When only 11% of employers think new graduates are well prepared for work, and with the average college graduation rates falling to nearly 50%, colleges and universities are facing two of the biggest challenges of our time – student retention and career readiness. Without the right tools to measure the skills that make students successful in college and in life, our students and our future workforce are at risk.

Luckily, PAIRIN provides a reliable solution for colleges and universities to measure and develop the soft skills that are 75% of the reason people succeed in college, careers and life. The PAIRIN Readiness Management System™ helps students understand their strengths, maps their interests to potential career pathways, identifies skills gaps and provides on-demand curriculum to bridge those gaps.

By working with students and career seekers as well as the businesses doing the hiring, PAIRIN’s expertise in workforce development, combined with its depth of knowledge, makes its solution the most expansive and impactful in existence.

As soon as a student completes the 10-15 minute PAIRIN Survey, their results are instantly available, allowing for quick resourcing when additional support is needed. PAIRIN’s “Targets” help students evaluate their skills and identify areas of potential growth to meet their career goals. These include:

• PAIRIN Library Targets include our well-researched Career Launch Target as well as 10 other subsets such as customer service, accountability, collaboration and leadership.
• National Sources Targets are based on the U.S. Department of Labor’s jobs database and include 1,000+ common job roles.
• Job Description-based Targets allow students to copy in an exact role description for a job they are interested in to identify the key attributes for that job.