skill building tools where learners can develop, demonstrate, and then showcase their skills through badges and portfolios on a shareable personal website.

Microburst Learning offers the EmployABILITY SoftSkills blended learning course, certificates, and additional customized soft skill and technical online training for education and business.

Job Ready Career Skills is a comprehensive software or online workplace success skills development resource with video lessons, practical work-ready content, and assessments.

Reality Workplace Ethics uses vignettes to describe common workplace conflicts, with critical thinking questions and applied academic activities for each of the eight units.

A collection of instructional materials from the Career and Technical Education Consortium of States to prepare learners for the Workplace Readiness Skills assessment.