Virginia career standards crosswalk
Virginia's career standard, criterion by criterion: 19 of 29 matched, 10 not claimed.
Career Investigations (Task/Competency List, Virginia Assignment Codes 9070/9069/9068) (Virginia Department of Education) covers grades 6-8 (suggested grade level 6, 7, 8) in 4 groups and 29 criteria. 2 are evidenced directly by something the platform produces, 17 more are supported by a named result plus teacher-led classroom work, and we make no claim on the other 10. The two claimed groups are never added into one number.
In Brief
Virginia compels a middle-grades career plan by law. Compelled at one remove. 8VAC20-132-140(C)(2) of the Virginia Standards of Accreditation, beginning with the 2018-2019 academic year, reads: "In middle school, students are to complete a locally selected career interest inventory and select a career pathway. To support development of the ACP, students shall complete a career investigations course selected from the career and technical education state-approved list or a school division-provided alternative means of delivering the career investigations course content, provided that the alternative is equivalent in content and academic rigor." That duty is real and system-wide — every Virginia middle-schooler completes some version of a career investigations course. But the specific 65-task "Career Investigations" curriculum this page crosswalks (course codes 9070/9069/9068) is one state-approved option a division may choose, not the regulation's own text; a division could instead pick a different approved course or build its own equivalent alternative. Marking this page as a mandate overall reflects that completing something in this shape is compelled, not that this exact task list is what every division teaches.
The standard itself: Career Investigations (Task/Competency List, Virginia Assignment Codes 9070/9069/9068), published by Virginia Department of Education, grades 6-8 (suggested grade level 6, 7, 8). 29 rows, Task Number 31 through Task Number 59 of the course's Task/Competency table, falling under four of the course's own section headings: Exploring Virginia's 5 Cs (31-34), Exploring Career Plan Options and Possible Destinations (35-39), Discovering More about Yourself (40-43), and Exploring the Career Clusters (44-59). The course's own numbering continues unbroken past 59 into a fifth section on building an Academic and Career Plan, out of the scope Peter approved for this page. Each row below pairs the task's own competency statement with its "Definition" elaboration; the course's Process/Skill Questions and Standards of Learning cross-references are not reproduced.
Below is every one of its 29 criteria, what closes each, and what a student walks away with — 2 evidenced directly, 17 supported via lesson plan, 10 not claimed. The 2 directly-evidenced criteria and the 17 lesson-supported ones stay separate on purpose — merging them into one headline would flatter the platform at your expense.
Career Investigations (Task/Competency List, Virginia Assignment Codes 9070/9069/9068), grades 6-8 (suggested grade level 6, 7, 8)
Every criterion, what closes it, and what a student walks away with.
Virginia Department of Education — www.doe.virginia.gov/
— work the software does
— work a teacher does
— of 29 total
The two claimed counts stay separate on purpose — merging platform-evidenced and teacher-supported criteria into one number would flatter the platform at your expense.
Virginia numbers every task in the course's Task/Competency table 1 straight through to the end of the course; 31 through 59 are exactly that numbering, continuing past 65. The numbers are the course's own.
Exploring Virginia's 5 CsExploring Virginia's 5 Cs
Identify the 5 Cs. Identification should include creative thinking (e.g., experiment and learn from failure), critical thinking (e.g., identify issues and formulate questions for investigation), communication (e.g., recognize and effectively use both verbal and nonverbal cues), collaboration (e.g., value and seek a diversity of opinions), citizenship (e.g., act as a steward of self, community, and the world).
No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.
Identify the 3E Readiness Framework. Identification should include a description of enrollment, employment, enlistment.
No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.
Describe how Virginia's Workplace Readiness Skills reinforce the 5 Cs. Description should include definition of workplace readiness, examples of workplace readiness skills (e.g., teamwork, communication, time management), personal qualities and abilities, interpersonal skills, professional competencies.
No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.
Describe the advantages of mastering the 5 Cs and how they are integrated into success after graduation. Description should include advantages a student gains from mastering the 5 Cs, the role the 5 Cs play in career readiness.
No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.
