1. Cuba-Rushford Central School
Career Connection – A Comprehensive Career and College Planning Resource
Cuba-Rushford Central School

2. Career Connections: Career and College Planning Software
Comprehensive, interactive, accessible and easy to use software which includes career, college, scholarship, and financial aid components
Allows students to work independently and/or with their teachers and parents to identify their interest and talents, and provide corresponding information regarding the possibilities that exist for them in post secondary education and the world of work
Web-based software which can be accessed from any computer with internet access
Designed for 6th through 12th grade students in New York State

3. Career Connections – Student/Parent Login
Go to
Available from any computer with Internet access
Login
Click on “Student Login”
Enter “School ID” and “School Password”
Provided by Guidance Department
Enter Personal “Student ID” and “Student Password”
First visit: Create personal student account and login
Subsequent visits: Enter personal “Student ID” and “Student Password”
Web-site utilizes the highest SSL-encryption level of security

4. Full Menu of Career and College Planning Resources

5. Interest Profiler
Online vocational interest assessment. Students receive a profile of their vocational interests that:
Provides valuable self-knowledge about their vocational personality types;
Fosters career awareness of matching occupations
Directly links students to the world of work via a database of occupations
Crosswalks students from occupations to post secondary education opportunities via a college database.
Fully research based and validates instrument and data
The Interest Profiler is a research based assessment and has been validated by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration.
Database of occupations comes from the U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Handbook

6. Interest Inventory Example Questions

7. Interest Inventory Example – Interest Areas

8. Interest Inventory Example – Matching Occupations

9. Occupation Details

10. Crosswalk from Occupations to Related Majors and Colleges

11. Career Exploration – Advanced Search Engines
Allows students to find careers based on their individual interests and preferences
Students select search criteria
After completing search, students receive a list of occupations that match their criteria
After exploring the matching occupations list, students may view detailed occupation reports

12. College Search
College component helps students explore their post-secondary options.
Includes in-depth information on over 3,700 schools which has been provided by Petersons
Offers a comprehensive and interactive set of college planning tools, information and resources including:
Advanced search
Quick search
Saved search
Search templates
Side-by-side search
Similar search
In-depth college details reports and database

13. College Search – Advanced Search
Allows students to identify colleges based on their individual needs, preferences, criteria and qualifications
Students select search criteria
After completing search, students receive a list of colleges that match their criteria
After exploring the matching colleges list, students may view detailed college reports

14. College Detail Reports

15. Scholarship Search
Allows students and parents to match their personal characteristics, needs and interests to scholarships, grants, prizes, fellowships and forgivable loans.
Includes in-depth information on:
Over 5,000 private financial aid programs.
College administered and federal and New York state funded aid

16. Resume Writer
Provides all the tools students need to create a career or college resume using a powerful and simple step-by-step process
Uses a proven step-by-step writing process that prompts students for the information they to create or edit a resume
When student is finished writing their resume, they can view, format and print the resume

17. Career and College Planning Portfolio
Students can store and review information about their college planning and career exploration to help organize and create a plan for their future after high school
Includes all of the information they have saved in Guidance Direct
Students can view, print, add or remove as many items as the wish including: Interest Profiler results

18. Questions Please call Mrs. Kelly Volz with any questions at
(585) ext 4439.