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Why Pathful Is Moving to the Modernized Career Clusters Framework
From 16 clusters to 14: what the updated National Career Clusters Framework means for CTE programs.
Stop Reinventing the Wheel Every August
The Pathful 6–12 Implementation Guide and its companion Scope & Sequence map the full CRD arc from Grade 6 through 12, so you stop rebuilding the same plan every year.
10 common student anxieties about what comes next
Ten fears students bring into postsecondary conversations — and practical, structured ways to use Pathful's assessments, Career Profiles, and videos to turn pre
25 engaging activities for Virtual Job Shadow videos
Twenty-five practical activities — pre-, during-, and post-viewing — that turn passive video watching into active career exploration with Pathful's Virtual Job
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25 Engaging Ways to Use Pathful's Employability Video Library in Career Education
Discover 25 creative ways to use Pathful's Employability Videos to build essential workplace skills and career readiness with your students.
Activity Sequence Flowchart
A structured, easy-to-implement approach for educators to seamlessly integrate career exploration and work-based learning into their workflow, enhancing student
Aligning Pathful's assessments with local workforce needs
This post shows how aligning Pathful's assessment data with local workforce trends can help educators guide students toward in-demand career paths, tailor learning experiences, and build meaningful connections with employers.
An overview of the types of live WBL sessions available through Pathful
The two kinds of live work-based learning sessions — Pathful Presents and Industry Presents — and how to use them.
Beyond the Results: How to Turn Pathful Assessment Insights into Action
This post guides educators on how to help learners reflect on their assessment results, explore related careers, set actionable goals, and connect with real-world opportunities.
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Breaking barriers: women pioneers in Career and Technical Education
A Women's History Month tribute to eight visionary educators — from Emma Hart Willard to Winifred Hathaway — who challenged societal norms and built the educati
Bridging education and careers: Pathful's Experience Tracker and FIRST Robotics
Pathful's Experience Tracker and the FIRST Robotics Competition offer complementary tools for meaningful career preparation — pairing hands-on experience with g
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Bridging student exploration and regional economic reality
How to align student career exploration with regional workforce demand — combining Pathful insights with local labor market data to inform program, partnership,
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Bridging the classroom and the workplace
How industry-led projects deliver authentic, scalable work-based learning for students.
Bridging the skills gap with the Resume and Cover Letter tools
Read student resume and cover letter drafts as a diagnostic — surface strengths, spot gaps, and build a clear plan for career growth.
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Celebrating career readiness: Pathful's 2025-26 badge program
Celebrating the educators, schools, and districts making career readiness excellence happen every day.
Classroom guide: integrating the Lifestyle Calculator into your curriculum
Practical strategies and ready-to-run activities for weaving Pathful's Lifestyle Calculator into career-exploration lessons — building financial literacy, resea
CTE Month for non-CTE teachers
CTE Month isn't just for technical classes. Simple, classroom-ready ways English, math, science, and social studies teachers can make the career relevance of wh
Customizing Pathful FlexLessons for every student
Customize Pathful FlexLessons to create engaging, accessible career readiness lessons for every student population you serve.
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Designing inclusive FlexLessons in Pathful
Practical instructional-design moves that expand access — structure, differentiation, and flexible response — without lowering the bar on rigor.
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Engagement and Student Tutorial Videos
These videos can boost learner and educator engagement with Pathful by offering clear, visually engaging examples of how the platform can be used to support career exploration and development.
Financial Aid & Scholarships: Helping Students Plan for College with Pathful
Pathful provides essential tools to help students navigate financial aid, scholarships, and FAFSA preparation, ensuring they make informed decisions about funding their postsecondary education.
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FlexLesson Menu and FlexCourses Guide
The FlexLesson Menu and FlexCourses Guide offer educators a selection of career readiness, employability skills, and personal development lessons, organized by topic, time, and sequence to guide learner progress.
From classroom dreams to digital reality: the story behind the Lifestyle Calculator
How one teacher's favorite classroom activity — “Dreaming” — grew into Pathful's Lifestyle Calculator, reframing career planning around the life students want t
From classroom to competition: leveraging Pathful for CTSO success
Map Pathful's tools to CTSO competitive events — resumes, presentations, case studies, interviews, and portfolios for BPA, DECA, HOSA, SkillsUSA, and more.