Exploring Career Plan Options and Possible DestinationsExploring Career Plan Options and Possible Destinations
Compare the concepts of work, job, and career. Comparison should include the following definitions and examples for each: Work, Job, Career.
No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.
Describe education and career terms. Description should include career exploration, on-the-job training, child labor laws, High-Quality Work-Based Learning (HQWBL) experiences, entrepreneurship, school-based enterprise, clinical experiences, internship, registered apprenticeship, select immersion supervised agricultural experiences (SAE), certificate program, technical schools, associate degree, bachelor's degree, master's degree, doctoral degree, credential, licensure, entry-level job, advanced level job, career progression, job postings/listings, job description, education/training, tasks, earnings, projections/outlook (as related to a specific occupation).
No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.
Investigate a career of interest. Investigation should include research on a career (including related careers), job requirements, employment and salary projections, skills needed, education/training required, certifications and licensures needed (if applicable).
/careers/search
A browsable career profile carrying job requirements, skills, education/training and salary data, across 2,749 careers and related careers within the same cluster
Certifications and licensure requirements are not tracked per career at any coverage — the one named sub-element this row asks for that no profile carries.
Identify opportunities for education/training to prepare for a career. Identification should include the following specifics: Dual enrollment, Advanced Placement (AP), International Baccalaureate (IB) or Cambridge courses; Courses students may take directly related to skills and knowledge that create success in a career; Benefits of education and/or training for career stability and the ability to adapt to changing workforce needs in a global job market; Need to invest time and money in education and/or training; Opportunities available in the local area.
No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.
The nearest thing the platform holds is an education-level tier on individual career profiles, present for 1,020 of the 2,749 careers in the corpus (measured 2026-09-06) — it names a typical entry credential, not a specific school's own dual-enrollment or AP course catalog, which is what this row asks for.
Explain the cost of education and/or training. Explanation should include understanding the investment needed for different education and/or training options, in terms of time and funds, exploring ways to fund education and/or training, along with the advantages and disadvantages of each: personal funds, scholarships (e.g., athletic, academic, need-based), grants (e.g., Pell, TEACH, military, Fast Forward, G3), student loans, using the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) to determine eligibility for student aid.
No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.
Discovering More about YourselfDiscovering More about Yourself
Identify personal assets. Identification should include definition of the term personal assets (i.e., useful and desirable qualities one possesses), self-assessment of personal assets (i.e., skills, interests, strengths, areas for growth, talents, and values).
/assessments/skills-audit for skills, /assessments/riasec, /assessments/career-match or /assessments/onet-interest-profiler for interests, /assessments/character-strengths for strengths and talents, and /assessments/values or /assessments/values-compass-mini for values
Scored results across the named facets
Every named facet except "areas for growth" is produced directly by a school-assignable instrument; defining the term "personal assets" itself and naming growth areas is the classroom half.
Examine personal assets in light of one's responsibilities as a family member, student, and community member. Examination should include examples of how one's personal assets allow one to fulfill responsibilities within the family structure, meet goals as a student, contribute to the community.
No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.
Complete a career interest assessment. Completion should include recording the results from an online career interest assessment tool designated by the local school division.
/assessments/riasec, /assessments/career-match or /assessments/onet-interest-profiler
A scored, dated career-interest result
Connect your skills, interests, talents, and values to a career. Connection should include thoughts on what career(s) might be a good match for you based on your goals, skills, interests, talents, and values, personal reasons for working.
/assessments/skills-audit, /assessments/riasec, /assessments/career-match or /assessments/onet-interest-profiler, /assessments/values or /assessments/values-compass-mini, plus /careers/search to connect the results to a specific career
Scored skills, interest and values results, plus a browsable career directory to connect them to
Producing the underlying results and a career directory to browse is the platform's part; writing the personal connection and the reasons for working is the student's own.
Exploring the Career ClustersExploring the Career Clusters
Identify the 14 Career Clusters. Identification should include Advanced Manufacturing, Agriculture, Arts, Entertainment, and Design, Construction, Digital Technology, Education, Energy and Natural Resources, Financial Services, Healthcare and Human Services, Hospitality, Events, and Tourism, Management and Entrepreneurship, Marketing and Sales, Public Service and Safety, Supply Chain and Transportation.
