Welcome to Career Cruising Kimberly Eurich Employer Outreach Specialist Room 303

ACCESS CAREER CRUISING click on Career Cruising link or directly User name: pointloma Password: pointers

Program Log-in Page Username: pointloma Password: pointers

Begin here click on create a new portfolio

CREATE A PORTFOLIO On the left side in the portfolio section Click on CREATE A NEW PORTFOLIO Enter your information Remember to select correct “grade” Enter your address – isn’t used for ANY OTHER PURPOSE than to send your password/username

Make sure your information is correct! Do enter your grade and address STOP HERE Very important to do correctly!!!

The Portfolio Username INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT TO DO CORRECTLY!!! Your username is: your “class of” year, your first name, your last name – NO SPACES! So freshman student Marco Smith is: 13marcosmith for a username Make sure you spell your name correctly! (I know, seems silly – but it happens!)

The Portfolio Password AGAIN – important to do correctly The password is your birthday Six digits – month (2), day (2), year (last 2) SO… the birthday of May 9, 1995 is Confirm by entering it again Click the button: create portfolio

Marco Smith 9 th grade o 13Marcosmith ******

This is your portfolio home page. As you save things to your portfolio this will become your personal career & college search tool. HINT: A great and wonderful tool for senior exhibition & senior year.

Now on to YOUR Career Assessment Click on Matchmaker Enter your name Click on: Start a new matchmaker session PLEASE WAIT!!!

The Matchmaker Session Read the “comment” and click on the appropriate response for how you feel about the comment Once you choose a response the next question will pop up If you need more information - click on the ? button and a description of the job or activity will appear

After you answer the final question this results screen shows up… NOW the fun begins! FIRST –click on the gray button “Save to My Portfolio” THEN –off that screen click on the gray button This will bring you back here.

Want better results? Click on this button to answer more questions. You can stop at any point to see if the list has changed. Remember to save (gray button) whenever you make changes! Click on the career title to see the job description, education needed, salary and other important information The career you want isn’t listed? Click here, type in the career title and see how your answers measured up to the particular career…

See these blanks next to the job aspects? They would be filled in if you answered more questions in the assessment. This is a CAREER PROFILE All the info you need to know about the career is here. This screen pops up first if you access careers from your results list. The JOB DESCRIPTION is very important – you have to know what a job is about before you know whether you’d like it. The other info is equally important… see the photos and interviews… very interesting information.

Thank you for your attention! Happy exploring! There is so much more to this site than what you’ve seen today. It’s yours… it’s free… USE IT!!!