From viewing to doing: active learning around career videos
Turn Pathful's career videos into active learning with quick, no-worksheet tasks that build observation, reflection, and real-world skills.
From virtual guest speakers to school-wide engagement
Turn virtual guest speakers into a consistent, school-wide engagement strategy.
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Getting more from work-based learning with Custom FlexLessons
Pair work-based learning with short, reusable FlexLessons — a little preparation beforehand and a little reflection afterward — to turn a one-time workplace vis
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Getting started with Pathful's Resume and Cover Letter tools
Built-in templates, examples, and classroom workflows to help students write polished, professional resumes and cover letters.
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Harnessing Pathful's Goal Setting Tools to Create SMART Goals for Success
Help students build short- and long-term goals using the SMART framework — specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, time-bound.
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Helping learners connect career dreams to financial reality with the Lifestyle Calculator
Pathful's Lifestyle Calculator helps students understand the true cost of the life they envision — and how much they'll need to earn to afford it — using verifi
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Host a Virtual Career Day
Scale your district- or school-wide career events with Pathful's live, virtual WBL sessions.
Host Professional Development Sessions
Enhance your teaching with the help of industry pros.
How career readiness is becoming part of the architecture of school: announcing the winners of the 2025-2026 Pathful District Showcase Challenge
Two districts stood out in the Pathful District Showcase Challenge, but their stories reveal something larger. See how schools are embedding career readiness in
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How early career assessments shape long-term success
Why starting assessments as early as 6th grade builds self-awareness, eases decision anxiety, and sets students up to plan with intention.
How Pathful Supports Pre-ETS with Comprehensive and Accessible Solutions
This post explains how Pathful delivers inclusive Pre-Employment Transition Services (Pre-ETS) across five core pillars—career exploration, work-based learning, postsecondary advising, workplace readiness, and self-advocacy—while ensuring accessibility through features like text-to-speech, captions, and customizable design.
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How to build Custom FlexLessons in Pathful
A beginner-friendly guide to cloning or creating lessons, reordering activities, editing prompts, and adding accountability.
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Join the Lifestyle Calculator Challenge
Join our month-long challenge to engage students with financial literacy and win prizes for your school!
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Kickoff Flyers
These Kickoff Flyers can serve as a way to inform your organization about their access to Pathful and some of the features available to them.
Learning in action: real classroom examples using Virtual Job Shadow videos
Real classroom examples of educators turning Virtual Job Shadow videos into active learning — from exploring water-related careers to prepping for career day, n
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Lessons from a former counselor: using data to move from reaction to impact
How the Planner counselor dashboard turns real-time data into proactive student impact.
Make CTE Month count all year long with Pathful
Celebrate CTE Month in February with Pathful's resources — and keep the momentum going all year with tools that support career readiness every day.
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Making the Most of Pathful This Summer: Ideas for Diverse Programs
Weekly structures and discussion frameworks for summer programs and diverse student populations.
Martha Stewart is an icon
A Women's History Month look at Martha Stewart's career — from Wall Street to a billion-dollar brand — and the lessons it offers on skill transfer, resilience,
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Maximizing Pathful's Live Sessions: A Guide for Educators and Everyone Helping Students Become Career Ready
This guide shows how educators and workforce professionals can use Pathful's Live WBL sessions — both pre-scheduled and custom — to connect students with industry experts. It offers role-specific examples to enhance career exploration and skill development.
Mining your Pathful profile for college essay gold
Turn students' Pathful profiles into a compelling admissions narrative.
Monitoring engagement: spotting who needs extra support
Use Pathful's reports to see who's engaging with career readiness, catch disengagement early, and act before students fall behind.
On-demand work-based learning
Flexible ways to weave recorded WBL sessions into everyday instruction.
Family-teacher collaboration: keeping families engaged in career planning
How Pathful's reports turn families into informed, active partners in career planning — with concrete data, conversation starters, and a simple action plan for
Pathful accessibility options and features
How Pathful's accessible design and its UserWay integration give every learner a way in — text-to-speech, 50+ language translation, screen-reader support, dysle
Pathful for Administrators: How Schools Can Leverage Data for Better Postsecondary Outcomes
Pathful's data analytics and Pathful Planner enable administrators to track student trends, optimize program offerings, and improve postsecondary planning based on real-time student engagement insights.
