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Careers and College Majors
OCIS: Ohio Career Information System (Ask an MHS Counselor for user name and password or codes) |
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Kuder Career Planning System The web-based way of delivering career planning activities to the students of Mariemont High School. Students can keep track of their career plans, assess their interests and skills, write a resume, develop an educational plan, search for careers and colleges, and track their career development over time. OCIS (Ohio Career and College Information System) This site is a subscription service paid for by state of Ohio funds earmarked by law for career education. The information is easy to use and it is easy to maneuver through the site. One can do a quick search, or use the directory for complete and detailed career information. Ask a counselor for Mariemont High School's user name and password. IDEAS (through the OCIS site...ask a Mariemont counselor for the user name and password). Do a career interest survey online. It only takes a few minutes and will relate your personality type to those who are successful in various occupations. What Can I Do With a Major In.... Health and Medical Science Careers Job Shadowing tips and how to prepare for job shadowing
Career activities at Mariemont H.S. Students take a career interest survey on the Kuder Career Planning Website. Students take a short interest survey, assess their own talents and abilities, and match everything with a dozen career clusters. The survey takes about 30 minutes and is done during the school day usually during the 9th grade social studies course.
Students have the option to take the PLAN test, which is primarily a practice ACT test but also has a nice career interest and plans component. It is our goal to enable students to begin to see patterns in the directions they are heading. It is not our goal to have any assessment "tell" students what they should choose. The PLAN test is the identical format to the ACT, which students take at the end of their junior year as they prepare for the college application process. Although shorter, it gives students an accurate prediction of how they will compete with peers on the real ACT. Students who do not choose to take the PLAN test will complete a career assessment called IDEAS located on the OCIS website.
During the fall, juniors will take a work values assessment via the Kuder Career Planning website, then do some analysis and comparisons to the assessments done in previous years. They can then use OCIS (click on "assessment links") which provides a list of occupations that connect to the career areas identified. Students will also register for PrepHQ, the college planning and application tracking system useful in future plans throughout junior and senior years of high school.
Also in the 11th grade, students begin preparing their college documents. Students write a sample college application essay and a resume and complete a practice "Common Application."
Formal career surveys are not offered during the busy senior year when students need to focus on college decisions. The web-based tools continue to be available to seniors, as are personal conferences and job-shadowing . |
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