Career Pathways: Education & Training
Career pathways help students steadily step up from basic to more advanced learning.
Youth can follow a program of study beginning in middle school that leads to an industry credential, an associate's degree or a university degree.
Adults can earn the skills to start a career at the entry level and return for on-going training that moves them into higher level positions and wages.
Improving the state's talent pool is the first step in New Mexico's plan for building its competitiveness.
The Department of Labor has determined that 80% of the fastest growing jobs in the United States require college level training, including in math and science.
This guidebook, therefore, emphasizes the development of post-secondary level education and training programs that improve the employability and earnings of young people but that also are easily modified to produce the same results for adults.
Education and training in the 7 career clusters for both youth and adults will be delivered in career pathways, a teaching method that has been devised to promote lifelong learning.
Career Pathways are technical or career training in which students follow a sequential program of study from basic through progressively more advanced learning.
Download the Career Clusters Guidebook for more detailed information on "Career Pathways".