Duration: 60 Minutes
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All right good morning everybody and welcome.
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I'm Stacey Knibloe with gale. Glad to
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be with you here this morning to take
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a look at a newer resource
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you have available to you through. Jersey clicks
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Gale Presents Peterson's Test
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and Career Prep Which is a mouthful
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for a a product name. So you'll
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probably mostly hear me refer to it as Peterson's
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or Test and Career Prep
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with some sort of abbreviation.
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But we want to make sure you know what you can
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expect from this resource and how it can
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work into the workflow at your library
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and just share some best practices
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for using it.
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and of course answer all your questions so we want
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to leave a lot of time for those as well.
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Another thing we're gonna look at is a way
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to make this resource more discoverable
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at your library. We've lot you've got lots
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of great marketing tools out at the
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gill support site that you can certainly make
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use of but there are some other neat
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resources you can take advantage of.
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we're gonna talk about Mark
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Records and subject. Top links, a little
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in a little more detail. because
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we certainly want folks to know that this is available
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through your library and have some neat ideas
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for how you can spread the word. So
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as always though, we'll wrap up with where
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you can go for more help from gale. We want
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you to be able to reach out to us with questions
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and feedback any time.
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and to that end we'll also
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be sending a follow-up email that will come to you tomorrow
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around this time. That has some links
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and lots of the good stuff
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that I mentioned in the session so
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you can of course feel free to reach out
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in response to that email or
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again to anyone on the Gale team
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when you've got questions after today
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but do feel free to keep them coming during the
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session. I have
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Again budget is a good amount of time so we
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can cover lots of questions
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and I'm happy to kind
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of click on what you see in the resource
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and want me to show you what it does just jump
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in any time. So
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let's go ahead and dive in.
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So first we just wanna give
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a quick overview of the resource, you can know
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what to expect from it that it is well named.
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But we want to let you know
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a little more detail about kind of the main areas
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of the resource. So
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Gale Presents Peterson's Test and Career Prep
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is of course a partner product between Gale
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and Peterson. So even before
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I went to work for gale, I knew Peterson's resources.
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We had a hard time keeping their books on the shelf
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in the library. I was a also
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a hard time getting them back and maybe the condition
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that they went out in,
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So very familiar with Peterson's content.
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We're thrilled to partner with them
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and this whole resource is built
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around their test and career prep offerings
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and of course we have a lot of that content in
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the resource. So one of
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the most popular areas of the database
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is the test prep tools.
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So you can prep for different standardized
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testing.
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for them relating to college high
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school and career
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and we're gonna explore those, show you how those
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tests work.
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We also have a lot of great content
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around folks looking for a new
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career or say in a high school
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high schoolers point of view of
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their career. There's lots
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of tools around support
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like figuring that out. But then also
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active tools where you can go in and take a career
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assessment, read up on different jobs.
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Even view open positions
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Ok. And then to that end, when you're ready to start
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applying for jobs, there's a resume builder
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or a co a cover letter builder along
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with some additional pieces we'll talk about.
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And again a lot of support for that as
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well, so how to prepare for an interview, how to negotiate
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salary, what your resume should
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include. There's lots of great support
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within the resource
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And then lastly should the career you're interested
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in require some sort of schooling. We've got
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searches for colleges specific
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programs for safe but there's a nursing
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program. Search there's searches for
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say an M. B. A. Program
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you also have support around a lot of
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the financial issues that come with college.
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So can find scholarships to
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apply for, can read up on you know
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what you have to do with F. F. A. And things like that
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so a lot of support
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is built into this resource. You know the
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the I think the kind of resume tool
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and the test prep get a lot of
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use. But keep in mind that this
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does more than that. There's really a lot more help
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here for for building a career.
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So we are gonna dive right into it and
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spend our time most of our time in
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the database. So again if you see
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something on the screen you'd like to know more about.
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Just let me know I've of course got a list
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of things I want to cover with you. But
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I'm happy you know to take a left turn.
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This is really your session. So let's get your
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your questions answered.
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So the home page of Peterson’s
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Test and Career prep is gonna basically
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give you a sense of what you can do here
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but you'll notice in the upper right hand corner,
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there's a login option and it will also
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prompt. You kind of should you go down one of these paths
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and select something to log in.
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So
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the resource is something
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that people come back to right they come back and they
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keep working on a resume. They take another
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practice test, that type of thing. So we need
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to be able to keep track of who's using the database.
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So it does require what we would call
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a named user login.
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so let's look at
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that first and then we'll explore the resource.
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So
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the login button of course if you've been here before and
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log into your account or we're gonna use the new user sign
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up so you can see what's involved.
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It is very simple. Your name,
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user name, password and a secret word are
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the only things that are required, email address
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is optional.
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Folks don't have to submit that if they
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don't want to. It is the best way to reset
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your password. Should you forget it. But if
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you don't.
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there's other ways to reset your password.
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We are not doing anything with this data
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nor is Peterson's you're not gonna start
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all of a sudden getting promotional emails from
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Peterson's or gale. If you do turn over your email
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address it is strictly there so you can
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reset your password.
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You also fill this in
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and your account is immediately created. You don't
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have to again because your email address isn't required,
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you don't have to go and verify your email address.
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You're just in immediately
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Again we don't truly know
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who you are at the other end of this.
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No user information is being tracked aside
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from this account that lets you get back to your
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practice desk your resume.
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So privacy is important.
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It always is important particularly
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if you're gonna be working with people who are under 18.
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So Yale has very strict rules around
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privacy. You can actually if you scroll to the bottom of
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the page you can get out to our privacy policy
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and
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learn more about it.
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Now I am gonna go ahead and log into a demo
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account just because I want to show you what some things look like
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when they're completed. So rather than sign
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up here, I'm gonna use that log in button.
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And just use my demo account here.
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and there's unlimited users. So feel
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free to create your own accounts to get
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to know the database and then of course,
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you know, your patron and your students cannot
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create their own as well. So no,
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no limits there.
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All right, so now we're back to the home page
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before I kind of dive into each area. I
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want to point out at the top of the screen
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Oh my I wanna use my little
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anti tool. It's blocking the thing. I wanna circle.
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There we go.
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there is a title list available
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that breaks down all
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of the content that's in the database and
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this gets updated as we up are actually
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I think it's around four times a year because
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different parts of the database, different
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tests are updated at different times.
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The title list is really the best place
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to see what's in the database and
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when it's from. So you can see
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even more detail, how many practice
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tests do we have for that exam, that type of thing.
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And the last official
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testing because some of these standardized tests, you
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know every three years they maybe change up the
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format or you know something like that.
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You get those dates as well. And
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then the last time the content was updated.
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So this might make a nice printout to keep at the reference
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desk a quick check of what's in
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the resource. You kind of though. Of course
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though explore and just test and see if
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we have what you're looking for. But this gives you those
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additional dates. So I would like to point those
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out, But the resource
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itself really tells you what's in it. So
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that's what we're gonna explore here. There is a search
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so if you want it you know you're looking for the S. A. T. You
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can just kind of
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search and land right there
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or what we're gonna do. What I tend to
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always start with. I like a brows tool
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because then you can see what's around
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in the resource and you know discover new
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things. We are always
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our databases are never finished so we're always adding
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new content. I think there have been a few new things
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added even since this was added
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to the Jersey clicks program. So
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you know, always good to I think be in the live
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resource and see what's here.
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So there are four areas where you'll kind
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of go down paths within the resource,
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improve your score is
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mostly gonna be test prep for
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standardized tests. But then some additional tools
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we're gonna take a look at,
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find a school is exactly that. It's
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all the collar, scholarships or sorry the college
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searches plus scholarship searches, you
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know, advice around financial aid and things
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like that.
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explore. Careers is gonna lead you to the
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resume builder. The career
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assessments. And again help
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for doing all of that job search.
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and then vocational test prep. So again more
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standardized tests which is relating to particular
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careers
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and we're going to go down each of these paths. So
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let me know if there's anything particular you want to look for.
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Actually let me check the chat and Q. And A.
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Nothing yet. But let me go ahead and
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get started with improve your score.
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so we're gonna get into you
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know probably the most popular test in the resource is
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the S. A. T. But before we get
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to that I want to point out some of the other
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tools that are here, we have
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this foundational skills section
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which is
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really handy because what it does is
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let you go through some
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tutorials and question banks
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around English reading math.
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It can be just a good brush up. Say we've got
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someone who's on the job market again after say
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20 years and they're looking for something
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new. Maybe there's some you know they're
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gonna prep for the postal exam. Firefight
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exam, something like that.
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And they just want to brush up on some
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of these skills That's gonna be a great use here.
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These can also be great supplemental support
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for students for
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folks who are maybe learning English
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you'll also find here though office Microsoft
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office tutorials. So
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something folks can do at home.
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We've got a Windows 11 tutorial down here
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So there are these kind of additional
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not quite for specific tests but
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just additional kind of skills building
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here under foundational skills.
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now. The four paths follow me
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through my time in the resource. So if I open
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up that little arrow next to improve your school,
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I can get to all the other areas. So if you
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take a look at high school we've got things like preparing
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for a P. Exams and just a quick
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click into them, you can see which exams
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are here. This is a list that's really grown
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over time. We love to hear feedback
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about what folks need
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in their schools and their libraries. So
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you know you see the results in this resource.
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When that happens
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So college prep is where we'll find
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the S. A. T. The A. C. T. The
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clap exam, P. S. A. T. All
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of these that you might take while you're
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in high school
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and what you'll find is as you select
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each test
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You'll see whatever support we have for
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it. So in some cases you'll see
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three items. Three cards here like I have.
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In some cases you'll see one card, it's just gonna
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vary about the content that's here.
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But what we're of course always looking for
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are those practice tests. So that's the most common
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card you'll find.
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We also though carry the eBook content
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from Peterson so
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we've got the master of the S. A. T. 2020
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eBook here that we can go through. It just gonna
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be a P. D. F. I can work with
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and then a few tests a handful of tests
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will actually have online courses to go
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along with them. Which I always like to
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point this out for the S. A. T. Because
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this is something someone can do for free
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through your library
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at their own pace. You know this is it. They don't have
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to make time you know to co go
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to an S. A. T. Prep course again
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don't have to pay for it. So you know
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really equitable here, anybody can get to
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this.
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and it basically like it implies
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preps you for the S. A. T. There are some pre
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assessments as you go through
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you work on the different sections of the test,
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and this is along with
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the master of the S. A. T. E. Book so you can use
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that as a companion or
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another tool to help study for the exam.
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So really valuable to have those two kind of
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powerful tools with you. But
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I will say the practice tests are probably the most popular
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because that's of course gonna put you right in
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that kind of test. Taking mindset and
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testing how you're doing
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So you can, as you're going through
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the practice test you'll see they almost
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act like courses. I should say almost
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they kind of do, we can see course contents here.
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I'm 24% of the way through the practice
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tests available.
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And for the S. A. T. We
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actually have a lot of
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versions of a practice exam. I think we're up to nine.
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Yes so nine practice
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tests for the S. A. T. That will
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vary too. We're gonna look at other tests where maybe
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we've got three different versions.
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We want to add as many as we
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can because it's not good to
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just take, keep taking the same one over
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and over and start memorizing answers. Right
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so having multiples is
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really valuable.
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and you can see here over on the left the ones I've taken.
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I've got a check mark four
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and if we go ahead and wanna take another,
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I'm just gonna jump into one here.
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you get a little info about the quiz
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first you have you
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know instructions for how it's gonna work. You might
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also have
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let's see it looks like the S. A. T. Doesn't have
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one. But some of the tests will have like their own
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introduction over here on the table of contents
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at Sandy.
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But if we go ahead and
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start the quiz
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This is formatted like it's pieces
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of paper. So the way you might move through the test
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Some are of course electronic themselves but
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[00:14:23.538]
it's kind of mimic that real world experience
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here, we've got a passage we need to read.
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And as I scroll down I'll then
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see the questions for this passage.
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And if you go through
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it really is like taking the test, you're
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just marking your answers, you can go
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back and change them at any point. I can
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adjust as I'm marking
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them off. You'll see the pages over
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on the left or marking each question with a check
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mark as I answer it. So I can kind of
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visually get a cue as to where I am
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this of course not the way you probably want to take
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the S. A. T. But you can move
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through
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and mark your answers.
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And then at the bottom here you have the option
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to move to the next page. You can always submit the
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quiz which we will submit this early
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but just keep moving through.
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But with that navigation over on the left
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and then at the bottom of the questions you can always
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get back and forth. So if I want to go back and
[00:15:17.889]
review my answers, make some changes
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or even leave one undone, I can
[00:15:22.178]
skip a. Question and come back to it
[00:15:24.259]
later and again I'm gonna have that visual cue over
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on the left. as well as
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and once I submit the quiz
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or click the submit quiz
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button, it will let me know if I've forgotten
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any questions if I haven't answered something.
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So let me get a few more of these answered
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and I'll go ahead and submit now
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it's even warning me down below here, 20
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of 52 questions save. Again I've got
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the visual queue over on the lap that I haven't
[00:15:50.298]
answered some but when I submit to
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it's gonna warn me I've got 32 unanswered
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questions which I'm just gonna go with.
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and it takes a minute but it grades
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the exam and then puts you right back in it
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to review it so you can go through and see how
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you did.
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And randomly selecting answers is
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not pro oh it looks like I got lucky
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on the first one. So
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you can open up and see I've got the correct
[00:16:15.529]
answer here and even the second one, wow
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I did ok on these first three. Here
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we go. But this is what it looks like when you've got something wrong.
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So it lets you know with a little red X. Your answer
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was wrong and then the blue arrow pointing
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you to the right one and I can open up and view
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the feedback so you can see kind of where you went
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wrong. So
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very handy to have this feedback
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immediately. You can always go back and get it through
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the kind of course view too if you want
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to go back and review another test,
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It's keeping track of all of these for you.
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And the resource is
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of course always gonna grade the multiple choice
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sections. But if you've got a section
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say like you do on the S. A. T. That's an essay
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or a short answer.
