Work-Based Learning, Career Readiness, Leadership Development, and Employability Skills all in one platform.
Welcome to SkillsUSA Pathful
SkillsUSA Pathful is your all-in-one career exploration and workforce readiness platform. It connects students with real professionals, virtual job shadows, and industry resources to build skills and prepare for future success.
Available exclusively to enrolled SkillsUSA members. Log in to explore careers, complete your first activities, and start building your path to success.
Not yet a SkillsUSA member? Click here to learn how to join or start a SkillsUSA chapter.
SkillsUSA is the #1 workforce development organization for students.
SkillsUSA’s Work-Based Learning (WBL) program empowers students at every stage of their education with tailored career resources designed for real-world success.
SkillsUSA is the #1 workforce development organization for students.
We empower members to become skilled professionals, career-ready leaders, and responsible community members. Through leadership opportunities, chapter programming, career competitions, and industry connections, students develop essential personal, workplace, and technical skills. All programming is grounded in the SkillsUSA Framework, which focuses on 17 career readiness skills essential for success.
SkillsUSA Student Member Resources
SkillsUSA Championships: Career Competitions
Test your skills, demonstrate your workforce readiness, and prepare for a successful career through SkillsUSA’s career competitions. The SkillsUSA Championships Technical Standards are your essential guide, detailing the exact competencies, equipment, and scoring criteria for every level of competition. Training with these standards helps you build industry-relevant experience, sharpen technical and workplace skills, and gain the confidence to excel in both competition and your future career.
SkillsUSA Framework
Student members have access to the SkillsUSA Framework Essential Element e-modules—17 short, self-paced learning experiences that help build the personal, workplace, and technical skills most valued by employers. Each Essential Element includes an e-module, an action plan guide to help members apply the skill in real-life situations, and a knowledge check to reinforce their understanding.
Level Up Your Skills and Chapter
Access a variety of tools designed to help you grow as a leader and strengthen your chapter. Explore e-modules, guides, and activities that build essential personal, workplace, and technical skills while supporting your success in school, career, and life.
Your Path to Career Readiness
Getting Started
Start your journey to career readiness with our assessments, each aimed at highlighting careers that match learners' skills, aptitudes, interests, and values.
- SkillsUSA Essential Element Assessment
- Interest Assessment
- Skills Assessment
- Values Assessment
- Personality Assessment
Career exposure
Engaging, industry-aligned experiences connect your unique skills, interests, and aspirations to meaningful careers.
- Live, Virtual Guest Speakers
- Live Workplace Tours
- Video Library of Guest Speakers Sessions and Shorts
Career Exploration
Dive deeper into career pathways with career experiences that bridge your discovered interests to real-world career knowledge, revealing the daily realities of professions that match your potential.
- Career Profiles with Virtual Job Shadow Videos
- Compare Careers
- Career Lessons
- Postsecondary School Profiles
Career Engagement
Connect classroom learning to real-world career experiences through resources that prepare you for success in both competitions and the workplace. Access SkillsUSA Championships technical standards, explore employer-led and industry-driven projects, and gain mentorship that helps you develop the skills and confidence needed for work-based learning and future career opportunities.
- SkillsUSA Championships Technical Standards
- Employer and Industry-led projects
- Mentorship and Career Coaching
- Real-World Work-Based Learning Preparation
Career Experience
Build the personal, workplace, and technical skills outlined in the SkillsUSA Framework to become career-ready and confident in your future. Strengthen leadership abilities, practice real-world applications of Framework Essential Elements, and gain the tools needed to succeed in any career path.
- SkillsUSA Leadership Development
- Framework Essential Element Modules and Action Plans
- Resume and cover letter builder
Exclusive Career Experiences
Specialized career content designed to give members a competitive edge in their career journey. Real professionals in the field help cultivate essential workplace skills while strengthening the talent pipeline across high-demand industries.
Explore the high-tech world of advanced manufacturing where robotic weld technicians earn competitive salaries in a field facing a critical shortage—showcasing how skilled trades offer stable career paths without requiring expensive four-year degrees.
STEM expertise can lead to unexpected career opportunities—like creating scents for everyday soaps, revealing creative career paths that most students wouldn't associate with traditional engineering roles.
Discover how distribution planning engineers tackle real-world energy challenges through hands-on Industry-Led Projects where students analyze power grid demands during peak summer months
Need help or have questions?
SkillsUSA team members are ready to support you with starting a new chapter, engaging members, and strengthening existing chapters.
Agents are available Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. (ET), and Tuesday and Thursday from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. (ET).
