10th Grade Family Connection: from Naviance “Do What YOU Are”

What is Family Connection from Naviance??? Let’s Recap! What is Family Connection from Naviance???

What is Family Connection? Family Connection from Naviance® links counselors and schools with students and parents to improve course, college, and career planning. provides a powerful link between school and home customized to save your personal profile secure website that supports planning and advising at your school

How Can I Use It? Learning Styles Inventory Personality Inventory Maintain accomplishments and activities Course, college, and career planning Local scholarships and aid opportunities Updates from Student Services Center

But Right Now… What About Me???

Food For Thought… According to an article in the January 2010 edition of CNNMONEY.com … Fewer than half of U.S. workers are satisfied with their jobs, the lowest level since record-keeping began 22 years ago.

According to a report published by the National Center for Educational Statistics in 2008… Approximately 58 percent of first-time, full-time bachelor’s or equivalent degree-seekers attending 4-year institutions completed a bachelor’s or equivalent degree within 6 years. The 4-year graduation rate of all bachelor’s-seeking students was 50 percent at private not-for-profit institutions, 29 percent at public institutions, and 26 percent at private, for-profit institutions.

Maximize your job satisfaction and success: match your PERSONALITY and ABILITIES with a Career Choice!!!

How do I do that? By completing our 10th grade career planning worksheet… Found here: 10th Grade Naviance worksheet.docx

Personality Inventory Do What You Are Complete this survey and you will determine whether your are primarily…

Myers Briggs: Personality Types …Extraverted or Introverted Primarily… Sensing or Intuitive Thinking or Feeling Judging or Perceiving

The possible combinations of the basic preferences form 16 different Personality Types. This does not mean that all (or even most) individuals will fall strictly into one category or another. We all function in all of these realms on a daily basis. However by identifying which personality type we demonstrate more readily, we can identify our natural preference, and learn about our natural strengths and weaknesses within that context.

Career Interest Profiler

Career Clusters Holland’s Personality Types Realistic - Likes to work with animals, tools, or machines; generally avoids social activities like teaching, healing, and informing others Investigative - Likes to study and solve math or science problems; generally avoids leading, selling, or persuading people Artistic - Likes to do creative activities like art, drama, crafts, dance, music, or creative writing; generally avoids highly ordered or repetitive activities Social - Likes to do things to help people -- like, teaching, nursing, or giving first aid, providing information; generally avoids using machines, tools, or animals to achieve a goal Enterprising - Likes to lead and persuade people, and to sell things and ideas; generally avoids activities that require careful observation and scientific, analytical thinking Conventional - Likes to work with numbers, records, or machines in a set, orderly way; generally avoids ambiguous, unstructured activities

Let’s Get Started! USE NAVIANCE TO HELP!!! http://connection.naviance.com You can also access Naviance from the Council Rock North website: www.crsd.org/crnorth