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It's really more for you to kind of have
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the practice of writing that essay.
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And then you can often use the eBook
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to get an idea of maybe you know
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what you should have done. There's some advice for
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the short answers and essays and things like
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that. So
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It doesn't technically get graded here
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but it does give you the, you know
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a practice of doing it
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So the other tests are gonna be formatted
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like this. Let's go ahead and take a look at a few more.
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I'm just gonna exit out of this tab here.
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So again improve your score is gonna be
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the test typically that have to do with
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some sort of schooling. So again
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whether it's a P. Exams or a P. S.
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A. T. Or something like that grad school.
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You've got those. This is also although
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I think we have an inter vocational test prep to the international
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sections. You can prepare for say the U. S. Citizenship
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exam or the
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to
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met those here as well
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but let's go ahead and take a look at vocational task
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prep while we're on the subject. So I'm just gonna skip those
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two tabs in the middle.
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And the browse here
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gives you an idea some of these are kind of broken down
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by industry almost so
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something like medical and nursing. This has
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been a popular section of the resource. And we've
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added a lot of new exams here.
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E. M. T. I know we I think we've added
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within the last, well no E. M. T. Has actually
[00:18:14.170]
been around longer than that dental admission test.
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If you've got something we added this year we got some feedback.
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you've got of course all your nursing practice
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tests as well as the T. S. To kind of get into
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nursing school. You have
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C. N. A. Dental hygienist
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massage therapy.
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And again just click in and you'll see kind
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of what's available for each
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to go through. It looks like this is
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can be just some test prep.
[00:18:38.989]
Oh no it looks like they've got some studying tools here
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too. So clicking in will just
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again gonna show you what's available
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Some of the newer tests are here at the bottom
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of this alphabetical list. So aviation and
[00:18:50.098]
transportation, this was one that kind of jumped
[00:18:52.108]
out at me for a New Jersey. You're
[00:18:54.140]
close to some airports there
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or have some airports. So I was being close
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to a few. The T. S. A. Exam is
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is a newer one that we've added,
[00:19:03.670]
we've also added journeyman plumber
[00:19:05.689]
and electrician exams.
[00:19:07.769]
The HESI you've got
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you know some great stuff here and the
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p. A. Exam is is
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a recent addition as well.
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So these are,
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all available
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to any user again to take as many as
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they like and if they're gonna keep coming back to something,
[00:19:25.930]
you'll see as I click around
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and I'm looking at different cards, there's this
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little star next to each of them.
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If I click that star,
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sorry, let me get rid of my drawing there so I can
[00:19:37.039]
click it, it adds it to my
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favorites, it turns it purple, and then you'll
[00:19:41.348]
notice when you come into the database and log
[00:19:43.598]
in Your home page
[00:19:45.630]
lists all of your favorites. So
[00:19:48.039]
you can see I've got a lot here. I probably should clean this up.
[00:19:50.239]
I add a new one every time I do a training. So
[00:19:53.098]
you can easily get back and pick up where you
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left off under create a resume or
[00:19:57.189]
math videos or whatever it may be and
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just jump
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you know right there from your login into
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where you want to pick back up.
[00:20:07.059]
So let me just check the chat and Q. And A. Let me
[00:20:09.078]
know if there are any tests in particular. I'd like to see if we
[00:20:11.209]
have,
[00:20:12.400]
I'm happy to to navigate
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to those
[00:20:16.828]
Alright so let's I'm gonna leave find
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a school for our last
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card we'll go into. I'm gonna open up
[00:20:23.598]
explore careers because I want to show you again some of
[00:20:25.670]
the more popular content so things
[00:20:28.118]
you might be working with folks a little more often on
[00:20:30.848]
the career tool section is
[00:20:32.969]
where we'll find career assessments,
[00:20:34.989]
the builder resume
[00:20:37.358]
Career advice we even include
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the sometimes you'll see things in multiple places.
[00:20:42.098]
So career colleges searches here, it's
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also gonna be under find a school, so kind of wherever
[00:20:46.420]
it's appropriate. You might find these cards.
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and if they jump to create a resume, this
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might be a familiar tool. This is We've
[00:20:53.799]
Peterson's partnered with Visual C. V.
[00:20:56.358]
Which is a resume builder out there on
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the internet. They have a kind of
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fee based service that folks can take advantage
[00:21:02.519]
of our subscription service. I think
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here though there's no cost
[00:21:06.529]
of course to your end user and we get to take advantage
[00:21:09.000]
of some really cool tools
[00:21:11.479]
here with visual C. V. So
[00:21:13.630]
the
[00:21:14.630]
resume and cover builder are both
[00:21:16.719]
here and we're gonna look at those.
[00:21:18.920]
But I just want to mention these two other features
[00:21:21.059]
that are available.
[00:21:22.500]
Create a website. Actually let
[00:21:24.539]
you create a website about yourself
[00:21:26.799]
that you can send people to maybe put
[00:21:28.838]
in a cover letter. Oh,
[00:21:30.838]
when you visit the Visual C. V. It
[00:21:32.939]
will pop up and offer a tutorial
[00:21:35.219]
when you get here. So I'm here for that
[00:21:37.309]
today. So maybe I can close that out, but very handy.
[00:21:39.858]
but create a resume, lets you build
[00:21:42.539]
a website around yourself and they make it look
[00:21:44.880]
good, they build it around one of your resumes
[00:21:47.019]
or you can upload a new one and and
[00:21:49.108]
get started.
[00:21:50.750]
But we're gonna skip that for now but it is
[00:21:52.809]
a very handy piece created.
[00:21:55.269]
Journal entry is a really interesting
[00:21:57.930]
tool. I think that I want to start
[00:21:59.949]
taking advantage of what it does is
[00:22:02.039]
let you track your career highlight,
[00:22:04.449]
you create this career journal
[00:22:06.568]
so that
[00:22:08.209]
when you're applying for a job, when you're updating
[00:22:10.390]
your resume you go like oh yeah I did
[00:22:12.549]
do that big project that went really well. Or
[00:22:14.670]
even often in a resume they'll ask
[00:22:16.848]
you, you know, where's something
[00:22:19.039]
you had a challenge and how did you handle it. But those
[00:22:21.380]
are the kinds of things you can put here this little
[00:22:23.430]
you know journal entry to keep track
[00:22:25.449]
of all of that, refresh your memory, which
[00:22:27.489]
I often need help to do.
[00:22:29.680]
But you can also publish this. So if you did
[00:22:31.729]
want to keep track of that info and make it available.
[00:22:34.358]
You can send books to
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the career journal as well.
[00:22:38.479]
so some neat features. But I do want to dig
[00:22:40.578]
in more to the resume so let me jump back to that
[00:22:42.739]
section
[00:22:43.828]
so you can create and keep track of
[00:22:45.858]
multiple resumes. You can see here. I've got quite
[00:22:48.108]
a few going here.
[00:22:50.150]
and
[00:22:51.368]
you often are creating
[00:22:53.430]
a resume
[00:22:54.660]
every time you apply for a job you'd be adjusting
[00:22:57.118]
a little bit depending on what the position is. So
[00:22:59.150]
it's a great way to, you know, keep all of that here
[00:23:01.549]
and also have a great looking
[00:23:03.588]
resume. There are tons of templates. I am not
[00:23:05.848]
this creatively inclined. I'm letting
[00:23:07.868]
the database kind of do the work to make it look
[00:23:09.890]
good for me. So let's
[00:23:11.930]
go ahead and take a look. So
[00:23:14.289]
creating a new one
[00:23:16.250]
is actually gonna ask you those same questions.
[00:23:18.309]
So do we want to upload an existing resume?
[00:23:20.750]
So if I've got one in word I want to work
[00:23:22.828]
from, I can upload that.
[00:23:24.568]
I can just completely start from scratch and
[00:23:26.670]
start filling in the fields here myself
[00:23:29.078]
or what I love is the use
[00:23:31.368]
sample content option.
[00:23:33.630]
This is gonna let me steal
[00:23:36.318]
my watch and put it that way. Let me borrow
[00:23:38.880]
text from prewritten resumes.
[00:23:41.108]
So if you use sample content
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It's gonna open up and show you some of their popular
[00:23:47.449]
samples which you can take a look at and review.
[00:23:49.809]
You can also search those. So if I've held a job
[00:23:52.209]
as a bank teller
[00:23:54.309]
I can search on that and see if they've
[00:23:56.368]
got an example resume and they've got three.
[00:23:59.500]
and you can give it a little preview or
[00:24:01.660]
I'm just gonna go ahead and use this sample.
[00:24:06.250]
and it knows my name right? Because I have a user
[00:24:08.400]
account and pulled it from that. But here
[00:24:10.750]
it pulled in all that data
[00:24:13.049]
and where I know I struggle but I know
[00:24:15.108]
a lot of other people do too
[00:24:17.199]
Is this section here under work experience.
[00:24:19.559]
How do I describe my job
[00:24:21.890]
and if we've got a resume that's similar to
[00:24:23.979]
a position you've held, it's done a lot of that
[00:24:26.059]
work for you, you can of course edit all
[00:24:28.078]
of this. So if I needed
[00:24:30.400]
to add something else to this
[00:24:32.890]
and I'm just gonna say
[00:24:34.769]
E. T. M. Maintenance
[00:24:36.920]
no idea. but let's say
[00:24:39.160]
I can include that. Oh it looks like maybe you would borrow
[00:24:41.439]
this resume from someone who is maybe and
[00:24:43.509]
they spell check a little different. So the spell
[00:24:45.640]
check has popped up for me
[00:24:47.759]
and adjust that.
[00:24:49.568]
But you have this starting point
[00:24:51.640]
and I think starting from scratch. Maybe some
[00:24:53.838]
folks really you know would
[00:24:56.199]
rather do that and kind of get a maybe
[00:24:58.410]
a resume going that way but I really
[00:25:00.539]
appreciate having this data to work
[00:25:02.689]
from and adjust as needed.
[00:25:05.189]
and again it already makes it look
[00:25:07.229]
good. It puts it into a really nice
[00:25:09.469]
looking format but you'll see over on
[00:25:11.578]
the left, you have all these menu
[00:25:13.709]
options for things you can change.
[00:25:15.848]
And
[00:25:17.420]
If I go in to change template, this
[00:25:19.608]
is where I can find all those nice kind of really colorful.
[00:25:23.500]
resumes and a lot of them include
[00:25:25.818]
photos which I think is something
[00:25:28.199]
it is kind of, I feel like this goes back and forth
[00:25:30.608]
including a photo isn't always preferred,
[00:25:32.799]
so you don't have to, that
[00:25:34.828]
space just goes blank if you don't upload
[00:25:36.949]
an image. But I'll go with
[00:25:39.049]
one here like the look
[00:25:41.269]
at this one,
[00:25:43.509]
grab that and it just reformats it
[00:25:45.568]
for me
[00:25:46.598]
and I can change things too if I don't love
[00:25:48.739]
the green color here up in the top.
[00:25:50.868]
I have all the options for kind of editing
[00:25:53.049]
so I can switch that. Maybe I'll go with
[00:25:55.160]
a this
[00:25:59.209]
pink color there.
[00:26:01.430]
Really simple. I don't have to worry about
[00:26:03.930]
the formatting. I get all these options
[00:26:06.088]
for how I how I want to adjust. It
[00:26:08.130]
can change the fonts, can change
[00:26:10.368]
the
[00:26:12.108]
[00:26:13.719]
margins and things like that as needed.
[00:26:16.219]
Again can always edit the text
[00:26:18.799]
and get rid of content entirely. So
[00:26:20.900]
if I don't want the
[00:26:23.489]
oh what was it? There was a little trash can here. I can
[00:26:25.769]
I can delete content.
[00:26:28.309]
and when you've got it the way you want it you
[00:26:30.549]
have the option to download it and
[00:26:32.729]
share it outside of the resource. So
[00:26:34.939]
we can download a P. D. F. Version, we can
[00:26:37.009]
download a word and that is still
[00:26:39.189]
in beta but it does a pretty nice job.
[00:26:41.348]
You do want to just kind of double check everything
[00:26:43.680]
looks good but the word
[00:26:45.818]
version looks pretty good.
[00:26:48.130]
You can also go choose to share it
[00:26:50.469]
and get a link for it. under
[00:26:52.789]
publish this will also appear
[00:26:55.189]
over. Let me go ahead and circle it on the screen
[00:26:57.529]
here under settings, you can do this in either
[00:26:59.779]
place under settings or share.
[00:27:02.098]
You're choosing kind of the privacy
[00:27:04.309]
level of this resume you've created
[00:27:06.608]
by default. The
[00:27:08.650]
resume is always
[00:27:11.729]
unlisted,
[00:27:13.019]
that is the most private
[00:27:16.309]
kind of level you can have
[00:27:18.568]
Oh no I'm sorry, you know what I apologize
[00:27:21.078]
folks, I'm forgetting when you choose to share,
[00:27:23.509]
You pick one of the sharing options. There are
[00:27:25.549]
two of them. Let me actually show you what I'm talking about under
[00:27:27.769]
settings.
[00:27:29.039]
When you go to settings you'll see where
[00:27:31.309]
your privacy is at currently. So
[00:27:33.880]
share you're preparing to share. So
[00:27:35.920]
it's giving you the sharing options under settings,
[00:27:37.989]
you can see where your privacy is at.
[00:27:40.029]
but also change it if you want it. So
[00:27:42.549]
sorry about that. So under privacy
[00:27:44.689]
export only is our
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highest level of privacy meaning
[00:27:49.338]
I only have access to this. No one
[00:27:51.469]
else can find this resume. It lives
[00:27:53.799]
inside my account. I use download
[00:27:56.660]
to get it out as a P. D. F.
[00:27:58.930]
Or a word document but
[00:28:00.759]
it lives inside the resource and nobody
[00:28:03.019]
can get to it but me
[00:28:04.910]
that is by default,
[00:28:07.078]
if I switch though to unlisted or
[00:28:09.118]
public. Those are the two sharing options.