/careers/search
The platform's own career directory, filterable by exactly these 14 clusters
Virginia's own 14-cluster list is a verbatim match (modulo "&" versus "and") to the Advance CTE cluster taxonomy the platform's career corpus is already built on — confirmed 2026-09-07 against the live careers-search index and its own crosswalk test suite. 2,652 of the corpus's 2,749 careers (measured the same day) carry one of these 14 clusters.
Explain career cluster terms and concepts. Explanation should include cluster groupings, career clusters, sub-clusters, cross-cutting clusters, career-ready practices.
No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.
The platform's cluster taxonomy is a flat 14-item list mapped from SOC codes; it carries no sub-cluster or cross-cutting-cluster distinction of any kind, so three of this row's five named terms have nothing behind them.
Analyze the Advanced Manufacturing Career Cluster. Analysis should include describing the cluster, identifying sub-clusters, describing career opportunities within the cluster.
/careers/search filtered to Advanced Manufacturing
The full, real list of careers the corpus assigns to this cluster
The cluster is flat in the platform's taxonomy — no sub-clusters are identified for any cluster, this one included. Describing the cluster in prose is also the classroom's.
Analyze the Construction Career Cluster. Analysis should include describing the cluster, identifying sub-clusters, describing career opportunities within the cluster.
/careers/search filtered to Construction
The full, real list of careers the corpus assigns to this cluster
No sub-clusters are identified for any cluster in the platform's flat taxonomy; describing the cluster in prose is the classroom's.
Analyze the Supply Chain and Transportation Career Cluster. Analysis should include describing the cluster, identifying sub-clusters, describing career opportunities within the cluster.
/careers/search filtered to Supply Chain & Transportation
The full, real list of careers the corpus assigns to this cluster
No sub-clusters are identified for any cluster in the platform's flat taxonomy; describing the cluster in prose is the classroom's.
Analyze the Arts, Entertainment, and Design Career Cluster. Analysis should include describing the cluster, identifying sub-clusters, describing career opportunities within the cluster.
/careers/search filtered to Arts, Entertainment, & Design
The full, real list of careers the corpus assigns to this cluster
No sub-clusters are identified for any cluster in the platform's flat taxonomy; describing the cluster in prose is the classroom's.
Analyze the Hospitality, Events, and Tourism Career Cluster. Analysis should include describing the cluster, identifying sub-clusters, describing career opportunities within the cluster.
/careers/search filtered to Hospitality, Events & Tourism
The full, real list of careers the corpus assigns to this cluster
No sub-clusters are identified for any cluster in the platform's flat taxonomy; describing the cluster in prose is the classroom's.
Analyze the Financial Services Career Cluster. Analysis should include describing the cluster, identifying sub-clusters, describing career opportunities within the cluster.
/careers/search filtered to Financial Services
The full, real list of careers the corpus assigns to this cluster
No sub-clusters are identified for any cluster in the platform's flat taxonomy; describing the cluster in prose is the classroom's.
Analyze the Education Career Cluster. Analysis should include describing the cluster, identifying sub-clusters, describing career opportunities within the cluster.
/careers/search filtered to Education
The full, real list of careers the corpus assigns to this cluster
No sub-clusters are identified for any cluster in the platform's flat taxonomy; describing the cluster in prose is the classroom's.
Analyze the Healthcare and Human Services Career Cluster. Analysis should include describing the cluster, identifying sub-clusters, describing career opportunities within the cluster.
/careers/search filtered to Healthcare & Human Services
The full, real list of careers the corpus assigns to this cluster
No sub-clusters are identified for any cluster in the platform's flat taxonomy; describing the cluster in prose is the classroom's.
Analyze the Public Service and Safety Career Cluster. Analysis should include describing the cluster, identifying sub-clusters, describing career opportunities within the cluster.
/careers/search filtered to Public Service & Safety
The full, real list of careers the corpus assigns to this cluster
No sub-clusters are identified for any cluster in the platform's flat taxonomy; describing the cluster in prose is the classroom's.
