Powering career readiness at community colleges
We help 2-year colleges drive and measure employability through our flexible curriculum, faculty trainings, and advisory services. Our vision is that every student graduates with the skills and agency to launch their careers.
How we partner
Career-ready campus
Impact at scale. Partners receive a landscape analysis (academic affairs, student affairs, alumni relations, development, orientation, and more) of the current state of your career readiness efforts benchmarked against back best practices and a plan and blueprints for how to close the gaps. Partners also receive unlimited licenses for staff and faculty to access our Certification trainings and unlimited licenses to our best-in-class student resources.
Academic Integration
Early and often. That is the mantra for career development and life design best practices. We help get rid of the old/current norm where students don’t start thinking about life after college until they are close to completion. FYS and lower division core and major specific courses are ideal for integration through our train-the-faculty model.
Categorical Program/Co-Curricular Implementations
Shared identity. Common experiences amongst students with a shared identity is at the heart of several high impact practices. We support low income and first generation student programs like TRiO, GEAR UP, EOPS, and many, many others; as well as scholarship cohorts, student athletes, international student programs, and many others programs through our train-the-facilitator model.
Career Readiness Inventory
15 minutes and high impact. Students reflect on the skills employers value the most and take inventory on how students are progressing. This is a formative inventory that is best for students to take several times during high school or college to assess gains in career readiness, including during orientation, courses, co-curricular activities, work experiences, and more.
Case study: Classroom and student organization embedding at Saddleback College
→ Saddleback College embedded the Career Readiness Inventory in academic courses (business, ethnic studies, and more) while leveraging Career Launch programs across student support programs and cohort-based communities.
→ Beyond the classroom, Saddleback extended Launch Your Career into programs serving DSPS, MESA, International Students, Student Leaders, Rising Scholars, AANAPI students, CalWORKs, AESL, and other campus communities.
→ By training faculty and staff across campus, Saddleback created a more coordinated approach to delivering tailored career readiness support in the spaces where students already learn, connect, and belong.
"Despite having been in the workforce for years, participating in Career Launch still proved to be valuable for me. I consider this program essential for anyone about to enter the workforce."
- Wendy Carter (student)
"Career Launch relieved a lot of anxiety I had with trying to connect with professionals and even gave me a map on how to go about it."
- Abril Perez (student)
Case study: A new career readiness course at Cañada College
→ Cañada College introduced CRER 127: Job Search Strategies, a credit-bearing course designed to embed career readiness into the student academic journey.
→ The 6-week hybrid course integrates the Career Launch curriculum, giving students hands-on experience with professional relationship-building, job search strategies, and interview preparation.
→ By incorporating peer mentors and support staff, the course creates a more accessible and supportive environment, helping students overcome barriers and engage more deeply.
→ These efforts are part of a broader commitment to align with statewide initiatives like AB 1111, ensuring clearer, more streamlined pathways for students pursuing career development.
"Being part of Career Launch changed my mindset; there is always a path of continuous development that strengthens our skills and makes us more positive towards new opportunities that exist outside the system."
- Lorena Sterne (student)