[00:28:11.279]
If I switch to unlisted.
[00:28:13.279]
What this does then is create
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a link for the resume.
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So this U. R. L. Here I'd be
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able to include in a cover letter or
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hand it wherever I need it to go. If I'm you
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know filling out a form online or something
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like that. I can I can put it there.
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It's unlisted though meaning that
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it's a shareable link but it's not out
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on the web and searchable
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right? If I switch though to
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public this will publish
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on the internet and folks searching on
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search engines by my name would be able to
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find this resume.
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So it is a great way to kind of get your
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name out there and make yourself discoverable.
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Not everybody wants to do that
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though. So that's why we've got the other options. So
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public is kind of the most
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public export only
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is gonna be the most private only. You have access
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to it and you have to choose to download it and
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share it that way
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and then unlisted is kind of that happy medium.
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You can have an online version of the resume but
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it's not searchable by search
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engines. So
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I since this is not true, I was never a bank
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teller. I'm gonna make sure to leave that as export
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only if I click save just to be safe
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but it is a really handy way
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to you know, in this kind of online world
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where you know,
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Often you're not even going somewhere for an interview,
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you're doing it via zoom and it's great to
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have these online tools to be able to share, throw
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into a chat message, you know while you're
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having your interview or again put it in a cover
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letter or when you're submitting online
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So
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there are lots of other features here but
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those are kind of the main ones I wanted to point
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out, you can change up the look and feel
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you can change your privacy
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letter or privacy level.
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All right, so we've got the same type of options under
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cover letters. So I've got a few
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going here. They're not quite as
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extensive
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assuming this often is gonna get, you know, pasted
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right into an email or something but
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you've got some options for cover letters
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here too.
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now resumes tend to come after
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you've decided what kind of career you want. Right?
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So also under career tools you've got
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the option to find a career
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and this offers a career assessment.
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Oh sorry I think I've timed out.
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Yeah. Sorry folks let me let me log back
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in. oh wait
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now I think men
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try this again
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Yeah there we go. So yeah look like
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I timed out in the visual C. V. Tool
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Are there sample practices I believe?
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Let me double check. I'm gonna actually
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use the search
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Yes. Master The
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practice prepare
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pro exam which is not an exam
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I'm familiar with but it looks like practice
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practice two.
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oh sorry that's the eBook so it automatically
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wanted to download it for me.
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and there we go practice test for the practice core
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practice core exams.
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Takes us right out. I'm
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gonna yeah I was gonna say should
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be right to the practice test so yes there are
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thanks and let me know if you wanna dive into
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those a little more
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Ok so back to the career assessment,
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there are four assessments
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that are performed
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and we would encourage folks to fill out all
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four.
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If they can uh, you
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know, if you're gonna kind of sit down and commit to this,
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we hope you'll kind of leave enough time to do all four.
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But technically you only have to take the
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first two which I've done here
[00:31:52.410]
to get matched up with careers.
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So as interests and values
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both have to be completed
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Oh you're welcome man, no problem.
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the tests though
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I
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I find really engaging a lot
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of career assessments. Are would you
[00:32:11.039]
like to do this job? Yes. No. Maybe
[00:32:13.989]
really basic what I like
[00:32:16.078]
about these is they ask different
[00:32:18.390]
questions like four different sections,
[00:32:20.890]
not just your interest but what do you what do you like
[00:32:22.949]
your workplace to be like?
[00:32:24.640]
and also the way they've done them is kind
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of engaging. There are of course going to be some multiple
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choice involved. But this is,
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you know, asking on these cards, what are the least
[00:32:33.598]
important um,
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uh, cards here for my ideal
[00:32:37.779]
organization.
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and then it will ask you what are your most important
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and all of this feeds into
[00:32:43.368]
the ultimate careers, it's recommending for
[00:32:45.568]
you. So again I would encourage
[00:32:47.670]
folks to fill out all four. I'm gonna
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exit though this
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oh how my journey wanna be under assessments
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I would encourage folks to fill
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out all four but it is it is not required
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just to have to take the first two and then
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once it's matched you up
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it ranks them by these are
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probably gonna be kind of familiar
[00:33:09.519]
[00:33:10.799]
you know, kind of industry and subject areas.
[00:33:13.170]
It's looking at where you'd be
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strongest by subject area
[00:33:17.410]
and then showing off to the right kind of where you
[00:33:19.880]
where you land in some of these now, you're
[00:33:21.969]
not limited to things that you were strong in,
[00:33:24.029]
you can of course always view all careers
[00:33:26.529]
and explore them.
[00:33:28.250]
And as you go in, I'm going to say health
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sciences
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and you're looking at these. It's letting you know
[00:33:34.328]
whether you wear a strong match or not. If
[00:33:36.338]
you look over on the left you can kind of
[00:33:38.410]
break them down by different areas.
[00:33:40.430]
So Say I'm strong in
[00:33:42.500]
health science but of course it's a lot of schooling to
[00:33:44.578]
become a psychiatrist. Maybe that's
[00:33:46.689]
my plan. But what can
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I do in the meantime, you know, I've got a high school
[00:33:50.900]
degree, what can I do to, you know, maybe
[00:33:53.019]
still work in health sciences so you can adjust
[00:33:56.348]
and choose the education level and
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or an experience level to see what
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what might be a good fit while you're going
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to school.
[00:34:03.939]
You can also
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Isolate and use the military
[00:34:08.719]
crosswalk tool, which I think
[00:34:10.860]
this is great. I know you know that
[00:34:13.159]
military base is in New Jersey. So this could
[00:34:15.269]
be really helpful for folks who may be out of
[00:34:17.329]
the military. They're looking for what to do next.
[00:34:21.309]
You can get matched up with
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putting in your codes and let
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me go ahead and I had these are things I had to
[00:34:27.728]
look up
[00:34:29.809]
Or someone who's in a career is probably
[00:34:31.989]
going to or been in the military
[00:34:34.208]
is gonna know these codes.
[00:34:37.228]
And you can get matched up. So a 255
[00:34:39.489]
a is an information systems technician
[00:34:41.860]
in the army and I can get matched up with
[00:34:44.000]
what careers would go strongly with that experience.
[00:34:47.340]
so I, I wish
[00:34:49.780]
this was a tool you could get to before
[00:34:52.128]
you perform the assessment. I wish it was
[00:34:54.168]
elsewhere. But you do have to go through
[00:34:56.478]
and again answer those first two assessments
[00:34:58.590]
and then once you get to your careers list
[00:35:01.739]
And just of course make any choice here.
[00:35:04.199]
You'll then can get to that military crossword. So
[00:35:06.320]
it's a couple extra clicks
[00:35:08.500]
you're gonna have to go through to find
[00:35:10.679]
it but hopefully down the road that'll be offered
[00:35:13.159]
standalone so you can get to it from elsewhere.
[00:35:15.599]
But in the meantime that's how you find that very
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handy. and then for each
[00:35:19.978]
of these jobs I'm just gonna go ahead and jump into one,
[00:35:22.059]
you get the a good overview. So you
[00:35:24.199]
know what are the you know kind of daily tasks like
[00:35:26.699]
what programs or
[00:35:28.739]
degrees do you have to hold what abilities,
[00:35:31.110]
what skills, you know that type of thing
[00:35:33.128]
over on the right, you can find average
[00:35:35.179]
salary and it will even let you kind
[00:35:37.280]
of look out
[00:35:39.228]
and see what's out there
[00:35:41.309]
right now for astronauts.
[00:35:43.360]
Oh no, astronomer astronomers is what, pick
[00:35:45.590]
all those astronauts for a minute.
[00:35:48.449]
you can even see the outlooks over the next 10
[00:35:50.530]
years. Is this career growing? Is it shrinking?
[00:35:52.769]
Looks like we're astronomers, not
[00:35:55.458]
super promising. But
[00:35:58.228]
some other tools as well.
[00:36:02.389]
and then there is actually a job search
[00:36:04.530]
tool here and when
[00:36:06.599]
you come in you can actually filter
[00:36:09.188]
by the data that it's pulled from your assessments
[00:36:11.809]
to so jobs match strength
[00:36:13.849]
and then that type of thing.
[00:36:15.469]
But let's say we're looking for
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Give me here, I've got a uh,
[00:36:25.260]
Sorry folks, I don't have my note for what I was gonna
[00:36:27.369]
search here. So I'm gonna go ahead and
[00:36:32.688]
and put in
[00:36:36.668]
in a moment. We'll see how we do.
[00:36:39.869]
go so still tying in with your content
[00:36:42.250]
from the assessments
[00:36:43.978]
And here we have found some jobs. Now this
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is also gonna actually be a partner tool
[00:36:48.168]
when I click out.
[00:36:49.869]
choose to learn more. We're actually
[00:36:52.059]
crawling out it indeed Dot com
[00:36:54.110]
to grab these open positions, which is
[00:36:56.269]
a tool in itself. It is a crawler
[00:36:58.289]
that goes out, folks can of course post things here,
[00:37:00.539]
but they also go out and crawl different websites.
[00:37:03.090]
So like, you know
[00:37:04.769]
employment offices or.
[00:37:07.728]
even just like corporate websites that post open
[00:37:09.909]
positions, things like that and bring them all back
[00:37:12.000]
here. And then of course indeed, dot
[00:37:14.019]
com has its own, you know, kind of tools where
[00:37:16.039]
you can, you know, keep track of your resume and the jobs
[00:37:18.219]
you've applied for and things like that, but
[00:37:20.559]
really great site. So
[00:37:22.728]
it also could be something familiar if someone is already
[00:37:24.889]
looking for a job. Indeed is something they might already
[00:37:27.019]
be using.
[00:37:29.840]
So lots of paths when you come into
[00:37:32.059]
the assessment tool, you get to the job search,
[00:37:34.199]
you get to that military crosswalk, you get to of
[00:37:36.280]
course the overviews for jobs
[00:37:38.320]
and careers. So lots of good stuff
[00:37:40.619]
there, just
[00:37:43.079]
checking our time we're doing ok again do
[00:37:45.179]
feel free to ask questions
[00:37:47.840]
We gotta come back close out some of these tabs
[00:37:51.590]
under explore careers. You'll also find
[00:37:54.110]
under career tools, the career
[00:37:56.239]
advice section. And this is kind of run
[00:37:58.369]
like a course as well. It's almost tutorials
[00:38:01.059]
for all of these, you know different
[00:38:04.329]
areas of looking for a career
[00:38:06.389]
or a job. So career changes,
[00:38:08.418]
transitioning out of the military and you
[00:38:10.489]
do kind of go through it like of course since you have completed
[00:38:12.949]
some of these or haven't completed, but
[00:38:14.958]
have started them
[00:38:16.969]
So lots of against
[00:38:18.978]
support and certainly these
[00:38:21.260]
are
[00:38:24.369]
you know, con things you might cover
[00:38:26.860]
on the shelves in the library, you know, lots of books
[00:38:28.929]
about these content. What I like about these is
[00:38:31.010]
they're fairly short, they're a little quick to go
[00:38:33.059]
through
[00:38:35.148]
you know and just get some good pointers for all
[00:38:37.208]
of these in this case salary
[00:38:39.239]
negotiations.
[00:38:42.639]
So lots of good stuff here.
[00:38:46.050]
And then last thing we'll take a look at find a school.
[00:38:48.570]
So we've broken these down by college
[00:38:51.449]
and graduate school. So if we go into
[00:38:53.599]
college and scholarship search
[00:38:56.260]
that's what these will be tied to. So distance learning
[00:38:58.570]
for you know two and four year institutions.
[00:39:01.030]
Career colleges search undergraduate
[00:39:03.469]
nursing school. There's a graduate nursing search
[00:39:06.010]
in the graduate program. So
[00:39:08.039]
just kind of breakdown by where you're at or
[00:39:10.119]
where you're looking to be I guess in that
[00:39:12.340]
state of education
[00:39:14.909]
And again the help for lots
[00:39:17.269]
of financial tools here. So the scholarship
[00:39:19.489]
search as well as f on financial
[00:39:21.610]
aid advice, a quiz.
[00:39:23.969]
That's a good stuff.
[00:39:25.360]
We take a look at the undergraduate school search.
[00:39:29.260]
basically, if you're, if you've used
[00:39:31.438]
one of the Peterson's college books, that's
[00:39:33.898]
what we're gonna be browsing here. Just of course,
[00:39:35.909]
lots of different ways to filter it. You can certainly just
[00:39:38.090]
search by a school if you want to see their info.
[00:39:40.918]
But the filters over on the left will
[00:39:42.978]
let you kind of get a list of schools
[00:39:45.148]
going maybe to apply to. So let's say we're looking
[00:39:47.590]
with, I love that in state tuition.
[00:39:49.648]
Let me see, we'll choose New Jersey.
[00:39:52.719]
and you can break down by area
[00:39:54.780]
of study school, type, average G.
[00:39:56.820]
P. A. Things like that to get in.
[00:39:59.320]
It is I love the area
[00:40:01.398]
of study because it's a long list,
[00:40:03.519]
but you can also just kind of type,
[00:40:06.438]
and get to those areas
[00:40:09.168]
you might need. So I kind of scroll
[00:40:11.349]
a bit here, grab for
[00:40:13.110]
biology degree
[00:40:15.469]
and as we select over on the right
[00:40:17.570]
it's just kind of filtering and showing the schools
[00:40:19.869]
that match so you can choose public
[00:40:22.079]
or private two and 44 year
[00:40:24.438]
missing difficulties school size
[00:40:26.800]
setting.
[00:40:27.750]
All of these options are available.
[00:40:31.320]
and then once you want to go in and explore
[00:40:33.438]
a school, go ahead and grab say Saint Elizabeth
[00:40:35.820]
University,
[00:40:38.000]
Again, this is what you can, you know, expect to
[00:40:40.099]
find in the books, just breaking down all these
[00:40:42.179]
areas majors and degrees offer, what the
[00:40:44.289]
student body makeup is, tuition and fees,
[00:40:46.860]
Athletics faculty,
[00:40:49.250]
you've got all of the those
[00:40:51.398]
kind of details to help find the perfect school.
