Gale Training

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All right. Hello and welcome everyone.

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I'm Stacy Nibble, your gail trainer,

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uh, for New Jersey. Thanks for joining me for

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our gale presents Peterson's test

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and career prep resources for career

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and job hunting.

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Uh, the session is,

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uh, record it for folks who can't attend

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or maybe want to go back and review.

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We'll send some a follow up email tomorrow

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that has a link to it as well as some other handy

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things. Um, as we go

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through, feel free to jump in with questions

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or feedback any time, feel free to make use

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of that chat tool or the Q

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and A to let me know if there's something in particular

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you wanna see here at the start.

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Of course, after we get underway as well,

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happy to take some left turns to

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show you the things you really want to see.

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Um, we're also joined from, uh, with Michael

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from the state library. So he's gonna share some things

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in the chat. Uh, one of which

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and there we go is our, our survey,

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uh, to let us know what you thought of the

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session today. So,

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um, do again, feel free to engage in the chat

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in the Q and A as often as you need to happy

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to take questions anytime.

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So the title of our session while lengthy

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does really give you an idea of what we're gonna do. I still

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created an agenda slide here, but we're

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gonna use Peterson's test and career prep

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to uh find the resources

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you may use most often for folks who are looking

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for a job, looking for a career. Um

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And then as we always do, we'll wrap up with

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gale support. So where can you go after today

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when you've got questions? So

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I'm gonna start with just a quick resource

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overview. So many of you might already

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be familiar with Peterson's. Um I

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certainly was back when I worked in

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uh uh one of the local public libraries here in Buffalo,

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New York, those uh

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thick paperbacks covered our shelves.

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They were hard to keep on the shelves and keep them

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in good shape. Uh So it's really great

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to have this content electronically. We

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have um tools to look up colleges

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to find scholarships, uh to

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uh brush up on uh various

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skills. And then of course, the tools that

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we're going to look at mostly today related to job

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and career. So to help folks find that next

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great job or maybe switch careers

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or even if we're talking about, say high school students,

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maybe looking at what they might be interested

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in, um We're gonna share some tools

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to help you create or help folks

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create resumes, cover letters

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and along the ways there are various places

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to get career advice as well. So if you're going

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on a job interview, you know, you can find a little

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um um

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article on maybe questions to ask

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or maybe you've been offered the job, you want to negotiate

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salary. So there are lots of tools

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uh to provide help along the

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way as well

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where we'll target most of our work

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is here from the home page of the resource

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is under explore career

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options. That's where we're gonna spend really the bulk of

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our time. So where we'll find the career assessment,

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the resume builder um can

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search for jobs and then we're going to take

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a look at a couple of the um

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kind of uh practice test oriented

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areas where we can prep for vocational

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exams

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as well as brush up on foundational

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skills. So maybe to kind of prep for

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those exams as well um

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in, in, in and of themselves. So we

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want to get right into the resource lots to show

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you. So let's go ahead and take a look.

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And I've already got myself here logged

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into the home page and again, I'm just gonna disable that video.

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So I'm not blocking any portion of the screen for

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you. So the

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home page of Peterson's gives you a few ways

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to get into the content. The

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browse menu is nice. I think of

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it as kind of a quick start. You just kind of choose

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from this list.

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And I'm gonna give just a brief mention

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to college prep right here because I wanna let everybody

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know we have updated our sat

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prep to the new version of

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the exam. I think maybe,

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yeah, if it's this month or next month is the first

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time it's being offered. So it's just gonna

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of course match up with uh the prep

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will now match up with the way the exam is

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administered.

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But I like the quick tool. If you kind of know

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what you're after, you know, you're after a particular

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task, you can kind of jump right from here

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for newer users though. I like

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to scroll down a bit and use the

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kind of task oriented path where

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OK, I want to explore my career

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options and then you see all the different career tools

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in one place. So I'm gonna come from

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here now before I really dive

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in much further though. As um if

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you've used Peterson's at all before, you probably

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have noticed that we have

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a log in for this tool. So forgive

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my clumsy arrow there. I'll use a circle instead

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because folks are, you know, filling

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out a resume, taking a career assessment.

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This is usually a source they're gonna come back

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to and use again and again. And because they're entering

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in information about themselves, of

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course, that's gonna require a user account.

