We’d like to share our newest Lexile resource, The Lexile® Career Database. The Lexile Career Database is a new tool to help identify the reading ability necessary for career preparedness. It contains Lexile® measures for over 500 careers (to date) as well as important descriptive information for each career. The database is a result of years of research examining the text complexity of a variety of reading materials in various domains of the post-secondary experience.
The Lexile Career Database uses a common scale for readiness across all careers and is an excellent new resource to address the emerging emphasis on career readiness. With The Lexile Career Database, educators and students can identify the reading ability needed for a desired career and use this information to inform goal setting. It is the only metric available to compare and describe reading demands of careers.
The careers featured within The Lexile Career Database have been identified as Bright Outlook Occupations by O*NET, the premier online career search database designed for the U.S. Department of Labor. Bright Outlook Occupations are careers that are expected to grow and/or emerge in the next few years and offer large numbers of new job openings.
The Lexile Career Database is now available for integration into Lexile partner products and services. To learn more about licensing the Lexile Career Database click here or view our recent webinar The Lexile Career Database: Discover the Reading Demands of Prospective Occupations.