Navigating the Future with P2C Career Explorer
Career Exploration shouldn’t be a one-time event.
P2C Career Explorer has everything you want and need to connect today’s high-value careers to your students’ everyday experiences.
When students discover their potential, they see powerful outcomes in their lives.
P2C Career Explorer Curriculum
The P2C Career Explorer curriculum brings the four stages of career exploration— personal discovery, career awareness, career evaluation, and career preparation—to life through engaging, age-appropriate activities that complement your existing curriculum.
- Career Exploration lessons – 119 lessons employ a cross-curricular design to identify the core subject area connected to each lesson
- Career Story Playlist – offers authentic career narratives, showcasing the pathways and experiences of professionals across all of The National Career Clusters® Framework’s 14 Career Clusters
- Employability Skills Playlist – helps students acquire and advance the nine employability skills recognized by the U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Department of Labor
- Financial Literacy Playlist – establishes and strengthens students’ understanding of financial literacy concepts by integrating dual learning objectives with multiple subjects
P2C Career Tools
P2C Career Tools invite students to better understand themselves and the careers that are in demand in their communities. Students have access to all these tools in one place:
- Interests Matcher reveals their Holland Code (also known as RIASEC type) through a self-led 60-question quiz
- Values Matcher shows how much a student prioritizes six global work values through a five-minute sorting activity
- Cluster Matcher displays which Career Clusters best match a student’s interests, values, and other preferences
- ROI Analyzer calculates how long it would take a student to recover and repay their investment for hundreds of occupations, based on state-specific salary and tuition data.
My Career Page
Robust career data
Robust career data with occupational details including state-specific labor market data.
The Importance of Career Exploration & CTE
Increased Student Engagement
Nearly eight in ten elementary students report being engaged in schoolwork. However, by the time those same students enter high school, their engagement fall to 44%.
Disengaged students are most likely to experience chronic absenteeism, drop out of high school, and perform poorly on academic measures.
But when students can envision a future in a career that excites them, they are more motivated to engage, persist, and thrive.
Lower Drop-Out Rates and Higher Graduation Rates
Research from the Association for Career & Technical Education shows that students with concentrations in CTE graduate high school at higher rates than their peers.
A whopping 80% of students who drop out of high school wish their schools incorporated more real-world and experiential learning.
Greater Academic Achievement
Academic achievement and recognition alone did little to motivate most students. The National Dropout Prevention Center found that academic support only increases student motivation by 11%. However, when the focus shifts to career opportunities and development, motivation increases by 81%.
Career exploration allows students to uncover careers, discover achievable pathways, and connect their everyday learning to the skills employers demand. Students who engage deeply with career exploration and planning show significantly higher levels of motivation and academic self-efficacy. In other words, a career-connected student means a more motivated and higher-achieving student.
Sustained Career Success
Career-connected learning creates higher-earning adults. A Department of Education study tracking students for up to eight years after graduation found that those who concentrated on Career and Technical Education (CTE) courses in high school earned higher median annual earnings than their peers.
P2C Career Explorer takes a unique approach to career preparation for students by focusing on the intersection between education and workforce.
With guided resources to help students discover their strengths and create successful career paths, students can envision a future in a career, and find purpose in learning.
By helping more students discover their potential, we see powerful outcomes in their lives.
