Career Pathways

Announcing the PAVTEC Career Pathways Website!

www.pcc.edu/pavtec/pathways

Last February, PAVTEC received a grant from the Oregon Department of Education to develop a website tool for use in researching career pathways.  The website was developed to provide an attractive, friendly and useful resource to students, their parents and school advisors related to educational and career planning.  It can be used to inform (but not replace) high school students' Educational Plan and Profile (EPP).  It is a resource that advisors, especially those who may be familiar with only a few of the multitude of career and educational opportunities, can use with their advisees.  The Career Pathways website is meant to complement and supplement existing career and educational information systems, e.g., CIS, Bridges, ECOS, OLMIS, DISCOVER, etc., and includes specific information about PCC opportunities but not limited to PCC.

Please click here to view the Career Pathways flier. (PDF File)

The website includes 17 pathways categorized by six Focus Areas:

• Natural Resource Systems
  • Agriculture and Environmental Services Pathway
• Applied Arts and Communication
  • Information Technology Pathway (Computer Technology)
  • Visual Arts Pathway
  • Performing Arts Pathway
  • Publishing & Broadcasting Pathway
• Business & Management
  • Management, Marketing and Finance Pathway
  • Hospitality and Tourism Pathway
• Health Services
  • Health Services Pathway
• Human Services Pathway
  • Criminal Justice & Legal Services Pathway
  • Educational Pathway
  • Family, Community & Social Services Pathway
  • Emergency & Fire Services Pathway
  • Government & Public Administration Pathway
• Industrial & Engineering Systems
  • Engineering & Architecture Pathway
  • Construction Pathway
  • Manufacturing Pathway
  • Transportation Pathway

Each Pathway contains the following content:

• Specific careers, including occupation descriptions, outlook and salaries
• Recommended high school courses
• Post-high school options such as certificate and degree programs at institutions throughout Oregon
• Dual credit opportunities of earning college credit for high school and college-level courses at the same time
• Entrance requirements for local colleges
• Student organizations to join while still in high school
• Professional organizations to help in your research
• Suggestions of different learning experiences that give students opportunities to view a particular occupation beyond a textbook of classroom project (i.e. job shadowing and internships)
• Qualities desirable in future employees
   

In addition, the project included the development of a flyer and poster which will direct visitors to the website.  A flyer is attached to this email and is intended to be a front and back 8 1/2 x 11 flyer.  Feel free to print and copy the attached flyer for your immediate use until the printed copies are available. PAVTEC is currently having these flyers printed and will have them available in mass quantity for your building use.  We have not yet finalized our distribution plan so would appreciate knowing how many you might need for your own use and/or your school.

The posters are not yet in production, but we hope to have them available after the holiday break.

This website is an ever evolving resource and any comments or suggestions are welcome.  PAVTEC and Portland Community College are committed to the ongoing maintenance of the website.  Feel free to contact Karen Jones at 503-614-7737 or by email at: kjones@pcc.edu with any questions.
 

Thanks goes out to the following individuals who contributed to the project:

Primary Project Leader:
Karen Jones, PAVTEC

Associate Project Coordinator:
Sue Irwin, Beaverton School District

Leadership Team Members:
Bill Manley, PAVTEC; Melody Cobb, Beaverton School District; Zeno Idzerda, Joseph L. Meek Professional Technical High School; Ken Kline, Portland Public Schools; Ruth Liesegang, Forest Grove High School; Vicky Lindberg, Glencoe High School; Brooke Mowry, Glencoe High School; Christi McCauley, Tualatin High School; Nicki Pierce, Scappoose High School; Josette Antaki, PCC; Cheryl Jenkins, PCC; Erin Macy, PCC; Lynn Montoya, PCC; Patricia McCoy, PCC

Advisory Review Team Member:
Emily Anderson, Scappoose High School; Karl Atkins, Scappoose High School; Andy Croley, Liberty High School; Alice Dickas, Beaverton High School; Nancy Fitzgerald, Southridge High School; Tim Hardie, Banks High School; Kathy Lloyd, Madison High School; Curt Lorenz, Neah-Kah-Nie High School; John Niebergall, Sherwood High School; Sally Niedermeyer, Benson High School; Jason Resch, Southridge High School; Jeff Smith, Aloha High School

PCC Web Team:
Luis Menchu, Karen Sorensen, Curtis Harvey

Private Consultant:
Christina Holmes