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Get to Know Gale Presents: Peterson’s Test and Career Prep

 

Whether you are working with students or patrons exploring higher education, recent graduates embarking on new career paths, or folks in need of a career change, Peterson’s Test and Career Prep will provide you with support tools, including practice exams, financial aid information, school and scholarship searches, career assessments, resume tools and career aids to support your patrons needs. In this session, we explored the different tools available to customize a unique plan for the needs of your patrons or students and prepare them for what's next!

Duration: 45 Minutes
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already. Hello and welcome everyone.

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I'm Stacy and I am one of the gale trainers,

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glad to be with you to take a look at

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our Gale Presents: Peterson's test

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and career prep resource. Thanks

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for tuning in today.

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What we want to do is share what

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you can expect out of this resource and

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when you're going to use it the most, you know,

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kind of knowing what's in there is is

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going to help you say if you're at the reference desk

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or are working with a student

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and need to know what's

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in here when you can direct them to us, we're gonna

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help through that up today

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and then we'll share how to navigate

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the resource. The content

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and the resource is a lot,

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there's a lot of different tools here but

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they all kind of work very similarly depending

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on on what you're looking at. So we wanna make sure you're comfortable

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navigating the resource, finding what

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you need and then of course work you through it as

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made it and then we want to share some ideas

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for discoveries, way our discovery

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ways to drive your users into

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this resource and of course you're going to be um

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directing them to it, but there are other ways to kind of

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put them into the resource that are a

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little more subtle may flow into or may

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fit into your workflow are in their work

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flow a little easier

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and then as always will wrap up with

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Gale support so where can you go after

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today when you get questions when you get feedback

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for us, we want to make sure you know how to get in touch

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as we're going through today though. Do feel free

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to take advantage of the chat and the Q and A.

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Both are open. I'll keep an eye on them

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throughout the session and and get to

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those as quickly as I can. This is really

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your training session. So if

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there's something you want to see something you want

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me to click on

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or demonstrate do share that

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in the chat so I can give you what

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you need out of the session today.

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So let's go ahead and dive in

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with what to expect out of

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our Gale Presents

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Peterson's tests and career prep

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resource.

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So as you might have assumed with

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both company names there in the title.

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This is a partner product for us at Gale.

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We're thrilled to partner with Peterson's.

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There is such a well known and well respected

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company in the

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test prep and college readiness

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field so you know really there's nobody

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better with a partner which provide this

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resource in libraries.

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I remember using the books way way

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back when I was prepping for the S.

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A. T. And A. C. T. Exams

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years and years ago.

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And of course it's great to have this content available

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online. So of course that's one of the features

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of the resource. Being able to prepare

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for college and career related tests.

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We have online practice tests built

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right into the resource with immediate

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ratings. you can check your score, see how

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you did retake exams, stream

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cruel.

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Um

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along with the e book content that comes along

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with those tasks so you can,

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you know, take advantage of not just

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the practice test but also the

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content that helps you prepare and

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get ready for those those exams.

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Oh I apologize, I've got my

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animations a bit out of order here.

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Um but that's fine, it's all good stuff.

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So this resource also

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can help you find a college,

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you have searches that help

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you narrow down to the uh

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you know type of school you're looking for. So you

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know public or private in state or out

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of state.

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search based on tuition

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of course based on the program or degree you're

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interested in. As well

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as some other features that come in really handy

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and not just that, you know, paying for

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college is

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can can be a challenge.

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So we've got tools to help you find scholarships

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to find financial aid help

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and a lot more kind of college

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breath. And what's nice about these tools,

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It is of course going to offer kind of a traditional

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two and four year institution search, but then there

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are specialist searches for distance learning

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for nursing programs.

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So they've created some custom search

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paths for different types

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of schools. So take a look at those.

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This resource also has a great resume

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creator tool. Somebody may be familiar

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with visual C. V. They offer a lot

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of great

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formats for your resume, use kind of input

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your information. It's also

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got a lot of great content around

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writing a resume around writing cover

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letters, lots of good career advice

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sections within the resource, so

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it's gonna kind of give

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you, the end result,

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may be that you're looking for a resume. You feel good

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about sending out to companies and sharing,

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but also help for getting it to the right

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hand, right the right companies, finding the places

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you want to be, even taking it a step

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further, so it might surround maybe salary

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negotiation and things like that.

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So lots of good advice here

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for those seeking a new career

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or really just a job change whenever

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they may be interested in

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remember.

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And then also this

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will help kind of bolster apologize folks again,

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I have these a bit out of order um finding

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a career that's best due to do you. So

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there's a career assessment tool that walks

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you through, answering

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once you if you're basically a questionnaire looking

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for where what type of industry

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you might be a good fit for, then

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of course you can dig deeper finding based

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jobs based sorry, careers

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based on those assessments and looking

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at overview. So what's expected out of that

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job with a salary range, that type of

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thing. And then there's even a

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link out to content to search for

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open positions. So folks who are actively

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looking for a new job right

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now you got to see what's out there.

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So lots of good stuff in this resource

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and they all kind of fit together nicely.

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So we want to walk you through how to get to this

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content,

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what you can expect from it and kind of putting

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it to work. So

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let's go ahead and jump in and navigate the resource.

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So I've got to have a lot of down here

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to the homepage and

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the resource is divided into four

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categories. Improve your score

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is a section that's going to

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allow you to find content to

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from different tests.

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So a variety of sections

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here, we've also got again find

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our finest school. So we've got

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the scholarship search information.

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They're linked to the college planning center,

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which is really handy. And we're going to dig deeper into

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these. I just want to give you the basics here.

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Start there's also the explorers

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career section that's where you would find the resume

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builder, the career tools in the

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life. And that is very protective

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for vocational test prep.

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Variety of tests available there.

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So there's a lot of content here, we

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won't of course be able to go into everything.

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So again do share in the chat

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or the Q. And A. And if there's anything in particular you

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want to look at.

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So for library staff, I really

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like the four boxes here to

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kind of browse around and see what's here.

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So, you know, which

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test prep to do. We have, you know,

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do we have the firefighter exam? Do we have the asvab

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you can kind of

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quickly get the list there.

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It's also again, a good way to get comfortable

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with what's here. So again, so you know what to expect,

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you know, when to recommend this resource.

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We've also added a search right on the homepage.

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You can dive right in with a search for,

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say, S. A. T. And get taken right to that contact.

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So the search is handy as well.

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You know what you're after?

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We've got a question what job boards

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is the is the job search link

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to? Great question Diane.