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So let me go ahead and pop in there and show you what

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that takes. Very simple. Not

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much info is needed. Let me get rid of my

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uh drawings here so I can click on

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that. So

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I'm gonna log into an account. I have

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uh ready to go so I can show you some work

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that I've already done. But let me show you what it takes to sign

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up for a new account.

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Not much at all. First name and last

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name, uh, email address

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is the best way we're gonna

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be able to reset your password,

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um, or help you with the password if you've forgotten

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it. Um, so that's why it's asked for that.

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It is not required. You can actually sign

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up without an email address, just giving

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names, uh, first and last name and then

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create your password. We do encourage

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folks to, to use the email address though because again,

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it's gonna be the best way to recover your password. Should

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you forget it? We don't use that email

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for anything other than recovering

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your password. So, but again, some

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folks don't like to share that. So we do have the option

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to sign up without.

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So it is, um, uh,

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an option. But again,

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I'm gonna go ahead and log in with an account where

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I've already got some work done. So we can,

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uh, see

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a few things that take a little time

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to do. Uh, and this way

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we can don't have to spend our time doing them. You

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can just kind of see the results. So

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let me go ahead and get logged in.

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And again, we're going to start right out here

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in the career option. So as

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we're kind of thinking about the path somebody may

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be taking if they're thinking about a new career,

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or again, maybe we're talking with a middle

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schooler, a high schooler, they're trying to decide maybe what

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they might be interested in, what they might be well

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suited for.

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The career assessment is a great place to

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get started. So we're gonna find

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that here under the explore

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career section, there's a whole section

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around career advice. So each

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of these um pages

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that we're gonna land on give you,

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you know, maybe some task oriented things like a career

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assessment, but then also these help

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files and they're almost like working through uh

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tutorials, you can kind of jump into the

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sections you're interested in. So again, we

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want to negotiate salary, we want some tips. I can

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jump right into that section.

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But to get to the career assessment itself,

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we are, I'm just gonna scroll a bit here.

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So you kind of see our other options. We're gonna take a look it up at these

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two. We're gonna go ahead and jump into find a career

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and this will open us up. The

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career assessment is actually four

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short kind of quiz oriented

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assessments

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and you just have to complete the first

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two to get matched with careers

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you'll see in the upper right hand corner here, explore

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career matches. I've done the first two.

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So your interests and your values

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and that it will match you up with different careers

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based on your answers. We do encourage

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folks to take all four into account

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though and to fill out all four, but really

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just those first two are required.

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The other thing, um I wanna mention

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about these assessments is there is a bit of

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kind of a yes, no, you know, uh pattern

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to, to uh the interest one. But

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if you take a look at the others, for example, the workplace

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preferences,

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it's really an engaging way. It

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tries to get at your answers around

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in this case, workplace preferences.

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So here's a little preview of what you're about to do

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and then we go into this assessment

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and it's giving us all of these boxes

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here to describe different

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work uh environments and

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what you would prefer in your work

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environment. And you uh we can see the first

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part of it is what are the four least important

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things for you to have in your ideal uh

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organization? So you really have to

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think about it. It's not just a multiple choice

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where folks kind of answer by road

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and, and just kind of go through the questions

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you have

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to really think about it and kind of move these boxes

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or sorry. Not move them, but check off these boxes

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for the things that in this case are least

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important to us in an organization. So

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if I go ahead and select, we've got to choose

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uh four. And I, I'm just randomly

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selecting here, uh which it was, wouldn't

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be what I would encourage folks to do and then you move

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to your next question.

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So now we want

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our most important, we go through these again,

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you can see it, remove the choices that we already had before.

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So you really have to think about this as you

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go along. So I find it's a really engaging

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set of assessments um

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for folks to go through, it does take

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a little time though, which is why I went ahead and answered

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some already. So I'm actually gonna go ahead and jump back.

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It's gonna warn me that uh I'm

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exiting the assessment.

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We have to start over, but that's all right.

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So let me jump back and we'll take a look at my

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matches. So there are some help,

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um, things over here on the right.

