Duration: 30 Minutes
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All right. Well, hello everyone. Uh My
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name is Lindsay Barfield. I am
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gonna be your training consultant today for our session
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on exploring the enhancements to Gale Presents:
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Peterson's test and career prep. Uh
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You might have noticed that this past Monday, Peterson's
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got a pretty good update. So we are gonna
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take a look at that today at some of uh those changes
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that they made and also just do
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kind of a full walkthrough. So that way
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if you are a brand new Peterson's
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user or an experienced one, we're
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gonna have a little something for everybody.
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All right. So let's take a look quick on our agenda
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here for today.
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I have a couple of slides to share with
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you on just you know, an overview of
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what Peterson's is and then also a few
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of those enhancements that we did make, but we're
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gonna spend most of our time in the actual resource
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walkthrough section there. That second, uh
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we're gonna take a look at all the tools and features
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and new user experience that we have.
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And then at the end of the session, I'm gonna save some time
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for questions and support materials but I
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do encourage you as we're going along. If
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you have questions, please answer them.
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I do have the Q and A open here. So I
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am, I am happy to answer them as they come
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up. All right. But with that, let's
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go ahead and take a look at what
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Peterson's test and career prep
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is.
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All right. So if you're unfamiliar, Peterson's
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test in career prep is really a comprehensive
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tool uh to meet your patrons
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where they're at on their educational
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or career journey. So, you know, whether
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they're a high school student who's looking to prepare
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for, you know, the AC T or SAT
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and then maybe continue on from there into their career
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or someone who's been in the workforce for a while and they're
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just looking for a change, you know, whether that means
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they want to go back to school and get their masters
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or they want to take a specialized exam or
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just change the field that they're in.
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Peterson's has tools inside to help
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guide them and find success along
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that journey. So talking a little bit more
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about what some of those tools are. Uh the
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first one I want to focus on is how they can prepare for
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a test. So your patrons are going to find
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online courses, practice tests
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and PDF books that otherwise
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would be pretty expensive for them to source
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on their own. Um to prep for some of those well
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known tests like the AC TSAT,
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even A P exams for your high school student
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and some vocational exams as well, uh,
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to really get them ready before they go
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into it.
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Uh, some of those vocational exams also include
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like specialized tests for different,
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uh, majors or different areas of study in college.
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You know, I am a former teacher and I had
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to take a series of practice, practice
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exams that were very expensive
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to find, uh uh you know, practice materials
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for. And we've got a whole series of them
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within Peterson. So a lot of
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great test prep materials inside.
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We also have a tool to help your patrons
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find the school that works for them. So if
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they are preparing to go to school, you know, to
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get their um undergrad or graduate,
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they can search for a school based
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on different filters like the location
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cost size, even
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the setting that it's in. And then from
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there use a similar searching tool to find
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scholarships that might help them as
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they are paying for that school they're going back to.
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All right. Next, we have the explore career
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tool so people can take online
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quizzes uh to help find the career
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that match their interests and goals.
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And then from there, they can use the resume
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builder, career advice, job search
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tools to help prepare for that big interview.
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Once they do find that career they want to go
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for. All
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right. So now talking a little bit about those enhancements
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that we've made.
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Um If you're familiar with Peterson's, you might notice from the
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screen already. The most notable
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enhancement has been the brand new
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interface that you're now going to see once we get
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inside here.
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Uh So all the enhancements, I'm about to talk about
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come directly from user and librarian
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feedback. So, one of the biggest
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piece of feedback that we're getting is that
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uh you know, people want to find the content a little more
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easily, they want to have it in one place. They can just kind
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of scroll through and look at it and that
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is now done on the home page.
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So they can browse content on a brand
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new, easy to use interface.
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All they have to do is scroll through the home page.
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They can see all the different sections that are available
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and have options now for quicker access,
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they're also gonna find calls to action.
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So if they're coming in to prepare for an exam,
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they're gonna see that prepare for an exam button
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click in and it's gonna navigate through all
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the different options and filters that we have to find
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the exact exam they wanna prepare for.
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And then we also have added a higher contrast
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in color just so it's a little bit easier on
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the eyes and an easier reading experience.
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All right, some other enhancements that you might notice.
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We now have a Spanish translation feature
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on the home page.
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So you can easily toggle between
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Spanish and English language. Uh
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This will be especially useful if you're working with
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any Spanish patron or Spanish speaking patrons.
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Uh and you want to work alongside them, you can have it pulled
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up in English, they can have it open in Spanish
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and all the navigation, all of the buttons,
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all the features are going to work the exact same way.
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We also have a new goal setting feature.
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So you might remember in the previous iteration of Peterson's
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uh that your patrons could favorite courses
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and exams that they were preparing for. What
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we've done now is kind of taken that tool a step
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further and they can actually add
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those, those courses and exams to goals
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that they're working towards and they can even now
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save their schools scholarships
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and jobs they're applying for. So everything's
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easily accessible and organized
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in that my resources tab
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and then of course, we are continuing to add
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more and more content. So we do
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update the resource quarterly and add in,
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you know, new content like these flash cards or students
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love uh you know, practice tests
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and and so on. But we also have added a lot
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of new uh video content.
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So we've updated 26 of our topics
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with video content since we know our users
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love to watch those and it supports
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a variety of learning styles.
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OK? So with that, let's go ahead
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and explore the resource now let
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me change my screen here
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quickly. All
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right. So this is your new home page.
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And what I want to point out here before we get
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too far into it is that the home page
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is going to look the same whether you have
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an account or don't. Uh, which is
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nice because if your patrons are kind of looking
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through and deciding if they want to create a new account,
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they want to sign up for this resource,
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they can just scroll through and browse the
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content before they sign up and see
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just how much we have available here.
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Uh Of course, once they actually click in to begin
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a course or practice, test, it is gonna prompt them
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to create that account. But until then
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they can just kind of go through and browse,
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all right, pointing out again, that Spanish translation
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feature right here. I can easily
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just with the click toggle over to Spanish.
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And now all of my navigation here is translated
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for me and this
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feature does uh carry over
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once you log in or create that account. So
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right here, if you recall, this is where I could click
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to log in or sign up. When
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I click here, all of my sign up instructions
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remain in Spanish and once I actually enter
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the resource signed in, it will carry over there as
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well. All
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right, but I'm gonna toggle back to English for now
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and let's go ahead and do that and log in or sign up.