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And

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oh, gosh, of course I'll know

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it. Of course. The minute we pull it up in the resource,

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let me just actually to get that question answered. What's

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going to use it?

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I

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I'm 90% sure of what it is,

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but I I don't want to be wrong.

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So

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most of the content in this resource

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is going to require you to create a user

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account. So actually, let me back

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up for a second before we go look at what the

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job search. I believe it's a need dot

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com. But

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to create an account, we have a new

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user sign up for first time users of

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the resource.

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And it's very simple, We're not doing

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anything with the information that we're gathering

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here. It's really just to create the account

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because

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again if you're using test prep, you're taking

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an online practice example wants you to be able to come

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back, look at your work, see how you do it, retake

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exams, the scholarship search

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tasks for details about

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you. So things you excel, that stuff

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like that so we can match you up with

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scholarships that fit. So you're

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entering in some information that is going to require

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what we call a named user account.

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Your email address is not required.

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Again, we're not doing anything with the information

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we're gathering here. You're not going to start getting

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a bunch of emails from Gale or

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Peterson.

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It is the best way though to create

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your account if you want need might need to be

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able to reset your password down.

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So we are tech support can always figure something

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out for you. But the folks are comfortable.

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They can share their email address that they don't have.

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You create a user name and password and then

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a secret word to reset

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your password if you need you and your there's

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no um

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second step where you have to go to an email

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and verify or anything. You just have your

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account created. So very simple

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and I'm gonna go ahead and log into my account

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and we will double check. We

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just feel quick

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search here. We'll come back and look at this a little closer.

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But I do want to confirm

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the resource that we're using.

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Oh, it's a link up. I apologize folks. I

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that's why I shouldn't have mentioned

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for if we believe we used

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to use indeed that combo with partner.

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So we go ahead and close out

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of there, we will come back and look at that job searching closer.

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Okay, so back to the homepage just clicking the

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banner there.

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Now. One of the neat things, another neat thing

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really about having the names user account aside

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from being able to kind of keep track of what you're doing here

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is on the home page, you're able to

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identify favorites things you're kind of going

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back to again and again. So if I'm

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coming in pretty regularly and working on different resumes,

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I can make that one of my favorites

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on the homepage. If I'm walking through in this case

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some basic skills math tutorials, I can

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add them right here and I'll show you how to create

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these favorites. But it's a nice

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quick way to get back to what you were doing

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in this resource if you is coming back

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again and again.

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So I'm gonna start with improve

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your sports section and we'll look at a few of the items

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there, we'll walk through all these others, um

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as well. But again, do feel free if there's nothing in particular

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you want to see, let me know

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so improve your score again is is a

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lot of um test prep.

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But also we've got a section I think

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that doesn't get talked about enough and that's

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the foundational skills tool. So

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this isn't quite, it isn't specific

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to any

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certain exam, but it's to kind of

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prep you for taking almost any of these

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exams. So maybe a basic

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skills math tutorials, I'm sure that's

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something I could use at any point. Right?

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And it's going to help prep me for any sort of math that

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maybe on some other certification

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exam or something like that.

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You've got basic english and writing tutorials.

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Uh there are question banks kind of gets

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you in the habit of answering questions.

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So this is a really excellent piece of

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the resource also where you can

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find our Microsoft office tutorials.

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So something folks can do online from

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home

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on to learn a bit more about how to use Excel

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word PowerPoint,

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any of these. And you may notice

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these ones that have the little gold star that's

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because I've added them to my favorite.

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So just

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looking that little star,

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we'll add that item to your favorites on the homepage.

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So again, if it's something you're going to come back to again

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and again, the right way to find those

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easily, right on the homepage when you come into

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the resource.

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So a lot of great content

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here can again help you prep for any other

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tests you're going to use. But also just

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good practice you know tutorials for

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for for students for

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for adults who could maybe just use a little

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help in those areas feel a little bit more confident.

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But we've also got of course kind of the classics

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for test prep. As I mentioned the

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S. A. T. The A. C. T. And so on. We've

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got exams to prep for different high school

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exams. So if you

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are in a school setting maybe have

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a p courses. We've got a lot of

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test prep for ap

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I'm the list here

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and we are going to dive into some of these online tests.

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I can show you what they look like and what kind of show you around

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a little bit here with some other high school equivalency

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exams.

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So on some of these are state specific.

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Okay we're gonna go into college prep here in

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a second. So we've also got test prep

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for grad school.

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He's looking at that passed through the various

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uh the G. Net and G.

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R. E. But then the elsat for

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specific

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types of graduate degrees and

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so on.

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Sorry folks.

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And then our international test prop you'll find

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our total and uh

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we say to each a measure exams

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as well as the U. S. Citizens of exams

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can help

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what's going to happen.

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But one of the ones I always like to highlight

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because it is the

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most used in the resource. Our college

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prep exams. So A. C.

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T. S. A. T. As I mentioned. But we've also got clep

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exams accuplacer DSST.

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And so on.

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And what's really I think

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especially nice about two of these exams

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here the A. C. T. And the S. A. T.

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Along with the online practice

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tests

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and the book content. These also

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have online courses to go

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along with them.

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So I remember taking one of these in high

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school I was I was lucky. It was you know an afternoon

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at school it wasn't something we had to pay for but

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not everybody else is as lucky.

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So S. A. T. Prep can

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cost some money. It also takes up time

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right that everybody has that.

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So the S. A. T. Online course within

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uh Gale presents Peterson's test and

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career prep, that's a mouthful. Um

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Is a great way for folks to do this on their

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own time at no cost. So

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they come into the resource. It can work

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through this course as needed.

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And it provides tutorials.

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You know it's not just um

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kind of content around

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the exam questions

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around preparing for the exam kind of knowing

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what's there. So you take a pre assessment, you

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work through the program let's

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see how you do at the end as well.

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But it's a great way to get comfortable taking

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the exam without kind of the pressure of

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the practice exam itself. So

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again getting more comfortable knowing what to expect

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out of the exam.

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But again our most popular piece in the

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resource are the online practice test themselves.

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So let's say this is something I'm gonna keep coming back

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and revisiting. So I'm gonna go ahead and add it

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to my favorites. But that little gold star there

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and when you come into the exam, you may notice

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it's opened up in a new tab or window depends

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on your browser's behavior. But it's

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nice because you've got the database there if you need it, maybe

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we want to go back and quick check into the book or something

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that's right there for us. We've got the test

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open as well And you can see I've done some

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work before. I will caution you

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that I randomly answer questions

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on these exams. So I'm not doing so great

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in my

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migrating of my practice

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exams. But

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um we'll see how I want to show you how this works.

