The California Career Passport
The California Career Passport will help workers showcase their skills and experiences to potential employers. This tool will be designed to make it easier for people to demonstrate skills and expertise that they have learned both inside and outside of the classroom, and help them demonstrate their qualifications and access good jobs.
Advancing skills-based hiring goals, the Career Passport is being designed to help Californians securely share verified information about their education, skills, training, and work experience, supporting efforts to reduce barriers between learning and employment and enabling employers to more easily identify talent based on demonstrated skills and competencies.
The initiative will incorporate cross-sector collaboration across California’s education and workforce systems. State agencies, educational institutions, employers, workforce organizations, and technology providers each have a role in shaping a trusted, user-centered approach to connecting learning and opportunity.
Career Passport will combine traditional academic records, like high school and college transcripts, with verified skills and credentials earned outside the classroom, such as military service, job training, or other skills. The concept, also known as a Learning and Employment Record (LER), provides a mechanism for workers to demonstrate knowledge and skills already learned. Employers will be able to use the Career Passport to see a clear, validated record of a person’s abilities, helping to support hiring practices that value skills rather than just degrees.
California Career Passport Program 2006 Report (PDF)
eTranscript California
eTranscript California is a web-based electronic transcript system designed to be used by college/university administrators and staff and their transcript trading partners to exchange transcripts between California Community Colleges, CSU Campuses, UC Campuses, and other postsecondary education institutions. Designed to provide secure, value-added request and delivery services between institutions, eTranscript California automates transcript exchange by:
- Providing a straightforward integration with your student information system, or preferred transcript vendor (when offered)
- Streamlining transcript exchange by supporting transcript requests by the authorized receiving institution
- Systemically translating transcripts into XML and EDI formats to facilitate delivery to institution ERP or other application system
- Supporting the California-specific fields required by the CSU and UC systems
- Saving staff resources by using user-friendly functionality to view, print, store, and download received transcripts
- Including email communication throughout the process
eTranscript California Website
Common Cloud Data Platform
The Common Cloud began in late 2023 as a way for the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office (Chancellor’s Office) to support a field-driven concept and explore the feasibility and benefits of a shared data infrastructure across community college districts.
The project addresses a long-standing systemwide challenge: the inability to efficiently share, integrate, and analyze data across institutions using different enterprise systems in a timely manner. The demonstration project was funded by the Chancellor’s Office directly and reached 24 colleges. Based on the success of the demonstration project, the state provided a second tranche of funds intended to scale the Common Cloud across the system, beginning with a third cohort of colleges in spring 2026. The Common Cloud is demonstrating the potential and value of a common data architecture and shared governance principles for improving reporting, analytics, and decision-making while respecting local control and system diversity.