Choices®
The Power of
Choices
Choices opens a world of opportunities for your career center
clients, helping them implement career plans with connections
to schools, job banks, tools for writing resumes, practicing for
interviews, and planning a career search.
You get
powerful OnTrack accountability tools and more time to focus on
proactive counseling.
Users get comprehensive and
easy-to-use databases for occupations, colleges, and financial aid resources. Validated
assessments support self-directed exploration and planning so you
don't have to.
Easily connect Choices with your
online eChoices system to save work and share information on both platforms.
Accountability Stays OnTrack
The OnTrack accountability system lets you review assessment results and progress of users. Easily relate and respond to their interests by seeing user's occupation and school focus lists. Customize local administrative reports to document your career development program.
Validated
Assessments
The online Interest Profiler identifies each client's interests by the six
R-I-A-S-E-C interest areas. Personal report highlights top interest
areas and their related occupations. The Work Importance Locator
assesses six work values and relates them to occupations. Complete in
one sitting or save the session.
The Basic Skills Survey will help users organize their self-knowledge about their basic skills, then compare their skills to those required for success in various occupations.
A World of
Options
Choices
motivates your clients with an interactive process that builds
self-knowledge, encourages users to explore occupations and schools,
and helps them plan for the future. A friendly and flexible search
process leads them to consider many options.
Self-Directed --
Free Your Time
View connections between occupations, majors and schools, all on one
screen. The Choices RoadMap makes it easy for clients to use
Choices on their own. Direct hyperlinks to key Web sites enrich career
exploration.
More Choices Highlights
- Focus clients
on preparing for the transition to higher education or
other employment. Activity modules
teach interviewing, job search skills and resume writing.
Clients can record selected information about themselves, their
activities and achievements. They can also document their employability
(SCANS) skills and list goals.
- Individuals can summarize and examine past Work History to aid in exploring new avenues of work.
- Education and Career Plans are easily created with the Choices
Planner. This powerful electronic portfolio suggests post-secondary education
programs based on each
client's
selected career pathways.
- Over 40
different printable reports include assessment results,
worksheets, reports, and summaries. Users get tangible results
they can discuss with others and use throughout their career
planning process.
- Search more
than 650 occupations with key topics such as interests,
education, school subjects, skills, earnings, and the U.S. DOE
career clusters.
- Easily explore
education options with Choices' comprehensive and up-to-date
information about more than 7,000 colleges, technical schools,
and graduate schools in the United States and Canada. Hundreds
of college search topics and factors! Plus, explore
thousands of financial aid awards.
Want to Know More?
Your dedicated Bridges regional team is ready to serve you --
call
us to learn more about Choices.
See our ordering information to prepare
your purchase order any time.
Choices ® is a registered trademark of Canada Employment Insurance Commission and is used under license by Bridges Transitions Co. Bridges and designs are trademarks of Bridges Transitions Co. Copyright ® 2004. All rights reserved.
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