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So if you look to the left hand side

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there, basically we've got the practice practice

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exams labeled as they would be

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in the actual test. And generally

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you're going to have three practice tests.

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Uh in most cases for most

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of the exams in the resource

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in the handful where we only have one or two.

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But our goal is to have at least three exams

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for folks to take because it's not good to keep taking the

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same practice test over and over. That's

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one of the things

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you learn in the in the S. A. T.

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prep eBook,

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you don't want to get in the habit, you know, start

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memorizing answers. It's, you know,

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it's about learning so it is good

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to take these,

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oh and actually it looks like for the S. A. T. We've added

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some more examples here. So that's what

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I get for, not strolling down when I was prepping for

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the webinar the other day, but we've got

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more practice this year, so climbing for

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the S. A. T. Better to not take them over

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and over and you will be able to keep track

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of all your scores from these

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sections as well.

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So let's take a look at how these work. I'll go ahead

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and jump into say a math section

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and you give a little introduction. You don't

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just drop right into the exam, it kind

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of gives you a little instruction here on how this test

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is going to work. So then we can choose

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to start the quiz

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and

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this is going to mimic the real world

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test.

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So you're working with pages, you can

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see those in kind of the middle column on the

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page here. And as you

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work through, you can see which pages you've completed.

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Uh you can go back and change

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answers, things like that as you're taking the exam,

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it's saving your work as you go

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through. But you can always come back

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and make a change has me,

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so it's going to randomly select

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some answers here.

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And as you're working through

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again, it's going to make that real world exam.

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So we select our answer and then

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move on to the next page. Let me get a page

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here. Granted you can notice there

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in that middle problem as I'm answering questions,

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I get a little check mark. Right? So it's a quick

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visual way to make sure you've kind

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of done your war. So you keep moving

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through to the next page.

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But again, can always go back. Maybe, oh,

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you know what that question number five on page

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one, I want to go back

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make an adjustment.

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You're not committed to your answers

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until you choose the submit

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quiz yet. You just keep moving

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through the pages

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answering questions.

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And just in the interest of time I'm going

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to go ahead and scroll down, let's say I've

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gone through all these pages I've done,

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I'm going to jump to the last page. Last question.

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Right,

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just a five, I'm

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sure in close. Uh, and that is

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you submit the quiz.

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It is uh

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right, that's not working. It

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is going to give me a little warning. I have missed

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some questions. Right? So

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I've missed several, but this is really handy

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if you're just accidentally maybe skipped over

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one, which you know, kind of a scrolling

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list could be easy to do,

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but we're not going to go back and answer is

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and we'll leave it as is So you get a little confirmation

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before you've submitted to have the test. Great

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apologist,

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I work for a minute and then immediately

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puts you in a review so you can go back through

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and see how you did.

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And what's nice is for each question

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we can see here the question was it looks like

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randomly selecting answers is not the way to go,

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but I got mine wrong. I selected

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a B was the correct question.

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If you open up the feedback

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option, you can see why that was the

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answer.

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So you get an explanation and you can

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just keep working through

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the entire exam, seeing how you

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did it. It looks

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like these random guesses. Oh, I got lucky

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on questioning,

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but most cases

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it was not for yeah Rachel

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that we can work through,

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you see, I'm here.

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So let me just check the chat with you and they quickly

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see if anything's come in.

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Oh, excellent day, I love to hear yes. The feedback

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feature is really great. That immediate

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kind of learning you can do when

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you come wrong with a with a question or method

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or you know, whatever it may have been the thing that's

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really handy.

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Now if we jump back, I'm gonna go ahead and click

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here in the upper left hand corner, back to content

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when you're on this page. Mostly folks

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are jumping right into the practice test But I wanted

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to point out when you use no little annotate tool here

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that you can work through the

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different kind of options with the practice.

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Well, I shouldn't say option the different features

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for the practice test within

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it as well. So if you want to go back and review

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grades for tests you've taken,

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there's a quizzes section for that.

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You can, of course, you know, go to the brain section.

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Uh There is a

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class progress which is handy

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and then a system check.

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The requirements for this resource are not

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are pretty basic, but just in case you can

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always take advantage of that. So this

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will let you explore uh the

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features of the exam as well. So I'd like to point

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out that banner because really the focus is,

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you know, on the practice test and that's where most folks

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go. But if they want to kind of look at past history

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of the exam,

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you've got those sections up here to work with.

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We gotta be clear these out.

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Now. A question we get for the exams

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in some cases is

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um if you're working in a school setting

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or really just stay, a student wants

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to check their work with their teacher, I have a question,

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you can print from the exam results,

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but sometimes um if maybe

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it's been given as assignment to take,

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you know what uh Yeah practice

[00:21:07.420]
test or something like that and you want

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to uh

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share what you've done so far if we go into

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class progress and click

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on quizzes, you can see all of your attempts

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at the various exams

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and how well you've done. So this is something

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that a student can print out and share with the future.

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There isn't really a future for someone else

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to come in and look at anyone else's account.

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But this finding the content

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just food. Got a nice print option here

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at the top of the page for an ice cream print.

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But you can share results that way with others.

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Uh If you like.

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So lots of good stuff there and really all

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the tests are gonna mimic that same experience.

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So if we go ahead I do want out we're going to kind of

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jump over the uh find a school and

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explore careers for a minute and go right

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to the vocational test prep.

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This is going to give us really

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the same format of exams but each

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of them are going to have their own kind of tools.

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So kind of scroll of it here. You

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can see there's a broken down by category.

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So if I jump to say military, we

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do have the asvab but then we've added some

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recent ones over the years or in some cases e

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books to support for example the military

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flight aptitude

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test. E book. When you select

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an e book it immediately prompts

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you to download a pdf

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and then you can I apologize. What's up publishing

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on this already open but don't look up pretty quick.

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You've got that pdf to work with

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and that's yours. It's there's no real check

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in or check out. It's it's not like it's going to disappear

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off you say if you put this on your own device

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um you know if you downloaded it for offline

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use you're going to go any time. It

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doesn't disappear from your device after a couple

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of weeks. It's not like an an overdrive e book

[00:22:48.150]
or anything like that. This is really just yours to then

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use however you see fit and

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what's nice about the books is again

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you've got the practice test that always appear

[00:22:57.140]
at the back of the book and you know you would have

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to do the grading yourself. It's not like the online

[00:23:01.509]
practice test but you also get all of

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the content that perhaps you for the

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exam.

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So you can study with it. You learn more

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about how the test is administered. All

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of that information

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that you folks are really great.

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But if I go ahead and say jump into master the

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asvab

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it's going to give me the option to

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again download that book and take advantage.

