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Last Updated: September 17, 2024

For JerseyClicks: Gale Presents: Peterson's Test and Career Prep: Career Assessment Tool

Tune into this recorded webinar to explore the powerful career assessment tool available in Gale Presents: Peterson's Test and Career Prep! Learn how to help students, job seekers, and career changers make informed decisions about their future by understanding their strengths, interests, and potential career paths. Whether your patrons and students are just starting their career journey or seeking a change, this tool can help gain valuable insights and make informed decisions for a successful future. Gale Presents: Peterson’s Test and Career Prep is available through JerseyClicks.
Duration: 30 Minutes
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Yeah.

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Is Michael, is there a dropbox

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in the two field? There? Are you able to

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switch to everyone?

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I'm only able to switch to you if

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I can share this with you and then if

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you can share it with everyone.

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Well, let me

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uh Yes, yeah, I guess, go

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ahead and do that. I was gonna say maybe I could make you the host.

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I don't know why we have this limitation.

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Now with Zoom panelists used to be able

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to do that. So let me share this with all.

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So thank you for sharing that survey. And

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I would just ask if folks could open that

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up in their browser to fill up out

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at the end of the program today. But

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in the meantime, I wanted to say thank you again

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to Stacy with Gail for joining

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us for today's presentation. And thank

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you to all of our attendees.

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Absolutely. Thank you, Michael. Uh I appreciate

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it. Um I think I've made an update where

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you should be able to send to everyone now. So hopefully

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you'll be able to surround in the chat as well.

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Um Thanks everyone again, I'm Stacy

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Niblo, uh your gail trainer for

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New Jersey and Jersey clicks. So

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glad to be with you all this afternoon

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virtually to take a look at the new

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career assessment tool uh that's

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available in uh Gail presents Peterson's

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test and career prep. Of course, one of your excellent

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uh Jersey clicks resources

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and I have a very

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brief agenda. Uh We're gonna

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be covering that new assessment tool. Some of you

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may have heard of it before. It's called career Peach.

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So Peterson's was able to partner with them to provide

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it, but we're going to dive into all the details

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and uh just as a refresher, give a quick

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resource overview before we dive in.

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Uh And then as always, we'll wrap up with gale support.

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So where you can go after today, when you've got questions

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about Peterson's or if you're looking for support.

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Um I'm just gonna pop on video here for

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a minute to say hello. Um

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Later on, I'll uh I'll turn

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that off because my uh video

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blocks uh part of the screen in the recording.

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We don't wanna uh interfere with uh the

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viewing of that later. So um

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I just want to come on and say hello and

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I'll pop back on uh a little later

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after we uh have gone through the resource

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itself. So,

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but that is our plan as we go through, feel

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free again to use the chat and the Q and

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A Liber. Um Michael

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and I will both be keeping an eye on that throughout

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the session. So happy

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to answer any questions and I am a librarian.

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So if I don't know the answers, I do know where to go to get them.

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So, just a little again, reminder

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about all the things that Gae presents Peterson's

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test and career prep can do for

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you. Uh We're of course thrilled to partner with Peterson's.

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You know, I knew the Peterson's name even before

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I went to work for Yale and, and had access

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to this resource, you know, those big

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books that stayed on the shelf in the library

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or I should say, rather didn't stay on the shelf

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in the library because they were getting checked out so

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often. So

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you have a lot of great content here to help folks

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prepare for college and career related exams.

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You even have foundational skill

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type tutorials and test banks so folks

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can kind of get ready for those other tests,

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uh which I appreciate.

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You've got a lot of great support

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around finding the right school. So

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two year, four year institutions, grad

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schools, public and private. Um

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you know, according to tuition costs,

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things like that, there's lots of great support

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for uh financial aid.

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We were doing the scout

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search. So lots of great uh content

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around all of the, you

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know, as I tend to think of in the college books that Peterson's

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used to uh or not used to. It does continue

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to produce but uh nice to

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have it and have it all be searchable in the in

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the format inside uh this resource.

