EXPLORE CAREER OPTIONS WITH CAREER COACH

EXPLORE CAREER OPTIONS WITH

CAREER COACH

HAVE YOU EVER how each career stands in terms of employment and wages. WONDERED If you want to save your results, you can if you are in the right career? Are you download them or easily type in your email puzzled by what to major in? and create a password. You will then have Lake Land College has a new way for you resources such as the résumé builder. to connect your interests to careers and majors. Career Coach is an online tool BROWSE CAREERS OR AREAS OF STUDY that is free and open to all students and If you have taken the assessment and community members. The program is are logged in, these categories will be available from the college’s home page arranged according to compatibility with and features several easy-to-use tools to the assessment outcomes. This allows help you get started. you to browse paths that align with your CAREER ASSESSMENT any options. There is also an option With the options of a brief six-question for veterans who wish to apply their assessment or an extended 60-question knowledge and skill sets to a career. assessment, you can match your skills an account which unlocks the workplace interests and abilities without excluding and interests to academic majors and “Career Coach is a great way for those career paths. The program shows career who are undecided to narrow down their options with salary and employment rate options,” Tina Moore, director of career information from the Lake Land College services, said. “It’s a great tool for career district in real time, so you can see exactly exploration.“ RÉSUMÉ BUILDER This tool allows you to construct a résumé using preset structure and phrasing suggestions. Because the site allows you to create a login, you have the option to create and save a résumé within the site that can be used or modified at any time. Not only will the tool serve as a great help to the Lake Land College community, it will be useful in classes as well.

“Career Coach is taking the place of more than 10 tools that students used in my classes previously,” Andrea Bright, academic counselor and instructor, said.

“This will be so much easier and more valuable to have all the information in one place.”

Dear Laker Louie,

This Career Coach thing sounds really cool! How do I use it? DEAR CAREER COACH NEWBIE,

It puts a smile on my beak to hear you are excited about Career Coach! It is super easy to use, and if you follow these quick, easy steps you’ll be career searching like a pro in no time!

1. To access Career Coach on the Lake Land

College home page, look for the gray bar and click on “Explore Careers.” 2. Choose an assessment type to get started.

You have two options: a quick six-question assessment or a sixty-question one. 3. Based on your assessment, you can browse careers or areas of study that align well with your skills and interests. You can also see all kinds of interesting information, like the pay rates and annual job openings for careers in this region. 4. To save your assessment information as well as careers and areas of study you may be interested in, you can create an account with just your email and a password. This way you can come back and pick up right where you left off! 5. You can even create a résumé using preset structure and phrasing suggestions with the awesome résumé builder tool, which you can save and come back to in your account. 6. Don’t want to take an assessment? That’s okay too! You can still browse the careers and areas of study, but they won’t be aligned to your interests.

Happy career searching, Laker!