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You can have unlimited downloads with this content

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which fall down a bit.

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We've got an as we have prep course

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jump into that and you'll see it mimics the

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oh we have a bad one there.

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I'm gonna have to investigate that. This is what I get for randomly

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selecting instead of going with Maya.

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of course. Let's see if this one

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larry, that's what I was looking for. So mimics what

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we saw would be S. A. T. Prep course as

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well. Nice

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familiar tools as you move between them.

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But you can again just kind of take a look

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again, it's about to get comfortable relax

[00:24:02.068]
here. So we've got different military exams, firefighter,

[00:24:04.568]
law enforcement,

[00:24:06.038]
um postal exams, real estate

[00:24:09.240]
got a lot of options here and

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again, unlimited use here. So folks can come

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in and take advantage of

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uh and all the e book content, the prep

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course to practice us and so on.

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And they're all going to follow that same format

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already. So let's take a look now.

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We're going to jump back to find a school

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and the finest school tool again, as I mentioned

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is going to give different options. It's not just

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about finding a school.

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What does I'm clicking on things in it.

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There we go. Um The college

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and scholarship search pages going to offer

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us of course college searches but

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also the the uh scholarship

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search which is a great way

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to find what's out there, right? It can be overwhelming

[00:24:54.200]
to go online and look for scholarships

[00:24:56.430]
search. So what's nice about this is

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the scholarship searches searches

[00:25:00.588]
have been indexed by different

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uh filters. So if you look over

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on the left hand side, you can look

[00:25:07.720]
for awards based on school type,

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ethnicity, gender.

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Right? So again, this is where we need that, why

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you're creating a user account, You're answering

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some questions about yourself. In

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this case, you've also got

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the ability to um narrow

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by a few more items to your area

[00:25:26.430]
of study is always a good one. So I

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was interested in a particular program and

[00:25:30.818]
as you select over on the left was

[00:25:32.900]
quite, and perhaps the earth science,

[00:25:34.740]
it filters to scholarships on the right

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and then we can jump in,

[00:25:39.940]
read a bit more about this labyrinth stem

[00:25:42.019]
scholarship,

[00:25:44.140]
get some backgrounds, find out how

[00:25:46.150]
to apply

[00:25:47.740]
how much money they're giving out.

[00:25:50.640]
More companies,

[00:25:53.838]
find a school will do the same thing

[00:25:55.900]
for the different college searches. So if I jump

[00:25:58.220]
into say the undergraduate school search,

[00:26:01.538]
it's going to again offer filters

[00:26:03.568]
over on the left. We can break down by location.

[00:26:06.278]
So for example, I live in new york state. So

[00:26:09.640]
in state tuition is always nice

[00:26:11.858]
to go ahead and grab the new york

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and you can choose multiple. So this as

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well. So it's going maybe I'm also interested

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in massachusetts

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go ahead and select and over

[00:26:23.618]
on the right. It just keeps filtering and working

[00:26:25.778]
with the choices that you've made

[00:26:27.950]
over on the left, the area of study.

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And what I like about these is you

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can certainly scroll these lists.

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But as you start to type,

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it will match you up so you don't have to scroll

[00:26:39.640]
these entire lists. So

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if I'm looking to say a few different biology careers,

[00:26:45.140]
go ahead and select

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and again, don't have to ah

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use the uh

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uh just a pick list

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and you can work on things,

[00:26:58.410]
you know, area of study location of the

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corporate standards. But I like some of these other

[00:27:02.680]
choices as well, something like setting,

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you know, um If I, which I did

[00:27:07.390]
grow up in a small town, maybe I want to

[00:27:09.588]
mimic that experience or

[00:27:11.778]
maybe I'm looking to really

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kind of jump up and and

[00:27:16.019]
change my, my setting

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quite a bit. I could maybe add in urban and

[00:27:20.328]
again as I'm making this election just over

[00:27:22.420]
on the right. It's narrowing gun showing me

[00:27:25.338]
various schools

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and if you jump in,

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if anybody used remembers using

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or have them on the shelf in your library.

[00:27:34.150]
Those, you know, big thick Peterson's

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college books.

[00:27:37.838]
That's what you're getting here. You're finding

[00:27:40.098]
all of the details. If you look over on the left,

[00:27:42.250]
you've got kind of a table of contents to work through.

[00:27:44.470]
So jump into state tuitions and

[00:27:46.470]
fees, find out about their financial

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aid situation.

[00:27:51.038]
We got there interesting statistics here.

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I don't remember these in the books back when I

[00:27:55.358]
was using them, but I love to see this

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data. So average percentage of financial

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need met. Um you know,

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I think it's important that financial

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aid piece is so important nowadays. You

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get all your details around campus sleight

[00:28:08.509]
of athletic programs, faculty and,

[00:28:10.880]
and so on.

[00:28:12.038]
So lots of good data. And if you haven't

[00:28:14.250]
been in this resource in a while and

[00:28:16.630]
you're using this session is a little kind of refresher.

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Uh again, I encourage you to kind of come

[00:28:21.769]
in here and look around. There's a lot more

[00:28:23.930]
um, things a lot more visually appealing

[00:28:26.160]
than it used to be and it's more modern.

[00:28:28.509]
We're linking out to their facebook page, pulling

[00:28:31.019]
in tweets, um, for some schools.

[00:28:33.130]
So really kind of engaging way

[00:28:35.278]
to look for school and you're not getting bombarded

[00:28:37.640]
with ads. Right? So a nice

[00:28:40.140]
feature and working through library

[00:28:42.440]
resources is no ads.

[00:28:44.568]
So lots of good stuff.

[00:28:47.440]
So let's go ahead and take a look at a few more of these

[00:28:49.490]
college search options.

[00:28:51.838]
So again, we have for graduate programs,

[00:28:54.240]
but also specific types of schools. So

[00:28:56.240]
graduates, uh, distance learning

[00:28:58.500]
search, you're looking to go to school online.

[00:29:01.240]
And again, these are all gonna mimic and work the same

[00:29:03.240]
way just over on the left. You take advantage of the filters

[00:29:05.730]
that will match you up with schools on the right

[00:29:09.538]
Oh pretty.

[00:29:12.338]
And one piece I would like to show off

[00:29:14.568]
here is the college framing center also

[00:29:16.930]
underlined the school. What it does is

[00:29:19.048]
kind of gather together

[00:29:21.338]
all of the different tools and the resources,

[00:29:23.818]
but all of the different sources to help

[00:29:26.028]
plan for college. And really

[00:29:28.298]
it pulls in a lot of the career stuff

[00:29:30.460]
too. So it's all

[00:29:32.848]
one nice place. This is something again,

[00:29:34.980]
if you're in a school setting, show

[00:29:37.068]
this off during parent open houses,

[00:29:39.180]
this is really great content certainly

[00:29:41.519]
could be put to great use in the guidance

[00:29:43.618]
office as well.

