Career Cruising

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Career Cruising

• Introduction
• Classroom Integration

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What is Career Cruising?

• Career Cruising is a web-based career exploration
  and planning tool that your student uses to
  explore career and college options and create a
  comprehensive career portfolio. Features of the
  program include

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Career Cruising

• Interest and Skills Assessments Career
  Matchmaker is based on one of the most
  well-respected assessment tools in the world
• Explore Careers direct links between careers
  and high school subjects, as well as links
  between careers and college programs

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• Multimedia Interviews interviews with real
  people in each occupation add depth and realism
  to career profiles
• College and Financial Aid Information updated
  yearly from the Petersons database, with
  different search tools to help students find the
  right college and the right scholarships

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• Electronic Career Portfolio available online,
  so that parents can see how their children are
  putting together their educational plans
• Resume Builder integrated with the portfolio to
  help students format and print out
  professional-looking resumes quickly and easily

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Ways to integrate these features into your
classroom

• Career Matchmaker
• Rotation students
• Career objective selection
• Career exploration
• Explore Careers
• Rotation students
• Career objective selection
• Career and college exploration

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Ways to integrate these features into your
classroom

• Electronic Portfolio
• All students
• Meets PDP requirement
• SkillsUSA preparation/Co-op prep.
• Resume Builder
• All students (not rotation)
• Meets PDP requirement
• SkillsUSA preparation/Co-op prep.

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Electronic Portfolio

• This is the most important aspect of this
  presentation. Every LCTI student needs to create
  and maintain an electronic portfolio.

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Demonstration of electronic portfolio creation .
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• What is a Career Portfolio?
• Think of your students career portfolios as
  their own online filing cabinet. In it, they can
  keep all the information they need to plan their
  education and career path.

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What can you do with a Career Portfolio?

• Save your Career Matchmaker Results
• Keep notes on the careers and schools that
  interest you
• Develop an education plan based on your career
  interests
• Track your career preparation and planning
  activities
• Record your career and life goals
• List your extra-curricular activities and work
  experiences
• Create a great looking resume

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Accessing Career Cruising

• www.careercruising.com
• Username lcti
• Password careers
• Click Start Cruising

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The first step

• From the Main screen, click on the blue PORTFOLIO
  button in the top menu bar.

portfolio
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Create Portfolio

• Click on the grey NEW PORTFOLIO button to create
  a new portfolio. Enter your information and then
  select your own Portfolio Username and Password,
  so that only you can get into your portfolio.
  Write down your Portfolio Username and Password
  in a safe place in case you forget them. Click on
  CREATE PORTFOLIO.

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Step 2

• On the Quick Links menu, select Update Your
  Personal Profile. You don't need to fill out
  this section right now. But if you want this
  information to appear in a resume, you will have
  to fill it out here first.
• It is also a good idea to fill in your email
  address, so that Career Cruising can email you
  your portfolio username and password if you ever
  forget them.

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Step 3 Career Portfolio Steps
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Portfolio Steps

• Continue to work your way through each tab until
  you have completed your portfolio.

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Resume Builder
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Resume Builder

• Continue to work your way through each tab until
  you have completed your resume and save it to
  your portfolio.
• It is very important that each student create and
  update their resume as they will be used for the
  SkillsUSA competitions.

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Matchmaker Survey
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Matchmaker Survey

• Enter your first and last name and start a new
  session.
• Complete the 39 question survey.
• Then save the results to your portfolio.

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Careers

• Feel free to explore the Careers section of the
  site and save any information to your portfolio.
• This is a very useful section to help students
  identify career objectives.
• It is also very helpful in identifying all
  aspects and opportunities within your lab.

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• We recommend your students utilize the same
  username system presently used at LCTI. Year of
  graduation with student ID number and their own
  password.
• Electronic portfolios remain active for the life
  of the company.

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• Please incorporate this activity into your lesson
  plans by the end of the second marking period.
• Additional instructions are available for
  download from the instructors page of the
  intranet.
• Thank you very much.