Are you ready to embark on the adventure that awaits you? OK Career Guide will make its premier in August 2015 as the new online career development system supported by Oklahoma CareerTech.
After more than 18 months of careful examination and evaluation of online career systems, OK CareerTech is moving in an exciting new direction with OK Career Guide. Our 10 year partnership with the Career Information System to provide the Oklahoma Career Information System (OKCIS) will end on June 30th, 2015.
What can you do to help prepare you students? We've put together a few tips to help you:
TIP 1: Consider downloading and saving portfolio items
OK Career Guide will have a portfolio that functions similarly to the current portfolio, with a few more capabilities and much more space (50MB vs 5MB). Users will be able to save assessment results, applications, resumes and ‘to favorite’ schools, scholarships, occupations. Unfortunately, OK Career Guide and OKCIS will not have an overlap. For this reason, any items your students would like to ‘take with them’ they will need to download, save, and then upload into their new portfolio.
Keep in mind, however, these will be static documents in OK Career Guide.
Keep in mind, however, these will be static documents in OK Career Guide.
Don’t have time or resources to embark on download/save/upload adventure?
No problem: Students will need to re-take the assessments in OK Career Guide anyway to be able to use results to explore careers.
· OK Career Guide will have Interest, Values and Skills assessments that DO tie to schools and occupations within the system.
· The assessments in OK Career Guide are quick, 20-25 minutes and are thorough. Extremely reliable, based on 75 years of research and experience. Based on John Holland’s RIASEC codes, the 16 career clusters and the 79 Career Pathways.
· Completing these assessments will be vital to users’ career planning.
· OK Career Guide & OKCIS use the same national sources for Occupations and School data.
TIP 2: Email your users
Consider sending a mass email to all of your OKCIS users to let them know about the switch. You may choose to tell them to download their desired items or simply give them the new website: www.okcareerguide.org - will be live in August 2015.
TIP 3: Make sure you watch your emails
Email roberta.douglas@careertech.ok.gov to be added to the OK Career Guide listserve…. Check with your colleagues to ensure that they are, too- if they need information regarding OK Career Guide.
Training dates for OK Career Guide will be available early in May. Watch this blog, the Career & Academic Connections Facebook account, follow @TommiLeach on Twitter or email roberta.douglas@careertech.ok.gov to be added to the OK Career Guide listserv.
We are looking foward to helping Oklahomans in the career development adventure!
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