[00:40:57.500]
All righty, so a couple of things under
[00:40:59.619]
this college search.
[00:41:02.269]
And so go ahead and let me jump into the graduate school one as
[00:41:04.389]
well. So M. B. A. Programs.
[00:41:07.208]
[00:41:08.300]
I love the distance learning. A lot of folks like to
[00:41:10.389]
do their degrees that way particularly
[00:41:12.969]
for a graduate program but then also
[00:41:15.148]
the the F. F. S. A. Help. So again multiple things
[00:41:17.369]
can show up. the scholarship
[00:41:19.708]
searches I think are really valuable. We
[00:41:21.728]
have again one for graduate and undergraduate
[00:41:24.360]
They work really like the school search. Does
[00:41:26.619]
you just choose over on the left?
[00:41:28.659]
You know, maybe we're looking for something
[00:41:30.800]
that's tied to the state we're gonna be studying
[00:41:32.938]
in. We
[00:41:35.000]
can isolate to those, see if they're a good fit.
[00:41:37.260]
So
[00:41:38.030]
great way to be able to keep track of
[00:41:40.639]
or sorry, not keep track but to find, you know, scholarships
[00:41:43.239]
to apply for.
[00:41:45.599]
also under find a school, the college
[00:41:47.809]
planning center. So if you're with say
[00:41:49.958]
a high school or a public library where
[00:41:52.128]
you find you're you know offering a lot
[00:41:54.188]
of support to students and parents. This is a great
[00:41:56.289]
place to kind of start with them. So
[00:41:58.559]
great tool like if you're having an open house this
[00:42:00.739]
fall at at school or
[00:42:03.019]
some sort of you know program around
[00:42:05.179]
[00:42:06.128]
college help and applying at
[00:42:08.429]
the public library.
[00:42:09.989]
it brings everything together. We've got
[00:42:12.349]
the advice tools, we've got the different
[00:42:14.750]
test prep links, we have a lot
[00:42:17.099]
of things all pulled into one place.
[00:42:19.168]
I love these checklists. So if I've got
[00:42:21.469]
you know a nephew who's going into
[00:42:23.829]
10th grade, what should
[00:42:25.860]
he be doing? What should his parents be doing?
[00:42:29.099]
just these quick checklists for,
[00:42:31.550]
you know, tasks relating to getting ready
[00:42:33.860]
for being out of school basically.
[00:42:36.070]
whether you're heading back in or or heading
[00:42:38.219]
into a career. So really great
[00:42:40.780]
content there.
[00:42:42.938]
And that leads me to some of the tools
[00:42:45.099]
I want to talk about around discovering
[00:42:47.188]
this, your, your patrons, your students discovering
[00:42:49.639]
this resource in the library. So
[00:42:52.429]
any questions about anything here
[00:42:54.760]
in the resource itself,
[00:42:58.289]
I kind of nothing in the chat in the Q.
[00:43:00.409]
And A. All, it can always come back. So I'm gonna pop back
[00:43:02.478]
to the power point for a minute.
[00:43:05.059]
So Discovery we
[00:43:07.148]
want to get these users in this resource
[00:43:09.539]
right. So we offer a couple
[00:43:11.719]
tools
[00:43:12.829]
mentioned the subject hubs.
[00:43:15.039]
So those are the pages where
[00:43:17.119]
if I come back this would be a subject hub.
[00:43:19.188]
The college planning center.
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If I go in under college
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prep and choose a. C. T.
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This is a subject to
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What we've done
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is create,
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sorry. Then back to my power point, there we go,
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create Mark Records.
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For those subject tops,
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we've also created direct U. R. L.
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S. For those subject tops.
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And what you can do is
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use those U. R. L. S. To promote
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say if your library has a twitter or facebook
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page you can you know embed them in a tweet
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or a facebook post you can put
[00:43:56.300]
them in a newsletter. The library sends
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out what a lot of libraries
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have done. Is taking those U. R. L.
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S. And turn them into Q. R. Codes
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and then place them around,
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you know all the test prep, books in the library,
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the college books in the library.
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So folks can quick snap that with their phone
[00:44:13.894]
and they're left right to the S. A. T. Subject
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hub. And Peterson's test and career
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prep. we've also created
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Mark Records for the subject hubs
[00:44:22.969]
and the ebooks. So folks come
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into your catalog,
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Search on the practice exam,
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they would land right from that mark record
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in either the ebook or the subject
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tab, whichever you, you know, whichever mark
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record you choose. Oh or both.
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So let me show you where to find these.
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All right, so
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We offer a support site
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for New Jersey
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and I'm gonna I've got this on a slide in a minute
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but it's support dot Gail dot com slash N.
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J. S. L.
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and when you get there, the first thing it's gonna
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do is ask you to choose your library
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from a list.
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And if you don't see your library
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do let us know. We've got a request here. You can of course
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reach out to someone at gale.
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But hopefully we've got everybody. I'm just gonna grab
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one of the first ones here
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and then what it does is customize our
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our support site to your library.
[00:45:16.050]
So first you see your link so there's your
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your U. R. L. To get into the database
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as a whole and those and I'm sorry I shouldn't
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mention this at the top but we are using
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geo authentication there. So if folks are
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in New Jersey they click the link and they're
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in as long as we can, you know see their
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location as long as they allow that. If not of course
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there are other authentication methods we can work
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with but
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right there. I've got the link into the Resource
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and if I click on the database name
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it will take me to the product support page.
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And we've got database
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icons if you need them. But here are those Mark
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Records I mentioned. So you can download
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Mark Records for the ebooks
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and then if you've done that before.
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Maybe if this was a resource you were subscribed to before
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the state picked it up we also
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have just content updates. So here's the
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last set of mark records we created
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for the content that's been added to the database
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since that that full list. So you
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can get just the updates. But then there are
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the subject head records.
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and there's other good stuff here. We'll come back and
[00:46:15.889]
look it up but it kind of talking to more about Discovery.
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I wanna also show you
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if from product support they're at the top
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of the page up in the banner I select
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direct U. R. L. S.
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It gives you your link for the database.
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But
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if I click on this tab this button here,
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Test and Career Prep
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they are the subject hub U.
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R. L. S. So if we've got
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an a p study section in the library
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I can grab this U. R. L.
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and
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create a Q. R. Code out of it. Put
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it where that a p study section is.
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Kids can click boom they land right
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in the resource on the A. P. A.
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P. Subject hub.
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And of course you can do that for any of these so that
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college
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planning center. You have
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the LSAT the adam
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all of these
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Subject types. You can take people to
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So great way to point them into
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the resources
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now. The other good stuff on this page and
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I scroll back up to the top
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marketing materials, we've got
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bookmarks, we've got
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social media posts ready to go.
[00:47:33.329]
We've got
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newsletter blurbs.
[00:47:37.059]
You can use press release type
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things
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all ready to go.
[00:47:42.938]
I grab these images, put them
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on an Instagram, put them on a Facebook post.
[00:47:48.228]
There are print materials too.
[00:47:50.369]
You can usually customize those and put your library
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link on them. We'll take a look at the bookmark here.
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I'm pretty sure you can do that.
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These yes add your logo here
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Your link on the on the other side
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Hi so maybe just your website not the database
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where all those are too long. But
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You know ways to promote the resource
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There's also lots of good training material
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under the training center. So tips for using
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the database any I'll just
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browse by product and we'll grab all of it.
[00:48:21.438]
[00:48:24.010]
you know, we have a presentation if you're gonna go
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out and again, maybe you're running a program
[00:48:28.309]
at the library around college preparedness.
[00:48:31.128]
We've got a PowerPoint ready about this
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resource. We tend to
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think we want to give you more than you might
[00:48:37.559]
need. So there are a lot of slides you can of course pair
[00:48:39.590]
that down to just what you want can
[00:48:41.760]
customize it, but it's again, no need to recreate
[00:48:44.148]
the wheel. We've got a lot of this stuff ready to go
[00:48:46.659]
handouts quick, you know, tip sheet
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about how to create an account.
[00:48:51.829]
and using the Resource, we've got some videos
[00:48:53.918]
as well, so
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lots of good stuff here. And then
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we also specifically if I go
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ahead under the once we're again logged
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into the account, it knows we're with New
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Jersey State Library and using the
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Jersey clicks program. If I go
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under training there, that's where you'll see
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content specific for New Jersey. So any
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upcoming webinars or ones that we've
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offered specifically for New Jersey
[00:49:18.219]
and then I've also put some tutorials and
[00:49:20.418]
additional materials here, but you
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got to keep track of what we've done specifically
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for New Jersey training on this resource on this
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page as well. So last week
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we offered a session about getting usage statistics
[00:49:30.909]
for the resource and using gale's
[00:49:33.059]
app. Access my library. So that
[00:49:35.188]
recordings here as well as the one we did this
[00:49:37.208]
summer to kind of introduce the resource.
[00:49:40.360]
So lots of good stuff there.
[00:49:44.168]
So let me pop back to the power point
[00:49:46.418]
we'll start wrapping up here
[00:49:49.260]
So again we want you to be able to rely on your
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Gale team.
[00:49:52.909]
and we have
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oh sorry, I didn't know if we might need this
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slide. Let me go ahead and I'll just kind of fill everything
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in. We did we used it this summer
[00:50:01.369]
just there were more questions about
[00:50:03.530]
access and things like that for
[00:50:05.550]
the resource. So I'll just kind of put it up here
[00:50:07.668]
for me. see if this would be helpful for anybody. But
[00:50:10.070]
at this point if you were already subscribed
[00:50:12.978]
to the Resource when Jersey clicks
[00:50:15.079]
picked it up you should have heard from your file representative
[00:50:18.050]
About a credit I think
[00:50:20.329]
everybody really has gotten set up with
[00:50:22.449]
their access U. R. L.
[00:50:24.628]
S. But again you can always get those through the support site
[00:50:26.849]
so of course feel free to ask
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any questions.
[00:50:30.898]
And then again the support site, I was just using
[00:50:33.119]
support dot G dot com slash N. J. S.
[00:50:35.208]
L. S. Where you'll find all that good stuff
[00:50:38.780]
And then of course when you want to talk to a person
[00:50:41.219]
you can reach out to your Gale team. So again
[00:50:43.360]
I'm your trainer, happy to hear from you.
[00:50:45.418]
You'll get an email again around this time
[00:50:47.458]
tomorrow with my follow up it will
[00:50:49.639]
have all these email addresses and our number
[00:50:51.739]
and everything as well as some other good stuff.
[00:50:54.039]
But you can always reach out to gale. Your account
[00:50:56.378]
rep. Is of course always happy to chat with you
[00:50:58.869]
customer success managers
[00:51:01.389]
at Gale are really there to help you be successful with
[00:51:03.478]
the resources so they can give you ideas for promotion.
[00:51:06.478]
They can walk you through, signing up for usage reports.
[00:51:09.300]
They're probably the best person to get to know at gale.
[00:51:11.780]
once you've you know got access to
[00:51:13.889]
to Gale content. They're an excellent resource.
[00:51:16.639]
And actually when you go to the support site and sign
[00:51:18.760]
in, it will let you know who your C. S. M. Is
[00:51:20.840]
because they specialize by library
[00:51:22.969]
types. So if you're with a K. 12
[00:51:25.019]
school you're with a academic library,
[00:51:27.820]
that's who they work with all the time.
[00:51:30.000]
So they kind of are prepared for that
[00:51:32.878]
type tips questions you might have or needs you might
[00:51:35.010]
have. So.
[00:51:36.010]
this email address though will get routed to
[00:51:38.110]
the right person for your library
[00:51:39.969]
and then of course tech support is available. Should
[00:51:42.039]
we have, you know, any issues with the database,
[00:51:44.168]
you can always reach out to them. the
[00:51:46.239]
800 number or of course we've got their
[00:51:48.300]
email address there too.
[00:51:50.610]
So with that I will say thank you.
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Keep an eye on our calendars for more sessions,
[00:51:55.070]
let us know what you'd like to see in terms
[00:51:57.378]
of training for this resource.
[00:51:59.510]
We are that's how we, you know, ended up with
[00:52:01.590]
the usage stats and access
[00:52:03.780]
my library app. It was a request from
[00:52:06.090]
the first training session we offered. So let
[00:52:08.320]
us know when you leave the webinar today, it
[00:52:10.369]
will I'll prompt you to fill out our survey.
[00:52:12.445]
So you can certainly give your feedback there too. But
[00:52:14.523]
I'm gonna stick around here and see if there are any
[00:52:16.554]
questions or feedback and
[00:52:18.603]
we'll take those but if you're
[00:52:20.655]
all set, thanks so much for tuning in today.
[00:52:22.885]
I hope this was helpful and has
[00:52:25.155]
given you a good basis to kind of start
[00:52:27.554]
using the resource and spreading the word
[00:52:29.824]
with your users about it. So thanks
[00:52:32.003]
everybody for tuning in.
All right good morning everybody and welcome.
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I'm Stacey Knibloe with gale. Glad to
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be with you here this morning to take
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a look at a newer resource
[00:00:10.000]
you have available to you through. Jersey clicks
[00:00:12.489]
Gale Presents Peterson's Test
[00:00:14.689]
and Career Prep Which is a mouthful
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for a a product name. So you'll
[00:00:19.068]
probably mostly hear me refer to it as Peterson's
[00:00:22.219]
or Test and Career Prep
[00:00:24.440]
with some sort of abbreviation.
[00:00:26.399]
But we want to make sure you know what you can
[00:00:28.429]
expect from this resource and how it can
[00:00:30.579]
work into the workflow at your library
[00:00:33.000]
and just share some best practices
[00:00:35.348]
for using it.
[00:00:37.020]
and of course answer all your questions so we want
[00:00:39.048]
to leave a lot of time for those as well.