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So again, I can do that right down here with this blue button
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or up at the top, you'll have the prompts there.
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We have our first question. So someone asked
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if the school already has an
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account for Peterson's test prep, do students need
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to individually make their own accounts? So,
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yes. So your students would need to make their
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own account to come in and save their progress
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as they're working on it. Even if your school has access,
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they would each need to make their own account.
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All right. And so to make those accounts, it's kind of work seamlessly
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with what I'm talking about right now.
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Uh, they would just sign up right here
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if they don't have one already.
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And the information that we need here is just gonna
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be first name, last name.
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Uh, email address is optional, but it
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does give you this nice little dis disclaimer here
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that, uh, it's never gonna be used
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for promotional material or to contact
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them in any way except to
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recover their password. So, if they're
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kind of hesitant about using their email address
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or email address, they can rest assured that it's only
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gonna be for Peterson's. But if they wanna
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sign up without, they always can do that just by
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toggling here.
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But it's still gonna give you that little disclaimer that
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if you're not using your email address, if
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you lose your info, your account will not be retrievable
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anymore. So we do recommend using that email
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address here.
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All right, then they just can pick their password at the bottom
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and register,
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but I already have an account. So I'm gonna log
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in. All
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right. And now I'm back on my new home page. But
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again, the only thing that's changed is that I am now logged in at
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the top. I can see my little, my letter L
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that I have in the resource but everything
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else is gonna work the same.
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All right. So with Peterson's, you now have a couple
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of different options to browse our content.
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And the very first one as you scroll down is
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gonna be this call to action here. Do
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I wanna prep for an exam? Find a school
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or scholarship uh prep test educational
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schools? Which path do I want to take?
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So once I select one like prep for an exam,
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it's gonna have me choose a category, you know, which
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kind of exam would I wanna prep for?
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We'll do college test, prep
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and then which of those exams am I preparing
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for? And we'll just go with the AC
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T for now.
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All right, after you've narrowed it down, it's kind of guided
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you along to find the perfect materials for you.
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It's gonna show you what we have available. So for the AC
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T, we have an online course and
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then we also have practice tests
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along with this actual course. And test
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here. We have supporting materials like those books
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that I was talking about. Nice PDF
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version of the AC T prep guide ebook,
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some articles that they can view. So tips
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and strategies for the AC T and
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this actually links directly out to the AC T
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itself
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if they need some more information about testing
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and then you get your little about section so about this
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test and because both of these
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are related to the AC T, they are the same, the materials
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that go along with it.
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All right, now, I'll click into one if you're unfamiliar, Peterson's
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just to show you how these are set up. But both the online
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course and practice tests are kind of built into modules.
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So your students or patrons,
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they can kind of pick and choose which pieces
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they want to do
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if I'm preparing for the AC T. And I
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know I'm really great at English.
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I've got this part down pat, but I need some
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help with math. I can pick the
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specific modules that I want to use to prepare
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for that part of the test.
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All right, you're gonna have course materials, of course,
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like this intro to AC T mass math.
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You can see I already started it,
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which is, is a good time to point out if you had an existing
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Peterson's account before the update, anything
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you did before Monday still carries over.
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So you don't lose any of that progress. Everything should still
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look the same in terms of your coursework.
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All right. But even within this, this module on my
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intro to math, I can still from
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here pick and choose which parts
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of the course that I wanna take.
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And it's even showing me some example questions that are built
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in here. Now with the course,
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if you notice, let me come back here
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within these courses, you might also get practice
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tests. So right here, I've got a post assessment on
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just mathematics that I can take.
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And this is gonna be in addition to
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the practice test that I have here. So a lot
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of great course material and practice tests available
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uh for your, your, your exams.
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Now, once I've seen something and I know that
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I want to favorite it or add it to my resources
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so I can get back to it easily later. All
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I have to do is click this button right over here. So
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I'm gonna add the online course,
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give it a second to load like a confirmation
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that it's there.
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And I'm gonna add my practice test too.
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All right, once it's in my resources, you can just click
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in and
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it'll show you my goals. So now I have
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a goal clearly of taking the AC T if I
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was favoring that material. Right? So here's
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all the content related to the AC T
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that I need to study.
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If I decide that I want to add a new goal
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or search for a new goal. I can do that
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right here
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and it's going to bring me to that exact same experience
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that I just had on the home page.
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So maybe now I'm preparing for a vocational
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test. I can
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go in
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select any of these vocations, which
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I'm gonna go into medical and nursing here.
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And it's going to break down all the different
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tests that we have, which you can see for medical nursing.
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We've got quite a few. If I kept scrolling here,
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it goes on for a little while.
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But I'm just gonna pick this
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NCLEX course
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and here we can click in so you can view it.
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We close up these tabs. Here we go.
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Just to show the format might look a little different. I mean,
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the course names you can see they're broken down by the different
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areas of the nclex, but it still works
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the same way where you can pick and choose what you'd like to do.
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All right, let me add this to my resources.
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And if I go back now,
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I have a new goal, I've got AC T
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selected. So it's just showing me that material.
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But if I went over to medical and nursing, it's
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just gonna show me what I selected there. So it keeps
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it easily organized. So it's not too overwhelming
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when they click in and say, oh my gosh, I have five courses
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added. Well, no, let me pick which goal I'm
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working on today and I can go into
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that course, that practice test and start working on
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it. All
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right. So that was our first way to browse was just by
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clicking into one of these calls to action here on the
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home page
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the next way. And the one that I mentioned uh
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in our slides before is that now
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you can just scroll through the home page and see all
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this content and all the tools that we have. So
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we were looking before at the, the test that we had
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to improve for or prepare for,
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you know, a college level test. Well, I also
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have foundational skills, high school
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grad school international
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and you can see that all these are hyperlinked. It's gonna suggest
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a couple popular ones. But if you click
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into et cetera or click on the name itself, it'll show you all
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of them. Same
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for vocational schools is all linked out.
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And then career tools you can see
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here, we've got four different career tools to look at.
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Uh the first one being career advice.
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This is going to bring you to that kind of career cruiser
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quiz that I mentioned again in our slides before.
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Oh, sorry. No, that's gonna be the next one. This is going to be
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uh modules that you can use to prepare for
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your career. So uh whether you are
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just starting out in your job search, getting
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into your resume basics or
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even some of these are really specific and interesting.
