Choices Exploring

A Brief Introduction to Career Planning

JHHS CTE – Spring 2012

Logging On

• Go to bridges.com• Use the “Site ID” tab• JHHS Login Info:– Site ID: 10000358– PW: E7g9w4D8

Bridges.com

Select “Choices Planner”

Select Interest Profiler

Answer the questions

• Don’t think about “Right now” – think about what you would like to do in the future

• When you are done, you’ll see your results• Scroll down to read your top interest areas

and top Career Clusters – you’ll include information about these in the email to your teacher

Click to see careers that match your interests

Read about interpreting your results and then browse the results

Careers are listed in alphabetical order!

• Because we just did a very basic interest survey, your results are fairly broad

• Careers are listed in alphabetical order• Select 5 careers suggested for you, and

respond to the questions about this career in your email

• You’ll do a more detailed career analysis on one of these five careers on Thursday

Interested in a more detailed career finder?

• Ask Mr. Shuptrine or Mrs. Sanchez – we can set you up with more detailed searches that will give you lots more information.

Work Values –if you missed classroom activity

Career Research Activity

• Download the Career Research powerpoint template from mrssanchez.com

• View the grading rubric• Log back on to bridges.com to access the

research materials

Select “work” to research careers

Select a career cluster and a career inside that cluster

• Look at the details for the career • All the info for the research is included here

Job Outlook

• Pay special attention to the “job outlook” section

• This incudes information about whether this career is expected to be stable, decline or have growth over the next 10 years

• This information is from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (bls.gov)