ONLINE CAREER & EDUCATION SOLUTIONS /2010

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1 ONLINE CAREER & EDUCATION SOLUTIONS /2010

2 WORKFORCE Workforce Bridges career planning solutions have been specially designed to support workforce development efforts to promote an increase in the employment, job retention, economic productivity, and occupational skills improvement of its clients. It has been proven successful with Workforce Centers, Employment Service Offices, One-Stop Centers, Rehabilitation Services, Corrections, and other related workforce services customers.

3 Achievement Starts with a Plan Self-directed tools include O*NET occupational data, Career Clusters, Pathways and U.S. Department of Labor SCANS to deliver a standards-based product that meets your clients needs. Compare, connect and choose education and career options for personalized plans Extend your client reach with 24/7 online access to both the adult and youth-oriented versions of the program in English and Spanish. Support economic productivity with portfolios that include career plans, work history, resume building, and assessment results, which help your clients find better jobs and keep them. WORKFORCE Empower more meaningful transitions when you connect clients to their best education and career options using multiple validated assessments. Effectively track client progress with accountability reports that provide insight into client progress. *More information on Your Portfolio on page 50 *More information on Professional Tools on page 51

4 WORKFORCE KEY COMPONENTS OF CHOICES PLANNER FOR CAREER TRANSITIONS Your Portfolio Meaningful Planning for Individuals in Transition Valuable Insight for Professionals The most integral component of Choices Planner for Career Transitions, Your Portfolio provides users with an online platform where they can securely record and store all their planning efforts. All work is automatically saved, allowing users to review and revise their plans year after year. Your Portfolio for Choices Planner for Career Transitions includes All About You Getting Ready to Work activities Assessment and Quiz results Personal Information Things You Saved Careers Post-Secondary Programs and Majors Post-Secondary Schools Scholarship and Financial Aid Recreation Ideas Volunteering Opportunities Buzz Articles Your Plans Education, career and life plans created using the Career Plan Builder Your Activities National Guideways Files and Attachments Links Your Journal Write about career and education plans, reflections about the past, and dreams for the future.

5 KEY COMPONENTS OF CHOICES PLANNER FOR CAREER TRANSITIONS Professional Tools Valuable data and resources to achieve career planning success Maximize the value of Choices Planner for Career Transitions when you take advantage of your Professional Tools. Resource Library: Make the most out of Choices Planner for Career Transitions. Find case studies and support tools right at your fingertips. Site Administration: Personalize the planning experience with the flexibility to change settings. If an improper or duplicate portfolio has been created, the Reviewer gives you the opportunity to delete or merge portfolios. The Site Administration section also offers the added security to change your site password as well as grant or revoke Professional Tools access. Reviewer: View the contents of each portfolio just like the user sees them. Professionals have the ability to add comments to portfolios. The Send Reminders tool allows you to send reminders to specific groups of individuals or everyone at your site. Use the Portfolio Finder to build lists of portfolios that match selected criteria. If users move, professionals can change schools and transfer their portfolio to their new location. Reporter: Effortlessly generate usage or outcome-based reports. Usage reports will show the number of sessions, page views, and portfolios created. Outcome-based reports can be created based on your selection from a large suite of standard reports. Comparison reports allow you to create reports which break down the results be age, gender, or time frame. Tracker: Access real-time activity in tracking reports. Track users progress through Choices Planner for Career Transitions Guideways, by showing which activities they ve already finished and which they have left to complete in order to meet their specified objectives. The Tracker also works as an accountability tool, allowing you keep track of the portfolios you have reviewed or assessed using the Reviewer. WORKFORCE

6 Explore new options, identify transferable skills, build a portfolio, and plan a job search Discover new insights about aptitude strengths and related occupations WORKFORCE Work with clients regardless of Internet availability, with a CD that includes some valuable Spanish content. Help clients identify their best education and career options using multiple validated assessments for interests, values and skills. Self-directed resources include O*NET occupational data, Career Clusters, Career Pathways and U.S. Department of Labor SCANS to deliver a standards-based product that meets your clients needs. Support economic productivity using work history modules, job search activities, and a resume builder. Achieve greater accountability through administrative usage and outcome-based reports. Empower clients to learn about their personal aptitudes in a computer-based assessment, adapted from the latest paperbased O* NET Ability Profiler. Understand the relevance between aptitude scores and the world of work based on the U.S. Department of Labor s job aptitude requirements. Gain valuable insight with a thorough evaluation on a client s abilities in arithmetic reasoning, vocabulary, three-dimensional space, computation, name comparison, and object matching. Quickly improve accountability with easy-to-understand results which identify a client s potential for specific career and education options by highlighting strengths, occupational matches to strengths, and areas a client may want to expand their training. Available only as an add-on to Choices Planner CT and Choices CD

7 Personal Success Assessments CollegeScope Student Success Program is the most complete and comprehensive solution for managing the difficult transition and retention issues facing students, colleges, and universities. The program will help you identify and assist atrisk, low-motivation students. This program combines the following components: The Do What You Are personality type assessment offers students limitless insight into how they gather information, make decisions, set goals, and communicate. This process helps point students to careers, college majors, learning styles, and communication preferences that suit who they are. The Productivity Environmental Preference Survey (PEPS) Learning Style Inventory provides individuals with an understanding and awareness of their innate learning styles. Students with this knowledge have improved study habits, more positive attitudes and behaviors, higher reading comprehension, and greater mathematical achievement. A comprehensive, electronic textbook that covers topics related to college, career, and lifelong success, and engages students in learning with interactive quizzes and journals in every chapter. CollegeScope will help students make an effective transition into college or university, and ultimately increase their academic achievement with the guidance of counselors and advisors. Strengths for Success TM Strengths for Success offers a unique blend of statistically reliable instruments and information management tools. Manage the effectiveness and productivity of an employee in a particular job with essential information that will help managers and supervisors fine-tune job responsibilities. By closely matching the characteristic strengths of each employee, you will build smoother functioning, resultsoriented teams. The Productivity Environmental Preference Survey (PEPS) Learning Style Inventory is a valid and reliable instrument with a comprehensive approach to the diagnosis of an individual s learning style. The 30-minute assessment analyzes 22 different preferences in four areas: immediate environment, emotionality, sociological needs, and physical needs. An informative report helps individuals understand their learning preferences and the types of environment and methods they prefer.

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