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Like if you are making a career change
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or the benefits of temping or transitioning
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out of the military, we've got some really great advice here
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that you can click into. We'll go to salary negotiations
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and let's walk you through, maybe how to navigate through
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that specific scenario or that situation that you're
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in. All
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right. Find a career is what I was thinking. I clicked
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on before
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this is going to bring you to the quiz,
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which you can see I've already taken.
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Uh, there's four quizzes total that you can take,
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but only two of them are required and they assess
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your interests and values. But
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if you want to really narrow down your, your results even
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further, you can assess based on personality and
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workplace preference as well.
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Um But these are different kinds of questions where you kind of
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rank these things based on importance
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or, you know, things that maybe aren't important to you.
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And it's going to start suggesting careers
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that maybe match your interests. If
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you want to explore those, you can click right up
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here, explore career matches
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and it's going to suggest them based on strength.
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So you can see at the top, my strongest
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area is in education, which I've already said I'm a former
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educator. So that works perfectly for me.
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Uh I've also got human services though,
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arts media communication. If I was
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ever thinking about changing careers
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I can view specific careers within each by
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clicking in
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and it's going to show you them based on strength.
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So if I think, ok, well, you know,
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I taught middle school, maybe I wanna be a preschool
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teacher. Let's see what it says here about that position.
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It's going to give me a really nice overview
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of this career. So a description,
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some titles I may want to look for when I'm applying
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uh on the job things that I would be doing.
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And then I can even go over to programs. I would wanna
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consider
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abilities,
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knowledge
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and skills.
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And then over on the right here, it's gonna give you a nice video
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to give an overview, your average
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salary job outlook.
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And then I can go in and actually find jobs
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related to this.
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This is just a tool where I can type in my
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zip code,
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the career that I'm looking for. So we'll just keep it pretty
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broad here and say education.
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There we go.
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Give it just a second to load.
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All right. And now not only is it showing me
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uh jobs related to education
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in my area, but it's also sort
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of them based on that relevance. So my very strong
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match up here uh integrated physical
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science instructor or instructor in general
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education, a mathematics instructor.
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Uh and these are always impress the heck out of me because
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I was a math and science teacher. So the fact these are my
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first two recommendations are pretty, pretty
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cool, but I can scroll through here and see all
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the openings in my area. I put in the
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zip code for an area, a nearby area
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here in Cincinnati,
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uh and see what's available.
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And if you go in and click on these,
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it'll bring you to the actual application site
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where I can apply for this position if I'm interested.
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All right. Next, we have our online resume builder.
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This is everyone's favorite.
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This is one of the coolest tools I think we have in here,
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especially speaking as someone who had to beef up my resume
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recently. And it's challenging, you know, whether
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you've, you've got one already existing or you're kind of starting
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from scratch. It can be a lot to, to take
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on at once. So we've got this builder
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where you can create your resume cover
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letter website or career journal,
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but they're all set up to work the same way.
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So when you click in to create new,
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you can either upload an existing resume,
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use some example content that we have
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or start from scratch.
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I always like using some example content
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here. It helps a lot with maybe figuring
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out some of that verbiage on how you wanna phrase your
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daily tasks or your responsibilities.
[00:18:45.670]
But I can search either for the position I currently
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have or maybe the one I'm applying for. So I can
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look at, you know, maybe some things I wanna include.
[00:18:52.890]
So we'll say I'm looking for something with, as an executive
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assistant.
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Ok, there
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we go. And
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it's gonna give me some recommended uh, resumes
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here to look at.
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Now, I can preview it first.
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Get an idea of what this person has done some
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information there. But once I select it,
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it's gonna open up the resume builder and it's gonna import
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any information that I already have. So it's
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gonna give you my name, location,
[00:19:23.868]
the email address that I used when I created my account
[00:19:25.930]
here at Peterson's. But then it's gonna keep
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all of that work somebody else already did.
[00:19:30.739]
Uh So that way I have this as example, content
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and once I get in here, I can really change this
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however I'd like. So it's
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using one of our templates which you can
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see right over here. We've got a couple of really nice templates
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to choose from.
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Let's say I like this Gallant one better I can
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select
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and it's gonna change the format but all the content
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stays. So I can use one of our premade
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templates as is or I can
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come in and change it up on my own. So if I wanna pick
[00:19:57.489]
a different font,
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let's do these two.
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It changes everything. For me, the font size,
[00:20:06.000]
I can change the colors, you know, maybe I'm not
[00:20:08.078]
a fan of orange, I'd rather it be
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uh let's say green or oh, that's a little too bright.
[00:20:12.719]
We will try this one
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and drag it down.
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There we go and I screen there, I can
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change it up however I'd like. And if I realize,
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OK, I got a little too far from where I want. I can
[00:20:23.088]
always reset the styling and go right back to
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that, that temple that I was using before.
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All right, you can also change your page layout and
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just kind of change your margins there.
[00:20:32.568]
Look at more examples. So if I realize that this
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is not the one I want to use, I can do that search again
[00:20:36.799]
and find a different example content.
[00:20:39.029]
Or if I realize I had a resume and I wanna import
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it, I can go ahead and, and import that one
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there. But the resume builder has a lot
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of different tools and capabilities. And even
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here, you know, if I decide that I wanna do
[00:20:49.789]
a different order,
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I can click things, move around and
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totally change up my resume
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on the screen here pretty quick and easily.
[00:21:02.199]
All right. And then the last tool that we have within
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career tools in the home page here is the job search,
[00:21:06.719]
but that works pretty much the same way. It doesn't find
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a career. So you know how we just search for
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uh careers in Cincinnati, I can do the same thing
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right here. OK.
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Another way that you can browse content, of course,
[00:21:17.358]
I could keep scrolling down to look for a school or scholarship
[00:21:20.229]
but I also have this browse menu option.
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That kind of follows me as I'm moving around.
[00:21:25.469]
When I click in here, it breaks down all
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those sections that we have in the home page. So we've already
[00:21:29.640]
looked at these, but let's go to find a school.
[00:21:32.809]
And here are my tools that I have the school search,
[00:21:35.279]
scholarship, search and financial aid quiz.
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We'll go to our school search first.
[00:21:42.519]
All right. This is also received an update with the
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uh interface change, but it works the same way
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as it did previously,
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you can toggle now between school
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and scholarship searching right here at the top.