[00:29:45.440]
But you've got all of the kind of help

[00:29:47.528]
and advice articles that come along with

[00:29:49.618]
choosing a career and and finding

[00:29:52.048]
the right college. They've even created these checklists

[00:29:54.670]
for both parents and students.

[00:29:56.838]
So what should I be doing as a parent of a

[00:29:58.880]
kid who was in 11th grade.

[00:30:01.240]
And what I like about the advice content

[00:30:03.318]
is it's kind of these quick

[00:30:05.240]
um articles. They're not, you know, lengthy,

[00:30:07.630]
lengthy, lengthy tones. It's just good

[00:30:09.769]
stuff to know, kind of breaking it down to the most

[00:30:11.828]
salient point.

[00:30:13.440]
So the college planning center I think is a really

[00:30:16.150]
useful piece in the resource. It links

[00:30:18.210]
out to test, you might need to take it offers.

[00:30:20.608]
Again, a lot of advice links out to various

[00:30:22.970]
searches. It just kind of pulls all

[00:30:25.078]
that content to one place. So excellent

[00:30:27.640]
resource to point both students

[00:30:29.930]
and parents to the college planning

[00:30:32.108]
center again, found it or find a school.

[00:30:35.940]
All right. So the last section we're going to take a look

[00:30:38.190]
at and spend our time in is explore

[00:30:40.190]
careers because it kind of the second most

[00:30:42.269]
used piece of this resource

[00:30:44.140]
is these career tools,

[00:30:46.200]
most specifically the resume builder.

[00:30:49.140]
I want to jump into the career tools

[00:30:51.740]
and the first thing that's gonna want you to do.

[00:30:54.058]
Sorry folks, I seem to have to keep clicking my mouse

[00:30:56.450]
twice.

[00:30:57.640]
Um when you're working with this section

[00:30:59.680]
here

[00:31:01.038]
to find a career

[00:31:02.690]
that I had to use that. This is where you're

[00:31:04.740]
going to find those career assessments. So

[00:31:06.778]
to help you find

[00:31:08.940]
the industry, the job that might suit you

[00:31:11.019]
best. You are going to have to participate

[00:31:13.170]
in the first two assessments,

[00:31:15.720]
the ones related to interests and values.

[00:31:18.009]
So I've gone ahead and done that ahead of time

[00:31:20.450]
so we can kind of take a look at what happens

[00:31:22.660]
after. But I do want to show you how these

[00:31:24.818]
assessment work because there are

[00:31:26.950]
four of them

[00:31:28.338]
and a lot of career assessments just kind

[00:31:30.509]
of asked you know, would you like to do this job?

[00:31:32.769]
Would you like to do that job? And you know that make

[00:31:35.240]
you know the judgements based on what you said yes

[00:31:37.269]
to, you know, that's one

[00:31:39.269]
way to do it. What I like about these assessments

[00:31:41.828]
is it kind of comes at it from different

[00:31:44.700]
path,

[00:31:46.140]
certainly wants to know your interest. But then it also

[00:31:48.190]
wants to know more about your values, your personality

[00:31:50.750]
and your workplace preferences because these

[00:31:52.880]
are going to impact the type of career you might fit

[00:31:54.910]
best in as well.

[00:31:56.538]
And what I also like about these is they're really engaging,

[00:31:59.098]
It's not just a bunch of multiple choice

[00:32:01.308]
questions, so I

[00:32:03.358]
think there is one that is multi,

[00:32:05.038]
but I think maybe the interest, but if

[00:32:07.058]
we're going to see a workplace preferences

[00:32:10.538]
use your little, you know, instruction on how this

[00:32:12.608]
is gonna work, but and jump in.

[00:32:15.538]
It's asking questions and

[00:32:17.598]
then it's a little more interactive than just

[00:32:19.618]
like selecting answers. So in this case,

[00:32:22.338]
uh which of these statements are

[00:32:24.420]
the four least important for you to

[00:32:26.460]
have in your ideal organization. So

[00:32:28.558]
thinking about the place you're going to work, what is

[00:32:30.630]
not that important to you

[00:32:32.740]
and then you go through and just grab each

[00:32:34.828]
of these, you move on to the next page and it will,

[00:32:37.038]
it goes through what would be most important

[00:32:39.480]
and you're kind of ranking them in order,

[00:32:41.640]
So it's engaging. But it also kind of really

[00:32:43.818]
makes people think critically about

[00:32:46.308]
their their needs and their wants

[00:32:48.808]
in this case, in the workplace or again

[00:32:50.980]
around values and the like, so we

[00:32:53.288]
do encourage folks to answer

[00:32:55.598]
all four

[00:32:57.440]
assessment sections, but again,

[00:32:59.759]
you really just have to take the first

[00:33:02.038]
two, so assessment interests and assessment

[00:33:04.440]
values, you're going to have to work through

[00:33:06.838]
and

[00:33:08.140]
then what you're gonna get is

[00:33:10.538]
I just pointed out here

[00:33:12.640]
is the option to explore your career matches.

[00:33:15.098]
So by answering those questions,

[00:33:17.098]
what does it think I'm well suited for?

[00:33:19.538]
And if we jump in,

[00:33:22.640]
I ranked highest in science

[00:33:25.118]
Engineering and Mathematics, which surprised me

[00:33:27.400]
education, which did not

[00:33:29.630]
health science and so on. Going

[00:33:31.940]
through here

[00:33:32.940]
and we're just seeing where you kind of landed

[00:33:35.160]
with these broad categories. So these by these

[00:33:37.230]
subject areas, we can always get to everything.

[00:33:39.440]
View all careers,

[00:33:41.140]
explore things that maybe didn't come up

[00:33:44.240]
All right, you know what you say, it's fast. So

[00:33:46.358]
if you all careers allows you to get to everything,

[00:33:48.940]
but if we go ahead and choose, I'm gonna grab, say, new

[00:33:51.220]
careers in education,

[00:33:53.038]
it matches you up with the career overviews

[00:33:55.490]
that fall into that subject area and

[00:33:57.558]
over on the left again, we've got filtered.