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Pathful in Practice #1: Dr. Shiradon Kirk — lifting transition goals with real-world relevance
How a transition specialist uses Pathful's career videos, assessments, and IEP-aligned goal-setting to help students with disabilities visualize and plan for li
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Pathful in Practice #2: Kayleigh Gaborek — differentiating reflections and building job-ready skills
A Start on Success educator pairs scaffolded reflections with job-ready writing practice — same prompt in two formats so every student engages at the right leve
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Pathful in Practice #3: Ian Gingras — a soft-skills job club that builds confidence
A rehabilitation counselor runs a small, targeted job club with Pathful — short videos plus focused practice that builds workplace soft skills and turns real pr
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Pathful in Practice #4: Mary Theresa Killion — Career Spotlights and profile projects
A whole-class Career Spotlight paired with student project work: learners first see workplace skills in action, then apply Career Profiles and Journals to refle
Pathful in Practice #5: Jackie Gilbert — local mentors and weekly live WBL
A steady cadence of private Live Work-Based Learning sessions paired with a local mentor pipeline — students meet professionals live, then keep learning through
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Pathful in Practice #6: Brooke Stone — phased rollout and training for district-wide postsecondary readiness
A district transition leader's playbook: roll Pathful out in phases and invest in ongoing staff training so more students get consistent access to career explor
Pathful in Practice #7: Jennifer Kerbrat — year-round career exploration with Pathful
A middle-school Career Development Facilitator builds a full-year rhythm — job-shadow videos on the school news, VR career fairs, and cluster-based spring refle
Pathful in Practice #8: Carol Schaper — making every minute count for career readiness
A middle-school career coach uses an existing enrichment block to weave Pathful assessments, flexible grouping, and ready-to-assign FlexLessons into students' w
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Pathful in Practice #9: Corinne Dyer — helping students reality-check goals and pivot with confidence
A Career Resource Specialist pairs the Interest Assessment with Virtual Job Shadow videos to help students test career fit early — and pivot with confidence ins
Pathful in Practice #11: August Bryant — using personal goals to drive career discovery
An In-School Career Coach uses a tiered, student-driven model — individual assessments, monthly guest speakers, and large-scale events — to make career exploration personal and low-pressure.
Pathful in Practice #10: Tannea Steele — helping students connect Social Studies to real careers
A Career Coach builds career exploration directly into Social Studies instruction, turning students into “Junior Sociologists” who research a career and build a one-pager on what they find.
Pathful in Practice #12: Tene Manning — when students become the career experts
A Marketing & Entrepreneurship educator runs a semester-long Career Expo where each student researches one career deeply, then teaches it to the rest of the class at a station.
Pathful in Practice: how real educators are creating career readiness every day
Seven practical, real-world strategies educators use to seamlessly integrate Pathful into their classrooms to build career readiness, with examples, teacher ins
Integrating Pathful Junior with the Curriculum You Already Teach
Pathful Junior's lesson content connects to reading and writing, social studies, science, and math by career cluster and grade band. Here's how to find those connections and use them.
Career Central in Your Classroom: Bringing 500+ Careers to Life for K–5 Students
500+ career profiles across 17 clusters, virtual job shadow videos, and a Career Journal. Here's what's in Career Central and how to use it, from whole-class K–2 sessions to independent 3–5 exploration.
Making the Most of 15 Minutes: Pathful Junior Activities That Fit Any Schedule
Five minutes before the bell, ten before lunch, fifteen with a group that finished early. Here's a grade-banded menu of Pathful Junior activities sized to whatever window you actually have.
Pathful Junior in Lower Elementary (K–2): Career Exploration When Your Students Can't Read Yet
Pathful Junior leans on video, read-alouds, and emoji responses more than text. Here's how each core piece works for pre-readers, and what to actually do with your K–2 class.
Pathful Junior in Upper Elementary (3–5): Building Independent Career Explorers
By third grade, most students are ready to browse Career Central, work through Lessons, and reflect on their Interest Assessment on their own. Here's how to hand the exploration over, and where staying involved still matters.
Using Pathful Junior's Teacher Dashboard: Tracking Progress and Proving Impact
Your dashboard pulls logged-in students, assignment completion, and login codes into one screen. Here's what each panel shows you, and where to look before a principal, coach, or parent conversation.
