Career Exploration Part II: Career Cruising--Matchmaker, My Skills, and Learning Styles

This week, the students are completing the Matchmaker, My Skills, and Learning Styles inventory on Career Cruising (www.careercruising.com).  

The students are completing this so they know what things they like to do, pinpoint what they do and don't have an interest in, and jobs connected to those skills and interests.  There are 116 questions; the more questions the students answer, the more the jobs will match their personality.  The test is very easy and the students answer the questions based on this color scale rating system.  

After they have completed the questions, they will then assess their skills for these jobs.  The program will give them a letter grade for this job.  If they get a D or E grade, it doesn't mean that they can't do the job, but that they need to improve their skills in order to do the job well.  

Last but not least, the students take a learning style assessment where they determine in which mode they learn best.  The students received their results and learned what the words visual, tactile, and auditory meant.  

This was a great way for the students to find out who they are and it was really helpful for students who had no clue what careers matched their personalities.