[00:00:41.348]
Another thing we're gonna look at is a way
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to make this resource more discoverable
[00:00:45.509]
at your library. We've lot you've got lots
[00:00:47.630]
of great marketing tools out at the
[00:00:49.759]
gill support site that you can certainly make
[00:00:51.880]
use of but there are some other neat
[00:00:53.950]
resources you can take advantage of.
[00:00:56.560]
we're gonna talk about Mark
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Records and subject. Top links, a little
[00:01:01.359]
in a little more detail. because
[00:01:03.399]
we certainly want folks to know that this is available
[00:01:05.750]
through your library and have some neat ideas
[00:01:08.099]
for how you can spread the word. So
[00:01:10.180]
as always though, we'll wrap up with where
[00:01:12.278]
you can go for more help from gale. We want
[00:01:14.400]
you to be able to reach out to us with questions
[00:01:16.418]
and feedback any time.
[00:01:18.010]
and to that end we'll also
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be sending a follow-up email that will come to you tomorrow
[00:01:22.489]
around this time. That has some links
[00:01:24.528]
and lots of the good stuff
[00:01:26.569]
that I mentioned in the session so
[00:01:28.609]
you can of course feel free to reach out
[00:01:31.088]
in response to that email or
[00:01:33.448]
again to anyone on the Gale team
[00:01:35.510]
when you've got questions after today
[00:01:38.198]
but do feel free to keep them coming during the
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session. I have
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Again budget is a good amount of time so we
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can cover lots of questions
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and I'm happy to kind
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of click on what you see in the resource
[00:01:51.760]
and want me to show you what it does just jump
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in any time. So
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let's go ahead and dive in.
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So first we just wanna give
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a quick overview of the resource, you can know
[00:02:03.230]
what to expect from it that it is well named.
[00:02:05.609]
But we want to let you know
[00:02:07.829]
a little more detail about kind of the main areas
[00:02:09.889]
of the resource. So
[00:02:11.399]
Gale Presents Peterson's Test and Career Prep
[00:02:13.490]
is of course a partner product between Gale
[00:02:15.750]
and Peterson. So even before
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I went to work for gale, I knew Peterson's resources.
[00:02:20.528]
We had a hard time keeping their books on the shelf
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in the library. I was a also
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a hard time getting them back and maybe the condition
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that they went out in,
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So very familiar with Peterson's content.
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We're thrilled to partner with them
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and this whole resource is built
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around their test and career prep offerings
[00:02:37.849]
and of course we have a lot of that content in
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the resource. So one of
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the most popular areas of the database
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is the test prep tools.
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So you can prep for different standardized
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testing.
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for them relating to college high
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school and career
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and we're gonna explore those, show you how those
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tests work.
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We also have a lot of great content
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around folks looking for a new
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career or say in a high school
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high schoolers point of view of
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their career. There's lots
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of tools around support
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like figuring that out. But then also
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active tools where you can go in and take a career
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assessment, read up on different jobs.
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Even view open positions
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Ok. And then to that end, when you're ready to start
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applying for jobs, there's a resume builder
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or a co a cover letter builder along
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with some additional pieces we'll talk about.
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And again a lot of support for that as
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well, so how to prepare for an interview, how to negotiate
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salary, what your resume should
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include. There's lots of great support
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within the resource
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And then lastly should the career you're interested
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in require some sort of schooling. We've got
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searches for colleges specific
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programs for safe but there's a nursing
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program. Search there's searches for
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say an M. B. A. Program
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you also have support around a lot of
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the financial issues that come with college.
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So can find scholarships to
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apply for, can read up on you know
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what you have to do with F. F. A. And things like that
[00:04:05.368]
so a lot of support
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is built into this resource. You know the
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the I think the kind of resume tool
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and the test prep get a lot of
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use. But keep in mind that this
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does more than that. There's really a lot more help
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here for for building a career.
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So we are gonna dive right into it and
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spend our time most of our time in
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the database. So again if you see
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something on the screen you'd like to know more about.
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Just let me know I've of course got a list
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of things I want to cover with you. But
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I'm happy you know to take a left turn.
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This is really your session. So let's get your
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your questions answered.
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So the home page of Peterson’s
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Test and Career prep is gonna basically
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give you a sense of what you can do here
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but you'll notice in the upper right hand corner,
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there's a login option and it will also
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prompt. You kind of should you go down one of these paths
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and select something to log in.
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So
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the resource is something
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that people come back to right they come back and they
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keep working on a resume. They take another
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practice test, that type of thing. So we need
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to be able to keep track of who's using the database.
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So it does require what we would call
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a named user login.
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so let's look at
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that first and then we'll explore the resource.
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So
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the login button of course if you've been here before and
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log into your account or we're gonna use the new user sign
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up so you can see what's involved.
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It is very simple. Your name,
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user name, password and a secret word are
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the only things that are required, email address
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is optional.
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Folks don't have to submit that if they
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don't want to. It is the best way to reset
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your password. Should you forget it. But if
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you don't.
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there's other ways to reset your password.
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We are not doing anything with this data
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nor is Peterson's you're not gonna start
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all of a sudden getting promotional emails from
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Peterson's or gale. If you do turn over your email
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address it is strictly there so you can
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reset your password.
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You also fill this in
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and your account is immediately created. You don't
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have to again because your email address isn't required,
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you don't have to go and verify your email address.
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You're just in immediately
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Again we don't truly know
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who you are at the other end of this.
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No user information is being tracked aside
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from this account that lets you get back to your
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practice desk your resume.
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So privacy is important.
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It always is important particularly
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if you're gonna be working with people who are under 18.
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So Yale has very strict rules around
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privacy. You can actually if you scroll to the bottom of
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the page you can get out to our privacy policy
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and
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learn more about it.
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Now I am gonna go ahead and log into a demo
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account just because I want to show you what some things look like
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when they're completed. So rather than sign
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up here, I'm gonna use that log in button.
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And just use my demo account here.
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and there's unlimited users. So feel
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free to create your own accounts to get
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to know the database and then of course,
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you know, your patron and your students cannot
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create their own as well. So no,
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no limits there.
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All right, so now we're back to the home page
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before I kind of dive into each area. I
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want to point out at the top of the screen
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Oh my I wanna use my little
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anti tool. It's blocking the thing. I wanna circle.
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There we go.
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there is a title list available
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that breaks down all
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of the content that's in the database and
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this gets updated as we up are actually
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I think it's around four times a year because
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different parts of the database, different
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tests are updated at different times.
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The title list is really the best place
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to see what's in the database and
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when it's from. So you can see
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even more detail, how many practice
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tests do we have for that exam, that type of thing.
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And the last official
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testing because some of these standardized tests, you
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know every three years they maybe change up the
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format or you know something like that.
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You get those dates as well. And
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then the last time the content was updated.
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So this might make a nice printout to keep at the reference
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desk a quick check of what's in
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the resource. You kind of though. Of course
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though explore and just test and see if
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we have what you're looking for. But this gives you those
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additional dates. So I would like to point those
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out, But the resource
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itself really tells you what's in it. So
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that's what we're gonna explore here. There is a search
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so if you want it you know you're looking for the S. A. T. You
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can just kind of
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search and land right there
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or what we're gonna do. What I tend to
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always start with. I like a brows tool
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because then you can see what's around
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in the resource and you know discover new
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things. We are always
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our databases are never finished so we're always adding
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new content. I think there have been a few new things
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added even since this was added
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to the Jersey clicks program. So
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you know, always good to I think be in the live
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resource and see what's here.
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So there are four areas where you'll kind
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of go down paths within the resource,
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improve your score is
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mostly gonna be test prep for
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standardized tests. But then some additional tools
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we're gonna take a look at,
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find a school is exactly that. It's
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all the collar, scholarships or sorry the college
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searches plus scholarship searches, you
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know, advice around financial aid and things
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like that.
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explore. Careers is gonna lead you to the
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resume builder. The career
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assessments. And again help
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for doing all of that job search.
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and then vocational test prep. So again more
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standardized tests which is relating to particular
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careers
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and we're going to go down each of these paths. So
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let me know if there's anything particular you want to look for.
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Actually let me check the chat and Q. And A.
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Nothing yet. But let me go ahead and
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get started with improve your score.
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so we're gonna get into you
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know probably the most popular test in the resource is
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the S. A. T. But before we get
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to that I want to point out some of the other
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tools that are here, we have
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this foundational skills section
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which is
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really handy because what it does is
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let you go through some
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tutorials and question banks
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around English reading math.
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It can be just a good brush up. Say we've got
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someone who's on the job market again after say
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20 years and they're looking for something
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new. Maybe there's some you know they're
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gonna prep for the postal exam. Firefight
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exam, something like that.
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And they just want to brush up on some
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of these skills That's gonna be a great use here.
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These can also be great supplemental support
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for students for
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folks who are maybe learning English
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you'll also find here though office Microsoft
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office tutorials. So
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something folks can do at home.
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We've got a Windows 11 tutorial down here
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So there are these kind of additional
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not quite for specific tests but
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just additional kind of skills building
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here under foundational skills.
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now. The four paths follow me
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through my time in the resource. So if I open
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up that little arrow next to improve your school,
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I can get to all the other areas. So if you
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take a look at high school we've got things like preparing
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for a P. Exams and just a quick
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click into them, you can see which exams
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are here. This is a list that's really grown
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over time. We love to hear feedback
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about what folks need
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in their schools and their libraries. So
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you know you see the results in this resource.
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When that happens
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So college prep is where we'll find
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the S. A. T. The A. C. T. The
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clap exam, P. S. A. T. All
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of these that you might take while you're
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in high school
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and what you'll find is as you select
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each test
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You'll see whatever support we have for
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it. So in some cases you'll see
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three items. Three cards here like I have.
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In some cases you'll see one card, it's just gonna
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vary about the content that's here.
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But what we're of course always looking for
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are those practice tests. So that's the most common
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card you'll find.
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We also though carry the eBook content
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from Peterson so
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we've got the master of the S. A. T. 2020
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eBook here that we can go through. It just gonna
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be a P. D. F. I can work with
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and then a few tests a handful of tests
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will actually have online courses to go
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along with them. Which I always like to
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point this out for the S. A. T. Because
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this is something someone can do for free
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through your library
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at their own pace. You know this is it. They don't have
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to make time you know to co go
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to an S. A. T. Prep course again
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don't have to pay for it. So you know
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really equitable here, anybody can get to
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this.
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and it basically like it implies
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preps you for the S. A. T. There are some pre
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assessments as you go through
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you work on the different sections of the test,
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and this is along with
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the master of the S. A. T. E. Book so you can use
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that as a companion or
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another tool to help study for the exam.
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So really valuable to have those two kind of
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powerful tools with you. But
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I will say the practice tests are probably the most popular
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because that's of course gonna put you right in
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that kind of test. Taking mindset and
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testing how you're doing
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So you can, as you're going through
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the practice test you'll see they almost
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act like courses. I should say almost
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they kind of do, we can see course contents here.
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I'm 24% of the way through the practice
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tests available.
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And for the S. A. T. We
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actually have a lot of
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versions of a practice exam. I think we're up to nine.
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Yes so nine practice
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tests for the S. A. T. That will
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vary too. We're gonna look at other tests where maybe
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we've got three different versions.
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We want to add as many as we
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can because it's not good to
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just take, keep taking the same one over
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and over and start memorizing answers. Right
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so having multiples is
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really valuable.
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and you can see here over on the left the ones I've taken.
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I've got a check mark four
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and if we go ahead and wanna take another,
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I'm just gonna jump into one here.
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you get a little info about the quiz
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first you have you
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know instructions for how it's gonna work. You might
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also have
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let's see it looks like the S. A. T. Doesn't have
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one. But some of the tests will have like their own
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introduction over here on the table of contents
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at Sandy.
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But if we go ahead and
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start the quiz
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This is formatted like it's pieces
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of paper. So the way you might move through the test
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Some are of course electronic themselves but
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it's kind of mimic that real world experience
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here, we've got a passage we need to read.
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And as I scroll down I'll then
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see the questions for this passage.
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And if you go through
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it really is like taking the test, you're
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just marking your answers, you can go
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back and change them at any point. I can
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adjust as I'm marking
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them off. You'll see the pages over
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on the left or marking each question with a check
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mark as I answer it. So I can kind of
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visually get a cue as to where I am
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this of course not the way you probably want to take
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the S. A. T. But you can move
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through
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and mark your answers.
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And then at the bottom here you have the option
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to move to the next page. You can always submit the
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quiz which we will submit this early
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but just keep moving through.
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But with that navigation over on the left
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and then at the bottom of the questions you can always
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get back and forth. So if I want to go back and
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review my answers, make some changes
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or even leave one undone, I can
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skip a. Question and come back to it
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later and again I'm gonna have that visual cue over
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on the left. as well as
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and once I submit the quiz
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or click the submit quiz
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button, it will let me know if I've forgotten
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any questions if I haven't answered something.
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So let me get a few more of these answered
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and I'll go ahead and submit now
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it's even warning me down below here, 20
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of 52 questions save. Again I've got
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the visual queue over on the lap that I haven't
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answered some but when I submit to
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it's gonna warn me I've got 32 unanswered
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questions which I'm just gonna go with.
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and it takes a minute but it grades
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the exam and then puts you right back in it
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to review it so you can go through and see how
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you did.
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And randomly selecting answers is
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not pro oh it looks like I got lucky
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on the first one. So
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you can open up and see I've got the correct
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answer here and even the second one, wow
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I did ok on these first three. Here
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we go. But this is what it looks like when you've got something wrong.
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So it lets you know with a little red X. Your answer
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was wrong and then the blue arrow pointing
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you to the right one and I can open up and view
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the feedback so you can see kind of where you went
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wrong. So
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very handy to have this feedback
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immediately. You can always go back and get it through
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the kind of course view too if you want
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to go back and review another test,
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It's keeping track of all of these for you.
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And the resource is
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of course always gonna grade the multiple choice
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sections. But if you've got a section
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say like you do on the S. A. T. That's an essay
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or a short answer.
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It's really more for you to kind of have
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the practice of writing that essay.
