Transcript O*NET Tools for School Career Counselors

An O*NET Academy Briefing:
O*NET Tools for School Counselors, Counselor
Educators, and Other Career Development
Professionals
Presented by
Dr. Janet Wall
Sr. Trainer, O*NET Academy
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Webinar Objectives
Show how O*NET materials and services
support professional career development
guidelines
Review various free materials and services that
school counselors can use for their career
development programs
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Three Important Documents for
School Counselors
 Vision into Action: National Standards for School
Counseling Programs (ASCA)
 National Career Development Guidelines (US
Department of Education)
 Perkins Career and Technical Education Improvement
Act
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Vision into Action
National Standards for School
Counseling Programs
Academic Development
Personal/Social Development
Career Development
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Career Development
Standard I:
 Students will acquire the skills to investigate the world
of work in relation to knowledge of self and to make
informed career decisions.
Standard II:
 Students will employ strategies to achieve future
career success and satisfaction.
Standard III:
 Students will understand the relationship among
personal qualities, education and training, and the
world of work.
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National Career
Development Guidelines
Domain 1:
 Personal Social Development
Domain 2:
 Educational Achievement and Lifelong Learning
Domain 3:
 Career Management
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Career Management
 CM1 - Create and manage a career plan that meets your career
goals.
 CM2 - Use a process of decision-making as one component of
career development.
 CM3 - Use accurate, current, and unbiased career information
during career planning and management.
 CM4 - Master academic, occupational, and general employability
skills in order to obtain, create, maintain, and/or advance your
employment.
 CM5 - Integrate changing employment trends, societal needs,
and economic conditions into your career plans.
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Employment statistics
Information on industries
Information for career awareness and planning
Education and training information
High wage, high demand jobs
Alignment of programs with objectives, industry
requirements
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O*NET Information Supports Career
and Technical Education Efforts
Provides unbiased and accurate information
Specifies wages by state and nationally
Documents occupational trends and outlook
Offers assessment tools for learning about oneself
Shows students how personal characteristics are related to the
world-of work
 Shows how education and training relates to occupations
 Supports decision-making by supplying credible occupational,
educational, and job information
 Includes in demand occupations, emerging occupations
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What is O*NET
 Dynamic system of occupational information
– Frequently updated
– Based on Information from job incumbents and employers
(comprehensive)
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Supporting tools
Assessments
Job information
Financial aid
O*NET Online
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Find Occupational Information
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Note search
fields.
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Tasks, Tools and Technology, Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, Work
Activities, Work Context, Job Zone (education and training), Interests,
Work Values, Related Occupations, Wages and Employment, Additional
Information
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T&T – New Feature
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Knowledge and Skills
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Work Context
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Interests and Work Styles
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Work Values and Related Occupations
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Wages and Employment Trends,
Additional Information
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Search by Skills
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Skill Search
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Select Skills from List
Basic Skills, Complex Problem Solving
Skills, Resource Management Skills,
System Skills, and Technical Skills
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60 Matches Using 10 Skills
Click on occupational title to
obtain Summary Report
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Search by Interest Area
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Search by Interests
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Select Primary Interest Area
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Related Occupational Listing
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Career Info Net
Provides significant information
Can be reached on its own or through O*NET
Online
http://www.acinet.org/
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Significant Resources for You
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Occupational Information
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Career Videos
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Skills Gap Analysis
Exercise that compares one’s current skills and
level of performance to requirements of an
occupation
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Other Resources
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Education and Training –
Select Job Family
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Select Occupation
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Select Level and Location
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Results
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Assistance with Pell Grants
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Student Financial Aid Guides
http://studentaid.ed.gov/students/publications/student_guide/index.html
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Scholarship Search
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10 Results
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Career Assessment Tools
Three high quality instruments
Use for career exploration and career guidance
Not for job selection or selection into job training
programs.
Can be downloaded for your use from
www.onetcenter.org
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Interest Profiler
What Do You Like to Do?
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Work Interest Areas
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Realistic
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Artistic
Investigative
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Enterprising
Social
Conventional
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The Work Importance Profiler
What Do You Value?
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Work Value Areas
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Achievement
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Recognition
Independence
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Support
Relationships
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Working
Conditions
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The Ability Profiler
What can you do?
What are your work-related skills?
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Eleven Subtests
Power
Non-Psychomotor
Arithmetic Reasoning
Speeded
Psychomotor
Mark Making
(paper/pencil)
Vocabulary
Place
Three-Dimensional Space
Turn
Computation
Assemble
Name Comparison
Disassemble
Object Matching
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Links to Occupations
 All three assessment instruments link results
back to occupations
 About 800 occupations
 These occupations can be explored via O*NET
Online
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O*NET and Career Clusters
From… State Directors of
Career and Technical
Education at
http://www.careerclusters.org
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Career Clusters
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Career Clusters
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Cluster Pathways
occupations
pathways
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Review of Tools
How O*NET relates to the ASCA standards and the new
National Career Development Guidelines
How to find occupational information
How to search for occupational information by skills
How to search occupational information by interest area
How to find financial aid information
How to find higher education information
Find and use quality assessment tools
Locating information on career clusters
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Concluding Remarks
There is an old Chinese proverb that says
…… "Give a man a fish and you feed him
for the day. Teach a man how to fish and
you feed him for a lifetime."
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Questions?
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Tons of
Tools for
School
Counselors
O*NET Resource Center
http://www.onetcenter.org
ONET Online
http://online.onetcenter.org
Skills Gap Analysis
http://ww.acinet.org/acinet/skills_gapreport.asp
Career Info Net
http://www.acinet.org/acinet/default.asp
Important
Websites
Student Financial Aid Information
http://studentaid.ed.gov/students/publications/student_guide/index.html
Financial Aid Advisor
http://www.careertools.org/finaidadvisor/
College Search
http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/cool/
O*NET Academy
http://www.onetacademy.com
Career Cluster
http://www.careerclusters.org
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Opportunities for You
Spotlight on O*NET Knowledge Site – contact
[email protected]
Podcast – audio interview
Special User Webinars
– Contact me at [email protected]
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Supporting Webinars
How to Download and Use the O*NET Interest Profiler
and Work Importance Profiler
Overview of the O*NET Ability Profiler
How to Administer the O*NET Ability Profiler
How to Interpret the Ability Profiler
Whole Person Assessment
O*NET Tools for Job Seekers and Students
O*NET Enhancements
O*NET for Military in Transition
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