The Career Readiness Partner Council recently released a report that provides a more comprehensive vision for what it means to be career ready:

“A career-ready person effectively navigates pathways that connect education and employment to achieve a fulfilling, financially-secure and successful career. A career is more than just a job. Career readiness has no defined endpoint. To be career ready in our ever-changing global economy requires adaptability and a commitment to lifelong learning, along with mastery of key academic, technical and workplace knowledge, skills and dispositions that vary from one career to another and change over time as a person progresses along a developmental continuum. Knowledge, skills and dispositions that are inter-dependent and mutually reinforcing.”

The Career Readiness Partner Council is a broad-based coalition of education, policy, business and philanthropic organizations that strive to forward a more comprehensive vision for what it means to be career ready. The Council hopes this vision spurs conversation and action in communities across the nation.

The inextricable link between education and the economy has never been more apparent, the urgency for change unparalleled.