Career Readiness
Survey (Coming Soon)
Capturing key information about developmentally appropriate capacities that reflect what youth need to navigate the modern world of work. This survey is currently in its pilot phase.
What Makes the Career Readiness Survey Unique
Student Voice
The Career Readiness Survey centers student perspectives by asking students directly about their own experiences, strengths, and workforce preparation.
Focused on Whole Child
Uses the Clover Model of Youth Development to provide a complete view of career readiness, connecting developmental resilience directly to workforce preparation.​
Actionable Data
Data identifies strengths and challenges of students that can guide continuous improvement cycles.
Easy Administration
The Retrospective Pre Post (RPP) format of the survey allows for surveying to take place at one time at the end of programming.
Why Use the Career Readiness Survey
What Does the Career Readiness Survey Assess
This tool is grounded in rigorous research, including a national scan of 21st-century skills, frameworks and, employer expectations. From that research, PEAR identified a core set of developmentally appropriate domains, such as belonging, reflection, active engagement, assertiveness, and innovation and adaptability. These domains reflect what young people need to navigate the modern world of work and are made up of the scales listed below. The scales in this assessment are built off of scales previously validated by PEAR. ​
The ability to form and maintain positive, purposeful relationships with individuals.
Building Professional
Connections
The enjoyment of working in a group and the belief that collaboration strengthens outcomes.
Teamwork
The ability to recognize one’s own strengths and challenges.
Self-
Awareness
The ability to reflect on successes and failures—and use that insight to grow personally and professionally.
Reflective Learning
The ability to stay calm, composed, and open when faced with change, unpredictability or competing demands.
Self
Regulation
The ability to use time effectively to meet goals or deadlines, including planning ahead, prioritizing tasks, and managing responsibilities.
Time Management
The ability to confidently express ideas, needs, or opinions in a way that influences others, while remaining respectful.
Persuasive
Communication
The ability to follow through on commitments, own one’s actions, and be dependable in meeting expectations.
Responsibility
The belief that mistakes and setbacks are valuable learning opportunities.
Growth Mindset/
Learning from
Mistakes
The ability to shift one’s approach or mindset when circumstances or information change.
Flexibility/
Agility
Survey Pilot Participation
Participants in this pilot will receive access to a data dashboard and a 1 page analysis of their data in exchange for its use in further validation of the tool.