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 Students can only dream about careers they know about

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NEW - PCD Career-Ready Symposium

We're thrilled to announce a major milestone in our journey toward career awareness & preparation support & excellence. 

• To inaugurate our very first Partnership for Career Development (PCD) Career Ready Symposium, we have an extraordinary guest of honor - none other than the renowned Kevin Fleming, PhD!

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• Dr. Kevin Fleming is an educator, speaker, producer of multiple, viral animation videos including Success in the New Economy, and the author of four books including the educational bestseller, (Re)Defining the Goal. He is the Founder and CEO of Catapult and serves as the Chief Innovation & Engagement Officer for the Los Angeles Regional Consortium. Dr. Fleming is a passionate advocate for ensuring all students intentionally equip their potential and enter the labor market with a competitive advantage.

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• Get ready to be inspired and gain invaluable insights from Dr. Fleming himself at this groundbreaking event. 

• We are planning for food and drinks, prepared by students at the Cumberland-Perry Career & Technical Center, a student panel - moderated by Dr. Fleming - discussing their work-based-learning experiences, presentations and workshops, door prizes, and Act 48 credits available.

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• The event is open to participating PCD School personnel, and will feature break-out groups for elementary, middle-school, high school, and school administration/leadership.

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• If you’re a participating PCD consortium school, mark your calendars and register with the special password provided to your school/district.

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Stay tuned for more details as this event continues to evolve, about this incredible opportunity to supercharge your career readiness & preparation efforts. 

You won't want to miss it! 

Career Ready Symposium Sponsorship

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ABOUT PCD

The Partnership For Career Development (PCD) is a business-education-partnership intermediary located in the Capital Region of Pennsylvania. PCD’s experience and expertise is concentrated in the field of Career & Workforce Readiness. PCD works under a fee-for-service model providing schools and school districts in South Central Pennsylvania with resources, programs, events and initiatives surrounding career exploration and development. In addition, PCD provides multi-level consulting at county, state and national level for businesses, organizations and individuals.

With 25 years of experience in developing programs, initiatives, studying and researching relevant labor market data, consulting and meeting with relevant stakeholders from business, education, and community, PCD is recognized in Pennsylvania by state agencies as a leader and best practice in this work.

PCD’s unique collaborative model provides regional schools with consortiums to share resources and work cooperatively. As an intermediary, PCD is able to provide efficiencies for regional businesses and organizations, creating career exploration programs and initiatives that allow students to participate from dozens of schools at one location. This helps to alleviate “employer fatigue,” as identified in PA, resulting from many schools calling on the same businesses for support. PCD’s model allows for the braiding of funds, and utilizing economies of scale, and the leveraging of local, regional, state and national partnerships, permitting PCD to act as a conduit for access & equity of resources & programs. 

PCD Tenets

• Work-based Learning / Career Mentoring as the “gold standard”
• Alignment of interests with market needs
• Access & Equity in experiences, programming and support
• Accountability of Learning
• Collaboration not competition in this non-partisan work 

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 Participation Link 2023-24 Programs

Aligning with the Cradle to Career Alliance's Adopted Career Recognition Weeks

PCD Presenter ToolKit

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Career-Ready Symposium Request for Presenters

Deadline to apply: October 2, 2023

Career-Ready Symposium Registration

For PCD Participating Schools

November 6, 2023

PROGRAM BOOK LINKS:

PCD Program Book 2023-24 (large file)

PCD Programs 2022-23

Cradle to Career Website - visit to register for upcoming meetings.

Cradle to Career Alliance's Adopted

Career Recognition Weeks

Career Recognition Weeks 2023-24

Be sure to check our events calendar and bookmark your special week!

Here's how PCD is working to align our program efforts - Get involved!

Let us know how you'll be celebrating and how we can help promote you efforts before, during, and after!