"The platform allows students to complete assessments of their skills-including hard-to-measure soft skills, like communication, resilience and ability to collaborate-and present them in a "skills-based transcript" they can present to employers, according to Ken Eisner, managing director of global higher education to workforce at ETS. From there, the platform connects users with job and internship opportunities based on their skills and career interests, using artificial intelligence-powered and localized data about the job market."
"If you imagine your GPS worked the way career planning does today in higher education, what happens is ... after an hour, what it would tell you is 'Oh, bad news. You're two hours away from the goal and you're driving in the wrong direction.' That's really not particularly helpful. What the ETS tool does is it makes it immediate; it makes it possible to career plan from the time the student arrives on campus."
Educational Testing Service introduced Futurenav Compass, a career navigation platform that assesses students' technical and soft skills. The platform produces a skills-based transcript students can share with employers and connects users to jobs and internships using AI-powered, localized labor-market data. Futurenav Compass measures soft skills such as communication, resilience, and collaboration and maps students to opportunities aligned with their skills and career interests. California State University campuses and Brandeis University will pilot the platform over the next year. The system aims to create clearer career pathways throughout students' educational journeys and to bridge gaps between higher education and the workforce.
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