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And then you can often use the eBook
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to get an idea of maybe you know
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what you should have done. There's some advice for
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the short answers and essays and things like
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that. So
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It doesn't technically get graded here
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but it does give you the, you know
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a practice of doing it
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So the other tests are gonna be formatted
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like this. Let's go ahead and take a look at a few more.
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I'm just gonna exit out of this tab here.
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So again improve your score is gonna be
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the test typically that have to do with
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some sort of schooling. So again
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whether it's a P. Exams or a P. S.
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A. T. Or something like that grad school.
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You've got those. This is also although
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I think we have an inter vocational test prep to the international
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sections. You can prepare for say the U. S. Citizenship
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exam or the
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to
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met those here as well
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but let's go ahead and take a look at vocational task
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prep while we're on the subject. So I'm just gonna skip those
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two tabs in the middle.
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And the browse here
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gives you an idea some of these are kind of broken down
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by industry almost so
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something like medical and nursing. This has
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been a popular section of the resource. And we've
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added a lot of new exams here.
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E. M. T. I know we I think we've added
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within the last, well no E. M. T. Has actually
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been around longer than that dental admission test.
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If you've got something we added this year we got some feedback.
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you've got of course all your nursing practice
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tests as well as the T. S. To kind of get into
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nursing school. You have
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C. N. A. Dental hygienist
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massage therapy.
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And again just click in and you'll see kind
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of what's available for each
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to go through. It looks like this is
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can be just some test prep.
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Oh no it looks like they've got some studying tools here
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too. So clicking in will just
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again gonna show you what's available
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Some of the newer tests are here at the bottom
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of this alphabetical list. So aviation and
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transportation, this was one that kind of jumped
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out at me for a New Jersey. You're
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close to some airports there
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or have some airports. So I was being close
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to a few. The T. S. A. Exam is
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is a newer one that we've added,
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we've also added journeyman plumber
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and electrician exams.
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The HESI you've got
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you know some great stuff here and the
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p. A. Exam is is
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a recent addition as well.
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So these are,
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all available
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to any user again to take as many as
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they like and if they're gonna keep coming back to something,
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you'll see as I click around
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and I'm looking at different cards, there's this
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little star next to each of them.
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If I click that star,
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sorry, let me get rid of my drawing there so I can
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click it, it adds it to my
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favorites, it turns it purple, and then you'll
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notice when you come into the database and log
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in Your home page
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lists all of your favorites. So
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you can see I've got a lot here. I probably should clean this up.
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I add a new one every time I do a training. So
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you can easily get back and pick up where you
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left off under create a resume or
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math videos or whatever it may be and
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just jump
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you know right there from your login into
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where you want to pick back up.
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So let me just check the chat and Q. And A. Let me
[00:20:09.078]
know if there are any tests in particular. I'd like to see if we
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have,
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I'm happy to to navigate
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to those
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Alright so let's I'm gonna leave find
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a school for our last
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card we'll go into. I'm gonna open up
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explore careers because I want to show you again some of
[00:20:25.670]
the more popular content so things
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you might be working with folks a little more often on
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the career tool section is
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where we'll find career assessments,
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the builder resume
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Career advice we even include
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the sometimes you'll see things in multiple places.
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So career colleges searches here, it's
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also gonna be under find a school, so kind of wherever
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it's appropriate. You might find these cards.
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and if they jump to create a resume, this
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might be a familiar tool. This is We've
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Peterson's partnered with Visual C. V.
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Which is a resume builder out there on
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the internet. They have a kind of
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fee based service that folks can take advantage
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of our subscription service. I think
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here though there's no cost
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of course to your end user and we get to take advantage
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of some really cool tools
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here with visual C. V. So
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the
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resume and cover builder are both
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here and we're gonna look at those.
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But I just want to mention these two other features
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that are available.
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Create a website. Actually let
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you create a website about yourself
[00:21:26.799]
that you can send people to maybe put
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in a cover letter. Oh,
[00:21:30.838]
when you visit the Visual C. V. It
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will pop up and offer a tutorial
[00:21:35.219]
when you get here. So I'm here for that
[00:21:37.309]
today. So maybe I can close that out, but very handy.
[00:21:39.858]
but create a resume, lets you build
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a website around yourself and they make it look
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good, they build it around one of your resumes
[00:21:47.019]
or you can upload a new one and and
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get started.
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But we're gonna skip that for now but it is
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a very handy piece created.
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Journal entry is a really interesting
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tool. I think that I want to start
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taking advantage of what it does is
[00:22:02.039]
let you track your career highlight,
[00:22:04.449]
you create this career journal
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so that
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when you're applying for a job, when you're updating
[00:22:10.390]
your resume you go like oh yeah I did
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do that big project that went really well. Or
[00:22:14.670]
even often in a resume they'll ask
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you, you know, where's something
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you had a challenge and how did you handle it. But those
[00:22:21.380]
are the kinds of things you can put here this little
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you know journal entry to keep track
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of all of that, refresh your memory, which
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I often need help to do.
[00:22:29.680]
But you can also publish this. So if you did
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want to keep track of that info and make it available.
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You can send books to
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the career journal as well.
[00:22:38.479]
so some neat features. But I do want to dig
[00:22:40.578]
in more to the resume so let me jump back to that
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section
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so you can create and keep track of
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multiple resumes. You can see here. I've got quite
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a few going here.
[00:22:50.150]
and
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you often are creating
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a resume
[00:22:54.660]
every time you apply for a job you'd be adjusting
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a little bit depending on what the position is. So
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it's a great way to, you know, keep all of that here
[00:23:01.549]
and also have a great looking
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resume. There are tons of templates. I am not
[00:23:05.848]
this creatively inclined. I'm letting
[00:23:07.868]
the database kind of do the work to make it look
[00:23:09.890]
good for me. So let's
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go ahead and take a look. So
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creating a new one
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is actually gonna ask you those same questions.
[00:23:18.309]
So do we want to upload an existing resume?
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So if I've got one in word I want to work
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from, I can upload that.
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I can just completely start from scratch and
[00:23:26.670]
start filling in the fields here myself
[00:23:29.078]
or what I love is the use
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sample content option.
[00:23:33.630]
This is gonna let me steal
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my watch and put it that way. Let me borrow
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text from prewritten resumes.
[00:23:41.108]
So if you use sample content
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It's gonna open up and show you some of their popular
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samples which you can take a look at and review.
[00:23:49.809]
You can also search those. So if I've held a job
[00:23:52.209]
as a bank teller
[00:23:54.309]
I can search on that and see if they've
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got an example resume and they've got three.
[00:23:59.500]
and you can give it a little preview or
[00:24:01.660]
I'm just gonna go ahead and use this sample.
[00:24:06.250]
and it knows my name right? Because I have a user
[00:24:08.400]
account and pulled it from that. But here
[00:24:10.750]
it pulled in all that data
[00:24:13.049]
and where I know I struggle but I know
[00:24:15.108]
a lot of other people do too
[00:24:17.199]
Is this section here under work experience.
[00:24:19.559]
How do I describe my job
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and if we've got a resume that's similar to
[00:24:23.979]
a position you've held, it's done a lot of that
[00:24:26.059]
work for you, you can of course edit all
[00:24:28.078]
of this. So if I needed
[00:24:30.400]
to add something else to this
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and I'm just gonna say
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E. T. M. Maintenance
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no idea. but let's say
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I can include that. Oh it looks like maybe you would borrow
[00:24:41.439]
this resume from someone who is maybe and
[00:24:43.509]
they spell check a little different. So the spell
[00:24:45.640]
check has popped up for me
[00:24:47.759]
and adjust that.
[00:24:49.568]
But you have this starting point
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and I think starting from scratch. Maybe some
[00:24:53.838]
folks really you know would
[00:24:56.199]
rather do that and kind of get a maybe
[00:24:58.410]
a resume going that way but I really
[00:25:00.539]
appreciate having this data to work
[00:25:02.689]
from and adjust as needed.
[00:25:05.189]
and again it already makes it look
[00:25:07.229]
good. It puts it into a really nice
[00:25:09.469]
looking format but you'll see over on
[00:25:11.578]
the left, you have all these menu
[00:25:13.709]
options for things you can change.
[00:25:15.848]
And
[00:25:17.420]
If I go in to change template, this
[00:25:19.608]
is where I can find all those nice kind of really colorful.
[00:25:23.500]
resumes and a lot of them include
[00:25:25.818]
photos which I think is something
[00:25:28.199]
it is kind of, I feel like this goes back and forth
[00:25:30.608]
including a photo isn't always preferred,
[00:25:32.799]
so you don't have to, that
[00:25:34.828]
space just goes blank if you don't upload
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an image. But I'll go with
[00:25:39.049]
one here like the look
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at this one,
[00:25:43.509]
grab that and it just reformats it
[00:25:45.568]
for me
[00:25:46.598]
and I can change things too if I don't love
[00:25:48.739]
the green color here up in the top.
[00:25:50.868]
I have all the options for kind of editing
[00:25:53.049]
so I can switch that. Maybe I'll go with
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a this
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pink color there.
[00:26:01.430]
Really simple. I don't have to worry about
[00:26:03.930]
the formatting. I get all these options
[00:26:06.088]
for how I how I want to adjust. It
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can change the fonts, can change
[00:26:10.368]
the
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[00:26:13.719]
margins and things like that as needed.
[00:26:16.219]
Again can always edit the text
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and get rid of content entirely. So
[00:26:20.900]
if I don't want the
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oh what was it? There was a little trash can here. I can
[00:26:25.769]
I can delete content.
[00:26:28.309]
and when you've got it the way you want it you
[00:26:30.549]
have the option to download it and
[00:26:32.729]
share it outside of the resource. So
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we can download a P. D. F. Version, we can
[00:26:37.009]
download a word and that is still
[00:26:39.189]
in beta but it does a pretty nice job.
[00:26:41.348]
You do want to just kind of double check everything
[00:26:43.680]
looks good but the word
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version looks pretty good.
[00:26:48.130]
You can also go choose to share it
[00:26:50.469]
and get a link for it. under
[00:26:52.789]
publish this will also appear
[00:26:55.189]
over. Let me go ahead and circle it on the screen
[00:26:57.529]
here under settings, you can do this in either
[00:26:59.779]
place under settings or share.
[00:27:02.098]
You're choosing kind of the privacy
[00:27:04.309]
level of this resume you've created
[00:27:06.608]
by default. The
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resume is always
[00:27:11.729]
unlisted,
[00:27:13.019]
that is the most private
[00:27:16.309]
kind of level you can have
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Oh no I'm sorry, you know what I apologize
[00:27:21.078]
folks, I'm forgetting when you choose to share,
[00:27:23.509]
You pick one of the sharing options. There are
[00:27:25.549]
two of them. Let me actually show you what I'm talking about under
[00:27:27.769]
settings.
[00:27:29.039]
When you go to settings you'll see where
[00:27:31.309]
your privacy is at currently. So
[00:27:33.880]
share you're preparing to share. So
[00:27:35.920]
it's giving you the sharing options under settings,
[00:27:37.989]
you can see where your privacy is at.
[00:27:40.029]
but also change it if you want it. So
[00:27:42.549]
sorry about that. So under privacy
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export only is our
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highest level of privacy meaning
[00:27:49.338]
I only have access to this. No one
[00:27:51.469]
else can find this resume. It lives
[00:27:53.799]
inside my account. I use download
[00:27:56.660]
to get it out as a P. D. F.
[00:27:58.930]
Or a word document but
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it lives inside the resource and nobody
[00:28:03.019]
can get to it but me
[00:28:04.910]
that is by default,
[00:28:07.078]
if I switch though to unlisted or
[00:28:09.118]
public. Those are the two sharing options.
[00:28:11.279]
If I switch to unlisted.
[00:28:13.279]
What this does then is create
[00:28:15.598]
a link for the resume.
[00:28:17.719]
So this U. R. L. Here I'd be
[00:28:19.818]
able to include in a cover letter or
[00:28:22.000]
hand it wherever I need it to go. If I'm you
[00:28:24.118]
know filling out a form online or something
[00:28:26.348]
like that. I can I can put it there.
[00:28:28.489]
It's unlisted though meaning that
[00:28:30.779]
it's a shareable link but it's not out
[00:28:32.868]
on the web and searchable
[00:28:35.299]
right? If I switch though to
[00:28:37.328]
public this will publish
[00:28:39.420]
on the internet and folks searching on
[00:28:41.539]
search engines by my name would be able to
[00:28:43.559]
find this resume.
[00:28:44.930]
So it is a great way to kind of get your
[00:28:47.170]
name out there and make yourself discoverable.
[00:28:49.910]
Not everybody wants to do that
[00:28:52.059]
though. So that's why we've got the other options. So
[00:28:54.140]
public is kind of the most
[00:28:56.529]
public export only
[00:28:58.759]
is gonna be the most private only. You have access
[00:29:01.000]
to it and you have to choose to download it and
[00:29:03.078]
share it that way
[00:29:04.618]
and then unlisted is kind of that happy medium.
[00:29:06.680]
You can have an online version of the resume but
[00:29:08.828]
it's not searchable by search
[00:29:11.039]
engines. So
[00:29:13.160]
I since this is not true, I was never a bank
[00:29:15.199]
teller. I'm gonna make sure to leave that as export
[00:29:17.549]
only if I click save just to be safe
[00:29:20.189]
but it is a really handy way
[00:29:22.539]
to you know, in this kind of online world
[00:29:24.750]
where you know,
[00:29:26.930]
Often you're not even going somewhere for an interview,
[00:29:29.189]
you're doing it via zoom and it's great to
[00:29:31.229]
have these online tools to be able to share, throw
[00:29:33.380]
into a chat message, you know while you're
[00:29:35.449]
having your interview or again put it in a cover
[00:29:37.709]
letter or when you're submitting online
[00:29:40.989]
So
[00:29:42.118]
there are lots of other features here but
[00:29:44.209]
those are kind of the main ones I wanted to point
[00:29:46.229]
out, you can change up the look and feel
[00:29:48.598]
you can change your privacy
[00:29:50.828]
letter or privacy level.
