Monday, July 24, 2017

New Release: Explore Careers and College Majors System!


Explore Careers and College Majors System is an online, interactive, self-guided career planning and college planning system.

Dashboard


The Dashboard is the control center of the Explore Careers and College Major System

There are five sections in the Dashboard -
  • Self Assessments
  • Explore the Possibilities
  • Take Action
  • Career and Education Planning Results
  • Recommended Tools & Websites
  • Self Assessments

Self Assessment




There are four other assessments -
  • Work Interest Assessment
  • Personality Assessment
  • Values Assessment
  • Skills Assessment

Explore the Possibilities

The Explore the Possibilities is the Career Exploration, the College Major Exploration and the College Search sections of the Explore Careers and College Major System.

Career Exploration


In the Career Exploration section,
  • You perform career research.
  • You identify potential careers.
  • You begin narrowing career options.
After completing the interests, skills, personality types, and/or values tests, you can match occupations to your results and click on any occupation that interests you. 

Then, you filter occupations by the following criteria -
  • Alphabetically
  • Job Family
  • Green Job
  • Bright Outlook
  • Salary
  • Saved Occupations
After completing Career Exploration, you will -
  • Match Holland Codes to training programs
  • Perform research to identify potential training programs
  • Use training program search web site to find potential training programs

Explore any Occupation


Explore Any Major Area of Study That Interests You tool has excellent college search resources!


College Search options include -
  • Type of College
  • Enrollment & Costs
  • Majors Offered
  • Test Scores and Selectivity
  • Location
  • Athletics & Activities
  • Search for colleges by name

Take Action


The purpose of the Take Action section is to create a road map of your academic and career development activities.  Take Action serves as an online portfolio.

The areas under the Take Action section are -
  • My Education
  • My Professional Development

Career and Education Planning Results

Career and Education Planning Results is a summary of your assessment results and saved preferences.

 

Recommended Tools and Websites

Recommended Tools and Websites include -
  •  Extensive online step-by-step tutorial loaded with downloads and websites
  • Job Boards and Internship Opportunities
  • Links to Resources - including



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