[00:34:00.140]
And what I like about this is

[00:34:02.180]
you can filter too,

[00:34:04.440]
your education experience experience

[00:34:06.630]
level. So if if my ultimate

[00:34:09.070]
goal is to go into education and maybe

[00:34:11.150]
that's going to require a Master's program,

[00:34:13.190]
what could I do right now with a bachelor's

[00:34:15.590]
degree, what could I do right now with

[00:34:17.610]
just, you know, maybe a g E D. Or something

[00:34:19.880]
like that, you get almost this kind

[00:34:21.940]
of career ladder. So maybe while I'm

[00:34:24.039]
going to school for my masters,

[00:34:26.539]
I could be doing some of these other tasks, the

[00:34:28.550]
kind of things I might be well suited for and qualified

[00:34:31.039]
for right now,

[00:34:32.440]
while I'm working towards that ultimate goal

[00:34:34.940]
that elementary

[00:34:36.440]
and you can see you can add favorites here. So something

[00:34:38.840]
looks good. You think, you know, that's something you want

[00:34:40.840]
to explore. You can add it to your favorites.

[00:34:43.840]
Right? Roll through here as well.

[00:34:47.940]
You can look at these

[00:34:49.139]
and each of them are going to and go and

[00:34:51.289]
jump into one.

[00:34:53.739]
These will be, you know, kind of familiar breaks down

[00:34:55.768]
with the job description is programs you may

[00:34:57.849]
need to be in uh degrees, you

[00:34:59.929]
may need to have what skills you'll,

[00:35:02.050]
you'll uh using the job

[00:35:04.610]
you look over to the right there. Often

[00:35:06.800]
career videos you can link into and learn

[00:35:08.889]
more average salary

[00:35:10.940]
about look which is interesting search

[00:35:13.429]
for available jobs and that's going to go ahead

[00:35:15.599]
and launch that

[00:35:17.340]
job search that we got a quick peek at earlier

[00:35:19.940]
so we can put in,

[00:35:25.739]
oh I probably should have included

[00:35:28.190]
a location as well. There we go.

[00:35:30.329]
And now once you've taken the assessments,

[00:35:32.820]
it matches up with

[00:35:35.170]
your uh

[00:35:37.440]
uh huh

[00:35:38.840]
matches pardon me

[00:35:40.440]
uh that you got from the assessment so

[00:35:42.579]
you can see where you might.

[00:35:44.940]
Why not? Well,

[00:35:46.639]
so you get those kind of and oh and I apologize

[00:35:49.050]
this okay. This I apologize folks, this is my confusion

[00:35:51.469]
before the job search that you get

[00:35:53.739]
without using the assessments

[00:35:55.820]
does come from a different parameter but here is

[00:35:57.829]
where we're using Indeed dot com

[00:36:00.530]
and I apologize because I keep thinking

[00:36:02.860]
the one replaced the other but it didn't be so honorable.

[00:36:05.929]
So with indeed dot com. What I

[00:36:07.989]
love about their site there, another great partner.

[00:36:10.610]
Um I think

[00:36:12.630]
uh really a top of the line tool

[00:36:14.739]
out there on the web because they crawl

[00:36:16.869]
other search boards. So they're looking

[00:36:19.050]
not just at, you know, openings

[00:36:21.440]
that come from other uh, kind

[00:36:23.518]
of career tools, but also they're crawling

[00:36:25.889]
company websites. They're crawling,

[00:36:28.829]
you know, different government sites that pose to

[00:36:30.880]
open positions and bring them back

[00:36:33.050]
into one place. So indeed Dot

[00:36:35.099]
com is a really great

[00:36:37.150]
resource. Your your

[00:36:38.730]
so I mean casting out a wide nap when you're looking

[00:36:40.820]
for open positions when you're using this tool. So

[00:36:43.469]
probably I spoke to my confusion on those. I don't

[00:36:45.530]
know why I can't keep that straight

[00:36:47.429]
So there we go.

[00:36:50.929]
So there are other help. There's other help here too.

[00:36:53.130]
We want to show you the resume tool,

[00:36:55.230]
but before we wrap up and let you go on with

[00:36:57.309]
the rest of your day. But if we just

[00:36:59.320]
point them out quickly, we take a look at the tools.

[00:37:01.690]
This is where you can get a lot of that advice

[00:37:04.199]
content. So advice for writing

[00:37:06.239]
your resume, your cover letters interviews,

[00:37:09.230]
There's some worksheets that can maybe help you walk

[00:37:11.539]
through learning um you know

[00:37:13.539]
what you might like as a career. So

[00:37:15.860]
lots of good stuff in this section of the resource.

[00:37:20.130]
Um Ellen, can you please show that again?

[00:37:22.139]
So I'm not sure which

[00:37:24.159]
thing you'd like me to show again. Gonna be happy to

[00:37:26.210]
us if you want to elaborate there in the chat, I will.

[00:37:29.329]
We'll definitely show again.

[00:37:31.429]
So all of this content I got

[00:37:33.719]
to through going close some

[00:37:35.719]
of these camps here

[00:37:37.329]
is through the career tools under

[00:37:39.420]
find a career.

[00:37:41.030]
So all of that content opens up

[00:37:43.230]
this halfway use section, our

[00:37:45.268]
project. Let's do that time out. There we go.

[00:37:47.730]
So it brings back all of that content

[00:37:50.730]
archer

[00:37:52.030]
how to get to Indeed, versus the other job

[00:37:54.030]
listings that he showed. Absolutely.

[00:37:55.929]
So this comes from and actually

[00:37:58.079]
let me back up.

[00:37:59.929]
So you go to the Explorer career

[00:38:01.989]
section and go into the find

[00:38:04.329]
a career. And once that opens

[00:38:06.659]
up there,

[00:38:09.719]
let me point it out here in the toolbar. So up

[00:38:11.889]
top we have this this banner that

[00:38:13.980]
follows us through our time in this section

[00:38:16.719]
and what we want

[00:38:19.018]
is that jobs button there

[00:38:22.219]
around my drawings here is like

[00:38:25.320]
and we keep you in our

[00:38:27.389]
interface here while you put in the job

[00:38:29.590]
you're interested end,

[00:38:35.518]
wow

[00:38:41.518]
and show you our matches

[00:38:44.018]
and then once you click on one of the matches,

[00:38:47.820]
Not cool anymore. But yeah, you end up

[00:38:49.940]
at indeed dot com

[00:38:52.420]
and then from there they actually link

[00:38:54.530]
out by the original posting and

[00:38:56.809]
they've got a lot of great tools here too.

[00:38:59.518]
So what you want to come in to find the indeed

[00:39:01.610]
dot com matchups

[00:39:03.518]
come to the job section of

[00:39:05.809]
the career tools here. Under find

[00:39:08.030]
a career. You're

[00:39:10.940]
welcome. No problem.

