“Public to Public” Career Pathways:A Strategy Implementation the “Board of Governor’s Task Force on Workforce, Job Creation, and a Strong Economy Recommendations”A Presentation to the Workforce and Economic Division of the Chancellor's OfficeDR. JEFFREY MRIZEK, MBA, ED.D

Goal 12. Career PathwaysDevelop and broadly publicize industry-informed career pathways that prepare students for jobs needed within the regional labor market.

The Strong Workforce Task Force recommends creating pathways and curricula driven by industry and labor market needs, contextualizing basic skills and workplace readiness skills into pathway curricula, developing model CTE curricula and ensuring that career pathways meet the needs of non-traditional students.

Develop and broadly publicize industry-informed career pathways that prepare students for jobs needed within the regional labor market.

“Public to Public” pathways are a transformative remedy which encourages life-long learning and development through alternative competency based assessments and credentialing such as: stackable credentials, civil service degrees, micro credentials, or digital badges.

Through a concurrent enrollment strategy, work experience students are placed as student interns in civil service departments. The students receive aligned competency based curriculum (New World of Work- 21st Century Skills) and are evaluated across both systems.

As the student explores their civil career option, they are trained and developed on the common foundational competency model that prepares the student for hiring, selection, and performance. In a sense, the student is receiving on-the-job training to secure a position, which directly aligns to the needs of the civil service employer.

“Public-to-Public” Pathway Scenarios (Mrizek, 2015)

Focus on the Civil Service Industry: Develop and broadly publicize industry-informed career pathways that prepare students for jobs needed within the regional labor market.

The “In” scenario reflects approaches to construct career pathways into state service and provide a targeted supply of “career ready” workforce.

While the “Up” scenario reflects approaches to adapt the inter/intra-organizational structures to provide for up-skilling of the “career readiness” of the current workforce.

Collective Impact Approach informs California Community Colleges and Civil Service Workforce Development actors to align and implement competency based “Public to Public” career pathways.

Collective Impact (CI) occurs when a group of actors from different sectors commit to a common agenda for solving a complex social or environmental problem.

The five core conditions of Collective Impact are:

Common Agenda Backbone Organization Mutually Reinforcing Activities Continuous Communication Shared Measurement System

(Kania and Kramer, 2011)(Preskill, Parkhurst, & Juster, 2014)

General Competency Based Career Pathway: An Intersubjective Construct (Mrizek, 2015)

Implement “Public-to-Public” pathways through intentional enactment of Collective Impact

HanleyBrown, F., Kania, J., & Kramer, M. (2012). Channeling change: Making collective impact work.

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