[00:21:53.519]
Pretty quickly,
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you also can toggle between undergrad
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and graduate level.
[00:22:00.239]
We have a toggle now also for distance learning
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only. So if I know I want to do online learning, I can turn
[00:22:04.709]
this on
[00:22:05.699]
and it's gonna change all my schools for me.
[00:22:08.779]
But all your filters down below should be the same as
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before. So you can filter by location.
[00:22:13.299]
So I'm located in Kentucky, but maybe I want to get
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away from home for school and I wanna go to New York or California.
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But I don't know what schools there are. I can filter and it's
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gonna give me a full list of those schools,
[00:22:23.588]
the size,
[00:22:25.479]
studying tuition amount, of course,
[00:22:27.618]
very important. So you can really narrow down
[00:22:29.848]
and see what's gonna be within the range of possibilities
[00:22:32.309]
for you. But I chose
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one from the home page,
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Temple University in Philadelphia.
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We'll click in there
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because no matter which of the schools that you get or
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that you select, it should have pretty similar information
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on the home page or on the, the page for it.
[00:22:47.368]
So you're gonna have an overview at the top, just giving
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you some background information on the university itself,
[00:22:53.989]
the location and contact information,
[00:22:57.338]
the majors and degrees being offered, which you
[00:22:59.410]
can scroll through. But there are quite a few here at this
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university. So I know it's pretty big,
[00:23:04.459]
the student body population
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gallery of images if we have them
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and even these social links here at the bottom, which are
[00:23:11.598]
nice, you can see their social media accounts. But
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then also the school links where if I want
[00:23:15.789]
to visit or if I want to apply, they're
[00:23:18.189]
linked right here. So rather than having to go to the actual
[00:23:20.568]
school homepage and kind of click around and
[00:23:22.699]
find all this information in the different places, it's
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just a little one sheet on that school.
[00:23:27.739]
Now, if I've gone through this and I like it and
[00:23:29.779]
I wanna save it for later,
[00:23:31.299]
I can just save to my schools here
[00:23:36.400]
and it's gonna be located in my resources when
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I go there in just a few minutes. But before I go
[00:23:40.469]
in, I wanna add a scholarship.
[00:23:43.150]
So let's go back
[00:23:44.910]
to our search tool
[00:23:47.199]
and now let's find a scholarship that I can use there.
[00:23:51.939]
Ok. So I was looking at an undergrad school
[00:23:54.539]
so I'll, I'll toggle over to undergrad
[00:23:57.420]
and it was in Pennsylvania.
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So I wanna change my state of study now
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to Pennsylvania.
[00:24:05.420]
All right, here are the undergrad scholarships
[00:24:07.439]
that I have for Pennsylvania that I can apply
[00:24:09.449]
for. If I click on any of
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these,
[00:24:14.108]
I'm gonna get that overview page again, but for
[00:24:16.170]
this specific scholarship, so a description,
[00:24:18.578]
maybe the background information on it, who, who
[00:24:20.789]
started it,
[00:24:21.838]
uh the amount details
[00:24:23.939]
eligibility requirements
[00:24:25.799]
and then how to apply. So you can get an address
[00:24:28.098]
here and some contact information.
[00:24:30.130]
But just like with schools, if I wanna save this
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to apply for it later,
[00:24:33.549]
I can save to my scholarships
[00:24:37.449]
and now it's gonna be added in my resources.
[00:24:40.539]
So let's go back here and see how that looks now.
[00:24:44.259]
So I've still got my goals here for AC T
[00:24:46.719]
and for nursing. But now under schools,
[00:24:49.568]
there's Temple University
[00:24:51.618]
and my scholarship. So you can see how a student could
[00:24:53.640]
really build this out with all the schools they're applying
[00:24:55.699]
to and looking at all the scholarships they
[00:24:57.818]
wanna apply to and look for. They can save
[00:25:00.000]
them all here and keep it pretty neatly organized.
[00:25:02.630]
Are you also noticed that I have my jobs?
[00:25:05.779]
If you see any jobs you wanna apply for, you
[00:25:07.858]
can also save those here. You can see I saved one for
[00:25:10.039]
a training instructor that's remote.
[00:25:14.400]
Oh, someone said, that's a very good question. They said are
[00:25:16.568]
the schools included in the school search limited to schools
[00:25:18.660]
in the US or does it include international schools?
[00:25:20.969]
I believe it is only in the US,
[00:25:22.989]
but I can check and get a definite answer for you.
[00:25:25.160]
I'll include that in our follow up email tomorrow. Let
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me write that down. So don't forget,
[00:25:35.939]
but I would guess it would just be US schools.
[00:25:41.368]
Ok. Let me go back to our home page here
[00:25:44.108]
and our very last browsing
[00:25:46.189]
option. So we've got our calls to action
[00:25:48.439]
the home page browse menu. We
[00:25:50.630]
still have our basic search here. So you can always do
[00:25:52.739]
a basic search if you come in and you know what
[00:25:54.769]
you're looking for. You can type in those terms
[00:25:57.239]
and our search assist is gonna pop up. So
[00:25:59.519]
if I'm looking for financial aid information,
[00:26:04.420]
I can see, oh, I've got a financial aid quiz that I can
[00:26:06.568]
take and learn a little bit more about that.
[00:26:08.689]
So the basic search,
[00:26:10.088]
we'll just recommend some searches for you, but you'll see that
[00:26:12.108]
if you clear it, we're also giving you popular
[00:26:14.459]
searches within the resource. So people are looking
[00:26:16.479]
at those schools and sat online
[00:26:18.799]
and then trending terms as well.
[00:26:23.799]
All right.
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So that is Peterson's, that's our update and
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our full walk through.
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Um, before we head back to our slides, I did
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wanna show you
[00:26:31.989]
because Peterson's just updated on
[00:26:34.009]
Monday. We are getting our support materials together
[00:26:36.689]
and update on the support site if you've
[00:26:38.818]
never been, uh, support.y.com
[00:26:41.269]
has a wealth of information, not just for Peterson's,
[00:26:43.430]
but for any of our products. So
[00:26:45.439]
if you go in
[00:26:47.108]
and browse products here,
[00:26:49.689]
I'm gonna type in Peterson, thats what I am looking for.
