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This episode explores the importance of integrating career development across the lifespan, starting as early as kindergarten. Ed Hidalgo, founder of Ed Hidalgo Consulting, brings extensive experience from both the corporate HR world and public education to emphasize how early career learning builds stronger, more self-aware individuals. The conversation highlights the need for a shared career language between schools and workforce organizations to better prepare individuals for meaningful engagement in the world of work.
Workforce professionals gain insight into how to collaborate with educators, promote student self-awareness through strengths, interests, and values, and advocate for systems that support all learners—not just those in traditional pathways. Hidalgo’s work is a call to action for workforce leaders to be proactive partners in shaping the future of career readiness.
You’ll hear insights on…
Why workforce professionals should engage with K–12 education
The role of career-related self-awareness in student success
How Holland’s RIASEC model creates a shared language for career exploration
Actionable ways workforce boards can partner with school systems
Starting points for collaboration: who to contact and how to build lasting relationships
Tune in on Spotify or Apple Podcasts to hear how workforce and education leaders can co-create systems that empower lifelong career development.
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