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Uh As well, you can kind of explore later,

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but the career matches are gonna

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take those assessments and match

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you up with different careers

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and they break down into broad

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subject areas shows where you're

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very strong, strong, good, fair

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or weak in the way that you answer these

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questions.

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And as we scroll down and see

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again, these are pretty broad categories but we're gonna

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be able to get more specific once we take a look

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at the matches themselves. Now you have access

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to everything. So even if there was an area where,

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you know, it didn't seem like maybe I had a, a good inclination

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from the assessment I can still explore

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and see what's out there for, say, business

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management and administration and jump

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in there.

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Hi.

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But I'm gonna go ahead and go with one of my stronger

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matches here. Jump into

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health science and view the careers

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that I matched with.

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So each will know whether you were a very

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strong match, need to match and so on.

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And each of these descriptions is going

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to give you

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an overview of that job. So a description

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you'll also see though what programs might

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be required

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and the abilities, you'll wanna have

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the knowledge, the skills if you look

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over to the right, many of these will match

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with career videos. So you can get a little little

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video about that job. You see the average

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salary and the job

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outlook. This is looking 10 years down the road,

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kind of what does it look like for this position? So bright

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is always good to see

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the um degree that it may require.

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And then you can actually even search for jobs, although we're gonna

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put a pin in that and come back to that later.

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Ok. So it gives you some

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suggestions to uh decide if

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maybe you want to investigate this further,

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some ways you may be able to figure that out

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even some related areas you might want to branch

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into. So each of the jobs will offer

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again those descriptions and so on.

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The other thing we can see here on

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the far left of the page are ways to

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narrow this down. There are a lot of careers

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mentioned here and I can see with these first

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few, those are gonna require probably some advanced

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degrees, right?

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So if I am maybe just out of high

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school or I've got a GED or I'm thinking about

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a new career, these, those may not be positions I'm

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ready for yet. I might need to go to school or

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get some sort of certifications, things like that.

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So if you notice over on the left there is an education

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and experience filter and I like

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to take advantage of this

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because you can find jobs where

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maybe if you start doing this now,

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maybe work as say an aid.

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That's a plus for you. If you're applying

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for colleges or eventually when you're applying for

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jobs that you've got experience in these

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fields in some way, right?

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So we can go through these as well

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and just match up with whatever experience level

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we have. If we're thinking, you know, I need a job

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right now. What can I do right now with the skills

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and, and education I have already

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and again, you can jump into these

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and get those details.

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Right. The other feature I really like

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when you're looking at your career matches and

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I think this is especially nice in

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New Jersey. I know you have some military bases.

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It's where we offer the military crosswalk.

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So if you've got someone who is

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recently out of the military and they're

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looking for jobs that match

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up with the skills and knowledge they gained in the

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military,

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You can jump right into the military crosswalk

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and this will take the MOC codes,

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um, or titles of positions held

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in the, uh, military. And then

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you just choose the branch or with.

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And I grabbed a few of these off of,

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of the internet because unfortunately, these were not,

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uh, um, military codes that I was familiar

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with. So let me go ahead and grab

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this off my cheat sheet here

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and this is an Air Air Force code.

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Hi. And then you luckily

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it matches up with the title. So I can just remind myself

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which one I looked that up for. Um,

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so warfare,

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communications, operations, technical track.

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These are careers that I might be well

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suited for for what I did in the military.

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And kind of can examine those.

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Anything that looks good to you, whether it is,

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uh, something like this, a career match or

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maybe on the other pages, you'll often see there's an ad

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to favorites or add to my resources.

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So if I want to keep track of things,

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the resource can do that for me

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and then it's found within my profile

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so I can kind of easily get back.

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So let me just check the chat and the Q

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and A,

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I think we're in good shape so far. I apologize. I know.

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I'm probably moving a little fast. Let me know if you need

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me to slow down or anything. I wanna

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make sure we get to all of our resources

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today. So the career

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assessments again, I would encourage folks

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to answer all four to see their true

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matches

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and I'm gonna skip a step here. So once

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we've done the assessment, there are a few more

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things that are gonna come. Right. If I, if I need to

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go to school, I, I need to pass

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some sort of test to get that job. Let's

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jump forward a roll. Let's say though, I'm ready

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to start applying for jobs. This

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is also where if you'll see in the very top

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of the banner, we have a jobs

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tool

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and this is gonna search for jobs.