[00:26:52.880]
We'll go to test and career prep. We
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have our resource guide. So if you are needing
[00:26:57.500]
to train people on this at your library or
[00:26:59.559]
school, if you scroll down
[00:27:04.000]
right here, you'll see. It's been updated, the resource guide,
[00:27:06.390]
this really walks you through every
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part of the resource that we just looked at today. Doesn't
[00:27:10.799]
just focus on the updates, it focuses on, you know, the
[00:27:12.818]
resource as a whole. So what is it,
[00:27:15.140]
how you get started, find your contents.
[00:27:17.519]
This is a really great tool to use if you need to do
[00:27:19.578]
training quickly. Um But I would suspect
[00:27:22.868]
that we're gonna have the rest of the materials updated shortly
[00:27:24.910]
as well. Ok. But the resource
[00:27:27.098]
guide is a good place to head to for now.
[00:27:31.039]
All right, let me go back
[00:27:33.108]
to my slides here
[00:27:35.118]
and we will wrap up.
[00:27:43.828]
Ok. So after today,
[00:27:46.930]
if you'd like to connect with us, uh you do
[00:27:49.000]
have a customer success manager. You can email
[00:27:51.078]
at [email protected].
[00:27:53.640]
They're really great if you've got any questions about your
[00:27:55.670]
resources or Peterson's, you
[00:27:57.680]
also, if you don't have Peterson's yet you have a sales
[00:27:59.750]
consultant that you can access. Uh support.gale.com/repfinder
[00:28:03.529]
will help you figure out who that is. And
[00:28:05.848]
then just as I showed you the support site, support.gale.com
[00:28:08.463]
um has great information. Uh and
[00:28:10.814]
you can check any upcoming webinars that we may have
[00:28:13.134]
and then, and then check back to see what tools that we've updated
[00:28:15.453]
on the Peterson's page. But I do also
[00:28:17.684]
have a training session survey for you to take.
[00:28:20.025]
Let me know how I did any feedback on
[00:28:22.074]
the resources that we looked at. But I do
[00:28:24.094]
believe I have the session set up that, that after
[00:28:26.473]
we um wrap up here, it should open
[00:28:28.594]
on your desktop automatically.
[00:28:30.848]
Oh, ok. We have a question here.
[00:28:32.989]
So if someone asks, is there a way to track usage statistics
[00:28:35.358]
on topics completed within the course content?
[00:28:37.640]
I've only been able to do sessions and card
[00:28:40.019]
click count. So clicking on something,
[00:28:43.650]
Sarah, let me see,
[00:28:46.719]
Sarah. I would have to check with our product team and get
[00:28:48.838]
back to you on that because I'm not sure I see what you're saying about
[00:28:50.959]
tracking the specific usage.
[00:28:52.660]
You wanna know, like which of the course
[00:28:54.680]
contents they're using.
[00:28:56.759]
I'm not certain that you can, but I can definitely check
[00:28:58.989]
with our product team and get back to you. Let me write
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that one down as well.
[00:29:06.199]
And then someone else asked uh we are long
[00:29:08.338]
time subscribers to test and or to test prep
[00:29:10.529]
and career prep. How do we convert?
[00:29:12.588]
You don't have to, it converted for you. So when we update
[00:29:14.739]
it on Monday, everybody's resources
[00:29:16.969]
um
[00:29:18.009]
updated with it. So it should already have the updated
[00:29:20.170]
platform for you.
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OK. Any other questions?
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All right. Well, I wanna thank you guys for
[00:29:36.549]
your time today. Check out our webinars
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that way you can uh see what's coming up. Uh
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I'm, I'm gonna hang on the line for a few minutes,
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but otherwise I will see you
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at our next session. All right. Thank you so much. Bye.
All right. Well, hello everyone. Uh My
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name is Lindsay Barfield. I am
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gonna be your training consultant today for our session
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on exploring the enhancements to Gale Presents:
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Peterson's test and career prep. Uh
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You might have noticed that this past Monday, Peterson's
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got a pretty good update. So we are gonna
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take a look at that today at some of uh those changes
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that they made and also just do
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kind of a full walkthrough. So that way
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if you are a brand new Peterson's
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user or an experienced one, we're
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gonna have a little something for everybody.
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All right. So let's take a look quick on our agenda
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here for today.
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I have a couple of slides to share with
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you on just you know, an overview of
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what Peterson's is and then also a few
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of those enhancements that we did make, but we're
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gonna spend most of our time in the actual resource
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walkthrough section there. That second, uh
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we're gonna take a look at all the tools and features
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and new user experience that we have.
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And then at the end of the session, I'm gonna save some time
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for questions and support materials but I
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do encourage you as we're going along. If
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you have questions, please answer them.
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I do have the Q and A open here. So I
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am, I am happy to answer them as they come
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up. All right. But with that, let's
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go ahead and take a look at what
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Peterson's test and career prep
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is.
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All right. So if you're unfamiliar, Peterson's
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test in career prep is really a comprehensive
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tool uh to meet your patrons
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where they're at on their educational
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or career journey. So, you know, whether
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they're a high school student who's looking to prepare
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for, you know, the AC T or SAT
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and then maybe continue on from there into their career
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or someone who's been in the workforce for a while and they're
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just looking for a change, you know, whether that means
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they want to go back to school and get their masters
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or they want to take a specialized exam or
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just change the field that they're in.
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Peterson's has tools inside to help
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guide them and find success along
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that journey. So talking a little bit more
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about what some of those tools are. Uh the
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first one I want to focus on is how they can prepare for
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a test. So your patrons are going to find
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online courses, practice tests
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and PDF books that otherwise
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would be pretty expensive for them to source
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on their own. Um to prep for some of those well
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known tests like the AC TSAT,
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even A P exams for your high school student
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and some vocational exams as well, uh,
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to really get them ready before they go
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into it.
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Uh, some of those vocational exams also include
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like specialized tests for different,
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uh, majors or different areas of study in college.
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You know, I am a former teacher and I had
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to take a series of practice, practice
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exams that were very expensive
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to find, uh uh you know, practice materials
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for. And we've got a whole series of them
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within Peterson. So a lot of
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great test prep materials inside.
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We also have a tool to help your patrons
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find the school that works for them. So if
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they are preparing to go to school, you know, to
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get their um undergrad or graduate,
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they can search for a school based
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on different filters like the location
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cost size, even
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the setting that it's in. And then from
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there use a similar searching tool to find
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scholarships that might help them as
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they are paying for that school they're going back to.
