What is VirtualJobShadow.com?

VirtualJobShadow.com offers engaging career exploration resources and tools all on one user-friendly website. We will be utilizing a website named VirtualJobShadow.com this year in addition to and/or partial replacement of OKCareerGuide.com to explore careers.

Assessments

Interest assessments provide the user with more insight into themselves and help to guide the career exploration process. Obtain these results first and then explore the possibilities!

Once logged in on VirtualJobShadow.com, users can access Assessments under the Tools heading, found in the black navigation bar at the top right side of the screen. The Assessments section features four assessments designed to help guide career exploration. The three assessment used in Career Center are:

• Career Clusters Interest Survey (CCIS) matches users’ interests to their top career clusters, based on activities they most enjoy.
• O*Net Interest Profiler (O*Net IP) helps users discover their interests and learn how they relate to future career choices.
• O*Net Work Importance Locator (O*Net WIL) helps users identify their work values and decide what is important to them in a job.

Each assessment has detailed instructions and offers the ability to save the user’s progress if they do not finish in one sitting. Once an assessment has been completed and submitted, clicking on the results hyperlink in blue will take the user to the matching careers in Career Central.

Career Central

Start exploring specific careers by choosing from a range of industries and fields, using the filter tabs or search box to narrow down your career search.  Career Central allows users to find an extensive collection of careers and job shadowing videos, which include closed captioning and transcripts in both English and Spanish.

Users can begin exploring career profiles, including the Q&A segments that accompany the main video. After watching each video, they may also read through the Career Description, Required Education, Earnings, and Future Outlook information on the left-hand side of the profile screen. Users may take Pop Quizzes and write Career Journals, which are located just above the video.

Login Instructions

Staff and students of the Northwest Tech Campus – Alva may access their user accounts at https://www.virtualjobshadow.com/login/AC5760/users/?.

Students will use the same username and password as used for WorkKeys assessments  (except for a few students). Most students will use their first and last names without spaces for their username. Student passwords will be a six digit number representing their birthdate such as 020503 if they were born on February 5, 2003.

Staff members will log in to an administrator account by using their email address as the username and nwtech as the password.  Staff members may log in to a “student” account by using their first and last name without spaces as the username and nwtech as the password.

An Administrator of an account can:

• Create FlexLessons
• Assign FlexLessons to individuals or groups
• View completion status as well as answers for each student within an assignment
• Run reports to view assessments for all students as well as individual results per student, view Career Journal entries for each student, results of Pop Quizzes for careers by student

Suggestions of ways to use in class:

• Assessments and suggested careers
• Create assignments
• Life Skills Videos
• Search jobs
• Search colleges