Your On-Line Road Map to Career Discovery

Self Search Program Introduction

What is CareerWay™?

• Online career exploration system integrated with the Department of Labor’s O*Net database

• Developed by organizational psychologists from an industry perspective

• Appropriate for those in the exploration phase of career development who are looking for their career direction– “What do I want to be when I grow up?”

CareerWay™ Guiding Concepts

• Comprehensive career development program vs. “career test” - looks at all aspects of person, job, and process

• Balances automation with active participation

• Engages user - fun and visually stimulating, self directed

• Facilitates the career counseling process rather than attempting to replace it (can be stand-alone if needed, but best when facilitated by counseling process)

From Career Exploration to Job Attainment

• Utilizes O*NET Database to Explore Possibilities– Six self-rating exercises (take all or a few)– Self-job matching capability close to 1000 jobs – Links jobs to majors and majors to jobs– Links military training/experience to civilian jobs– On-line job research

• Facilitates Thoughtful Job Choice Decisions– Gap analysis reports– On-line research of critical areas such as state specific

job outlook and salary, realistic job information, and required effort

The Process

As she registers, she can set preferences for the types of jobs that

come up for her to better customize the

process to her needs.

The 3 Phase Process

CareerWay helps an individual through their entire career development process – from exploration to pursuing the job they want.

Self-Rating Exercises

Interests Motivations

Pref. for Activities Knowledge

Abilities Skills

Self Exercises……take all or a few, in any order

Starting the Assessment Process – INTERESTS

To start the process, Suzanne begins her first

assessment. In this short exercise, Suzanne reads the descriptions of

each Interest area and chooses her top three choices by clicking on the graphic. If she has already taken another Interest assessment

using the Holland codes, she can easily enter in

her information.

EXPLORE

After each assessment, jobs come up on her list that fit her. At any point in the process she can research each job from

a number of well-respected resources by clicking on the job title.

EXPLORE

EXPLORE

She can also find out about jobs that are

available in her area by linking directly to

America’s Job Bank.

Example Assessments - MOTIVATIONS

After she researches jobs, she can move on

to the motivations assessment where she is asked to indicate her

preference on 21 different motivational

areas.

Example Assessments - KNOWLEDGE

Likewise, she is asked to indicate her level of knowledge, skill and ability. She is provided with real-world examples to help

her make an accurate assessment.

Gap AnalysisAt any point in the

process Suzanne can click on any of the

traffic lights to better understand her fit with

the job.

Understand Gaps…

By viewing a gap-analysis report Suzanne can understand her fit

with the job and determine where she is willing to make trade-

offs.

& Determine Developmental Areas

In addition, she can determine where to

target her training and development needs. Later, in the Pursue

phase of the process, she is provided with

developmental resources for every

knowledge, ability and skill area.

Educational Information

Suzanne can also find out about the types of education and training needs that are required for each job, as well as what types of jobs fit with her educational

focus.

Educational InformationEducational Information

Educational InformationEducational Information

DECIDE

After Suzanne has completed all of her

assessments and narrowed down her job list, she is

ready for the Decide phase of the process. This phase

helps her think through critical criteria of the job.

DECIDE

DECIDE

DECIDE

DECIDE

DECIDE

PURSUE

After Suzanne has selected a job to pursue, the last phase of the

process helps her to prepare for the job as well as take action to pursue the job. Links to on-line resources

and detailed worksheets are provided to help her.