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This is basically kind of a centralized

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place. It goes out and crawls other

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websites that list that list

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jobs. So again, maybe I'm interested

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in some of those health science positions.

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But with the skills I have right now the education

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I have right now, I may be looking for

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a physical, uh,

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therapist aid, oops

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aid position and,

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uh, go ahead and use I think a Newark

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zip code here.

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Oh, sorry. Is that not have,

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is it kind of this

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worked fine when I tested it out

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this morning? Let me open up my range

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a little bit.

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Oh,

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let me see. Good bye.

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Uh J folks. Let me uh

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sorry folks, I apologize. I swear I tested

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out the search even earlier.

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Uh

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and I could use a more general one.

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Ok. Appears none of these are working.

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Um,

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s now

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I make a, that might not be the right

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zip code. I apologize. Folks. Looks like we've got

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a question. Oh,

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I, all right. I did have the zip code

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on Facebook folks.

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I appreciate the help here

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most to be 07. Ok.

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That's what I get for typing it instead of copying

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and pasting.

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I am a terrible typist.

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All right, there we go. I appreciate the help folks.

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So here we have

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now, I expanded up to 200

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miles. We might wanna close that range

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down a bit. There we go.

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Um, again, it's still letting me know where

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I matched from because I filled out the career

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assessments. But again, as you can see, we're not beholden

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to what we matched with it. You can always look for

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any type of job.

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And again, this is a, a tool

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that is crawling and searching other job

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sites. So if we go ahead and open these up,

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that's actually if you click on the learn more that's

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where you land is out on that site. So you can get the

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full listing. Plus most

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of these are gonna, you know, offer some sort of

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um if not an application but some

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sort of, you know, form to fill out because you're interested.

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So you really can get the details about

[00:16:36.349]
the work and, and again, maybe

[00:16:38.418]
even apply. So really

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handy tool, it's a nicely, nicely centralized

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uh place to be able to search for work.

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And again, just tie it to uh

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the filters that you may want to take

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advantage of. Um or again, the

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matches that you may have made with the career assessments.

[00:16:55.500]
So handy place and again, kind

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of can do this all from, from one resource,

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which is nice

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before we leave this uh career

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or explore careers tool, I just show

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the last button here in the uh toolbar

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there at the top,

[00:17:09.750]
we'll find again, more help for

[00:17:12.289]
all of these career related tasks. So writing

[00:17:14.420]
resumes, cover letters, how to network,

[00:17:16.838]
going through a job interview or even

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worksheets and paths you can kind of follow

[00:17:21.309]
to again decide on

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careers and, and vocational pathways.

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So lots of great stuff here

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uh in our pathway you section, again,

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titled Explore Careers from the

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home page of the resource. So

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again, we all started

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right here from explore career options.

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And again, we've got options to go other places

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and one we're going to take advantage of

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next is that resume builder?

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So let's say we found some jobs we want to apply

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for.

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This may look a little familiar. Some

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folks have um used this

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themselves. This is uh a tool

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called Visual CV.

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And it exists out there on the internet on its own.

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Folks can buy a membership to it and,

[00:18:04.380]
and store their resumes. You get

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a lot of content from

[00:18:08.789]
the paid version of that tool that's

[00:18:10.890]
out there on the web here in Peterson's

[00:18:13.309]
test and career prep,

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uh really handy. Lots

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of great stuff here is um

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I think it's a great tool for a beginner. You know,

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again, maybe that high school student who's writing their first

[00:18:23.568]
resume or, you know, college graduate

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to someone who maybe has had a career

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and just needs a little inspiration. I

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certainly, you know, want my resume to look good,

[00:18:32.729]
but I don't quite have those creative skills

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myself. So this has a lot of great templates

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to work from

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and my favorite part,

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the resume examples. So

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to me, a blank piece of paper

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or, you know, like we, we often hear from writers

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is the scariest thing, right? So what

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I love to show here is if we're ready to create

[00:18:51.420]
a resume,

[00:18:52.400]
give you a few different options. You can upload one

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you've used before. So if you in word

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or PDF, you can upload an

[00:18:58.858]
existing resume and it will work with the content

[00:19:00.930]
there. And of course, you can always edit it and,

[00:19:03.289]
and uh make changes.

