Career & Knowledge Pathways
in Higher Education
Levin College Research
Conference
August 20, 2015
Merissa C. Piazza
Marcus Notaro
Ziona Austrian
Clearly understand career intentions
General interest in topics/subjects
Student Issues (Supply)
• Understand their interests
• Need help identifying careers
• Understand the variety of
degrees applicable to
openings
STUDENT CAREER SPECTRUM
• Aware of Career intentions
• Need help identifying majors
to achieve goal
Employer Issues
(Demand)
OBOR’s Career Pathway
Framework
CSU’s Career Pathway
Framework
Objective
Structure
• Establishes tangible paths to
guide students to a clearly
defined career outcome
• Focuses on specific course
requirements to reach the
career outcome
• Establishes flexible career path to
bridge the gap between student
interest and careers
• Focuses on the necessary
knowledge areas to reach the
career outcome
• Understand how academic majors
correlate to employer job
descriptions (job mismatch)
Structure of the Career Path Hierarchy
Career Field
(6)
Career Lines
(15)
Career
Pathway
(77)
Occupation
(330)
1. Business, Management, & Admin2. Agriculture, Food, & Natural Resources 3. Arts, Communication,
& Information Sys 4. Engineering, Mfg, &
Technology 5. Health Science
Technology 6. Human Services
• Group career choices • Careers within common
fields or industries are grouped within clusters • Helps focus student’s
career interest • Smaller groups of occupations within a career cluster • Occupations share common skills, knowledge, and interests • Scored against 33 “knowledge descriptors” • Represents higher education majors • Can appear across
multiple pathways, clusters and career fields
CSU’s framework uses O*NET’s knowledge descriptors as
an organizing principal (since they resemble majors)
• 39 Total • 14 B.A. • 25 M.A. + • 17 Total • 9 B.A. • 8 M.A. + • 61 Total • 19 B.A. • 42 M.A. +
Structure of the Human Service Hierarchy
Career Field
Career Line
Career Pathways
Occupations
• 71 Total • 23 B.A. • 48 M.A. + • Administration & Administrative Support
• Teaching/Training
• Professional Support Service • Consumer Services
• Counseling & Mental Health Services • Early Childhood Development & Services • Family & Community Services
• Personal Care Services
• Correction Services
• Emergency & Fire Management Services • Law Enforcement Services
• Legal Services
• Security & Protection Services • Revenue & Taxation
• Foreign Service • Governance • National Security • Planning • Regulation
Family Welfare
& Human
Services
Education
Training,
Counseling
Law, Public
Safety,
Corrections, &
Security
Public Policy &
Governance
Human
Services
Education, Training, & Counseling Occupations with Particular
Knowledge Descriptor among Top 5
1 1 1 1 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 4 4 5 5 6 8 8 8 10 13 14 24 26 27 34 65 71 Food Production Design Building and Construction Fine Arts Economics and Accounting Chemistry Personnel and Human Resources Engineering and Technology Medicine and Dentistry Foreign Language Public Safety and Security Physics Geography Biology Philosophy and Theology Law and Government Clerical Therapy and Counseling History and Archeology Communications and Media Sociology and Anthropology Administration and Management Mathematics Computers and Electronics Psychology Customer and Personal Service Education and Training English Language K nowl ed ge De scrip to rs
A d ap te d P h ys ic al Ed u ca ti o n S p ec ia lis ts A d u lt B as ic a n d Se co n d ar y Ed u ca ti o n an d L ite ra cy T ea ch er s A rc h iv is ts A u d io lo gi sts A u d io -V is u al a n d M u lti me d ia Co lle cti o n s Sp ec ia lis ts Ch ild , F ami ly , a n d Sc h o o l S o ci al W o rk er s English Language 3.60 4.63 4.41 4.34 3.93 4.40
Education and Training 4.70 4.49 3.73
Customer and Personal Service 3.55 3.53 4.43 4.80 3.65
Psychology 4.16 3.29 3.93 4.50
Computers and Electronics 3.50 4.45
Mathematics 3.13
Administration and Management 3.35
Sociology and Anthropology 3.73
Communications and Media 4.70
Clerical
Therapy and Counseling 3.30 4.10 4.55
Occupations K n o w le d ge D es cr ip tor s