Analyze the Agriculture Career Cluster. Analysis should include describing the cluster, identifying sub-clusters, describing career opportunities within the cluster.
/careers/search filtered to Agriculture
The full, real list of careers the corpus assigns to this cluster
No sub-clusters are identified for any cluster in the platform's flat taxonomy; describing the cluster in prose is the classroom's.
Analyze the Energy and Natural Resources Career Cluster. Analysis should include describing the cluster, identifying sub-clusters, describing career opportunities within the cluster.
/careers/search filtered to Energy & Natural Resources
The full, real list of careers the corpus assigns to this cluster
No sub-clusters are identified for any cluster in the platform's flat taxonomy; describing the cluster in prose is the classroom's.
Analyze the Digital Technology Career Cluster. Analysis should include describing the cluster, identifying sub-clusters, describing career opportunities within the cluster.
/careers/search filtered to Digital Technology
The full, real list of careers the corpus assigns to this cluster
No sub-clusters are identified for any cluster in the platform's flat taxonomy; describing the cluster in prose is the classroom's.
Analyze the Marketing and Sales Career Cluster. Analysis should include describing the cluster, identifying sub-clusters, describing career opportunities within the cluster.
/careers/search filtered to Marketing & Sales
The full, real list of careers the corpus assigns to this cluster
No sub-clusters are identified for any cluster in the platform's flat taxonomy; describing the cluster in prose is the classroom's.
Analyze the Management and Entrepreneurship Career Cluster. Analysis should include describing the cluster, identifying sub-clusters, describing career opportunities within the cluster.
/careers/search filtered to Management & Entrepreneurship
The full, real list of careers the corpus assigns to this cluster
No sub-clusters are identified for any cluster in the platform's flat taxonomy; describing the cluster in prose is the classroom's.
How to read the crosswalk above
Four rules, applied to every one of Virginia's 29 criteria.
Named instruments behind the 19 matched criteria
Grouped by the criteria each one actually closes — read from the rows, not chosen for the page.
Compared to other district career-readiness contracts
Two district contracts as published in board papers — one covering a single school year, one a five-year agreement — beside our per-student rate for one academic year
What this crosswalk includes — and what it does not
Related on JobCannon
This is Virginia's page in a set of state career-standards crosswalks built the same way — every criterion of a state's own document, matched one at a time, with what we do not claim listed as plainly as what we do. The most detailed of them is Arizona's grades 6-8 eCTE crosswalk, which carries a per-row evidence trail and four documented revision passes. The others: Texas, California, Utah, Illinois, Colorado, Georgia, Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Michigan, Washington, North Carolina, Massachusetts and Tennessee.
A career-standards document is not the same thing as a plan-completion mandate — for whether Virginia compels an individual student plan, and under which statute, see our career and education plan mandate directory. For the wider grades 6-8 deployment this crosswalk sits inside, see JobCannon for Middle Schools, or career assessments for school districts for a multi-school rollout. Both are part of the JobCannon for Business hub.
District-tier pricing
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Education Licence — priced per student, per year
One rate per enrolled student for the academic year, sized for Virginia district or school-level rollouts. Assessments uncapped, career and skills corpus included — multiply your own enrolment by the band and that is the price, before you talk to us.
$3.00 down to $2.00 per student, per year — assessments uncapped
District
A large school, multi-school district or trust
per year
- ▸Every assessment in the catalogue, retakes included, no per-assessment charge
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- ▸Full career and skills corpus — 2,521 careers, 1,863 skills
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College or university
A university, college or college group
per year
- ▸Every assessment in the catalogue, retakes included, no per-assessment charge
- ▸Cohort dashboard with cross-school and year-over-year comparison
- ▸Full career and skills corpus — 2,521 careers, 1,863 skills
- ▸Read the corpus live over the API, or take a versioned snapshot
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State system
A statewide or national programme
per year
- ▸Every assessment in the catalogue, retakes included, no per-assessment charge
- ▸Cohort dashboard with cross-school and year-over-year comparison
- ▸Full career and skills corpus — 2,521 careers, 1,863 skills
- ▸Read the corpus live over the API, or take a versioned snapshot
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£350 per school, per year — a flat whole-school licence rather than a per-student rate, because that is the unit UK schools budget in. Same uncapped assessments and same corpus. Excludes VAT.
