Career Cruising: Career Matchmaker My Skills Learning Styles Inventory
Career Cruising: Career Matchmaker My Skills Learning Styles Inventory
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Description
Career Cruising is a paid Career Service that districts can buy to support career education and student career chocie. Two assessments that are on Career Crusing that are useful are Career Matchmaker and My Skills, and the Learning Styles Inventory. The Learning Styles Inventory is useful to students as it helps them to understand how they learn best, but it can also be used to link to career preparation, and also to specific career duties.
Rationale
The Career Cruising Assessments help students identify potential careers that will match their interests, identify careers that can be pursued at different levels of education, and allow students to pursue a thorough career investigation of a career of interest. The learning styles inventory is also specific in dientifying the types of styles the student uses and what percentage of each style, allowing them to identlfy strengths and weaknesses, and identyif how they learn best.
URL or Resource
http://public.careercruising.com/us/en
Content Provider or Additional Information
Career Cruising is a pay for service, but allows students to set up indiviual portfolios with passwords. It allows them to take assessments and perform research on careers that can be saved all thorugh their academic career. Career Cruising is web based and can also be accessed at home, and there is a parent portal. Finally, there is a place where students can upload and save other resources as they expore their career interests.
Career Interests
Interest Inventories
Career Research
Online Career Resources