Career Assessments

To validate your Career Interest, all students must complete a career assessment. Your Case Manager will proctor the assessment and assist you in anyway with completing it. Once you have completed the Career Assessment, your Case Manager will provide you with feedback that will enable you to make the best decision for your Career Interest. 

Benefits of a Career Assessment

A good career assessment helps students increase their self-awareness and their understanding of their career options, choices and the job market. Most career assessments follow the methodology that a student needs to understand their interests, aptitudes, values, and skills to determine where they fit within the job market. 

The assessment provides them with the information needed to make better career decisions, and allow you, the manager, to avoid spending money on the wrong training as you both work to plan the next step in your employee's career. Assessing career choices from time-to-time can be a valuable exercise for an employee.

Career assessments are surveys or tests that attempt to give insight into what type of career would be best for someone. There are four major types of career assessments: personality tests, interest inventories, skills assessments, and value assessments. 

Your Case Manager will chose the best assessment to assist you in discovering your skills and talents. There might be cases where two or more assessments are administered. 

Your Case Manager will provide you post-secondary educational counseling to assist you with choosing the best vocational or degree program to advance your opportunities in moving forward in the Career Interest of your choice. 

Your Case Manager will ask a series of questions that will enable him/her to guide through the entire process of preparing for, registering, and entering into your chosen post-secondary educational institution. This includes the following:

1. ACT/SAT Prep and Registration
2. Completing a college application
3. Completing your FAFSA
   1. Tax documents from your parents/guardians are required
   2. This is needed by the Federal Government
4. Campus Visits
5. Meetings with Guidance Counselors
6. Scholarships
7. And more

Each high school senior will receive a planner that will have a list of activities that they will need to complete by certain dates. 

If you are not a high school senior, you will receive a different planner. 

ALL students will need to have their planners at each meeting in order for your Case Manager to assist you in the process of your Career Interest and psot-secondary counseling.

Your Case Manager will assist you with establishing your plan after high school. If you are still enrolled in high school your Case Manager will communicate with your instructors and guidance counselor. 

If you have dropped out of high school and you are under the age of 24 years old, you will need to take the GED. If you have already taken the GED and you are under 24 years old, your Case Manager will request official transcripts for our records. You can receive a copy if you need them, but they will be considered unofficial transcipts.