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And then along with the career assessment tool that we're

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gonna be talking about, there's help for creating

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resumes, cover letters. There's

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a great advice bank almost

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like going through a little on demand, learning

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about interviewing, creating a resume

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salary negotiations, finding the

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right career.

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So lots of great support

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along those lines as well. But our

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focus today is going

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to be on the new career assessment

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tool that is available inside

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uh Peterson's test and career prep.

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This launched um within the last couple

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of months and it's got a few features

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that customers were, were asking for. So

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I'm really excited to share it with you.

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So let's go ahead

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and take a look at it.

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So I've uh gone ahead

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and gotten into the resource.

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But as we uh know,

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or maybe this is um a new resource

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for you,

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we do require users to

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create an account inside Peterson's

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test and career prep. They're, you know, keeping

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track of a resume or taking a career

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assessment.

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Um So we, you know, you kind

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of need that behind the user account. It allows people of course

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to pick up where they left off and progress their learning

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over time.

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Um And just want to give you a little reminder about what

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that takes.

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So

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don't have an account you can sign up. Now, first

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and last name

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and then an email address. Uh We

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use that only to help you reset your

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account. If you forget your password, it's not used for

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any marketing or anything like that.

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But folks don't always like, you know, turning

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over their email address so you can always

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sign up without an email user or

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sorry without an email address and create a user

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name instead. Um

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It will be more of a process to

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get your password reset if you need it. But

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that is a possible path

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and that's really it for

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registering nothing else is required

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and your account is created immediately.

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I have gone ahead and done a little pre work.

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So I'm gonna go ahead and log into

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an existing account for myself. So

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you can kind of see

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uh the results of taking

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the career assessment.

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So after you're logged in which

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for me, that's always just the best prac practice,

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you can browse around a bit. So if you're

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showing up a patron or a student

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around and, and letting them know what's available,

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you could of course click around. But as soon as

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you want to take an exam or

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create a resume or as we're gonna do, go

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into the care assessment, it will prompt you to create

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an account. So we've just already gotten that out of the

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way. So you'll find a career assessment

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here under explore career options.

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It's also available from the browse menu here.

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At the top too.

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I tend to like

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this path better because it's, it's just

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a bit more task oriented and shows

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you around a bit more, but

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pass through there

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and the career advice, we may come back

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and take a look at this. We've got to come from a amount of time

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to look at the career assessment tool, but I love

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to show off that career advice section. So that

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may be our next step. But here under

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find a career is where you'll find

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the uh career assessment

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and just gives you the little bout tab,

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gives you a little explanation of what's gonna happen

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there. And

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the add to my resources button. If this is

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something I'm gonna come back and revisit again and again

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would be handy to use. Add to my resources

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is gonna give me a shortcut um

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from my, the my resources button on the

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home page. So we'll take a look at that later,

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but let's go ahead and find a career.

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Now. There is a career quiz

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and it's about 60 questions.

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So I did go ahead and do that

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ahead just to not take up our time.

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Kind of watching me answer 60 questions,

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but I took a few screenshots

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just so you can get a sense of the type of questions

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that are being asked. So

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when you start the career assessment,

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it wants you to go through and answer these

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questions. Is this something you would like

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to do. It doesn't want to assume

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any sort of skill or education.

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You just answer if this is something you would

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like to do and that's gonna help set

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up and, and almost do this little personality

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quiz and then match you up with careers,

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uh, that you might be well suited for. So,

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you know, do I have the, the skills

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right now to, uh, lay brick

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or tile? No, but that does

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sound like something I'd like to do. I like to work

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with my hands. So, you know, I can mark

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that as yes,

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again, develop a new medicine. No,

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I don't have the skills to do that right now. But again,

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we don't want to presume. So

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you're just answering and this is, again,

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I would advise your patrons, your students who are taking

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advantage of this to answer if

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this is something they would like to do because

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what's great is we're gonna end

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up matched up with careers, but it's gonna

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give us the option of what skill or education

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level we're at or maybe are,

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are looking to find. So we're gonna be able to find

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skills regardless that match up

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or I'm sorry, careers that match up with

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the topics we were interested in. So

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you've got basically a five range scale there,

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strongly dislike to strongly like

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uh and there is an unsure. So you don't, you

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know, always have to give an answer. But

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again, there are about 60 of these questions. And

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then

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sorry, folks finding the right there, you

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end up at the uh

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completion of the career quiz and you

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can jump right in and see resources

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or, you know, folks have done this and then

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maybe you've been away for a while, want to take it again. You can

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always reset the quiz and try again.