[00:29:55.180]
All right, so we've got the same type of options under
[00:29:57.459]
cover letters. So I've got a few
[00:29:59.618]
going here. They're not quite as
[00:30:01.739]
extensive
[00:30:03.759]
assuming this often is gonna get, you know, pasted
[00:30:05.969]
right into an email or something but
[00:30:08.259]
you've got some options for cover letters
[00:30:10.279]
here too.
[00:30:13.640]
now resumes tend to come after
[00:30:15.699]
you've decided what kind of career you want. Right?
[00:30:17.979]
So also under career tools you've got
[00:30:20.170]
the option to find a career
[00:30:22.469]
and this offers a career assessment.
[00:30:24.930]
Oh sorry I think I've timed out.
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Yeah. Sorry folks let me let me log back
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in. oh wait
[00:30:31.880]
now I think men
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try this again
[00:30:39.348]
Yeah there we go. So yeah look like
[00:30:41.588]
I timed out in the visual C. V. Tool
[00:30:45.150]
Are there sample practices I believe?
[00:30:47.588]
Let me double check. I'm gonna actually
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use the search
[00:30:53.660]
Yes. Master The
[00:30:55.670]
practice prepare
[00:30:58.118]
pro exam which is not an exam
[00:31:00.519]
I'm familiar with but it looks like practice
[00:31:02.900]
practice two.
[00:31:05.939]
oh sorry that's the eBook so it automatically
[00:31:08.269]
wanted to download it for me.
[00:31:12.430]
and there we go practice test for the practice core
[00:31:14.529]
practice core exams.
[00:31:16.900]
Takes us right out. I'm
[00:31:18.959]
gonna yeah I was gonna say should
[00:31:21.140]
be right to the practice test so yes there are
[00:31:25.390]
thanks and let me know if you wanna dive into
[00:31:27.439]
those a little more
[00:31:31.939]
Ok so back to the career assessment,
[00:31:34.250]
there are four assessments
[00:31:36.328]
that are performed
[00:31:37.838]
and we would encourage folks to fill out all
[00:31:40.140]
four.
[00:31:41.818]
If they can uh, you
[00:31:44.078]
know, if you're gonna kind of sit down and commit to this,
[00:31:46.140]
we hope you'll kind of leave enough time to do all four.
[00:31:48.160]
But technically you only have to take the
[00:31:50.180]
first two which I've done here
[00:31:52.410]
to get matched up with careers.
[00:31:55.309]
So as interests and values
[00:31:57.420]
both have to be completed
[00:32:00.559]
Oh you're welcome man, no problem.
[00:32:03.400]
the tests though
[00:32:05.689]
I
[00:32:06.818]
I find really engaging a lot
[00:32:08.989]
of career assessments. Are would you
[00:32:11.039]
like to do this job? Yes. No. Maybe
[00:32:13.989]
really basic what I like
[00:32:16.078]
about these is they ask different
[00:32:18.390]
questions like four different sections,
[00:32:20.890]
not just your interest but what do you what do you like
[00:32:22.949]
your workplace to be like?
[00:32:24.640]
and also the way they've done them is kind
[00:32:26.759]
of engaging. There are of course going to be some multiple
[00:32:29.088]
choice involved. But this is,
[00:32:31.118]
you know, asking on these cards, what are the least
[00:32:33.598]
important um,
[00:32:35.709]
uh, cards here for my ideal
[00:32:37.779]
organization.
[00:32:38.949]
and then it will ask you what are your most important
[00:32:41.328]
and all of this feeds into
[00:32:43.368]
the ultimate careers, it's recommending for
[00:32:45.568]
you. So again I would encourage
[00:32:47.670]
folks to fill out all four. I'm gonna
[00:32:49.868]
exit though this
[00:32:52.098]
oh how my journey wanna be under assessments
[00:32:54.199]
I would encourage folks to fill
[00:32:56.279]
out all four but it is it is not required
[00:32:58.640]
just to have to take the first two and then
[00:33:00.709]
once it's matched you up
[00:33:04.809]
it ranks them by these are
[00:33:06.828]
probably gonna be kind of familiar
[00:33:09.519]
[00:33:10.799]
you know, kind of industry and subject areas.
[00:33:13.170]
It's looking at where you'd be
[00:33:15.180]
strongest by subject area
[00:33:17.410]
and then showing off to the right kind of where you
[00:33:19.880]
where you land in some of these now, you're
[00:33:21.969]
not limited to things that you were strong in,
[00:33:24.029]
you can of course always view all careers
[00:33:26.529]
and explore them.
[00:33:28.250]
And as you go in, I'm going to say health
[00:33:30.410]
sciences
[00:33:32.088]
and you're looking at these. It's letting you know
[00:33:34.328]
whether you wear a strong match or not. If
[00:33:36.338]
you look over on the left you can kind of
[00:33:38.410]
break them down by different areas.
[00:33:40.430]
So Say I'm strong in
[00:33:42.500]
health science but of course it's a lot of schooling to
[00:33:44.578]
become a psychiatrist. Maybe that's
[00:33:46.689]
my plan. But what can
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I do in the meantime, you know, I've got a high school
[00:33:50.900]
degree, what can I do to, you know, maybe
[00:33:53.019]
still work in health sciences so you can adjust
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and choose the education level and
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or an experience level to see what
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what might be a good fit while you're going
[00:34:02.660]
to school.
[00:34:03.939]
You can also
[00:34:06.660]
Isolate and use the military
[00:34:08.719]
crosswalk tool, which I think
[00:34:10.860]
this is great. I know you know that
[00:34:13.159]
military base is in New Jersey. So this could
[00:34:15.269]
be really helpful for folks who may be out of
[00:34:17.329]
the military. They're looking for what to do next.
[00:34:21.309]
You can get matched up with
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putting in your codes and let
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me go ahead and I had these are things I had to
[00:34:27.728]
look up
[00:34:29.809]
Or someone who's in a career is probably
[00:34:31.989]
going to or been in the military
[00:34:34.208]
is gonna know these codes.
[00:34:37.228]
And you can get matched up. So a 255
[00:34:39.489]
a is an information systems technician
[00:34:41.860]
in the army and I can get matched up with
[00:34:44.000]
what careers would go strongly with that experience.
[00:34:47.340]
so I, I wish
[00:34:49.780]
this was a tool you could get to before
[00:34:52.128]
you perform the assessment. I wish it was
[00:34:54.168]
elsewhere. But you do have to go through
[00:34:56.478]
and again answer those first two assessments
[00:34:58.590]
and then once you get to your careers list
[00:35:01.739]
And just of course make any choice here.
[00:35:04.199]
You'll then can get to that military crossword. So
[00:35:06.320]
it's a couple extra clicks
[00:35:08.500]
you're gonna have to go through to find
[00:35:10.679]
it but hopefully down the road that'll be offered
[00:35:13.159]
standalone so you can get to it from elsewhere.
[00:35:15.599]
But in the meantime that's how you find that very
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handy. and then for each
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of these jobs I'm just gonna go ahead and jump into one,
[00:35:22.059]
you get the a good overview. So you
[00:35:24.199]
know what are the you know kind of daily tasks like
[00:35:26.699]
what programs or
[00:35:28.739]
degrees do you have to hold what abilities,
[00:35:31.110]
what skills, you know that type of thing
[00:35:33.128]
over on the right, you can find average
[00:35:35.179]
salary and it will even let you kind
[00:35:37.280]
of look out
[00:35:39.228]
and see what's out there
[00:35:41.309]
right now for astronauts.
[00:35:43.360]
Oh no, astronomer astronomers is what, pick
[00:35:45.590]
all those astronauts for a minute.
[00:35:48.449]
you can even see the outlooks over the next 10
[00:35:50.530]
years. Is this career growing? Is it shrinking?
[00:35:52.769]
Looks like we're astronomers, not
[00:35:55.458]
super promising. But
[00:35:58.228]
some other tools as well.
[00:36:02.389]
and then there is actually a job search
[00:36:04.530]
tool here and when
[00:36:06.599]
you come in you can actually filter
[00:36:09.188]
by the data that it's pulled from your assessments
[00:36:11.809]
to so jobs match strength
[00:36:13.849]
and then that type of thing.
[00:36:15.469]
But let's say we're looking for
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Give me here, I've got a uh,
[00:36:25.260]
Sorry folks, I don't have my note for what I was gonna
[00:36:27.369]
search here. So I'm gonna go ahead and
[00:36:32.688]
and put in
[00:36:36.668]
in a moment. We'll see how we do.
[00:36:39.869]
go so still tying in with your content
[00:36:42.250]
from the assessments
[00:36:43.978]
And here we have found some jobs. Now this
[00:36:46.030]
is also gonna actually be a partner tool
[00:36:48.168]
when I click out.
[00:36:49.869]
choose to learn more. We're actually
[00:36:52.059]
crawling out it indeed Dot com
[00:36:54.110]
to grab these open positions, which is
[00:36:56.269]
a tool in itself. It is a crawler
[00:36:58.289]
that goes out, folks can of course post things here,
[00:37:00.539]
but they also go out and crawl different websites.
[00:37:03.090]
So like, you know
[00:37:04.769]
employment offices or.
[00:37:07.728]
even just like corporate websites that post open
[00:37:09.909]
positions, things like that and bring them all back
[00:37:12.000]
here. And then of course indeed, dot
[00:37:14.019]
com has its own, you know, kind of tools where
[00:37:16.039]
you can, you know, keep track of your resume and the jobs
[00:37:18.219]
you've applied for and things like that, but
[00:37:20.559]
really great site. So
[00:37:22.728]
it also could be something familiar if someone is already
[00:37:24.889]
looking for a job. Indeed is something they might already
[00:37:27.019]
be using.
[00:37:29.840]
So lots of paths when you come into
[00:37:32.059]
the assessment tool, you get to the job search,
[00:37:34.199]
you get to that military crosswalk, you get to of
[00:37:36.280]
course the overviews for jobs
[00:37:38.320]
and careers. So lots of good stuff
[00:37:40.619]
there, just
[00:37:43.079]
checking our time we're doing ok again do
[00:37:45.179]
feel free to ask questions
[00:37:47.840]
We gotta come back close out some of these tabs
[00:37:51.590]
under explore careers. You'll also find
[00:37:54.110]
under career tools, the career
[00:37:56.239]
advice section. And this is kind of run
[00:37:58.369]
like a course as well. It's almost tutorials
[00:38:01.059]
for all of these, you know different
[00:38:04.329]
areas of looking for a career
[00:38:06.389]
or a job. So career changes,
[00:38:08.418]
transitioning out of the military and you
[00:38:10.489]
do kind of go through it like of course since you have completed
[00:38:12.949]
some of these or haven't completed, but
[00:38:14.958]
have started them
[00:38:16.969]
So lots of against
[00:38:18.978]
support and certainly these
[00:38:21.260]
are
[00:38:24.369]
you know, con things you might cover
[00:38:26.860]
on the shelves in the library, you know, lots of books
[00:38:28.929]
about these content. What I like about these is
[00:38:31.010]
they're fairly short, they're a little quick to go
[00:38:33.059]
through
[00:38:35.148]
you know and just get some good pointers for all
[00:38:37.208]
of these in this case salary
[00:38:39.239]
negotiations.
[00:38:42.639]
So lots of good stuff here.
[00:38:46.050]
And then last thing we'll take a look at find a school.
[00:38:48.570]
So we've broken these down by college
[00:38:51.449]
and graduate school. So if we go into
[00:38:53.599]
college and scholarship search
[00:38:56.260]
that's what these will be tied to. So distance learning
[00:38:58.570]
for you know two and four year institutions.
[00:39:01.030]
Career colleges search undergraduate
[00:39:03.469]
nursing school. There's a graduate nursing search
[00:39:06.010]
in the graduate program. So
[00:39:08.039]
just kind of breakdown by where you're at or
[00:39:10.119]
where you're looking to be I guess in that
[00:39:12.340]
state of education
[00:39:14.909]
And again the help for lots
[00:39:17.269]
of financial tools here. So the scholarship
[00:39:19.489]
search as well as f on financial
[00:39:21.610]
aid advice, a quiz.
[00:39:23.969]
That's a good stuff.
[00:39:25.360]
We take a look at the undergraduate school search.
[00:39:29.260]
basically, if you're, if you've used
[00:39:31.438]
one of the Peterson's college books, that's
[00:39:33.898]
what we're gonna be browsing here. Just of course,
[00:39:35.909]
lots of different ways to filter it. You can certainly just
[00:39:38.090]
search by a school if you want to see their info.
[00:39:40.918]
But the filters over on the left will
[00:39:42.978]
let you kind of get a list of schools
[00:39:45.148]
going maybe to apply to. So let's say we're looking
[00:39:47.590]
with, I love that in state tuition.
[00:39:49.648]
Let me see, we'll choose New Jersey.
[00:39:52.719]
and you can break down by area
[00:39:54.780]
of study school, type, average G.
[00:39:56.820]
P. A. Things like that to get in.
[00:39:59.320]
It is I love the area
[00:40:01.398]
of study because it's a long list,
[00:40:03.519]
but you can also just kind of type,
[00:40:06.438]
and get to those areas
[00:40:09.168]
you might need. So I kind of scroll
[00:40:11.349]
a bit here, grab for
[00:40:13.110]
biology degree
[00:40:15.469]
and as we select over on the right
[00:40:17.570]
it's just kind of filtering and showing the schools
[00:40:19.869]
that match so you can choose public
[00:40:22.079]
or private two and 44 year
[00:40:24.438]
missing difficulties school size
[00:40:26.800]
setting.
[00:40:27.750]
All of these options are available.
[00:40:31.320]
and then once you want to go in and explore
[00:40:33.438]
a school, go ahead and grab say Saint Elizabeth
[00:40:35.820]
University,
[00:40:38.000]
Again, this is what you can, you know, expect to
[00:40:40.099]
find in the books, just breaking down all these
[00:40:42.179]
areas majors and degrees offer, what the
[00:40:44.289]
student body makeup is, tuition and fees,
[00:40:46.860]
Athletics faculty,
[00:40:49.250]
you've got all of the those
[00:40:51.398]
kind of details to help find the perfect school.
