Help with CEPT Tools

The CEPT Reference Manual can be a helpful tool to locate information in assisting with the CEPT application.

A ) CEPT Overview

The Comprehensive Employment Planning Toolkit application, known as "CEPT," houses several tools that you can use to both facilitate and help manage your customers' progress -- from figuring what it takes to be economically self-sufficient, to setting a household budget, to exploring careers, to identifying helpful resources, to creating a plan to attain employment-related goals.

B ) Self-sufficiency Calculator Help

Achieving or maintaining economic self-sufficiency through workforce development is one of the main purposes of WIOA. DWD has developed the self-sufficiency calculator to give staff an easy way to figure out their customers' self-sufficiency status, as well as provide helpful information related to self-sufficiency.

C ) Budget Planner Help

Managing finances is an important part of everyday life. Although budgeting can sometimes be challenging, it is important to know what your participant's household income and expenses are to help design their plan for the future.

D ) Career Exploration Help

The Career Exploration functionality, found within the Employment Plan tool lets your customers identify occupations that might meet their interests, financial requirements, or previous experience. This functionally brings together data from many different sources into a easy to use layout.

E ) Community Resource Help

The Community Resources tool helps your customers find resources near them to address potential barriers to employment.

F ) Action Steps List Help

The Action Steps List can help your participants organize and manage the steps they might need to complete to achieve their employment goal.

G ) Employment Plan - IEP

The Employment Plan tool is used to create and update a customer's plan throughout the customer's involvement in our programs.

H ) Employment Plan - Youth ISS

The Employment Plan tool is used to create and update a customer's plan throughout the customer's involvement in our programs.