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So it's gonna lead us down a path a little bit

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here. If I go ahead and choose to see my results,

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these six categories

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of the kind of personality aspects are probably

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look familiar if you've done any sort of

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other career assessment tool. This

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is pretty popular way of defining

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different types of careers to match up

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with these personality types. So

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enterprising conventional, realistic

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and so on

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and you get a top three

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and that is gonna kind of

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be where we might be strongest, but

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you're not gonna be limited in looking. If

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I decide I do wanna explore a career

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that's more artistic. I'm gonna be able to find

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careers like that too. It doesn't isolate

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your results at all. Um, it highlights

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where you're strong, but then you can always look

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at the other options. So

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it's given a little um,

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tool here to get a little definition. So what

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are enterprising, you know, careers like,

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I'm not sure, you know what investigative,

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right? I've got these options,

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right? So you can get little definitions here

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and then move on.

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Check folks my Zoom panel is

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blocking part of my screen. I just wanna make

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sure. Yeah.

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OK.

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So then we get a little info before we

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actually get to the careers, we're getting a little info about

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the type of preparation that could be involved for

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all of the careers we're gonna gonna look

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at. So again, mentioning that, you know, we're

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gonna have different levels. So just

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a bit of an explanation here

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and then speaks to those

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five different levels that they've defined careers

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with so little to no preparation to

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extensive preparation needed. And

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again, you can click into each of these.

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So something for medium preparation

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might need uh some education, some

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on job experience or an associates degree.

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And of course, we can kind of move up and down from there

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and just see how each of these are defined. So

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that now when we get to that next step and see

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our career matches, we're gonna

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have kind of a better knowledge

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around um browsing what

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uh my results are gonna share.

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So let's go ahead and take a look

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at those.

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So by default, it's gonna match us up

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with the, the uh top three

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categories that I I scored

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well in so enterprising and a couple others,

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that's the automatic. But if you look over on

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the left, this is how we can filter

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and kind of work through what's in this

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results list. So I kind of scroll

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a bit and see what kind of,

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uh,

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results I have

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and always click to view more. So kind of that.

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Not quite an endless scroll. There is gonna be

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an end but it loads up a few at a time.

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Which is nice if you're on a slower data

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connection or anything like that

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and each of these careers you get

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a bit of info. So quick paragraph

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about what it's involved in, you know, a notice

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of the industry and then off

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to the right, we see uh the

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median yearly income, common

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education level and then for some degrees, you'll

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also see basically the, well,

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here's one projected job, job growth. So this

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is looking about 10 years down the road. So

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cargo and freight agents, this isn't expected

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to grow rapidly. So these

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job, this job will still be around 10 years from

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now. So that's a handy uh

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bit of data to have right

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now. Again, I can filter this. I'm getting a lot

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of results here. If you look over on the left

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again, this is where we can take advantage of all those

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tools. So job and preparation level

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is a popular one.

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So if I am maybe a high school student

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and deciding what I wanna do or maybe

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I'm, you know, trying to think of what a part time job

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might be appealing. You know, I may not have

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a degree yet. I don't have any experience. I could choose something

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like little or no preparation

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and see what's recommended. So barista,

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I could maybe work in a coffee shop, that kind

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of thing. And for each of these, you can click

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in to learn more

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and get a um you know,

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further details around the job.

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So little we of course know it's gonna have little to no preparation

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needed. I can see this is a top career

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match for me. The job opportunities

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are bright in this field and

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you get a little bit about what you would do

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on the job. Again, those details around

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salary uh and the

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like

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and then the skills you'll build

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uh the abilities you'll have

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the tech you may and you know, work with

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and then it always offers explore more

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as well. So something else related that

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might, you know, sound good to us as well

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related topic or related careers.