[00:39:13.518]
Alrighty so lots of good content.

[00:39:15.559]
And the career advice tool is well

[00:39:17.650]
I'll open this up. This is almost more like tutorials

[00:39:20.400]
that you work through here

[00:39:22.518]
so it will mimic coming the

[00:39:24.619]
courses that we've seen before. But you

[00:39:26.619]
just kind of pick the things that you're most interested.

[00:39:28.789]
You don't have to work through the many certain order.

[00:39:30.989]
The transitioning out of the military

[00:39:33.159]
is a really popular section

[00:39:35.170]
on data for our folks who are

[00:39:37.619]
um leaving the military coming

[00:39:39.739]
out into into civilian life.

[00:39:43.420]
The last thing I'll show you here though is

[00:39:45.599]
create a resume and this is

[00:39:47.599]
a really excellent tool. Again another partner

[00:39:49.980]
we're working the visual C. V. Here

[00:39:52.050]
which has

[00:39:54.320]
really excellent

[00:39:56.119]
um

[00:39:57.920]
building a resume tool. I mean it's just

[00:40:00.018]
I love what it does here. I think it's

[00:40:02.079]
good for beginners but also folks who are more experienced

[00:40:04.480]
in their career are looking to give their

[00:40:06.539]
resume or refresh.

[00:40:08.829]
It's really I think for everybody when

[00:40:11.360]
you come into the resource you get a little tutorial

[00:40:13.550]
about how it works which is nice but of course that's

[00:40:15.599]
what I'm here for. So let me show you

[00:40:18.309]
um one of the great things about this collection

[00:40:20.340]
is that lets you build multiple resumes.

[00:40:22.909]
So if I'm applying for different types of jobs.

[00:40:25.260]
I maybe I'm using different resumes for each

[00:40:27.349]
one. I can keep track of all of them here on

[00:40:29.409]
the home page,

[00:40:30.610]
you can see I've got a couple going already.

[00:40:33.110]
It actually allows you to create a website

[00:40:35.480]
and this is something folks are being asked for

[00:40:37.590]
more and more to kind of share a portfolio

[00:40:39.860]
of work you've done. So it will

[00:40:41.929]
walk you through creating website to post your content

[00:40:44.400]
to to post your resume to.

[00:40:46.409]
There's also which I love.

[00:40:48.579]
This new career journal tool which

[00:40:51.190]
helps you track your career accomplishments

[00:40:53.570]
over time. And this is new to the resource

[00:40:55.900]
really. I think this this week

[00:40:58.010]
um

[00:40:59.409]
or so and it kind

[00:41:01.530]
of a tool to remind you of the things

[00:41:03.690]
you've done right. It's hard to write a resume. What

[00:41:05.880]
do I do my job every day? I don't know why

[00:41:07.909]
it for me it feels hard to write down,

[00:41:10.110]
but this also has you

[00:41:12.199]
keep track of what your achievements are. So things

[00:41:14.489]
you've done big projects you've taken on and

[00:41:16.619]
then it's ready for you.

[00:41:18.309]
Uh two and include and again

[00:41:20.500]
can category on your website.

[00:41:23.710]
Yeah,

[00:41:25.210]
jump back to the resume section so

[00:41:27.820]
you can work with

[00:41:29.829]
ones you uh you know, I'm sorry

[00:41:31.920]
to put it that way, you can edit content

[00:41:33.929]
that you've created for, you can create something brand

[00:41:36.268]
new and for first time users

[00:41:38.840]
this is really handy because one

[00:41:40.960]
of the things you can do is import a

[00:41:43.059]
resume. So if you've already got say a

[00:41:45.099]
word version or pdf,

[00:41:47.309]
you can import it

[00:41:49.110]
and then you know, finish your editing

[00:41:51.329]
here. You can start from

[00:41:53.380]
scratch and just kind of fill in the blanks as

[00:41:55.539]
needed. Or I think one of the interesting

[00:41:57.869]
things here they've got this use stample content

[00:42:00.460]
and basically it lets you pick

[00:42:02.710]
from a bunch of different kind of

[00:42:04.880]
uh

[00:42:06.300]
resumes and what I like about

[00:42:08.460]
it is you get this example of what

[00:42:10.840]
something what a resume might look like

[00:42:13.090]
and while the industry may not be

[00:42:15.190]
specific to what you're looking for,

[00:42:17.250]
like say the marketing

[00:42:19.000]
um you get

[00:42:21.800]
a sense of what a resume should look like, what

[00:42:23.940]
kind of information should be there. So

[00:42:25.980]
it's it's an interesting way to kind of work with

[00:42:28.050]
an example. You just can't then

[00:42:30.059]
can go in and edit each bit of

[00:42:32.150]
the content. So

[00:42:33.699]
I have not been an executive system at

[00:42:35.809]
smith inc so I could always go in

[00:42:37.809]
and just make changes

[00:42:40.800]
and fill in the blanks here.

[00:42:43.400]
And you've got

[00:42:45.500]
a lot of formatting. Healthcare, which I appreciate.

[00:42:48.179]
That is not my forte. You know, making

[00:42:50.260]
my resume looks good. I can certainly

[00:42:52.679]
use the help if you look over on the left,

[00:42:55.199]
we've got templates, you can choose from. If

[00:42:57.268]
I open that up,

[00:42:59.099]
it will give me options for a different format.

[00:43:03.400]
This one add a little color.

[00:43:06.400]
All right and again, don't forget we

[00:43:08.460]
have those areas of database that are helping you write

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this. So that's why it's another nice little

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bit. We've got the database back here for

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us. I can jump back into the career advice

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going to the resume section as I'm working

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on this. Right? So should I include a

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photo or not? You know, that's that's kind of debatable

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nowadays. So you've got the

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career tools to help guide you,

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right? There's lots of formatting help

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up here at the top. So changing the colors

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of things. Maybe if I want a blue instead,

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make that choice.

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Alright, take out there. Um so

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we can, you know, make adjustments,

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something important that you've got

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lots of tools for the way this works. But the

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most important thing I want to share here is

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the settings for your resume

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because when you're creating this right, we're in an

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online environment. So there's the benefit

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of the actually being able to publish it and put

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it online if you want to. By

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default, when you're creating a resume,

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we are set to resume. Type

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export only.

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So that means I'm the only one who can

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see this resume and I can download

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it. I can give it to someone that

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way. But really it's I can only take this

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resume out of the resource and then

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give it to someone. So certainly I can print it

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out or I can, you know, attach it to an email

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whatever I need to do,

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but it's kind of the most the highest privacy

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levels setting here is export only. So that's

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what we default to.