[00:19:05.910]
You can also start from scratch. Maybe you want

[00:19:07.939]
that blank piece of paper, piece of

[00:19:09.979]
paper to start with.

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But my favorite is right here in the middle use example

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content. So what this gives you

[00:19:17.118]
is tons, hundreds,

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if not thousands of resume examples.

[00:19:22.380]
So if you can find a similar one

[00:19:24.449]
to a job, you've held, you see

[00:19:26.769]
the things listed and can maybe

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reword it, you know, put it in your own voice

[00:19:31.509]
and kind of get that started rather than

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just again, starting from that blank page.

[00:19:35.838]
So you can search by the type

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of job. So maybe

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it worked as a home health aide.

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I found a resume for us.

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We can take a little look at it, see if it suits

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our needs. I understand the text. There is pretty small. I'm

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just gonna go ahead and select it

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and basically it starts a resume

[00:19:54.029]
using all that example content

[00:19:56.150]
and plugs in your name. You need to of course,

[00:19:58.199]
go through it and make adjustments, your contact

[00:20:00.390]
info and the like.

[00:20:01.608]
But then you can go through reading the summary here.

[00:20:03.979]
Does this line up with what you did?

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And also the other thing I like for

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it is of course, it's showing us typical tasks

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in these jobs,

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but

[00:20:13.309]
you can of course edit it and add in other

[00:20:15.439]
things, but it gives you the inspiration kind of

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puts it in that resume speak.

[00:20:19.598]
Uh that is sometimes difficult to do

[00:20:21.750]
or it reminds you of things you did

[00:20:23.759]
in the job that you may not have remembered. So

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the example content I think is just really

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strong and again, it just gets

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you started.

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Hi, you can also, again change

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the way this looks. So just at the top here,

[00:20:36.459]
we can change things like the font. If we wanna

[00:20:38.630]
mix that up,

[00:20:40.680]
go with something else here can change

[00:20:42.709]
the color scheme, the font size.

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And if you look over to the left

[00:20:47.920]
uh in the menu on the left here, we have a templates

[00:20:50.519]
tool so we can pick something

[00:20:52.559]
else. If I want something, you know, a

[00:20:55.049]
little more visual, I

[00:20:58.439]
you can grab something from

[00:21:00.699]
the list select and it'll just

[00:21:02.809]
switch the template for you

[00:21:05.848]
and again, can make changes as needed.

[00:21:08.838]
I can always go back and get to the resume.

[00:21:10.868]
Examples, can change the page

[00:21:13.098]
layout can play around with a lot of these

[00:21:15.309]
tools here.

[00:21:16.559]
What I do like to always point out though is

[00:21:18.729]
the settings are important here.

[00:21:21.209]
So as we're working on our resume, we can

[00:21:23.239]
always download it can always export

[00:21:25.328]
it, pull it out, keep it on our hard

[00:21:27.338]
drive. If you're at the library can you

[00:21:29.358]
know, move it to a flash drive or something like that,

[00:21:31.959]
you also though have the ability to make

[00:21:33.989]
this available online.

[00:21:35.739]
So by default, when

[00:21:37.848]
you create a resume, it's in a privacy

[00:21:40.250]
mode, we call export only, meaning

[00:21:42.699]
that you're really the only one that has access

[00:21:44.838]
to it. You come into the resource, you need to

[00:21:46.930]
export it to get it to other people.

[00:21:49.118]
So again, export it in word and

[00:21:51.289]
PDF and then you share it out as

[00:21:53.368]
needed.

[00:21:54.430]
You can change this though to

[00:21:56.618]
a couple other options. Unlisted

[00:21:58.848]
is kind of the next level up. What

[00:22:00.890]
it will do is create a URL

[00:22:02.959]
for that resume. So this is something I could copy

[00:22:05.348]
and paste and maybe put into a cover letter

[00:22:07.430]
or an email and folks can

[00:22:09.439]
click it and land right on it.