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All right. Next, we have the explore career
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tool so people can take online
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quizzes uh to help find the career
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that match their interests and goals.
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And then from there, they can use the resume
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builder, career advice, job search
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tools to help prepare for that big interview.
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Once they do find that career they want to go
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for. All
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right. So now talking a little bit about those enhancements
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that we've made.
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Um If you're familiar with Peterson's, you might notice from the
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screen already. The most notable
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enhancement has been the brand new
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interface that you're now going to see once we get
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inside here.
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Uh So all the enhancements, I'm about to talk about
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come directly from user and librarian
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feedback. So, one of the biggest
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piece of feedback that we're getting is that
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uh you know, people want to find the content a little more
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easily, they want to have it in one place. They can just kind
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of scroll through and look at it and that
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is now done on the home page.
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So they can browse content on a brand
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new, easy to use interface.
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All they have to do is scroll through the home page.
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They can see all the different sections that are available
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and have options now for quicker access,
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they're also gonna find calls to action.
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So if they're coming in to prepare for an exam,
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they're gonna see that prepare for an exam button
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click in and it's gonna navigate through all
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the different options and filters that we have to find
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the exact exam they wanna prepare for.
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And then we also have added a higher contrast
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in color just so it's a little bit easier on
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the eyes and an easier reading experience.
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All right, some other enhancements that you might notice.
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We now have a Spanish translation feature
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on the home page.
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So you can easily toggle between
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Spanish and English language. Uh
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This will be especially useful if you're working with
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any Spanish patron or Spanish speaking patrons.
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Uh and you want to work alongside them, you can have it pulled
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up in English, they can have it open in Spanish
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and all the navigation, all of the buttons,
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all the features are going to work the exact same way.
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We also have a new goal setting feature.
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So you might remember in the previous iteration of Peterson's
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uh that your patrons could favorite courses
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and exams that they were preparing for. What
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we've done now is kind of taken that tool a step
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further and they can actually add
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those, those courses and exams to goals
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that they're working towards and they can even now
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save their schools scholarships
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and jobs they're applying for. So everything's
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easily accessible and organized
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in that my resources tab
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and then of course, we are continuing to add
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more and more content. So we do
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update the resource quarterly and add in,
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you know, new content like these flash cards or students
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love uh you know, practice tests
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and and so on. But we also have added a lot
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of new uh video content.
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So we've updated 26 of our topics
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with video content since we know our users
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love to watch those and it supports
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a variety of learning styles.
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OK? So with that, let's go ahead
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and explore the resource now let
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me change my screen here
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quickly. All
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right. So this is your new home page.
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And what I want to point out here before we get
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too far into it is that the home page
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is going to look the same whether you have
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an account or don't. Uh, which is
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nice because if your patrons are kind of looking
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through and deciding if they want to create a new account,
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they want to sign up for this resource,
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they can just scroll through and browse the
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content before they sign up and see
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just how much we have available here.
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Uh Of course, once they actually click in to begin
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a course or practice, test, it is gonna prompt them
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to create that account. But until then
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they can just kind of go through and browse,
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all right, pointing out again, that Spanish translation
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feature right here. I can easily
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just with the click toggle over to Spanish.
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And now all of my navigation here is translated
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for me and this
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feature does uh carry over
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once you log in or create that account. So
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right here, if you recall, this is where I could click
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to log in or sign up. When
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I click here, all of my sign up instructions
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remain in Spanish and once I actually enter
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the resource signed in, it will carry over there as
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well. All
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right, but I'm gonna toggle back to English for now
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and let's go ahead and do that and log in or sign up.
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So again, I can do that right down here with this blue button
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or up at the top, you'll have the prompts there.
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We have our first question. So someone asked
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if the school already has an
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account for Peterson's test prep, do students need
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to individually make their own accounts? So,
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yes. So your students would need to make their
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own account to come in and save their progress
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as they're working on it. Even if your school has access,
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they would each need to make their own account.
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All right. And so to make those accounts, it's kind of work seamlessly
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with what I'm talking about right now.
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Uh, they would just sign up right here
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if they don't have one already.
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And the information that we need here is just gonna
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be first name, last name.
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Uh, email address is optional, but it
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does give you this nice little dis disclaimer here
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that, uh, it's never gonna be used
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for promotional material or to contact
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them in any way except to
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recover their password. So, if they're
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kind of hesitant about using their email address
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or email address, they can rest assured that it's only
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gonna be for Peterson's. But if they wanna
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sign up without, they always can do that just by
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toggling here.
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But it's still gonna give you that little disclaimer that
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if you're not using your email address, if
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you lose your info, your account will not be retrievable
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anymore. So we do recommend using that email
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address here.
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All right, then they just can pick their password at the bottom
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and register,
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but I already have an account. So I'm gonna log
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in. All
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right. And now I'm back on my new home page. But
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again, the only thing that's changed is that I am now logged in at
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the top. I can see my little, my letter L
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that I have in the resource but everything
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else is gonna work the same.
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All right. So with Peterson's, you now have a couple
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of different options to browse our content.
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And the very first one as you scroll down is
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gonna be this call to action here. Do
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I wanna prep for an exam? Find a school
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or scholarship uh prep test educational
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schools? Which path do I want to take?
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So once I select one like prep for an exam,
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it's gonna have me choose a category, you know, which
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kind of exam would I wanna prep for?
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We'll do college test, prep
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and then which of those exams am I preparing
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for? And we'll just go with the AC
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T for now.
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All right, after you've narrowed it down, it's kind of guided
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you along to find the perfect materials for you.
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It's gonna show you what we have available. So for the AC
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T, we have an online course and
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then we also have practice tests
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along with this actual course. And test
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here. We have supporting materials like those books
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that I was talking about. Nice PDF
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version of the AC T prep guide ebook,
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some articles that they can view. So tips
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and strategies for the AC T and
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this actually links directly out to the AC T
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itself
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if they need some more information about testing
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and then you get your little about section so about this
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test and because both of these
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are related to the AC T, they are the same, the materials
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that go along with it.
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All right, now, I'll click into one if you're unfamiliar, Peterson's
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just to show you how these are set up. But both the online
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course and practice tests are kind of built into modules.
