A National Approach to Career Navigation for Working Learners

March 11, 2010, 9:00am - 11:00am

The United States has no coherent, planned career navigation system, although work and learning choices impact how much Americans pay for education, how much we earn over our lifetime, and even access to health and retirement benefits. In this way, career guidance is as essential as education and training to ensuring economic opportunity.

In its paper "A National Approach To Career Navigation for Working Learners," the Center for American Progress seeks to open a national dialogue about how to leverage emerging models of career guidance from the public, nonprofit, union, education, and private sectors to develop a national vision and approach to career development.