• Intro
  • Students
  • Employers
  • Reports
  • Tech Specs

 

Pathways is Australia’s most widely used software application for the management and coordination of programs involving student and employer tracking for work experience and structured

work placement.

 


 

Developed and implemented across Australia and Ireland since 1995, Pathways is designed to provide the most comprehensive and easy to use system for managing students involved in vocational education programs. Pathways tracks students and employers through placement, assistance, referral or transition. Most of our Pathways clients fall into one of the following organisation groups:

 

Structured Workplace Learning Programs

Local Community Partnership Programs (LCP’s)

Local Learning & Education Networks (LLENS)

School ‘Voced’ & Work Experience Programs

Transition Brokers & Guidance Coordinators

School-based Apprenticeship & Traineeship Programs

Community Organisations assisting with Counselling

 

The Proven Market Leader

More students are placed every year using Pathways software than any other solution- ranging from simple Work Experience to complex multi-year work placements and traineeships. Thousands of clients rely on us to ensure Pathways has the latest time saving and compliance reporting - and we rejoice in helping! We review over a thousand feature requests per year - so constant improvement is part of our culture :-)

 

Designed to Just Work Better....

Pathways work experience software is designed with a highly attractive

and logical user interface that has been in the lead from day one. Our

long history of enterprise-level projects means we can draw on this experience to make normally complex tasks easy for experience coordinators. For example our "Briefcase" function reduced the number

of clicks to print a mail merge document from 37 to 2. We focus on the details so you don't have to :-)

 

Single and Multi-School Support

Pathways is used by programs ranging from 40 student rural schools

to 2500/yr placement brokers. Pathways is the only program designed

from the ground up and proven in large work experience programs in all states of Australia.

 
Easy Student Management

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Pathways provides the most comprehensive student database for work placement and work experience currently available, and has been built hand-in-hand with coordinators across Australia.

With version 9 we have aimed at making Pathways high level of student detail appear in the most logical, simplistic manner possible. Not only does this make accessing your information easy, it makes training extremely quick and keeps data entry errors to a minimum! Our handy student find and listing tools also allow you to locate students quickly and easily.

 

Placement Details

The core of the Pathways program is the Placement and Opportunity system, which allows you to record an unlimited number of opportunities or placements against any student or employer. Version 9 substantially upgrades the placement detail functions to include the latest field needs for your state placement contracts, and fields to track placement invoicing and risk management. Track as many placements per student record as needed so you can see a full student placement history.

 

Manage Students using Target Groups

Pathways 9 introduces a function that allows you to attached target groups to any student record. A target group is a group or category that you create yourself, and then attach to a student record.Common student target

groups include items such as NESB or Student with Disabilities. Gone are the days of a screen offixed check-boxes to indicate target groups. With Pathways you create your own target group list and tag each student

record as required.

 

 

 
Create Strong Employer Relationships

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Successful student placement organisations are all about developing strong networks with employers. To do this you need a great employer database that not only captures all the details required to process a placement, but provides relationship management features such as correspondence logs and reminders.

Pathways bring enterprise CRM features to your local work experience and work placement system.

 

Manage an Unlimited Number of Placements

Each employer in Pathways can have an unlimited number of opportunities or placements attached. This allows you to build a valuable placement history - which is the lifeblood of any placement broker as it makes future placements easy.

 

Simplfy Management with Target Groups

Pathways 9 introduces a function that allows you to attach target groups to any employer record. A target group is a group or category that you create yourself, and then attach to an employer record. For example you may have a "VIP Employer" target group or "Special Needs Support" taget group to make it easy to indicate which employers can handle students with disabilities. Naturally you can filter and print reports using this target group.

 

Track all your Correspondence

Many of our clients like to keep complete correspondence contact logs so everybody in the office is always up to date on each employer. Pathways includes a full correspondence log so you can log calls, emails, faxes and letters in a central location making tracking easy and accessible.

 
 
 
 
Pathways Reporting System

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Pathways includes the most comprehensive reporting

and statistics engine ever produced for student placement. All our reports are based on the best practice in student placement and the huge amount of feedback we collect every year.

We provide reports grouped into logical groups -

individual (one record per page), summary (list views)

and statistics (aggregate).

 

Some of the major reporting screens include:

Student Profiles and Summary Reports

Employer Profiles and Summary Reports

Student Placement Profiles and Summary Reports

Student Statistics

Employer Statistics

Student Placement Statistics

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State Agreements and Compliance?

Many of our clients need to generate the standard state-based agreements for students in the workplace. For example in NSW the a number of "SPR's" are required. Pathways allows you to automatically print these complex documents saving hours of data entry or hand writing. Pathways covers all states of Australia for these standard contracts, and we can add any custom agreements you may have also prior to shipping your order.

 

Need statistics? There are more than 100 statistical reports in Pathways

to report on your placements in the many ways you may need to report

for funding.

 

It's Alive!! Regular Reporting Updates.

Every report in Pathways has been designed based on feedback from an "at the coal face" placement coordinator. We update the reporting system 2-3 times a year based on feedback to ensure that Pathways is always relevant and up to date.

 
One-Click Mail Merge

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Pathways 9 includes what may be the most labour-saving function we've added to Pathways since automating reporting and state placement agreements in the mid nineties!

The Pathways Briefcase allows you to attach Microsoft Word files directly to the reporting system, setting up the document for mail-merging entirely automatically. Mail Merging is now a SINGLE CLICK task directly from Pathways, and you retain all the control over the document because we leave it in Microsoft Word.

 

 

 

 

 

Technical Requirements

 

Pathways 9 is designed to run on almost any standard computer configuration of Microsoft Windows-based computer available in the last 3-4 years. The following tables provide a set of minimum and recommended system requirements.

 

What computer hardware do I need?

 

 

Minimum

Recommended

CPU

Pentium 4 1.8Ghz or
Celeron equivalent

Pentium 4 2.8Ghz or
Pentium M 1.6Ghz

Hard Drive

250Mb or more free space

1Gb or more free space

RAM

256 Minimum

512Mb or more

Video Card

1024 x 768 resolution
24-bit  colour depth

1024 x 768 resolution
24-bit or 32-bit colour depth

Monitor

15” Monitor or greater

17” monitor or greater

Internet Access

56K dial-up modem

512Kbps broadband connections

Network Card
(if networking Pathways)

100Mbps Full Duplex

100Mbps Full Duplex

 

What computer software do I need?

 

 

Minimum

Recommended

Windows Version

Windows 2000 Pro Service Pack 4

Windows XP Service Pack 2 or
Windows Vista

Office Version

Office 2000 Professional SP3 or
Office XP Professional  SP3

Office 2003 Professional
Service Pack 2

Web Browser

Internet Explorer 5.0

Internet Explorer 6.0 Service Pack 1

Antivirus

Most antivirus programs have been tested and found to be fine. We recommend you exclude the Pathways folder from auto-protect scanning and disable network scanning which can cause performance issues.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Testimonial

“Since 1995, Pathways has managed all the day to day affairs of our placement program helping us place tens of thousands of students quickly and easily. Our funding reports and mail-outs are generated quickly and easily.”

 

Frank Hayes - MRSILS  

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