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So your students or patrons,
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they can kind of pick and choose which pieces
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they want to do
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if I'm preparing for the AC T. And I
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know I'm really great at English.
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I've got this part down pat, but I need some
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help with math. I can pick the
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specific modules that I want to use to prepare
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for that part of the test.
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All right, you're gonna have course materials, of course,
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like this intro to AC T mass math.
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You can see I already started it,
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which is, is a good time to point out if you had an existing
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Peterson's account before the update, anything
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you did before Monday still carries over.
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So you don't lose any of that progress. Everything should still
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look the same in terms of your coursework.
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All right. But even within this, this module on my
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intro to math, I can still from
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here pick and choose which parts
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of the course that I wanna take.
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And it's even showing me some example questions that are built
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in here. Now with the course,
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if you notice, let me come back here
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within these courses, you might also get practice
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tests. So right here, I've got a post assessment on
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just mathematics that I can take.
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And this is gonna be in addition to
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the practice test that I have here. So a lot
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of great course material and practice tests available
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uh for your, your, your exams.
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Now, once I've seen something and I know that
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I want to favorite it or add it to my resources
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so I can get back to it easily later. All
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I have to do is click this button right over here. So
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I'm gonna add the online course,
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give it a second to load like a confirmation
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that it's there.
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And I'm gonna add my practice test too.
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All right, once it's in my resources, you can just click
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in and
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it'll show you my goals. So now I have
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a goal clearly of taking the AC T if I
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was favoring that material. Right? So here's
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all the content related to the AC T
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that I need to study.
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If I decide that I want to add a new goal
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or search for a new goal. I can do that
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right here
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and it's going to bring me to that exact same experience
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that I just had on the home page.
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So maybe now I'm preparing for a vocational
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test. I can
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go in
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select any of these vocations, which
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I'm gonna go into medical and nursing here.
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And it's going to break down all the different
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tests that we have, which you can see for medical nursing.
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We've got quite a few. If I kept scrolling here,
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it goes on for a little while.
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But I'm just gonna pick this
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NCLEX course
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and here we can click in so you can view it.
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We close up these tabs. Here we go.
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Just to show the format might look a little different. I mean,
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the course names you can see they're broken down by the different
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areas of the nclex, but it still works
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the same way where you can pick and choose what you'd like to do.
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All right, let me add this to my resources.
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And if I go back now,
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I have a new goal, I've got AC T
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selected. So it's just showing me that material.
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But if I went over to medical and nursing, it's
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just gonna show me what I selected there. So it keeps
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it easily organized. So it's not too overwhelming
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when they click in and say, oh my gosh, I have five courses
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added. Well, no, let me pick which goal I'm
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working on today and I can go into
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that course, that practice test and start working on
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it. All
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right. So that was our first way to browse was just by
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clicking into one of these calls to action here on the
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home page
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the next way. And the one that I mentioned uh
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in our slides before is that now
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you can just scroll through the home page and see all
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this content and all the tools that we have. So
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we were looking before at the, the test that we had
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to improve for or prepare for,
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you know, a college level test. Well, I also
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have foundational skills, high school
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grad school international
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and you can see that all these are hyperlinked. It's gonna suggest
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a couple popular ones. But if you click
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into et cetera or click on the name itself, it'll show you all
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of them. Same
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for vocational schools is all linked out.
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And then career tools you can see
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here, we've got four different career tools to look at.
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Uh the first one being career advice.
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This is going to bring you to that kind of career cruiser
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quiz that I mentioned again in our slides before.
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Oh, sorry. No, that's gonna be the next one. This is going to be
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uh modules that you can use to prepare for
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your career. So uh whether you are
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just starting out in your job search, getting
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into your resume basics or
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even some of these are really specific and interesting.
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Like if you are making a career change
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or the benefits of temping or transitioning
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out of the military, we've got some really great advice here
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that you can click into. We'll go to salary negotiations
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and let's walk you through, maybe how to navigate through
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that specific scenario or that situation that you're
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in. All
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right. Find a career is what I was thinking. I clicked
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on before
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this is going to bring you to the quiz,
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which you can see I've already taken.
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Uh, there's four quizzes total that you can take,
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but only two of them are required and they assess
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your interests and values. But
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if you want to really narrow down your, your results even
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further, you can assess based on personality and
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workplace preference as well.
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Um But these are different kinds of questions where you kind of
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rank these things based on importance
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or, you know, things that maybe aren't important to you.
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And it's going to start suggesting careers
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that maybe match your interests. If
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you want to explore those, you can click right up
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here, explore career matches
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and it's going to suggest them based on strength.
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So you can see at the top, my strongest
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area is in education, which I've already said I'm a former
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educator. So that works perfectly for me.
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Uh I've also got human services though,
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arts media communication. If I was
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ever thinking about changing careers
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I can view specific careers within each by
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clicking in
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and it's going to show you them based on strength.
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So if I think, ok, well, you know,
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I taught middle school, maybe I wanna be a preschool
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teacher. Let's see what it says here about that position.
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It's going to give me a really nice overview
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of this career. So a description,
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some titles I may want to look for when I'm applying
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uh on the job things that I would be doing.
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And then I can even go over to programs. I would wanna
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consider
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abilities,
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knowledge
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and skills.
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And then over on the right here, it's gonna give you a nice video
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to give an overview, your average
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salary job outlook.
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And then I can go in and actually find jobs
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related to this.
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This is just a tool where I can type in my
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zip code,
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the career that I'm looking for. So we'll just keep it pretty
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broad here and say education.
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There we go.
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Give it just a second to load.
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All right. And now not only is it showing me
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uh jobs related to education
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in my area, but it's also sort
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of them based on that relevance. So my very strong
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match up here uh integrated physical
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science instructor or instructor in general
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education, a mathematics instructor.
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Uh and these are always impress the heck out of me because
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I was a math and science teacher. So the fact these are my
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first two recommendations are pretty, pretty
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cool, but I can scroll through here and see all
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the openings in my area. I put in the
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zip code for an area, a nearby area
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here in Cincinnati,
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uh and see what's available.
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And if you go in and click on these,
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it'll bring you to the actual application site
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where I can apply for this position if I'm interested.
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All right. Next, we have our online resume builder.
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This is everyone's favorite.