Pathful Junior and Social-Emotional Learning: Career Exploration as Self-Discovery
Career exploration gives young students a concrete hook for the kind of self-reflection that abstract SEL prompts often can't reach. Here's where Pathful Junior overlaps with the competencies your SEL work already builds toward.
Career Themes Across the School Year: A Planning Guide for K–5 Educators
Pathful Junior's Curriculum Grid already organizes career clusters by grade band and subject. This guide lines that content up against the moments already on your elementary calendar, month by month.
How to Use Pathful Junior's Interest Assessment: From Whole-Class Discussion to Individual Discovery
The Interest Assessment uses emoji-based responses so every K–5 student can participate. Here's how to run it in K–2 and grades 3–5, a debrief script, and where to look for patterns afterward.
Why Career Exploration Belongs in Your Elementary Classroom
Career exploration isn't a middle school concern. Here's why the elementary years are the real window, and how Pathful Junior is built to meet students there.
Getting Started with Pathful Junior: A First-Week Guide for K–5 Educators
A practical first-week plan for getting K–5 students logged in, running your first session by grade band, and knowing what to do across the week.
Pathful in Practice: share what's working for your students
Using Pathful with students? Share a strategy that works and help inform future Pathful in Practice posts written by and for educators.
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Pathful Junior Enablement
Discover resources and guidance to integrate Pathful Junior into K–5 classrooms, inspiring early career exploration and enhancing student engagement.
Scope & Sequence and Implementation Guides
Pathful's 6–12 Educator Implementation Guide and 6–12 Scope & Sequence are companion planning resources for CRD instruction, each suited to a different role and planning need.
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Pathful Quick-Start Guide
The Pathful Quick-Start Guide outlines how educators can use the platform's career readiness tools, covering basic navigation, key features, implementation tips, and a 10-day starter plan for classroom integration.
Pathful's Comprehensive Postsecondary Tools: Empowering Students for College Success
This article explores Pathful's comprehensive postsecondary tools, designed to support students through each stage of the college decision-making process with resources for school searches, scholarship opportunities, academic preparation, and essential guidance for future success.
Pathful's Experience Tracker: making student hour tracking simple
Digitize work-based learning and service hours — students document and reflect, educators approve and report.
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Pathful's postsecondary plan
A structured, interactive framework that helps learners map their education plan — selecting top career, school, and scholarship choices and building a clear pa
Personalizing career exploration: meeting every student where they learn
How Pathful personalizes career exploration for every learning style — matching visual, auditory, kinesthetic, and reading/writing learners with the right tools
Pioneers of Career and Technical Education: Celebrating Black History Month
In honor of Black History Month, we celebrate the remarkable African American educators who transformed the landscape of Career and Technical Education (CTE) in America.
Power-Up Series: Maximize CTE Month with Pathful
Explore key takeaways from our Power-Up session on maximizing CTE Month with Pathful, featuring strategies to boost engagement, streamline career exploration, and celebrate student success.
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Project Evaluation and Mentoring
Use Pathful with your students to get authentic, engaging, live, feedback on their work.
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Provide authentic simulated work experiences with Pathful's Industry-Led Projects
Problem-based, real-world work simulations co-designed with professionals, structured as FlexLessons, and flexible enough to fit your curriculum — with optional
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Role-Specific Deployment
Explore Pathful's complete set of program-specific implementation guides—offering proven strategies, timelines, and resources to help any education or workforce program maximize impact with Pathful tools.
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School Letters for K-12 Districts
These letters inform families about Pathful's College and Career Exploration and Work-Based Learning modules, highlighting how they help students explore careers and gain real-world experience.
So…who's paying for that penthouse? The Lifestyle Calculator reality check
Penthouse dreams meet budget reality: how the Lifestyle Calculator gets students thinking about not just what they want to do, but how they want to live — and t
State-Based Enablement and Implementation Plans
This article shows educators how to leverage Pathful's career readiness tools and provides state-specific plans to meet local requirements, helping students explore career paths, set goals, and develop the skills needed for future success.
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Student Activities
These activities can be used to supplement career exploration and Live Sessions using Pathful.
Supporting students with IEPs: Pathful for special education and transition planning
How Pathful's accessible tools, assessments, and reports support transition planning and measurable postsecondary goals for students with IEPs.
