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Finding Your Pathway for Students: Stackable Credentials

4 minutes 7 seconds

Now Playing As: Captioned (English) (change)

Stackable credentials are part of a sequence of credentials accumulated over time to build up an individual's qualification to help them move along a career pathway. In this segment, Nancy Giron-Sanchez discusses how stacking credentials helped her obtain a job as a registered nurse. Part of the "Finding Your Pathway for Students" series.

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Runtime: 4 minutes 7 seconds

Topic: Careers, Education
Subtopic: General Education, Job Skills, Occupations
Grade/Interest Level: 7 - 12
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Release Year: 2019
Producer/Distributor: Ohio Broadcast Educational Media Commission
Series: Finding Your Pathway for Students
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Teenager holds a power tool in a shop setting as a second person stands nearby and watches him.

Middle-aged woman looks just off camera as if she is participating in an interview in a hospital setting.

Side view of a man wearing a hard hat leaning over to look down at something he is working on.

2 men, 1 younger and 1 older, look towards a computer screen together.

Teenage girl wearing a backpack approaches the front door of an office building.