Introduction

This introduction covers some key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. Every nation or state, the College Board, and American College Testing (ACT) can tell college- and career-readiness success predictors on their tests because they can measure all the content knowledge and skills that need to be acquired and mastered before entering the workforce or college, but little has been done to measure resiliency, persistence, or teach-ability. David Conley's Standards for Success has become the cornerstone of many college-readiness and career-readiness programs worldwide. Much of career readiness is still relegated to the back of the educational bus. The Association of Career and Technical Education states emphatically that career readiness is not the same as college readiness. Ken Sundheim wrote an opinion article for Forbes magazine, “Fifteen Traits of an Ideal Employee” which lists the traits for employees; however, supervisors and entrepreneurs also need them.