What Features Are New With College and Career Exploration (formerly Explore)

July 20, 2024

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Students are now expected to start planning their future earlier than ever, with this process becoming increasingly integrated into the school day. To support this, the Pathful team has been diligently working on significant updates to our platform this year. These enhancements will improve the connectivity, usability, and accessibility of the features you and your students love, while also introducing new tools designed to help students discover the best path for their future.

The first thing you’ll notice when you log in to Pathful to start the new school year is a new look. We’ve focused on making the platform more student friendly and navigable, while also making the features you know and love easier to find. All of your favorite parts of Pathful Explore are still available in the new Pathful platform, but some of them have moved to new places within the platform. To help you find everything you need quickly while you get used to this transition, we put together this guide.

However, we did more than just change the interface. As more states and districts recognize the importance of college and career education, Pathful continues to expand its portfolio of features including:

1. Employability Lessons: Access to 40+ employability lessons on topics such as futuristic finance, workplace readiness and skills for academic success.
2. Employability skills microcredentials: After completing certain courses, students can earn microcredentials to show their accomplishments.
3. New Virtual Job Shadow, CCE, and Employability Videos: Our in-house video team continues to scour the country for unique and sought-after opportunities, allowing us to expand our exclusive, industry-leading video libraries.
4. Reporting enhancements: We have increased the ease of accessing and reading user reports, as well as adding new reports to our repertoire.

By actively listening to feedback from educators and students, Pathful strives to meet the ever-changing needs of modern learners. Our commitment to excellence is evident in our regular updates to the platform that integrate cutting-edge technology, personalized learning paths, collaborative tools, and robust analytics, all designed to make career education more engaging, accessible, and effective.

In that spirit, we would like to share some upcoming features you can expect in the near future:

1. Lifestyle Calculator: An all-new way for students to approach the decision of what they want to do beyond school. Students answer a suite of questions on topics from from spending habits to work-life balanced, and receive a target salary range and job recommendations based on county-level data
2. AI LinkedIn Profile Builder and Resume and Cover Letter Builders: We’re working on a whole new way for students to create documentation of their professional experiences. Stay tuned for more updates.

Log in today to check out these amazing new features.