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Um

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uh and maybe a similar field.

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So and all of this can be printed out. You've

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got that option here. I meant to point it out

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on our matches too. But

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let me go ahead. Oh, that's right. This opens in a separate

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tab. I'm so used to the back button. Let me pop

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back uh to the other tab

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so you can continue to work with those. So this is

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something maybe I could do right now. Again, as a high school

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student, if I am, you

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know, maybe been in my, been in a career

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for a while and looking to change up and maybe

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do something else. I don't like the career I've

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chosen or, or maybe, you know, of course,

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certainly we, we've, you know, heard so many

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companies having layoffs and things like that over

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the last years. So you

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can always kind of jump this up a bit.

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If you've got a degree, you've got experience,

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you can always change that, maybe jump up to medium

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job preparation.

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And again, they're still gonna have the same types of details,

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you know, I'm at the airport a lot, so maybe air

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traffic controller does kind of appeal to me

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uh but not looking good for

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the opportunities in the future. So that's good

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to know

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the median yearly income is good.

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Um But we can kind of get an i an

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idea. I love the graphics here too

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that we uh see

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to come along with each of the jobs that kind of visual,

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you know, right here of the job outlook and so

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on. But again, all

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those details

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to help us decide if that's something we may be interested

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in and

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you can play around with these is a little more as

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well. So again, I'm still, if we let me

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scroll back up to the top, so you can always see

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at the top what you're filtering by. So I'm still looking

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at all my career matches. So it, it's

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not showing me every career out there, just

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the ones that I match strongly with. And again, I've got my

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medium job preparation. You can always just

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x those out and kind of go back

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to default, you can also change

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it up. So if I'm specifically interested

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in, maybe I like the definition of the

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enterprising careers, I,

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I can isolate to one of those

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personality, uh types at a time

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and see the jobs that match up with that.

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I can also though just disable

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that show only matches and

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it will bring me back every job. So maybe

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where I didn't score as well, but I still wanna

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learn about these types of positions.

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I've got the option to explore everything.

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So I like this feature, you know, certainly

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for folks who are looking for a new career scene where they matched

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is important. But again, say you're maybe in

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a high school setting and students need to research

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careers, they can just come here and, and

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browse around and don't have to kind of be tied

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to what came up in their assessment, uh

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and see what their areas of interest are. You know, it's a, it's

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a big world for them, right? They might want to learn about

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other things. So

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those filtering tools are really handy

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in a, in a few different ways.

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OK. So let me just check the chat and the Q and A so

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far

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and put my heart in good shape. So

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hopefully it's pretty straightforward tool

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to use. We are again,

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um really happy to partner with career

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preach, uh career peach. Pardon

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me? The assessments we had before

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there were at least two you had to take and

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folk didn't, folks didn't find that. Um,

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they found a little time consuming. So, and they

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were up to four you could take. So it was

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a bit more complex. Folks were looking for something

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similar. The other feature that we're,

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we're glad to be able to offer that comes with

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career breach. And I'm just gonna use my annotate

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tool here. So you kind of don't

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miss where this is in the upper right

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hand corner.

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You have the option of translating the

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content into uh Spanish.

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Let me go ahead and clear out my drawings

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and tools so I can actually click that

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so you can see it translates

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not just our kind of

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paths and our buttons and things like that,

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it's gonna translate the content of the career

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description. So this was a big

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plus plus for us in um

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in switching to career speech. This wasn't something

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available in the career assessment before.

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Um Spanish has been the most requested

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language, but

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we are always interested in Gale,

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not just for something like Peterson's, but our other resources

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in the languages you need in your community. So

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if you have other suggestions, I'm happy to share

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that back with our product manager. Um

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But by far Spanish was our our most

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requested um language for

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this resource. So um career

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peach is uh uh really

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a great option. Yeah, unfortunately I

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don't speak um any other

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languages. But again, you can see if I kind of pop

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in. It's

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all been translated

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very nicely for me. So

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I am gonna go ahead and switch back to English.

