Incubate Ideas to Create a Comprehensive Career Navigation System

Engage creative thinkers and pilot bold innovations, especially technology-based solutions.

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Engage creative thinkers and pilot bold innovations, especially technology-based solutions. This is an underdeveloped area that could provide the cost-effectiveness required to make the system comprehensive, universal, and lifelong. Consider a competitive process to solicit ideas.

One approach would be to launch a competition similar to the X PRIZE, a $10 million-plus award given to the first team to achieve a specific goal set by the X PRIZE Foundation. While this type of funding often comes from private foundations, the federal government could develop similar competitions or leverage private funders to encourage creative approaches.

For more information on this topic, please see:

A New National Approach to Career Navigation for Working Learners by Vickie Choitz, Louis Soares, and Rachel Pleasants

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