Begin Lifelong Planning
The Ohio Career Planning System, powered by Kuder, helps students make better informed decisions based on over 65 years of research.
Students begin lifelong career planning with the online career portfolio:
- Take an Assessment: Students discover their interests, skills, and work values
- Education Planner: Create and store personal multi-year plans
- Planning Timeline: Follow a sequence of college and career events
- Resume Builder: Professionally record and organize accomplishments, work experiences, awards and more
- Note Taker: Document career activities such as job shadowing or internships
- Job Interview Planning: Prepare for a successful job interview with objectives, questions, and more
The portfolio opens the door for continued exploration by directing students to the most comprehensive and trusted, state-specific educational and occupational information available:
- Explore career information and college options related to assessment results
- Search specific occupations and postsecondary institutions by selecting criteria and keywords
- Utilize the college and occupation comparison features
- Search for scholarships and complete financial aid forms (FAFSA)
- Find available jobs using America's Job Bank
The comprehensive system makes parental involvement easy with 24 hour access from any internet location. Students are encouraged to review their results and educational and occupational interests with their parents.
Assessments
The Kuder assessments are designed to give students information about potential careers. Each assessment may be completed in 20 minutes or less. Students also have the ability to begin an assessment and complete it at a later time. Your School Counselor has specific log-in codes that are necessary for you to begin these assessments. Please stop in, call or email your counselor for these codes.
- Kuder Career Search - This interest inventory was designed to measure people's activity preferences. their interet results are matched to people in over 2,000 occupations who have activity preferences similar to them allowing users to read the career stories of their top Person Matches.
- Kuder Skills Assessment - This inventory measures people's confidence in a variety of occupational skills. In this way, this is not meant to be a measure of a person's abiityies but of their belief that they can do or learn to do certain skills. Users who take both the interest and skills inventories can see a composite report comparing their results.
- Super's Work Values Inventory - This inventory was designed to measure 12 work-related values in order of individual preferences. In this manner, the assessment is used to assess an individual's appraisal of the importance they give to different work characteristics.
To begin your career planning, log onto www.kuder.com
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