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Last Updated: September 17, 2024

For JerseyClicks: Gale Presents: Peterson’s Test and Career Prep: Resources for Career and Job-Hunting

Did you know that Peterson’s Test and Career Prep contains dozens of great resources for job and career seekers of any age? Tune into this recorded session to surface tools aimed specifically at job hunters or people interested in career changes, including an easy-to-use resume builder, career assessments, job search tips, and civil service/vocational practice exams. Gale Presents: Peterson’s Test and Career Prep is available through JerseyClicks.

Duration: 30 Minutes
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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

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the work and, and again, maybe

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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.

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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,

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we'll find again, more help for

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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

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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,

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and store their resumes. You get

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a lot of content from

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the paid version of that tool that's

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out there on the web here in Peterson's

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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

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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,

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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

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a resume,

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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

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existing resume and it will work with the content

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there. And of course, you can always edit it and,

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and uh make changes.

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You can also start from scratch. Maybe you want

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that blank piece of paper, piece of

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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

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is tons, hundreds,

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if not thousands of resume examples.

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So if you can find a similar one

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to a job, you've held, you see

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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.

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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

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using all that example content

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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.

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But then you can go through reading the summary here.

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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

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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.

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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,

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we can change things like the font. If we wanna

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mix that up,

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go with something else here can change

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the color scheme, the font size.

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And if you look over to the left

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uh in the menu on the left here, we have a templates

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

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else. If I want something, you know, a

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little more visual, I

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

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

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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.

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What I do like to always point out though is

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the settings are important here.

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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

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a couple other options. Unlisted

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is kind of the next level up. What

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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

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basic skills, working with different Microsoft programs

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and Windows. Um So for again,

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maybe folks heading into a job, they want to brush

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up on their Excel skills or something like that,

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you've got tutorials to go along with that.

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So again, you can build up those skills, be

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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.
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