Career mobility evidence becomes stronger as measurement moves from participation and learner development toward career assets, career action, follow-up movement, employment or advancement, and longer-term economic outcomes.
We use the strongest true claim.
Selected evidence from Aspira’s Fall 2025–Spring 2026 work with the Salinas Valley Adult Education Consortium and Hartnell College.
Unique learners
English & Spanish cohorts
Planned cohort capacity utilized
Pre/post self-assessments showed measurable learner-reported gains in career mobility competencies, and learners produced reusable career assets including professional narratives, elevator pitches, networking language, and reflection tools.
Current evidence supports participation, learner-reported development, documented career assets, and early workforce activation. It does not establish verified employment, advancement, wage gain, persistence, retention, or completion outcomes.
186 unique learners across four bilingual cohorts; approximately 93% of planned capacity utilized.
Learner-reported pre/post learner-reported gains in confidence, professional identity, relationship-building, personal asset reframing, and career storytelling.
Learners produced reusable tools such as professional narratives, elevator pitches, networking language, and reflection tools.
Emerging evidence includes instructor-reported examples of learners taking concrete steps toward opportunity.
Evidence becomes stronger as it gets closer to what learners actually do and achieve after an intervention. The ladder is a progression in evidence strength — not a claim that every learner moves linearly through every stage.
What we know today
What we are building next
Aspira works with partners to define the evidence needed for the next decision – whether to sustain, revise, expand, deepen, pause, or stop a career mobility.