Career Success can be incorporated into any career planning and preparation initiative in programs (any discipline, internship prep), courses (Capstone, Career Development, Professionalism), services (Career Services, Student Services), and institution-wide opportunities.

Career Success was intentionally designed to be incorporated with any initiative that requires career planning and preparation. It can be integrated into FYE programs or orientation.

You can also use it for Summer Bridge programs, counseling and advising sessions, or with employees already on the job looking to upskill. A number of institutions are using it for entire academic departments or even entire professional colleges, unconnected to any specific course.

Our work began with research by a global team at Pearson who identified and normalized a dozen “soft” skills systems and tools, including those from P21, NACE, and the AAC&U as well as others from around the world.

The end product of our work was a single framework of the most commonly referenced personal and social capabilities identified with career and college success. Aligned to this framework, we built a curriculum (courseware) that helps students to develop these skills, based on research and sound instructional design and available as instructor-led materials or in self-paced formats.

Go here to learn more about using Career Success at your institution.

It was designed with undergraduates in mind. However, its purpose is to help all students develop a process for career preparation and planning that, once learned, can be replicated after college when students are looking to upskill or change positions, companies, or industries.

With an institutional adoption, the length of access for Career Success is two to four years. Students have the option to renew their access on a subscription basis by contacting Advancity directly and registering for yearly renewal.

When adopted in the traditional way (as with course materials), students bear the cost and buy access codes to the program from the bookstore or from Pearson directly.

Some schools may prefer to add it to the student’s fees, and some may pay for it with special grants earmarked to enhance the school’s performance on employability. There will be an option for schools to spread payment over an agreed-upon number of years; however, these cases would need to be set up for direct billing.

You’ll want to consult with us to identify your goals for the implementation and, most importantly, what data you want to track as a result of students working through the program. Following this initial discussion, we’ll initiate course set up, ordering, and training.

Your Pearson rep will work with our product team for all such integrations and begin by setting up a meeting with your LMS administrators/key faculty. The integration process takes about 3–4 weeks to set up.