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Find great, innovative tools to help career exploration efforts below.
Career Cruising
What it is: A comprehensive career and education exploration website that allows users to access information on career clusters, education resources, and their own personal aptitudes.
Features: Career exploration including military careers and jobs, educational exploration including financial aid information, and job seeking and employment information. Career Cruising offers assessments, including the Online Ability Profiler, in the areas of career interest, learning styles, and skills interest.
Obtaining Access: System access can be obtained at local Job Centers. Users then create their own student profile within the system.
Link: www.careercruising.com
WISCareers
What it is: WISCareers is a system that is familiar to Job Centers and has been available in Resource Rooms and Job Centers around the state for many years.
Features: Career exploration, educational exploration, job seeking information, budgeting information, and a career planning guide. Some new features to WISCareers in the recent years include the addition of tutorial videos for resume and cover letter writing, interviewing, and finding a job. The system also features “WC Connection” employers. These are Wisconsin employers that offer information to WISCareers about the types of positions they recruit for, what education is required for their positions and what the wages of those positions generally are.
Obtaining Access: System access can be obtained at local Job Centers. Users can create their own student profile within the system.
Link: http://wiscareers.wisc.edu
mySkills myFuture
What it is: mySkills myFuture is a new site that was created by the federal Department of Labor and was introduced in 2010 to states across the country. This system is unique for one major reason; it takes a user’s previous job title, calculates the transferrable skills the user may possess and provides a list of similar occupations and skills that the user could transfer into a new career path.
Features: This system takes a user’s previous job title, calculates the transferrable skills the user may possess and then provides a list of similar occupations and skills that the user could transfer into a new career path. The user has the option to enter their geographic location to receive wage and labor market information that is relevant to their state and location. The user can also click on links to job titles to learn more about that career, the educational path required for that career, and licensing or examination information required for that career, and for information on where to search for open positions in that career filed. This system was created to assess a user’s transferrable skills and soft skills that can be carried from one workplace to the next.
Obtaining Access: No system access is needed.