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[00:00:00] MEFA Pathways Career Path activity allows you the student to explore different paths to follow, to reach a desired career. To access the activity, log in or create an [email protected] and navigate to the Discover Careers tab. Select the Investigate Your Future tab, and then select Career path. If this is your first time visiting this page, you’ll be guided through a short tutorial.

Select next to learn about the career path activity in a step-by-step format or select skip to jump to the activity itself. Use the career category and occupation dropdowns to select a career, and the activity will showcase the incremental steps involved to reach that desired career. The occupation selected is called the starter career.

Though it may be an advanced level job, it appears in the middle of the landscape, which [00:01:00] as a whole demonstrates the different paths that individuals can take as they move along their career path. Jobs that might lead to the chosen starter career are called stepping stones, and they appear below the starter career.

These jobs are considered a logical foundation to begin or continue toward a career path. For some careers, you’ll have additional options to explore, such as similar jobs, lateral transition careers, advancement careers, and lateral advancement careers. Similar jobs are jobs that are in the same occupation group with pay in the same range.

Lateral transition careers are in a different career category than the starter career. But offer median wages that are within the same range. Advancement careers fall into the same occupation group, but with [00:02:00] higher pay lateral advancement careers fall in a different occupation group and typically compensate with more pay.

Students can explore related careers in other career categories by selecting a category in the upper right or left corner. There is also an option to identify careers requiring a particular education level by filtering at the top left of the page. Clicking on any career will display a summary card with a brief description of the career.

Along with the required education level, in median wages, students can select more info to view extensive details about the career or select Save this Career to add it to their My careers list, where they can track potential careers and develop a plan for after high school students also have the [00:03:00] option to see a career path for this job or make this career their starter career.

Visit NEFA pathway.org to explore the career path activity.