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I can navigate a little easier.

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All right. So,

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uh again, I think we're in good shape on the chat

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and the Q and A

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and you talked about the

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filters. I'm kind of checking everything off my list

[00:18:35.140]
here, but it is a pretty straightforward tool. That's what

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we were looking for. Something that was a little simpler

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to work for. And I like

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the,

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the guided path. It kind of gives folks,

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I, I find, you know, getting a definition for

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the different job levels and the different personality

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types are, are really helpful. So,

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and they, they just,

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you know, le leave it all out there pretty clearly.

[00:18:55.529]
So this is, of course, one way folks

[00:18:57.949]
are maybe gonna find a new career is taking advantage

[00:19:00.269]
of that career assessment as they

[00:19:02.400]
move along in their journey. The rest

[00:19:04.809]
of Peterson's is here for that as well. So if

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there is schooling that needs to be done,

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you've got the option

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to, of course, find a school. We've got the school

[00:19:13.598]
search tool that can help you,

[00:19:16.078]
of course, isolate to a particular area

[00:19:18.250]
of study.

[00:19:19.568]
Uh If you're looking for, you

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know, particular tuition,

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which you know, who isn't,

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but that, um, of course,

[00:19:27.608]
location, you can kind of design

[00:19:29.868]
your perfect school here. And

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if we, I'll go ahead and

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let me do this location first and we'll

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New Jersey. We like that in state tuition.

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Um And of course, can then

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enter in your uh

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area of study.

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Is that not filtering for me?

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Oh, admin, sorry, it was business administration.

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I was looking for. That's right.

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Um, as I select from the left,

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it just filters over on the right to match up with

[00:20:08.890]
the schools that have the degree the, again,

[00:20:11.250]
the location I'm looking for,

[00:20:13.380]
you know, can isolate further

[00:20:15.449]
with other issues and then of course, you can pop

[00:20:17.559]
in and, and learn more about

[00:20:20.160]
the schools

[00:20:22.588]
similar to, of course, what you find in the books,

[00:20:24.789]
right? And get that date.

[00:20:26.229]
You can also though

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take the path if we go back under career

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options here,

[00:20:32.108]
look at that online resume builder to get

[00:20:34.118]
that ready. So again, you know, maybe as a,

[00:20:36.130]
a student who's gonna go apply at a, at

[00:20:38.368]
a coffee shop to be a barista, they've never

[00:20:40.469]
created a resume before.

[00:20:42.868]
You can always pop into this resource.

[00:20:45.189]
And, you know, you've never created one

[00:20:47.219]
before. My favorite feature here under the

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uh resume builder is you can use example

[00:20:52.170]
content.

[00:20:53.539]
So rather than

[00:20:57.608]
kind of working from a blank

[00:20:59.838]
page, I can get an idea. Now, of course,

[00:21:01.969]
I would want to have worked as a group

[00:21:04.118]
first before putting that on my resume. But

[00:21:06.279]
it just kind of gives folks a better idea

[00:21:08.858]
of

[00:21:10.180]
what happens in the job. But also

[00:21:12.539]
I find it hard to write down what

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I do in my job and make it sound good

[00:21:17.239]
in that kind of resume speak. So you

[00:21:19.539]
get this kind of helping hand to help you build

[00:21:21.709]
a resume

[00:21:23.348]
so

[00:21:24.348]
really handy.

[00:21:25.809]
And then as you're moving through again,

[00:21:28.088]
the process

[00:21:29.630]
there is support here from career advice.

[00:21:32.519]
This is going to offer

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help for kind of all steps along

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the Jersey,

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uh uh sorry, New Jersey,

[00:21:40.368]
all the steps along the journey.

[00:21:42.880]
So there's actually some basically

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almost like almost like on demand learning

[00:21:47.449]
is what you're using here. It's a bunch of tutorials

[00:21:50.289]
and um steps you walk through. So kind

[00:21:52.380]
of performing a self assessment along with the

[00:21:54.469]
career assessment, how to search

[00:21:56.729]
for a job, write a cover letter,

[00:21:58.809]
the basics of a resume all

[00:22:01.150]
the way through interviewing salary negotiations.

