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It’s time to opt for career skills over degrees, expand how we prepare young people to have thriving careers, and embrace the many pathways to success. Read insightful whitepapers, delve into the latest research, and explore innovative solutions to learn more about how you can create change.

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Employer

Skills-Based Practices: A Journey Map for Employers

This document is a one-stop guide to help employers build business agility, workforce diversity, and resilience through skills-based talent practices. It includes business cases for a skills-based approach and resources to assess a company’s maturity and readiness to identify and adopt specific skills-based talent practices...

Type: Tool

Policymaker

Making the Higher Education Act Work for Youth Pursuing Nondegree Pathways

Type: Report , Research

Parent , Educator , Employer , Innovator , Policymaker

Beyond Degrees

Type: Report , Research

Educator , Employer , Innovator , Policymaker

Success, Redefined: How Nondegree Pathways Empower Youth to Chart Their Own Course to Confidence, Employability, and Financial Freedom

Type: Report , Research

Innovator , Policymaker

Non-Degree Pathways: A DC Insider’s Perspective

Non-Degree Pathways uncovers the views of DC Insiders on supporting diverse educational pathways and offers policy recommendations to expand opportunities for students...

Type: Report , Research

Youth apprentice pushing buttons on a large machine.

Educator , Employer , Innovator , Policymaker

A Universe of Possibilities: Education to Career Pathways for the Future of Work

Discover the dynamic landscape of innovators building postsecondary training models to offer learners unique options...

Type: Research

Educator , Employer , Innovator , Policymaker

Degrees of Risk: What Gen Z and Employers Think About Education-to-Career Pathways…and How Those Views are Changing

Presenting a landmark study on Gen Z and employer perceptions of education-to-career pathways...

Type: Report , Research

College Student Having Meeting With Tutor To Discuss Work

Employer

Talking Points: How Diverse and Inclusive Apprenticeships Address Employer Needs

Engage employers around equitable and inclusive apprenticeships with talking points aligned to common business concerns...

Type: Tool

Educator , Student

Futurescape

Check out the mobile-first experience that lets you explore thousands of education-to-career paths on your own terms...

Type: Tool

Student

Post-High School Options: There are Many Paths to a Successful Career

Explore the different paths students can take after high school to prepare for a successful career...

Type: Tool

Business, career and placement concept - two business partners in office shaking hand of young asian woman after successful negotiations or interview

Innovator , Policymaker

The Big Blur: An Argument for Erasing the Boundaries Between High School, College and Careers, and Creating One New System That Works for Everyone

The Big Blur argues for a radical restructuring of education for grades 11–14 by erasing the arbitrary dividing line between high school and college...

Type: Report , Research

Innovator , Policymaker

The Current State of Diversity and Equity in U.S. Apprenticeship for Young People

Understand representation and equity gaps along gender and race/ethnicity lines among young apprentices in the US...

Type: Report , Research

Class of graduating seniors throwing their graduation caps.

Educator

How Parents Navigate And Influence Their Kids’ Post-High School Education

Understand how parents perceive higher education for their kids in the midst of changing needs and costs...

Type: Research

A woman helping to explain something on a computer to another woman at work.

Policymaker

Realizing the Potential for Rapid Reskilling

Get practitioner-informed policy considerations to expand high-quality, short-term credentialing programs...

Type: Report

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Employer

Your Guide to Becoming an Impact Employer

Prepare your company for the future of work through JFF’s Impact Employer Talent Framework...

Type: Tool

Beautiful happy Asian woman with glasses smiling widely looking at camera sitting at table in workspace in Hong Kong city with people in background

Employer , Innovator , Policymaker

How Young Adults Can Advance in Turbulent Times

Discover four strategies that guide talent developers to navigate the rapidly changing labor market...

Type: Report

Girl with a hijab in a conference room smiling at the man seat next to her.

Employer , Innovator , Policymaker

Growing Talent from Within: A Business and Social Imperative

Discover how Tyson empowered its workforce with skills that enabled them to become successful for positions beyond the production line...

Type: Report

Educator , Employer , Innovator , Policymaker

Horizons Annual Summit

Attend Horizons to discuss bold ideas and actions to create a more equitable workforce and education system for all...

Type: Event

A mom helping her daughter with homework at a table.

Educator , Student

Possible Futures—Career Exploration Curriculum

Explore lessons designed to help you develop essential employability skills and explore STEM occupations...