The ladder starts at 1,301 students. Below that there is no licence to quote: a roll that small is better served by a self-serve plan, and that is the one case where a plan covers a school’s own students — UK schools have the flat whole-school licence at any size. Bands are by enrolment, and the rate applies to your whole roll rather than to a seat count you have to predict. Invoiced annually against a purchase order; no per-assessment charge and nothing to top up mid-year. Assessing an institution's enrolled students is covered by the Education Licence, not by a hiring plan. What is in the corpus.
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Virginia compels a middle-grades career plan by law. Compelled at one remove. 8VAC20-132-140(C)(2) of the Virginia Standards of Accreditation, beginning with the 2018-2019 academic year, reads: "In middle school, students are to complete a locally selected career interest inventory and select a career pathway. To support development of the ACP, students shall complete a career investigations course selected from the career and technical education state-approved list or a school division-provided alternative means of delivering the career investigations course content, provided that the alternative is equivalent in content and academic rigor." That duty is real and system-wide — every Virginia middle-schooler completes some version of a career investigations course. But the specific 65-task "Career Investigations" curriculum this page crosswalks (course codes 9070/9069/9068) is one state-approved option a division may choose, not the regulation's own text; a division could instead pick a different approved course or build its own equivalent alternative. Marking this page as a mandate overall reflects that completing something in this shape is compelled, not that this exact task list is what every division teaches.
Career Investigations (Task/Competency List, Virginia Assignment Codes 9070/9069/9068), published by Virginia Department of Education, grades 6-8 (suggested grade level 6, 7, 8). Course copyright 2026, offered in 36-week (9070), 18-week (9069) and 9-week (9068) versions, no prerequisite. Peter approved crosswalking Task Number 31 through Task Number 59 of this course's Task/Competency table — 29 of its full task list, spanning the course's own "Exploring Virginia's 5 Cs" through "Exploring the Career Clusters" sections; the course continues past Task 59 into a fifth section on building an Academic and Career Plan, out of scope here. 29 rows, Task Number 31 through Task Number 59 of the course's Task/Competency table, falling under four of the course's own section headings: Exploring Virginia's 5 Cs (31-34), Exploring Career Plan Options and Possible Destinations (35-39), Discovering More about Yourself (40-43), and Exploring the Career Clusters (44-59). The course's own numbering continues unbroken past 59 into a fifth section on building an Academic and Career Plan, out of the scope Peter approved for this page. Each row below pairs the task's own competency statement with its "Definition" elaboration; the course's Process/Skill Questions and Standards of Learning cross-references are not reproduced.
It means the platform itself produces the artefact the criterion asks for, with nothing a teacher has to add. 2 criteria of the 29 are closed this way: 42 and 44. Each of those rows names the surface and the artefact, and several carry a coverage caveat — how many careers actually hold the field being claimed — because a reviewer will check.
It means the platform supplies the data or the assessment result and a teacher runs the classroom half — it is weaker, and it is labelled separately for that reason. 17 criteria are closed this way: 37, 40, 43, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58 and 59. A plan a system wrote for the student would not satisfy the standard, and claiming it would not be worth much either.
Because the 2 and the 17 are different kinds of evidence — one is work the software does on its own, the other is work a teacher does with something the software supplies — and merging them into one headline number would flatter the platform at your expense. Every row states which of the two it is, and the counts are shown as separate pills rather than added together.
We make no claim on them. No JobCannon surface — assessment, career-page field or glossary entry — addresses them, and they are listed exactly as plainly as the 19 we do claim: same row format, same visual weight, a stated "not claimed" rather than an absence.
Virginia numbers every task in the course's Task/Competency table 1 straight through to the end of the course; 31 through 59 are exactly that numbering, continuing past 65. The numbers are the course's own.
Course copyright 2026. Read from the Virginia Department of Education's own course document, 2026-09-07. The document itself is linked at the top of the table, so you can check any row against the source rather than take our word for it.
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