[00:22:03.828]
If we've got folks who are again

[00:22:06.150]
making a career change, they want to do something

[00:22:08.509]
new tutorials for that, transitioning

[00:22:10.750]
out of the military. And again,

[00:22:12.799]
each of these are just gonna walk you through

[00:22:15.019]
in kind of this on demand learning format.

[00:22:17.920]
You can see over on the left, almost like a table

[00:22:20.029]
of contents. You don't have to go in any particular

[00:22:22.420]
order. Uh But you just

[00:22:24.640]
kind of can follow along here jump to the

[00:22:26.709]
sections that work for you or just keep moving

[00:22:29.039]
through each section consecutively.

[00:22:32.469]
But getting a little additional support at

[00:22:34.630]
your own pace on all of these

[00:22:36.858]
paths is really helpful in that

[00:22:38.900]
career advice section. So

[00:22:41.670]
the career assessment itself

[00:22:43.709]
is of course, the star of our show today, but

[00:22:46.000]
you really have a lot of great support

[00:22:48.259]
under that whole section uh

[00:22:50.920]
or explore career options. But then of

[00:22:53.059]
course, all the others that come with that as well.

[00:22:56.009]
So lots of good stuff there.

[00:22:58.868]
Just gonna check the chat and Q and A because

[00:23:01.068]
I've kind of, I've checked off my list here of everything

[00:23:03.328]
we wanted to show you. So

[00:23:06.180]
I think we're in good shape. I've got a few

[00:23:08.250]
slides, just a couple of things to mention.

[00:23:11.809]
So

[00:23:13.108]
again, we gotta look at what the career assessment

[00:23:15.279]
questions look like. You all have unlimited

[00:23:17.559]
use of this resource. So feel free to create

[00:23:19.618]
that kind of create a dummy account to go in there

[00:23:21.689]
and play around with and, and maybe take the career

[00:23:23.900]
assessment.

[00:23:24.969]
Um You know, love to see how

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the, you know, uh

[00:23:29.390]
uh library uh librarian

[00:23:31.598]
uh path comes up for, for everybody.

[00:23:34.269]
Uh I did also want to share the resource

[00:23:36.479]
is mobile responsive. Um And

[00:23:38.719]
so I wanna show folks what that looks like

[00:23:40.729]
because I think a lot of times

[00:23:42.779]
particularly for myself, I like to do a lot

[00:23:45.049]
of this from my, my laptop.

[00:23:47.259]
I'm a bigger screen. Person.

[00:23:49.380]
Uh, but it really is

[00:23:51.410]
easy to use on your phone

[00:23:53.729]
or in a much smaller screen

[00:23:55.689]
because it is mobile, responsive,

[00:23:58.118]
not just compliant but responsive.

[00:24:00.799]
It knows you're using a smaller screen so you

[00:24:02.818]
can kind of see how things shrink

[00:24:05.219]
in a bit. Maybe you're scrolling up and down a little

[00:24:07.430]
more because we've got a narrower screen rather

[00:24:09.660]
than a wider one, but

[00:24:11.920]
everything fits. So I've got just a, a few different

[00:24:14.160]
screenshots to show you that look. Um

[00:24:16.699]
because there's certainly my nieces and nephews do a

[00:24:18.709]
lot more work from their phones than I

[00:24:20.719]
do. But you're gonna have a, a good experience

[00:24:22.920]
with this resource if you are coming

[00:24:25.118]
to it through your phone.

