Finding Our Path In Life--KTC Uses Career Cruising and the Assessments to Help Students Find their Desired Jobs

Today at KTC, we had the students onto Career Cruising.  Career Cruising is a website that helps the students determine jobs that match their skills and their interests.  After making a profile on Career Cruising, the student will undergo three areas of testing.  The more questions they complete, the better the website will know them and that translates into jobs that really seem to match who they are.

 

First the student will complete the MatchMaker.  The MatchMaker consists of 3 parts and has 116 questions total.  After that, the next week they will complete the learning styles inventory where they pinpoint what type of learner they are.  For our students, this will help them be able to start researching jobs that they would be interested in and the learning style will only help them reinforce why the jobs on their MatchMaker list really fit them or not.

 Reflection:
The students loved seeing what jobs came up on their list while others did not.  Some students tried to have only certain jobs come up by answering the way that they should to make a specific jobs appear on their list.  At the end of the tests, it would generate a report that only a teacher could print out so that their student could see.

This activity helps the students gather the information needed for their end of the year projects where  they researched jobs from their MatchMaker lists.  Each job that is on the list is a link to the information that is listed on Career Cruising for that job.  For example, if you clicked on #1 career suggestion listed on the results above, you would see a screen where it would tell you the yearly salary or hourly wage, education and skills and abilities needed, and core tasks performed at the job.  For all the jobs on this list, it will provide this information in a "At a Glance" form or have separate pages to tell more than what is on this page.  There are also taped interviews where they can listen to someone talk about their experience with doing this job and even search for the specific job in their area.  

Career Cruising was beneficial and we hope to use it even more in the future.