[00:40:57.500]
All righty, so a couple of things under
[00:40:59.619]
this college search.
[00:41:02.269]
And so go ahead and let me jump into the graduate school one as
[00:41:04.389]
well. So M. B. A. Programs.
[00:41:07.208]
[00:41:08.300]
I love the distance learning. A lot of folks like to
[00:41:10.389]
do their degrees that way particularly
[00:41:12.969]
for a graduate program but then also
[00:41:15.148]
the the F. F. S. A. Help. So again multiple things
[00:41:17.369]
can show up. the scholarship
[00:41:19.708]
searches I think are really valuable. We
[00:41:21.728]
have again one for graduate and undergraduate
[00:41:24.360]
They work really like the school search. Does
[00:41:26.619]
you just choose over on the left?
[00:41:28.659]
You know, maybe we're looking for something
[00:41:30.800]
that's tied to the state we're gonna be studying
[00:41:32.938]
in. We
[00:41:35.000]
can isolate to those, see if they're a good fit.
[00:41:37.260]
So
[00:41:38.030]
great way to be able to keep track of
[00:41:40.639]
or sorry, not keep track but to find, you know, scholarships
[00:41:43.239]
to apply for.
[00:41:45.599]
also under find a school, the college
[00:41:47.809]
planning center. So if you're with say
[00:41:49.958]
a high school or a public library where
[00:41:52.128]
you find you're you know offering a lot
[00:41:54.188]
of support to students and parents. This is a great
[00:41:56.289]
place to kind of start with them. So
[00:41:58.559]
great tool like if you're having an open house this
[00:42:00.739]
fall at at school or
[00:42:03.019]
some sort of you know program around
[00:42:05.179]
[00:42:06.128]
college help and applying at
[00:42:08.429]
the public library.
[00:42:09.989]
it brings everything together. We've got
[00:42:12.349]
the advice tools, we've got the different
[00:42:14.750]
test prep links, we have a lot
[00:42:17.099]
of things all pulled into one place.
[00:42:19.168]
I love these checklists. So if I've got
[00:42:21.469]
you know a nephew who's going into
[00:42:23.829]
10th grade, what should
[00:42:25.860]
he be doing? What should his parents be doing?
[00:42:29.099]
just these quick checklists for,
[00:42:31.550]
you know, tasks relating to getting ready
[00:42:33.860]
for being out of school basically.
[00:42:36.070]
whether you're heading back in or or heading
[00:42:38.219]
into a career. So really great
[00:42:40.780]
content there.
[00:42:42.938]
And that leads me to some of the tools
[00:42:45.099]
I want to talk about around discovering
[00:42:47.188]
this, your, your patrons, your students discovering
[00:42:49.639]
this resource in the library. So
[00:42:52.429]
any questions about anything here
[00:42:54.760]
in the resource itself,
[00:42:58.289]
I kind of nothing in the chat in the Q.
[00:43:00.409]
And A. All, it can always come back. So I'm gonna pop back
[00:43:02.478]
to the power point for a minute.
[00:43:05.059]
So Discovery we
[00:43:07.148]
want to get these users in this resource
[00:43:09.539]
right. So we offer a couple
[00:43:11.719]
tools
[00:43:12.829]
mentioned the subject hubs.
[00:43:15.039]
So those are the pages where
[00:43:17.119]
if I come back this would be a subject hub.
[00:43:19.188]
The college planning center.
[00:43:21.070]
If I go in under college
[00:43:23.458]
prep and choose a. C. T.
[00:43:27.489]
This is a subject to
[00:43:29.869]
What we've done
[00:43:31.489]
is create,
[00:43:33.449]
sorry. Then back to my power point, there we go,
[00:43:35.570]
create Mark Records.
[00:43:37.659]
For those subject tops,
[00:43:40.360]
we've also created direct U. R. L.
[00:43:42.648]
S. For those subject tops.
[00:43:44.639]
And what you can do is
[00:43:47.309]
use those U. R. L. S. To promote
[00:43:49.699]
say if your library has a twitter or facebook
[00:43:51.989]
page you can you know embed them in a tweet
[00:43:54.119]
or a facebook post you can put
[00:43:56.300]
them in a newsletter. The library sends
[00:43:58.579]
out what a lot of libraries
[00:44:00.878]
have done. Is taking those U. R. L.
[00:44:03.273]
S. And turn them into Q. R. Codes
[00:44:05.514]
and then place them around,
[00:44:07.534]
you know all the test prep, books in the library,
[00:44:09.635]
the college books in the library.
[00:44:11.875]
So folks can quick snap that with their phone
[00:44:13.894]
and they're left right to the S. A. T. Subject
[00:44:16.184]
hub. And Peterson's test and career
[00:44:18.235]
prep. we've also created
[00:44:20.840]
Mark Records for the subject hubs
[00:44:22.969]
and the ebooks. So folks come
[00:44:25.119]
into your catalog,
[00:44:27.320]
Search on the practice exam,
[00:44:29.909]
they would land right from that mark record
[00:44:32.438]
in either the ebook or the subject
[00:44:34.530]
tab, whichever you, you know, whichever mark
[00:44:36.659]
record you choose. Oh or both.
[00:44:38.918]
So let me show you where to find these.
[00:44:41.329]
All right, so
[00:44:43.659]
We offer a support site
[00:44:46.000]
for New Jersey
[00:44:47.820]
and I'm gonna I've got this on a slide in a minute
[00:44:49.978]
but it's support dot Gail dot com slash N.
[00:44:52.119]
J. S. L.
[00:44:54.679]
and when you get there, the first thing it's gonna
[00:44:56.708]
do is ask you to choose your library
[00:44:59.099]
from a list.
[00:45:01.099]
And if you don't see your library
[00:45:03.168]
do let us know. We've got a request here. You can of course
[00:45:05.378]
reach out to someone at gale.
[00:45:07.539]
But hopefully we've got everybody. I'm just gonna grab
[00:45:09.699]
one of the first ones here
[00:45:11.679]
and then what it does is customize our
[00:45:13.699]
our support site to your library.
[00:45:16.050]
So first you see your link so there's your
[00:45:18.260]
your U. R. L. To get into the database
[00:45:20.320]
as a whole and those and I'm sorry I shouldn't
[00:45:22.340]
mention this at the top but we are using
[00:45:24.559]
geo authentication there. So if folks are
[00:45:26.628]
in New Jersey they click the link and they're
[00:45:28.789]
in as long as we can, you know see their
[00:45:30.869]
location as long as they allow that. If not of course
[00:45:33.208]
there are other authentication methods we can work
[00:45:35.219]
with but
[00:45:36.898]
right there. I've got the link into the Resource
[00:45:39.039]
and if I click on the database name
[00:45:41.458]
it will take me to the product support page.
[00:45:44.239]
And we've got database
[00:45:46.719]
icons if you need them. But here are those Mark
[00:45:48.909]
Records I mentioned. So you can download
[00:45:51.039]
Mark Records for the ebooks
[00:45:53.349]
and then if you've done that before.
[00:45:55.659]
Maybe if this was a resource you were subscribed to before
[00:45:58.280]
the state picked it up we also
[00:46:00.550]
have just content updates. So here's the
[00:46:02.619]
last set of mark records we created
[00:46:04.750]
for the content that's been added to the database
[00:46:06.849]
since that that full list. So you
[00:46:08.929]
can get just the updates. But then there are
[00:46:10.978]
the subject head records.
[00:46:13.840]
and there's other good stuff here. We'll come back and
[00:46:15.889]
look it up but it kind of talking to more about Discovery.
[00:46:18.378]
I wanna also show you
[00:46:20.938]
if from product support they're at the top
[00:46:23.228]
of the page up in the banner I select
[00:46:25.469]
direct U. R. L. S.
[00:46:29.128]
It gives you your link for the database.
[00:46:31.389]
But
[00:46:34.039]
if I click on this tab this button here,
[00:46:36.260]
Test and Career Prep
[00:46:39.860]
they are the subject hub U.
[00:46:41.969]
R. L. S. So if we've got
[00:46:44.139]
an a p study section in the library
[00:46:46.969]
I can grab this U. R. L.
[00:46:50.208]
and
[00:46:51.539]
create a Q. R. Code out of it. Put
[00:46:53.849]
it where that a p study section is.
[00:46:57.309]
Kids can click boom they land right
[00:46:59.449]
in the resource on the A. P. A.
[00:47:01.659]
P. Subject hub.
[00:47:03.110]
And of course you can do that for any of these so that
[00:47:05.148]
college
[00:47:06.978]
planning center. You have
[00:47:09.539]
the LSAT the adam
[00:47:11.918]
all of these
[00:47:14.389]
Subject types. You can take people to
[00:47:18.250]
So great way to point them into
[00:47:20.309]
the resources
[00:47:22.708]
now. The other good stuff on this page and
[00:47:24.739]
I scroll back up to the top
[00:47:26.728]
marketing materials, we've got
[00:47:28.849]
bookmarks, we've got
[00:47:31.208]
social media posts ready to go.
[00:47:33.329]
We've got
[00:47:34.809]
newsletter blurbs.
[00:47:37.059]
You can use press release type
[00:47:39.159]
things
[00:47:40.559]
all ready to go.
[00:47:42.938]
I grab these images, put them
[00:47:45.010]
on an Instagram, put them on a Facebook post.
[00:47:48.228]
There are print materials too.
[00:47:50.369]
You can usually customize those and put your library
[00:47:52.708]
link on them. We'll take a look at the bookmark here.
[00:47:54.849]
I'm pretty sure you can do that.
[00:47:56.889]
These yes add your logo here
[00:47:59.829]
Your link on the on the other side
[00:48:03.260]
Hi so maybe just your website not the database
[00:48:05.559]
where all those are too long. But
[00:48:08.510]
You know ways to promote the resource
[00:48:11.550]
There's also lots of good training material
[00:48:14.699]
under the training center. So tips for using
[00:48:16.949]
the database any I'll just
[00:48:19.019]
browse by product and we'll grab all of it.
[00:48:21.438]
[00:48:24.010]
you know, we have a presentation if you're gonna go
[00:48:26.059]
out and again, maybe you're running a program
[00:48:28.309]
at the library around college preparedness.
[00:48:31.128]
We've got a PowerPoint ready about this
[00:48:33.269]
resource. We tend to
[00:48:35.429]
think we want to give you more than you might
[00:48:37.559]
need. So there are a lot of slides you can of course pair
[00:48:39.590]
that down to just what you want can
[00:48:41.760]
customize it, but it's again, no need to recreate
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the wheel. We've got a lot of this stuff ready to go
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handouts quick, you know, tip sheet
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about how to create an account.
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and using the Resource, we've got some videos
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as well, so
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lots of good stuff here. And then
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we also specifically if I go
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ahead under the once we're again logged
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into the account, it knows we're with New
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Jersey State Library and using the
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Jersey clicks program. If I go
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under training there, that's where you'll see
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content specific for New Jersey. So any
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upcoming webinars or ones that we've
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offered specifically for New Jersey
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and then I've also put some tutorials and
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additional materials here, but you
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got to keep track of what we've done specifically
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for New Jersey training on this resource on this
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page as well. So last week
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we offered a session about getting usage statistics
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for the resource and using gale's
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app. Access my library. So that
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recordings here as well as the one we did this
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summer to kind of introduce the resource.
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So lots of good stuff there.
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So let me pop back to the power point
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we'll start wrapping up here
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So again we want you to be able to rely on your
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Gale team.
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and we have
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oh sorry, I didn't know if we might need this
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slide. Let me go ahead and I'll just kind of fill everything
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in. We did we used it this summer
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just there were more questions about
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access and things like that for
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the resource. So I'll just kind of put it up here
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for me. see if this would be helpful for anybody. But
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at this point if you were already subscribed
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to the Resource when Jersey clicks
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picked it up you should have heard from your file representative
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About a credit I think
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everybody really has gotten set up with
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their access U. R. L.
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S. But again you can always get those through the support site
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so of course feel free to ask
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any questions.
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And then again the support site, I was just using
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support dot G dot com slash N. J. S.
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L. S. Where you'll find all that good stuff
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And then of course when you want to talk to a person
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you can reach out to your Gale team. So again
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I'm your trainer, happy to hear from you.
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You'll get an email again around this time
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tomorrow with my follow up it will
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have all these email addresses and our number
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and everything as well as some other good stuff.
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But you can always reach out to gale. Your account
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rep. Is of course always happy to chat with you
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customer success managers
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at Gale are really there to help you be successful with
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the resources so they can give you ideas for promotion.
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They can walk you through, signing up for usage reports.
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They're probably the best person to get to know at gale.
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once you've you know got access to
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to Gale content. They're an excellent resource.
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And actually when you go to the support site and sign
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in, it will let you know who your C. S. M. Is
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because they specialize by library
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types. So if you're with a K. 12
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school you're with a academic library,
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that's who they work with all the time.
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So they kind of are prepared for that
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type tips questions you might have or needs you might
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have. So.
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this email address though will get routed to
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the right person for your library
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and then of course tech support is available. Should
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we have, you know, any issues with the database,
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you can always reach out to them. the
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800 number or of course we've got their
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email address there too.
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So with that I will say thank you.
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Keep an eye on our calendars for more sessions,
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let us know what you'd like to see in terms
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of training for this resource.
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We are that's how we, you know, ended up with
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the usage stats and access
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my library app. It was a request from
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the first training session we offered. So let
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us know when you leave the webinar today, it
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will I'll prompt you to fill out our survey.
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So you can certainly give your feedback there too. But
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I'm gonna stick around here and see if there are any
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questions or feedback and
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we'll take those but if you're
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all set, thanks so much for tuning in today.
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I hope this was helpful and has
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given you a good basis to kind of start
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using the resource and spreading the word
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with your users about it. So thanks
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everybody for tuning in.