Type: Tool

Pink rectangle with colorful curved lines and a starburst

Employer , Innovator , Policymaker

Traditional College Isn’t The Only Path: Building Acceptance for All Learning Options

Watch experts discuss the barriers and solutions in accepting and expanding non-degree pathways...

Type: Video

illustration of a building with four pillars that are each a different color

Educator , Innovator , Policymaker

Guided Career Pathways Framework

Learn about a new model for postsecondary learning that addresses the needs of a changing economy...

Type: Research , Tool

mother using a laptop in kitchen with teenager

Educator , Policymaker

At the Crossroads of ‘I can,’ ‘I should,’ and ‘I want’

Discover how we can leverage a Japanese framework to guide students toward more targeted pathways...

Type: Report , Research

One employee helping a customer at a bakery choose his items and another employee checking a tablet.

Employer , Policymaker

Good Jobs Framework

Understand how parents perceive higher education for their kids in the midst of changing needs and costs...

Type: Research , Tool

Caucasian student with books standing near locker in college hallway

Educator , Employer , Innovator , Policymaker

Accepting that Four-Year College Is No Longer a Panacea For Today’s Students

Explore what adults can do to help guide students to the paths that work for them...

Type: Report , Research

Employer , Innovator , Policymaker

Podcast: Lessons in Adolescence with Julie Lammers & Dr. Rahul Choudaha

Explore the results of a survey of employers and adolescents around non-degree postsecondary education opportunities...

Type: Video

Policymaker

No Dead Ends: How Career and Technical Education Can Provide Today’s Youth With Pathways to College and Career Success

Get practitioner-informed education policy considerations to strengthen career pathways for today’s youth...

Type: Report , Research

Educator , Employer , Innovator , Policymaker

Career Navigation Technology Market Scan

Dive into a scan of career navigation technology and tools, as well as innovations, trends, and areas of opportunity...

Type: Report , Research

Young man in jean jacket and sweatshirt in library

Employer , Innovator , Policymaker

The future starts with you.

It’s time to opt for career skills over degrees, expand how we prepare young people to have thriving careers, and embrace the many pathways to success. Read insightful whitepapers, delve into the latest research, and explore innovative solutions to learn more about how you can create change.

Get started here.

Coming soon

Skills-Based Practices: A Journey Map for Employers

Making the Higher Education Act Work for Youth Pursuing Nondegree Pathways

Beyond Degrees

Success, Redefined: How Nondegree Pathways Empower Youth to Chart Their Own Course to Confidence, Employability, and Financial Freedom

Non-Degree Pathways: A DC Insider’s Perspective

A Universe of Possibilities: Education to Career Pathways for the Future of Work

Degrees of Risk: What Gen Z and Employers Think About Education-to-Career Pathways…and How Those Views are Changing

Talking Points: How Diverse and Inclusive Apprenticeships Address Employer Needs

Futurescape

Post-High School Options: There are Many Paths to a Successful Career

The Big Blur: An Argument for Erasing the Boundaries Between High School, College and Careers, and Creating One New System That Works for Everyone

The Current State of Diversity and Equity in U.S. Apprenticeship for Young People

How Parents Navigate And Influence Their Kids’ Post-High School Education

Realizing the Potential for Rapid Reskilling

Your Guide to Becoming an Impact Employer

How Young Adults Can Advance in Turbulent Times

Growing Talent from Within: A Business and Social Imperative

Horizons Annual Summit

Possible Futures—Career Exploration Curriculum

Traditional College Isn’t The Only Path: Building Acceptance for All Learning Options

Guided Career Pathways Framework

At the Crossroads of ‘I can,’ ‘I should,’ and ‘I want’

Good Jobs Framework

Accepting that Four-Year College Is No Longer a Panacea For Today’s Students

Podcast: Lessons in Adolescence with Julie Lammers & Dr. Rahul Choudaha

No Dead Ends: How Career and Technical Education Can Provide Today’s Youth With Pathways to College and Career Success

Career Navigation Technology Market Scan

Podcast: Better Lives, Better Careers with Julie Lammers

Horizons: On the Record – Career Navigation in a Dynamic Economy

Condition of Career Readiness in the United States

Fireside Chat: The Future of Career Education

Podcast: Blurring the Lines Between Education and Work

How Gen Z Approaches Decision-Making

Podcast: The Impact Opportunity of Career Navigation Technology in the Workforce System

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