[00:24:28.009]
Ok. And then lastly, we've

[00:24:30.189]
got some great tools to help you drive users

[00:24:32.309]
to this resource. So we're gonna talk about promotional

[00:24:34.750]
materials in a minute. This is more

[00:24:36.910]
coming from the different tools

[00:24:38.920]
you have maybe off your website. So

[00:24:41.219]
certainly into your catalog. But

[00:24:43.229]
also just if you've got lib guides

[00:24:45.348]
or different sections of your web page

[00:24:47.410]
that speak to these types of tools, you

[00:24:49.479]
know, helping prepare for college and career,

[00:24:51.979]
we have built mark records

[00:24:54.400]
um that hold the

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uh

[00:24:58.759]
856 tag with a URL

[00:25:01.469]
that will drop you directly into

[00:25:04.180]
the ebook content that's available

[00:25:06.189]
in Peterson's, but also what we call the

[00:25:08.209]
subject hubs. So there's pages

[00:25:10.489]
where you kind of get that list. If we,

[00:25:12.640]
if you look at the, actually both of these are examples

[00:25:14.699]
of what hub pages might look like with these screenshots.

[00:25:17.680]
They take you into

[00:25:20.279]
directly into the resource and land

[00:25:22.709]
you on these pages. So you just can pick

[00:25:24.949]
right up with maybe preparing for

[00:25:27.049]
the, for the nclex, right?

[00:25:29.539]
So the markers are really handy if

[00:25:31.750]
you know, certainly you've got, that's probably the,

[00:25:34.130]
you know,

[00:25:35.108]
one of the most popular things on your website,

[00:25:37.118]
right? Folks going into the catalog. So it's a great

[00:25:39.209]
way to help folks discover Peterson's content

[00:25:41.358]
there. We also though have direct

[00:25:43.539]
URL S for this for the subject tab.

[00:25:45.670]
So again, if you're using lib guides or other

[00:25:47.699]
paths on your website and just want

[00:25:49.769]
some links that go directly into the

[00:25:51.930]
particular pieces of the resource like

[00:25:54.049]
the, the career uh support section,

[00:25:57.078]
the subject Tub Direct URL

[00:25:59.098]
S will get them there as well. So

[00:26:01.150]
great ways to help folks discover this

[00:26:03.328]
kind of organically when they're using your

[00:26:05.509]
website.

[00:26:06.900]
But then of course, we've got lots of support to help them

[00:26:09.009]
discover it maybe with a bit more of a push.

[00:26:11.209]
So if you have a social media pa uh pages

[00:26:14.019]
that you use like Instagram or, or

[00:26:16.219]
Facebook or anything like that, we've got

[00:26:18.439]
social media posts ready to go.

[00:26:20.660]
Uh no need to recreate the wheel. We've got them for

[00:26:22.910]
you. We've got digital signage you could

[00:26:25.059]
use in the library and other a bunch of other digital

[00:26:27.390]
assets. But then we've also got things like bookmarks,

[00:26:29.848]
you know, you want to print out some bookmarks and share those

[00:26:32.000]
at a program or maybe you're again

[00:26:35.650]
in a school library and you've got an open house coming

[00:26:37.989]
up, you want, you know, parents to take some, some

[00:26:40.289]
tools home with them. The, the bookmarks

[00:26:42.449]
and things like tip sheets even are really handy.

[00:26:44.689]
We've got lots of great training materials

[00:26:47.068]
too. So if there's staff who couldn't attend

[00:26:49.239]
today, we've got recorded webinars,

[00:26:51.568]
we've got resource guides to walk

[00:26:53.699]
them through the resources. Um There's

[00:26:55.890]
even activities, lesson plans and

[00:26:57.969]
things like that, that incorporate the resources.

[00:27:00.358]
So, you know, you can share with your teachers

[00:27:02.529]
about how

[00:27:04.309]
uh they might put these resources to work in the classroom.

[00:27:07.098]
Um or, and you know, and certainly in this case, you

[00:27:09.180]
wanna let your guidance counselors know and things like

[00:27:11.348]
that. So,

[00:27:12.630]
uh there's also though, though

[00:27:15.160]
I mentioned outreach, certainly the promotional materials,

[00:27:17.479]
but we've also got training decks in the training

[00:27:19.489]
center so that if you again are doing outreach,

[00:27:21.719]
maybe a program

[00:27:23.239]
um in the library, outreach into the classrooms,

[00:27:25.818]
we have slides for you. You don't

[00:27:28.019]
have to, again, create those and everything is customizable,

[00:27:31.250]
but it's nice to have something to start from.

