Career Pathways

Jerry W. Hedge is Senior Program Director of workforce and organizational effectiveness at RTI International. He has more than 30 years of experience in organizational research, working with public and private sector clients to improve workforce productivity. He is a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology and the American Psychological Association. Gary W. Carter is the Chief Professional Services Officer at PDRI. He has over 30 years of experience designing and successfully implementing results-driven talent management solutions. He is a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology.

Table of Contents

Preface
List of Contributors

1. Understanding the Concept and Promise of Career Pathways
Jerry W. Hedge and Gary W. Carter

Section One: Career Pathways for Workforce Education and Economic Development

2. An Integrative Framework for Evaluating the Impact of Career Pathways
Debra Bragg

3. Pathways to Success through Career Technical Education: Developing and Evaluating Community College Career Pathways Initiatives
Lauren Eyster

4. Apprenticeships and Career Pathways
Czeslaw Noworol

5. The Interplay between Career Support and Career Pathways
Jenny Bimrose and Alan Brown

Case Studies

6. Connecting College and the Workplace through Pathway Development in Kansas
Sandra Staklis, Laura Rasmussen Foster, Debra Mikulka, and Christa Smith

7. Giving Manufacturing Career Pathways a LIFT
Myriam Sullivan and Deborah Kobes

Section Two: Career Pathways for Individuals and Organizations

8. Career Pathways as an Integrative Framework for Talent Management Systems
Jerry Hedge and Gary Carter

9. How to Steer Your Career? A Proactive Approach to Career Pathways
Jessie Koen and Roy Sijbom

10. Job and Career Crafting to Fulfill Individual Career Pathways
Maria Tims and Jos Akkermans

11. Purpose, Meaning, and Career Pathways
Bryan J. Dik, Alexandra Alayan, and Kaitlyn Reed

Case Studies

12. Career Pathways Case Study - Advance Auto Parts
Kenneth T. Bruskiewicz and Lindsay Mach Sherer

13. Career Pathways as a Strategic Human Capital Management Program: MyCareer@VA
Tim McGonigle and Shelly Butler

Section Three: Emerging Issues in Career Pathways

14. Big Data, Data Science, and Career Pathways
Dave Dorsey

15. Emerging Career Pathways: Alternative and Independent Work Arrangements
Gary Carter and Jerry Hedge

16. Career Pathways for Late Career Workers
Jenn Rineer

17. Using O*NET to Identify and Design Career Pathways
Denise Craven and Dave Rivkin

18. Fulfilling the Promise of Career Pathways
Gary Carter and Jerry Hedge