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The career readiness crisis: why 60% of students are heading for a reality check
New OECD data reveals a stunning disconnect between student career expectations and the real world of work — and what educators can do to close the gap.
The educator's guide to Pathful FlexLessons: skills-based learning for every career path
Maximize student learning with Pathful's comprehensive library of career readiness lessons. Explore flexible, user-friendly tools for grading, real-time progres
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The future they envision: what 41,840 students tell us about tomorrow's lifestyle expectations
What 41,840 students reveal about the lives they expect to build — how much they'll need to earn, where they'll live, and how they plan to save, spend, and reti
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The goal setting conversation: coaching scripts for educators using Pathful's tools
Practical coaching scripts and prompts that help educators turn student reflection into meaningful, trackable goals inside Pathful's Goal Setting tool.
The mindset you build in school is the one you bring to work
The research-backed benefits of a growth mindset in education and the workplace.
The power of Pathful's employability videos
An in-house library of 800+ short videos featuring real professionals — career prep, workplace skills, and academic success in bite-sized form.
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The power of Pathful's Virtual Job Shadowing videos
Discover how Pathful's virtual job-shadowing videos bring real-world career insights directly into the classroom — professionally produced and equity-focused, they show students workplace realities, highlight necessary skills and pathways, and help bridge the gap between learning and career exploration.
Resume and cover letter peer review: creating collaborative feedback sessions using Pathful tools
Step-by-step workflows, classroom protocols, feedback starters, and differentiation strategies to help students build confidence, clarity, and professional comm
The Science Behind Career Assessments
This post explores how educators can use Pathful's assessment data to create individualized career readiness plans, customize learning paths, and integrate career exploration into the curriculum.
Tips for Discussing Career Interests at Home
Families can support their child's career exploration by fostering open conversations, using hands-on learning experiences, setting goals, and encouraging flexibility in their evolving interests.
Tips for Using Pathful's WBL and Live Sessions
This post provides an overview of how to use Pathful's Work-Based Learning (WBL) Module to connect students with industry professionals through activities like career guest speaker sessions, mock interviews, resume reviews, and career preparation. It includes tips for organizing effective sessions and engaging students before, during, and after the event.
Top pros of 2024
Over the course of 2024, we've hosted thousands of classroom connections. This month, we wanted to show some extra love to the Top 10 Professionals that led the
Top pros of 2025
Over the course of 2025, we've hosted thousands of classroom connections. This month, we wanted to show some extra love to the Top Professionals that led the mo
Turn a live session into a classroom highlight: small moves that make a big difference
It's the little things that bridge the gap between a “cool video” and a career-changing moment. Simple moves — before, during, and after — that make your next P
Unlocking insights faster: Pathful's improved reporting experience
A reporting update that simplifies navigation with a clear single-screen menu, helpful information bubbles, and streamlined data refinement — making it easier t
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Using Custom FlexLessons to launch Pathful across a school or district
How districts move from pockets of great usage to consistent, school-wide career exploration — by creating a small number of shared Custom FlexLessons as a comm
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Using Pathful reporting to meet state standards and grant requirements
Turn compliance into a byproduct of good programming — documenting Perkins V, ESSA, WIOA, TRIO, and Voc Rehab requirements with Pathful's reports.
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Using Pathful's reports to strengthen partnerships with employers and community organizations
Turn student-interest and engagement data into a data-backed case for new internships, advisory boards, and work-based learning programs with local employers.
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What content is new at Pathful
The newest additions to our content library, reflecting the evolving needs of learners.
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What educators can expect when requesting a live session
A step-by-step walkthrough of requesting a live session — from submitting the request to follow-up — and the tips that get you the best match.
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What features are new at Pathful
A quick overview of what's new and how the latest updates support career readiness.
What's the difference between all these assessments?
A plain-language guide to Pathful's five assessments — plus the Lifestyle Calculator — and what each one measures.
When you're away, learning stays: easy Pathful substitute plans
Sub plans that aren't busy work — a build-your-own framework plus ready-to-assign FlexLessons that keep students learning when you're out.
Aligning Pathful's assessments with local workforce needs
How aligning Pathful's assessment data with local workforce trends can help educators guide students toward in-demand career paths and build connections with employers.
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