[00:22:11.250]
However, it's not indexed by search

[00:22:13.338]
engines. So you really have to have that

[00:22:15.358]
URL to find it. It's just not out there

[00:22:17.459]
on the open web where anybody could come across

[00:22:19.880]
it. They need that URL

[00:22:22.180]
for you and you share that with again,

[00:22:24.209]
wherever it needs to go,

[00:22:26.348]
then the the furthest level up

[00:22:28.670]
and the least level of privacy is public

[00:22:31.250]
and same thing, you're going to get a URL

[00:22:33.400]
that you can share with others, but it also would be searchable

[00:22:35.939]
online.

[00:22:36.818]
So folks could find it just

[00:22:38.900]
by searching your name and you may want

[00:22:40.930]
that again, folks may wanna, you know, share

[00:22:43.279]
as much as possible and get their name

[00:22:45.299]
out there. Uh But those

[00:22:47.529]
are kind of your options. And again, by default,

[00:22:50.509]
you always have the highest level of privacy where

[00:22:52.739]
you have to export it and pull it out.

[00:22:55.059]
So I'm gonna make sure to set that back for

[00:22:57.108]
mine. Um I do not

[00:22:59.309]
have this work experience, so I don't want to put that

[00:23:01.380]
out on the internet. So it's good,

[00:23:03.039]
make sure to click save

[00:23:04.459]
so that it doesn't go anywhere. But again,

[00:23:06.539]
that's under setting. So you can always go

[00:23:08.689]
back and change it, adjust as needed.

[00:23:12.618]
The other great thing here is you get to keep

[00:23:14.880]
multiple versions of your resume.

[00:23:17.318]
So I've got several going here that I've created

[00:23:19.689]
in other training sessions.

[00:23:22.239]
This way, you can change it as needed

[00:23:24.549]
for

[00:23:25.868]
different types of jobs or, you know, maybe

[00:23:28.019]
even different fields. If folks are switching industry,

[00:23:30.239]
switching careers, you know, they may have resumes

[00:23:32.578]
suited for what they did before and maybe what they're,

[00:23:35.029]
they're ready to do next. So you can keep different

[00:23:37.059]
versions of that. You can also do

[00:23:39.140]
the same with cover letters. Again, a lot of help

[00:23:41.420]
to get those written, can even

[00:23:43.500]
create a website um

[00:23:45.779]
about yourself. So maybe a portfolio

[00:23:47.848]
of content, you've produced things like that.

[00:23:50.459]
And there's also a career journal where you can

[00:23:53.039]
kind of keep track of your accomplishments,

[00:23:55.130]
which again, that's something, you know, as it's

[00:23:57.189]
happening in your life, you may note it and be thrilled

[00:23:59.479]
about it. And then a year later when you're writing a resume, you've

[00:24:01.650]
forgotten all about it. So the career

[00:24:04.309]
um journal is a great way to keep track

[00:24:06.459]
of those kind of milestones.

[00:24:09.559]
Ok. Moving fast here, I'm gonna jump

[00:24:11.709]
back to the, the main page of the resource

[00:24:14.420]
and we'll share a few more things. So

[00:24:17.420]
we pretty much we've done all our work here from

[00:24:19.640]
again on the home page under explore

[00:24:21.750]
career options, wanna point out

[00:24:24.108]
the test prep options. So if someone has

[00:24:26.170]
decided to go for a career where maybe it requires a civil

[00:24:28.459]
service exam or some other

[00:24:30.529]
sort of certification, we have

[00:24:32.699]
a ton of vocational related career or

[00:24:34.769]
test prep you can find here

[00:24:37.174]
and this grows all the time. Um

[00:24:39.223]
For example, under medical and nursing, I would say

[00:24:41.604]
in the time we've had access to the database, it's probably

[00:24:43.943]
quadrupled the number of tests that are available

[00:24:46.104]
there. So always kind of, you

[00:24:48.134]
know, keep an eye on this, it will add new,

[00:24:50.344]
new ones all the time. So if we jump in the same

[00:24:52.443]
medical and nursing,

[00:24:54.348]
now, often what you'll find our exam,

[00:24:56.949]
our practice exams and exam

[00:24:59.338]
props. So kind of study tools

[00:25:01.519]
uh to get ready for that exam as well.

[00:25:03.660]
So lots of nursing related tools.