[00:27:33.680]
And then of course, all of our, our tech support is

[00:27:35.709]
available on the support page as well. So

[00:27:37.729]
what's great about the support site is you go to support.gail.com/njsl

[00:27:43.189]
and it will ask you to select your library from

[00:27:45.400]
the dropbox list and then everything

[00:27:47.759]
is customized for your library. So all the links

[00:27:50.189]
we give you all the Mark records. It's all

[00:27:52.539]
built in to tie to your

[00:27:54.618]
library. So really

[00:27:56.789]
beneficial to start out with that um

[00:27:58.969]
specific support page rather

[00:28:01.009]
than our general one.

[00:28:02.848]
Now, I will have a follow up email

[00:28:04.930]
that's gonna come to you around this time tomorrow. It will

[00:28:06.949]
have a link to the recording, but also all

[00:28:09.108]
of these email addresses that are on this

[00:28:11.118]
side, all of the links for the content that's on the

[00:28:13.209]
previous side will be in that

[00:28:15.219]
email.

[00:28:16.838]
So no need to rush to write these down.

[00:28:19.368]
Um But you can of course, always reach

[00:28:21.608]
out to a person. The support site is great for

[00:28:23.630]
on demand support. But when you have

[00:28:25.949]
questions or you know, want

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to provide feedback, you always

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want to reach out to a person.

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So you've got your Gael team

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ready for you here. So again, I'm

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your trainer. If I don't have the answer, I know where

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to go to get it to. So feel free to start with me.

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But we've got two great groups at Gale that

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I think are always a good first touch for library

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staff. And that is

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uh for K 12 public and special library,

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gonna be our customer success team

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and then for academic libraries, our academic

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outreach and engagement services team. So

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they can help you if you're doing any, any promotional

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efforts. If you are looking

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uh again for

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maybe success, success stories or materials

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to use as you are maybe offering

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training and outreach on these resources.

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Of course, if you got feedback for us suggestions,

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these are great groups to work with.

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So tech support of course is always

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available. And actually, you know what, I'm gonna

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edit this slide while I'm

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here just I'll again have this in

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my email. But for technical support,

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I always like to mention the 800 number

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because we are,

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you know, of course, very

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email minded, I think for a lot of things.

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But with tech support, if you're having a problem, I like you to

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get immediate help and that's what that 800 number

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is really good for. So having trouble with

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the links can't get in,

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that's who you want to reach out to.

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And then of course, you can always find uh your gale

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account rep if you're interested in looking at other gale resources.

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And of course, as we mentioned the the support

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site for, for Jersey clicks. So

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lots of ways to connect with your gale team.

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Definitely do reach out. Don't suffer in

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silence. We wanna hear from you.

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So Michael, anything to add before we

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wrap up?

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Um No, nothing to add at this time.

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Um You know, we've uh we've had a few

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um libraries reach out with

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uh interest and you know that weren't originally implemented

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in, in some of our church

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clicks databases. So if you are here from

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a public or school or academic

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library and you're not sure sure if you

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ever set up for, you know, either IP X

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um

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IP authentication um

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or to get your stats, you can always reach out

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and we can always check into that for you. Um

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But in the meantime, I wanted to say thank

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you again to our attendees and thank you to Stacey

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for joining us today.

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Um

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I can see that um Stacey has put that

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uh link into the chat here. I'm just gonna drop

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it in one more time um for people

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who can fill out um if you wouldn't mind filling out an

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evaluation survey at the conclusion of this program.

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But again, uh thank you for uh you know,

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for sharing this information today.

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Oh, absolutely happy to do it. I hope

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you'll all jump in and take a look

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at the new uh career coach option

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uh with the career assessment and, and have

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a look around lots of good stuff there. So

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I'm gonna go ahead and kind of keep the webinar open

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in case any questions should come in. But

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folks, if you're all set, thanks so much for tuning

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in today. Keep an eye out that email will come to

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you around this time tomorrow with again,

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all this, you know, contact information

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as well as a link to the recording and some other good stuff

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too. So, thanks all.
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