Everyone has created an account for OkCareerGuide – https://okcareerguide.kuder.com/landing-page. You should have your username and password stored in the Career Center Shared Folder in Google drive in the Accounts and Passwords sheet I created for you.  If you followed the format I requested… your username will be in the form FirstLast-nwtc and your password will be your six digit number representing the month, day and year (last two digits) of your birth date.

I have added all three of  the following documents to your Career Center Shared Folder on Google Drive.  If you had started one or more of these documents and stored them in a folder in the Documents folder on the classroom computer hard drive I have uploaded them to your Career Center Shared Folder on Google Drive.  Open the files in Google Docs to start and or complete the forms!  Don’t open them from the hard drive!  I want to be able to check them thru Google Drive!  As you complete each assignment, you may try to print them to the printer in the Career Center office and place the information in sheet protectors and put in your black portfolio binders.  

Today you will need to work on the following:

• iCAP Planning Document 1 – You will need to use information from your OkCareerGuide assessments and account to complete all the questions.  Some of you may have already completed this file a couple of weeks ago.  Be sure you have answers for each question box as well as dates completed.
• iCAP Planning Document 2 – You need to select a career that you are seriously interested in for this assignment… it may or may not be one of the careers that were available to you in the results from the assessments with OkCareerGuide.  This is where you start doing some serious thinking about what you may be interested in as a career!!  We will revisit this document throughout the year and build on this information so put some thought to it!! If you are planning on going to college this where you research to see if the degree you want or need is actually offered at the college you want to attend. I want specifics!!  In #8, just enter your goals in the Google Doc instead of entering them into OkCareerGuide! If you are not going to college…. this is where you outline your plans of how to get from the end of this year to employment in your chosen career field! If a question does not relate to your chosen career, you may put “Not needed” in the box; however….. I better not see every box with “Not needed” typed in it!
• iCAP Planning Document 3 – This is where you start working on the planning, building, and/or editing a resume.  Some of you already have a resume started.  Be sure to place a copy of that resume in the Career Center Shared Folder I created for you in Google Drive.  You may even be able to copy some of the information from your resume and paste it into this document.  High school scholarship resumes differ from work resumes.  We will be discussing the differences in the future.  If you don’t have a resumes… be sure to answer all the questions in this document. If you do have a resume… be sure to place a copy in that shared folder and answer the questions.

WorkKeys Assignment

You should have also taken all three of the WorkKeys assessments.  I have placed a Score Report file in the Shared folder on the Google Drive for each of you.  So how do your scores relate to occupations you are interested in?  To find out more about specific careers and their skills requirements, check out the ACT ** job profiles database. **

Based upon your results and your interests, select one career from the ** ACT job profiles database ** and complete the WorkKeys Completion Assignment that I have put in your Career Center folder in Google Drive.  Open the MS Word file as a Google Doc in order to complete the assignment. You may select a career of your choice to enter within the WorkKeys Completion Assignment (it does not have to be a career recommended thru the OkCareerGuide suggestions).  You may select the desired information from the job profiles database and then right click and copy and the right click and “paste without formatting” into the WorkKeys Completion Assignment.  Please enter all the information requested for each question (Yes I want you to copy all of the job duties for the career not just a few you pick out).

If you enter a job title in the Job title field and no O’Net Code job titles show up in the bottom box as shown below…..

Try not entering anything in the Job Title box and just select a Career Cluster and click Search to see what jobs show up then. You can select a job in the bottom box to get the information about that particular job.

There is information about how the certificate levels are determined on the  WorkKeys National Career Readiness Certificate   page of this website.

• Bronze Level – Signifies an individual has scored at least a Level 3 on each of the three assessments and has the necessary skills for 16% of the jobs in the WorkKeys Job Pro database.
• Silver Level – Signifies an individual has scored at least a Level 4 on each of the three assessments and has the necessary skills for 67% of the jobs on the WorkKeys Job Pro database.
• Gold Level – Signifies an individual has scored at least a Level 5 on each of the three assessments and has the necessary skills for 93% of the jobs on the WorkKeys Job Pro database.
• Platinum Level – Signifies an individual has scored at least a Level 6 on each of the three assessments and has the necessary skills for 99% of the jobs on the WorkKeys Job Pro database.

Your National Career Readiness Certification Level is based on your lowest score in the set of tests you’ve taken. If you’ve taken any of the WorkKeys tests more than once, you will use your highest set of scores.

Example:

• If your lowest score is a:
  • 3 = Bronze
  • 4 = Silver
  • 5 = Gold
  • 6 = Platinum.

Be sure to print the document when you are finished and place it in your print Portfolio. Also upload a copy into the My Documents section of OKCareerGuide.

You can also learn more about each individual assessment thru the links below:

• Applied Math – For more information about the Applied Math assessment – click here
• Graphic Literacy – For more information about the Graphic Literacy assessment –  click here
• Workplace Documents – For more information about the Workplace Documents assessment – click here

Additional Information:

High school seniors are invited to attend NWOSU Ranger Preview on November 16 in Alva. Registration begins at 9 a.m. in Percefull Fieldhouse. Attend for an opportunity to receive a $600 scholarship. Learn more & register at www.nwosu.edu/ranger-preview.