Career guidance

Is Higher Education Meeting the Real Desires of Today's Student?

When it comes to what students want from their college education, the answer is not a simple one. Students come from diverse backgrounds, have different goals, and seek a range of experiences....

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Eric Leftwich, Chief Revenue Officer Jul 13, 2023

A Pro Tip for PathwayU Learners:  Start Building Your Social Capital

You've taken the PathwayU assessments, read through your results, explored your career matches, and identified a few career paths that pique your interests. Now what?

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Bryan Dik, PhD, Chief Science Officer and Kurt Kraiger, PhD, Principal Psychologist Jul 10, 2023

Are your career assessments any good, scientifically speaking? Part 2

Part 2: Validity. In my last blog post, I introduced the idea of reliability (e.g., consistency) and noted that if scores on a career assessment are not reliable, there is no way they are valid. But...

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Bryan Dik, Ph.D. Chief Science Officer May 11, 2023

Are your career assessments any good, scientifically speaking?  Part 1

Part 1: Reliability.  Are all career assessments created equal? If not, are there ways to judge which ones are better than others? Career assessments vary widely in their quality, and yes, there are...

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Bryan Dik, Ph.D. Chief Science Officer May 11, 2023

Don't Be The Unsung Hero On Your Campus

If you are reading this perhaps you too passionately believe that today's career center has evolved to be a critical part in ensuring all learners have a successful post-secondary education. While...

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Eric Leftwich Apr 24, 2023

What's all the Hype About?

If you only recently learned of PathwayU, you may be wondering what the hype is about. PathwayU is an online career guidance platform. We call it the career and educational compass. The platform was...

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Bryan Dik, Ph.D. Chief Science Officer Mar 16, 2023

Outcomes for Students AND Your Institution

We love to get client feedback, not only because it informs continuous development of our career decision platform, but also because we discover new ways PathwayU schools are employing our software.

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Kurt Kraiger, Ph.D. Principal Psychologist Mar 06, 2023

Meet PathwayU’s Newest Guest Blogger: ChatGPT

If you live and work around higher education, by now you’ve heard about ChatGPT, the generative AI bot developed by the nonprofit OpenAI to fundamentally change the way we write. Give it a simple...

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Bryan Dik, Ph.D. Chief Science Officer Feb 01, 2023

Exploring new year, new semester changes?  Your students are too.  Harness that.

I am a sucker for new beginnings. The new year, with a new semester, offers an opportunity to reflect on what is going well and what I’d like to do better—and an opportunity to make to make some...

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Bryan Dik, Ph.D. Chief Science Officer Jan 13, 2023

Do Your Students Take Your Career Assessment Then Say, So... Now What?

I originally published this blog in Jan of 2022.  One year later , it's even more relevant today.  Let's stop assessing students and start really guiding them.  

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Eric Leftwich, Chief Revenue Officer Jan 13, 2023

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