What Do U Want 2 B? FINDING YOUR FUTURE THROUGH CAREER EXPLORATION FALL 2013

I am… Look at the list of adjectives on the sheet. Find 1 adjective for each bubble from the list of words.

Find your match… Find the letter on the wall that has the most adjectives you wrote on your paper and go stand next to it.

SWITCH!! After learning what each letter represents, does anyone need to switch?

NAVIANCE, FAMILY CONNECTION WHAT DOES IT OFFER? Naviance, Family Connection is a web based counseling program offering a number of innovative, easy to use, web applications for our students. Family Connection provides:  Online personality surveys  Career search tools and career interest profiles  College searches to help students explore opportunities for their future. It can be thought of as a one stop shop for all your career and college planning

TAKING A TOUR OF NAVIANCE Careers Careers Personality Surveys Personality Surveys Profile Profile About me About me Success Plan Success Plan Colleges Colleges Searches Searches Visits Visits Match Match Scattergrams Scattergrams Transcript request Transcript request

COLLEGES Explore colleges in different ways Location, majors, resources, view average test scores and GPAS, tuition costs, student life, diversity levels, etc. Identify how you compare (GPA and Test Scores) with other students who applied to this school. The scatter gram shows test scores and GPA’s of past students who applied. Explore enrichment programs (i.e.. Summer programs), e xplore scholarship opportunities.

CAREERS Explore career profiles by different methods of sorting such as by career clusters, by interest, by personality type Provides you with career information such as education requirements, specific job responsibilities, average salaries, and jobs within each career field. Allows you to take a personality test and career interest profiler to help you find a career that matches your interests.

ABOUT ME Allows you to create a profile and update test scores Please update your address Allows you to create and save documents, lists colleges and career paths you find interesting, record information from your personality test, work on your resume and complete surveys

MY PLANNER Under my planner, you can create SMART goals Specific Measurable Achievable Realistic Timely You will be creating an academic, and personal/social goals today!

TASKS ASSIGNED TO ME Lesson 1: Create 1 Academic SMART Goal Lesson 2: Create 1 Personal/Social SMART Goal Lesson 3: Complete the Career Interest Profiler CLICK ON THE LESSON AND COMPLETE

EXPLORE CAREERS THAT ALIGN With the results from the Career Interest Profiler, investigate careers of interest. After exploring, save at least 3 careers to your “favorite list” that are of interest of you.

CAREER INVENTORY POST TEST 1. What is one new interest/career field you identified today? 2. What is one skill you identified that is necessary for your career path? 3. What is an activity you can do in high school that will help you reach your career goal? 4. How does the RIASEC model relate to your career choice?