Creating Employment Pathways | SXSW EDU 2024

Preparing to join the workforce — and even brushing up your skills is an exciting pursuit with multifaceted steps and approaches. Luckily, experts at SXSW EDU 2024 shared a variety of tips for beginners and veterans alike, from all walks of life, who have career goals ranging from becoming a better leader to starting the job hunt, and beyond.

Having the proper building blocks for employability and talent development can make all the difference in your career. Watch and listen to sessions as they dive into the importance of civic, digital, health, and financial literacy, new ways to tackle the teacher shortage, how business leaders can support their employees, the value of offering career education to incarcerated youth, how to prepare teachers for the job, and so much more.

Explore these sessions to help develop your talents and take the workforce by storm!

All Pathways to Opportunity Should Come with Directions

“You adapt that pathway to where you are now and how fast you want to get there.”

Yustina Saleh, Ph.D
The Burning Glass Institute

Hear from Greg Walker, Sylvia Wood, V. Scott Solberg, and Yustina Saleh, Ph.D, as they discuss how essential it is to expose students to the necessary guidance & experiences so they can thrive.

Career Education: Policy & Practice to Best Serve Learners

“If young people don’t have exposure to careers by the end of middle school, they’ve already started foreclosing opportunities for themselves.”

Julie Lammers
American Student Assistance

Discover how state leaders are looking to change how their states are preparing young people for the future with Danielle Ongart, Julie Lammers, Kayla Jimenez, and Paul Herdman.

Featured Session: How Cultures of Growth Transform Students--and Teachers

“If you put ‘genius’ into Google, who do you see?... You don’t see a lot of women. You don’t see a lot of people of color. You don’t see people with disabilities.”

Mary Murphy
Indiana University & Equity Accelerator

Join world-renowned psychology researchers Carol Dweck and Mary Murphy for a conversation reflecting on decades of mindset research and the transformation into Cultures of Growth.

Featured Session: Promise & Peril: The Potential of Our Community Colleges

“As we think about the scale of the challenges we’re trying to address it’s important to have a big vision and a bold vision that will take the partnerships in the community to a whole nother level if we’re really trying to improve outcomes for communities that have been historically left behind.”

Pascale Charlot
The Aspen Institute College Excellence Program

Learn more excellent colleges are changing student’s lives and revitalizing their communities with Josh Wyner, Pascale Charlot, and Russell Lowery-Hart.

Listen to more inspiring sessions:

• The 2024 Election & Higher Ed Policy
• 30 Years & Beyond: AmeriCorps’ Impact on Education
• ALL IN: Activating Human Potential via Multiple Literacies
• Bringing Back the Lost Generation
• Building Networks for Success: The Social Capital Advantage
• Corrections to Careers: Education for Incarcerated Youth
• The Cusp, a Work Shift Podcast: Leveraging AI to Benefit Learners & Workers
• Empowering Educators: Shifting the Role of Teachers
• Grantmaking Strategies That Can Transform Cities Nationwide
• Hide & Seek: Find, Train, Place & Support Hidden Workers
• Higher Education’s Role in Climate: The Missing Piece
• Jobs in Education Are Undoable. Can We Redesign Them?
• Let's End Turnover & Make Teaching the Job Everyone Wants
• One Mayor’s College Promise in the Heart of the Deep South
• Reimagining Education for Workforce Leaders
• #R-E-S-P-E-C-T: How Do We Get Some for Teachers?
• Savior or Disruptor?: Non-Degree Credentials & Higher Ed
• Scarcity to Abundance: A Fresh Look at the Teacher Shortage
• Shaping the Future: Training Next-Gen Urban School Leaders
• Skills-Based Hiring at Work from Alabama to Navajo Nation
• Skills-First Practices: The Catalyst for Inclusive Mobility
• Space Skills for Careers on Earth
• Supporting Upward Mobility for Deskless Workers
• The Time Is Now: A New Playbook for Education Leadership
• Using Youth-centered Design to Improve Racial Equity Gaps
• Who's Tracking the Creative Workforce?

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Catch up on select sessions you may have missed at SXSW EDU 20224, now available to watch on demand or listen to their audio recordings. Plus, mark your calendars for SXSW EDU 2025 in Austin, Texas from March 3-6 and subscribe to our newsletter to be the first to know of any updates. See you next year!

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