[00:25:06.140]
Um Those were big requests when

[00:25:08.180]
we, when we launched this resource, some newer

[00:25:10.479]
ones that have got it added back in, they are not

[00:25:12.519]
added back and got it added like a pharmacy

[00:25:14.868]
technician EMT exams.

[00:25:17.368]
Health care has been a, a much a really popular

[00:25:19.719]
area uh for this resource

[00:25:22.279]
and there's our physical therapy assistant

[00:25:24.299]
exam prep.

[00:25:25.848]
Now, when you jump into this, our

[00:25:27.890]
test preps all follow a pretty

[00:25:30.229]
similar format. What's

[00:25:32.279]
gonna vary is of course, how the actual exam

[00:25:34.608]
is, is, uh, administered. So, if it's a time

[00:25:36.989]
test, if it's an untime test, you're gonna see all

[00:25:39.229]
of those things built into the practice

[00:25:41.598]
exams. Again, you're also gonna get

[00:25:43.719]
for many of these exam prep. So ways

[00:25:45.969]
to study almost like working through a course

[00:25:48.618]
to get ready for the exam. So again, if you

[00:25:50.759]
picture those big Peterson's books,

[00:25:52.789]
you know, really, it's the last quarter

[00:25:55.130]
of the book that is practice exams, the

[00:25:57.140]
rest is all prep right to explain

[00:25:59.160]
the exam. So that's what you'll see here too.

[00:26:01.318]
We've got lots of paths we can use to

[00:26:03.338]
study and then you get into the actual

[00:26:05.368]
practice exams themselves. There are usually a few

[00:26:08.108]
so you can take it a couple times.

[00:26:10.250]
Um, Peterson's doesn't recommend,

[00:26:12.818]
you know, starting to memorize answers and things like that.

[00:26:14.848]
So they'd like to offer more than one version of the exam.

[00:26:17.939]
You get a little welcome. Let you know how it's

[00:26:19.969]
gonna run through and then you just start

[00:26:22.209]
and work through the exam

[00:26:24.209]
and I'm just gonna answer a couple here

[00:26:26.289]
so I can show you what it does after you've examined,

[00:26:28.979]
uh, taken the exam.

[00:26:30.848]
I'm gonna go ahead and submit which I've only

[00:26:32.900]
answered three questions. But, uh, we

[00:26:35.239]
want to see what that looks like. So

[00:26:37.199]
warns me that I'm not answering most

[00:26:39.219]
of the questions here, but that's all right.

[00:26:41.400]
We wanna get to the grading

[00:26:43.439]
so you can see

[00:26:45.209]
what is uh

[00:26:47.348]
what it's gonna share with us. So it's gonna take me

[00:26:49.479]
through

[00:26:51.118]
my answers basically. And you can see

[00:26:53.318]
where you went wrong and where you went right

[00:26:55.578]
in an explanation for where you went wrong.

[00:26:58.029]
So I did not randomly

[00:27:00.068]
select the correct answer here for question number

[00:27:02.250]
one. And we get um an answer.

[00:27:04.509]
So we learn from where we went wrong, right?

[00:27:06.848]
And can again, go back into that study prep.

[00:27:09.479]
You've also got the other prep

[00:27:11.910]
I like to mention here is the foundational

[00:27:14.219]
skills tool. So this is,

[00:27:16.818]
you know, some things that folks may want to brush up on

[00:27:18.910]
if say somebody needs to get their GED for

[00:27:20.969]
the career they're interested in and they're not ready

[00:27:23.130]
for the GED yet. You can go into say math

[00:27:25.479]
and science, reading and writing and build up some

[00:27:27.568]
basic skills and just,

[00:27:29.930]
you know, work through some of these tutorials

[00:27:32.078]
and question banks to kind of build up those

[00:27:34.088]
skills. It's also got

[00:27:36.229]
some handy um

[00:27:38.910]
help for, oh sorry, let me go

[00:27:41.019]
back uh computer

[00:27:43.568]
basic skills, working with different Microsoft programs

[00:27:46.078]
and Windows. Um So for again,

[00:27:48.098]
maybe folks heading into a job, they want to brush

[00:27:50.108]
up on their Excel skills or something like that,

[00:27:52.199]
you've got tutorials to go along with that.

