Participatory Evaluation for Workforce Development Team Guide | Issue 4 of 8
Who's This For
You have a career pathway diagram hanging on your office wall. Maybe it is a clean flow chart showing high school to associate degree to bachelor's to industry. Maybe it is a color-coded infographic with arrows pointing upward. It looks professional. It communicates a clear trajectory. And every time a journeyer looks at it and says "that is not how it happened for me," you feel the distance between the map and the territory. This issue is for faculty designing career-connected curricula, program coordinators mapping workforce outcomes, academic advisors helping journeyers see their futures, and anyone who has watched a real career path contradict the diagram they drew to explain it.