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You can also make it on the list.

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Well, no, let me go from kind of both extremes

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and then come back to the middle choice. So public

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would actually publish your resume

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out on the internet. So if someone search

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for Stacy Knibloe, they might find this resume.

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I even have a U R. L, but I conclude

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and stay a cover letter. This would be the

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U. R. L. I could just copy and paste that right

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into a cover letter uh that I'm sending

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to a prospective employer. They'll be able to click that

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link and see this resume,

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Right? But you become searchable

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by search engines when you choose this public

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option. So that's kind of the most extreme

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level. The happy medium

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is unlisted.

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So you don't become searchable with

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this option, you wouldn't be able to search

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for Stacy Knibloe on the internet and find this resume,

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but it does create a web page

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for you. So, again, I could still choose

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who I give it to. So again, prospective employers

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in a cover letter or wherever I want to put it,

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I suppose it to my linkedin page or something

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you can use that you are around. But that's

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the only way people will be able to find this resume

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is if they have that.

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So these settings are really important

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and it is again the default

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is always exporting,

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but it's a great way to get your name

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out there. If you can publish

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this online. Right? And I don't have to create

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a web page to do it. Visual C. V has done

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it. So bury

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it. So

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lots of good stuff here. I will point

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out, oh, um should this come up,

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I can feel, I can see people rushing to

[00:45:57.969]
the references for help with this. So in the history

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section you can see the different versions you've

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created. I just created this one. So I don't

[00:46:04.570]
really have a revision history,

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but if you've done some work you're like, oh my gosh,

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none of this is good. I want to go back to what it was.

[00:46:10.679]
You can go back to an earlier version

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of the resume.

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Yeah. Really excellent tool

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here. Again, keep in mind all the help that's within

[00:46:20.349]
the resource itself

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to get you to um writing

[00:46:24.539]
a great resume too, so

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that all that's there. Um and there's

[00:46:28.610]
there's good stuff in their health as well. People

[00:46:30.610]
into the knowledge center, so

[00:46:33.389]
no shortage of helpful books and

[00:46:37.380]
already, so let's go ahead and start getting

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on with the rest of your day. We'll

[00:46:41.820]
go ahead and and wrap up here. So I do want

[00:46:43.969]
to share a couple of thoughts on,

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you know, you are always going to be the one often

[00:46:48.360]
pointing your users to this resource, but

[00:46:50.518]
there are other ways to get them in kind of a more

[00:46:53.480]
passive way. Marc records

[00:46:55.500]
are a great way to do that. What we've done is create

[00:46:57.860]
Mark records for subject hub pages

[00:47:00.268]
and e books.

[00:47:01.579]
So the e book's pretty, you know,

[00:47:03.639]
self explanatory that Marc records going to take

[00:47:05.829]
folks right to the e book content in

[00:47:07.829]
the resource. So they search in your catalog

[00:47:10.190]
for master the asvab boom, they land

[00:47:12.518]
in the database,

[00:47:13.900]
they grabbed that length.

[00:47:15.579]
The subject hubs are those pages

[00:47:17.699]
where we've gathered all the stuff we have for

[00:47:19.730]
whatever practice exams for the college Planning

[00:47:22.090]
center, for the Career center of those

[00:47:24.179]
things.

[00:47:25.079]
That kind of home page that each of these items

[00:47:27.440]
have and directs them there. So if I come

[00:47:29.500]
into your catalog and search for

[00:47:31.510]
S A T, I'm going to land on a page that

[00:47:33.630]
gives me the online course. It gives

[00:47:35.690]
me the practice test and gives me the ebook,

[00:47:38.480]
right? So this is a great way

[00:47:40.518]
to drive users into the resource. And

[00:47:42.610]
the marc records are,

[00:47:44.880]
and of course loaded in your catalog. We also

[00:47:47.268]
have these links available though, just

[00:47:49.360]
as you are l so you can post them

[00:47:51.440]
in a tweet, you could post it into

[00:47:53.690]
an email and online newsletter.

[00:47:55.800]
Um, you know, maybe that goes out to parents or

[00:47:57.829]
patrons or something like that. So

[00:48:00.670]
where you can get all of this, the mark records

[00:48:02.889]
and the direct lengths

[00:48:05.369]
is right through our support page support dot

[00:48:07.570]
gale dot com. We've got the Marc

[00:48:09.579]
Records, we've got those, you are rows,

[00:48:11.969]
um, you can also find lots of great

[00:48:14.059]
training materials there if you are in a

[00:48:16.110]
school setting or you're in a public

[00:48:18.510]
library setting or well really any setting,

[00:48:20.829]
we've created a training deck for this resource.

[00:48:23.260]
So we've created a bunch of slides. You

[00:48:25.940]
customize a little bit and boom,

[00:48:27.949]
it's ready to go out to a presentation here,

[00:48:30.369]
parents to teachers and students.

[00:48:32.768]
You've got power point slides, ready to

[00:48:34.809]
go. We've got lots of great marketing

[00:48:36.909]
materials as well. So social media

[00:48:39.130]
posts, you know, ready to go, You just plug

[00:48:41.219]
in your information. We've got email

[00:48:43.579]
templates, we've got

[00:48:45.869]
news release type entries. So

[00:48:48.670]
don't recreate the wheel. We've got lots of good stuff

[00:48:50.880]
out at support dot gale dot com. I'll be sharing

[00:48:53.449]
a length to these pages and my follow

[00:48:55.730]
up email so you can reach out

[00:48:58.369]
um to me with any questions or

[00:49:00.449]
another good person to get to know at Gale is, your

[00:49:02.510]
customer success manager.

[00:49:04.369]
This is someone who is there

[00:49:06.440]
to help you be successful with our resource

[00:49:09.170]
and you visit our, visit our support page

[00:49:11.280]
and sign in with your with your library.

[00:49:14.469]
You can actually find out who your CSM

[00:49:16.809]
is and make an appointment on their calendar.

[00:49:19.369]
So they're a great person to talk about promoting the

[00:49:21.369]
resources, different discovery options

[00:49:23.989]
and really they handle just about

[00:49:26.099]
anything and if they don't know the answer, they

[00:49:28.119]
know where to go.

[00:49:29.469]
So great folks and again, I'll share this information

[00:49:31.980]
in my follow up email that will come to you tomorrow,

[00:49:34.730]
um in the, in the zoom system.

[00:49:36.849]
So with that I'll thank

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you all for attending when you leave the webinar

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