[00:27:54.380]
So again, you can build up those skills, be

[00:27:56.439]
able to put things on a resume, apply for

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jobs, maybe wouldn't have, you know, felt

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comfortable applying for

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before you brush up on these skills.

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So, ok, lots

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of stuff. Let me just double check my

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um

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notes here. I think I had everything

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I wanted to. I don't think there's anything

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I'm just gonna double check the chat and the Q and

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A

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and in good shape there.

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No, there we are. Ok. So

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let me pop back and to

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the powerpoint and share

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our uh contact info

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and where you can find some great materials.

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All righty. So our support

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site for our new Jersey libraries

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is support.gal.com/njsl.

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And here you will find, you know, kind

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of the access and product info

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could be all set there, you know, file, I have

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got your, your link set up and everything,

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but there's other good tech support information

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there as well, how to user reports and things

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like that.

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You'll also find our training center, we have lots

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of materials ready to go. So say you're

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gonna work Peterson's into

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maybe of course your offering around

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careers and job searches. We've got

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handouts you can use. There's also

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great marketing materials. If you want to let folks

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know you have this, you know, maybe share with local

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uh organizations or employment

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offices and things like that. We have

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bookmarks. We even have social media posts

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that are ready to go. Uh lots of other

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digital assets you can take advantage of,

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you know, no need to recreate the wheel. We've got

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a lot of great stuff out there uh for

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you to take advantage of even training

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uh slide decks. So that if you again

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are, are offering this as some sort of a program,

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we've got slides ready for you.

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Ok. We also offer

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from the support site ways to make the resource

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more discoverable. So if

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you want to maybe on your website,

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you've got a page dedicated to the job and career

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help. And you want to let folks know about

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this resource, we have of course

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the link to get to the database, but we also have

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subject hub

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links and ebook links. So

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folks can get directly to different parts

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of the resource. So if I wanna make sure

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folks know about the reading and writing basic skills

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tools that are available, you can get

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what we call the subject tub link P

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links to put right on

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your web page. Um You can also

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get mark records for these. So along

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not just the ebooks but for the subject hubs

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as well. So if folks come into your catalog

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and do a search on the GED,

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they would get a link right into Peterson's

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where you can find all that GED test prep

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support.

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So again, those are available from

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the support site and you have questions about any

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of this you can of course ask now, but

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should it come later? Um You can

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always reach out to your team at Gale again.

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I'm your trainer. So feel free to reach out

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to me.

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Um Oh, all of this information on this slide

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here is gonna be in the follow up email that you will receive,

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you'll receive tomorrow. Around this time. You can

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also reach out to your customer success manager

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at Gale uh as well as

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our tech support group. So

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no shortage of people to go to for help

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uh with your gale resources. We

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want to hear your feedback too. So feel free

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to share that you don't have to come to us just with questions,

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we wanna know what's working for you in the resources,

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what you could use more of again, going

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back to um you know, those

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the uh exam prep that we

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have in the resource that keeps growing because

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people keep telling us the new things they want.

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So definitely send in those requests.

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We wanna know what your patrons

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and students are are looking for.

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So with that, I will let you all go to enjoy

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the rest of your day. Thanks so much for tuning

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in. And again, please take that link with you

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um from the chat that, that Michael

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shared, so you can share your feedback.

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Um And again, feel free to reach out.

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You'll get my email tomorrow around this time with

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all of our contact info.

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Uh And I'm happy to uh hear from you.

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So, oh, and there we go. Thanks, Michael. You shared that again

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there at the end. So thanks all for

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tuning in.

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Oh, great question in the chat. So do this

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direct subject links, respects

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institutional proxy, URL

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S I, they do

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for most of our resources. Let me double

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check that they do for Peterson's. I'll

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make sure I've got an answer for that. That comes

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in the follow up email. I think they

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do, but I don't want

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to say that without double checking something on

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our support site.

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Uh

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So let me just confirm

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it for

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both the subject hubs and the Mark

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records,

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but I'll, I'll let you know for sure. Thank you, Angela.

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That's a great question. I'll um, again,

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make sure to get you an answer tomorrow in

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the uh follow up email.

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Mhm. All

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right.

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I'm gonna go ahead and stop the recording.