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This is one of the coolest tools I think we have in here,
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especially speaking as someone who had to beef up my resume
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recently. And it's challenging, you know, whether
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you've, you've got one already existing or you're kind of starting
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from scratch. It can be a lot to, to take
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on at once. So we've got this builder
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where you can create your resume cover
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letter website or career journal,
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but they're all set up to work the same way.
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So when you click in to create new,
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you can either upload an existing resume,
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use some example content that we have
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or start from scratch.
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I always like using some example content
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here. It helps a lot with maybe figuring
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out some of that verbiage on how you wanna phrase your
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daily tasks or your responsibilities.
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But I can search either for the position I currently
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have or maybe the one I'm applying for. So I can
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look at, you know, maybe some things I wanna include.
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So we'll say I'm looking for something with, as an executive
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assistant.
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Ok, there
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we go. And
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it's gonna give me some recommended uh, resumes
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here to look at.
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Now, I can preview it first.
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Get an idea of what this person has done some
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information there. But once I select it,
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it's gonna open up the resume builder and it's gonna import
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any information that I already have. So it's
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gonna give you my name, location,
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the email address that I used when I created my account
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here at Peterson's. But then it's gonna keep
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all of that work somebody else already did.
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Uh So that way I have this as example, content
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and once I get in here, I can really change this
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however I'd like. So it's
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using one of our templates which you can
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see right over here. We've got a couple of really nice templates
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to choose from.
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Let's say I like this Gallant one better I can
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select
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and it's gonna change the format but all the content
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stays. So I can use one of our premade
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templates as is or I can
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come in and change it up on my own. So if I wanna pick
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a different font,
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let's do these two.
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It changes everything. For me, the font size,
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I can change the colors, you know, maybe I'm not
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a fan of orange, I'd rather it be
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uh let's say green or oh, that's a little too bright.
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We will try this one
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and drag it down.
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There we go and I screen there, I can
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change it up however I'd like. And if I realize,
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OK, I got a little too far from where I want. I can
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always reset the styling and go right back to
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that, that temple that I was using before.
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All right, you can also change your page layout and
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just kind of change your margins there.
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Look at more examples. So if I realize that this
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is not the one I want to use, I can do that search again
[00:20:36.799]
and find a different example content.
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Or if I realize I had a resume and I wanna import
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it, I can go ahead and, and import that one
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there. But the resume builder has a lot
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of different tools and capabilities. And even
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here, you know, if I decide that I wanna do
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a different order,
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I can click things, move around and
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totally change up my resume
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on the screen here pretty quick and easily.
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All right. And then the last tool that we have within
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career tools in the home page here is the job search,
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but that works pretty much the same way. It doesn't find
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a career. So you know how we just search for
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uh careers in Cincinnati, I can do the same thing
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right here. OK.
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Another way that you can browse content, of course,
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I could keep scrolling down to look for a school or scholarship
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but I also have this browse menu option.
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That kind of follows me as I'm moving around.
[00:21:25.469]
When I click in here, it breaks down all
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those sections that we have in the home page. So we've already
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looked at these, but let's go to find a school.
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And here are my tools that I have the school search,
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scholarship, search and financial aid quiz.
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We'll go to our school search first.
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All right. This is also received an update with the
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uh interface change, but it works the same way
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as it did previously,
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you can toggle now between school
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and scholarship searching right here at the top.
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Pretty quickly,
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you also can toggle between undergrad
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and graduate level.
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We have a toggle now also for distance learning
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only. So if I know I want to do online learning, I can turn
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this on
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and it's gonna change all my schools for me.
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But all your filters down below should be the same as
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before. So you can filter by location.
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So I'm located in Kentucky, but maybe I want to get
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away from home for school and I wanna go to New York or California.
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But I don't know what schools there are. I can filter and it's
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gonna give me a full list of those schools,
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the size,
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studying tuition amount, of course,
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very important. So you can really narrow down
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and see what's gonna be within the range of possibilities
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for you. But I chose
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one from the home page,
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Temple University in Philadelphia.
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We'll click in there
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because no matter which of the schools that you get or
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that you select, it should have pretty similar information
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on the home page or on the, the page for it.
[00:22:47.368]
So you're gonna have an overview at the top, just giving
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you some background information on the university itself,
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the location and contact information,
[00:22:57.338]
the majors and degrees being offered, which you
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can scroll through. But there are quite a few here at this
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university. So I know it's pretty big,
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the student body population
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gallery of images if we have them
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and even these social links here at the bottom, which are
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nice, you can see their social media accounts. But
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then also the school links where if I want
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to visit or if I want to apply, they're
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linked right here. So rather than having to go to the actual
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school homepage and kind of click around and
[00:23:22.699]
find all this information in the different places, it's
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just a little one sheet on that school.
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Now, if I've gone through this and I like it and
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I wanna save it for later,
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I can just save to my schools here
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and it's gonna be located in my resources when
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I go there in just a few minutes. But before I go
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in, I wanna add a scholarship.
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So let's go back
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to our search tool
[00:23:47.199]
and now let's find a scholarship that I can use there.
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Ok. So I was looking at an undergrad school
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so I'll, I'll toggle over to undergrad
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and it was in Pennsylvania.
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So I wanna change my state of study now
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to Pennsylvania.
[00:24:05.420]
All right, here are the undergrad scholarships
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that I have for Pennsylvania that I can apply
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for. If I click on any of
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these,
[00:24:14.108]
I'm gonna get that overview page again, but for
[00:24:16.170]
this specific scholarship, so a description,
[00:24:18.578]
maybe the background information on it, who, who
[00:24:20.789]
started it,
[00:24:21.838]
uh the amount details
[00:24:23.939]
eligibility requirements
[00:24:25.799]
and then how to apply. So you can get an address
[00:24:28.098]
here and some contact information.
[00:24:30.130]
But just like with schools, if I wanna save this
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to apply for it later,
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I can save to my scholarships
[00:24:37.449]
and now it's gonna be added in my resources.
[00:24:40.539]
So let's go back here and see how that looks now.
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So I've still got my goals here for AC T
[00:24:46.719]
and for nursing. But now under schools,
[00:24:49.568]
there's Temple University
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and my scholarship. So you can see how a student could
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really build this out with all the schools they're applying
[00:24:55.699]
to and looking at all the scholarships they
[00:24:57.818]
wanna apply to and look for. They can save
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them all here and keep it pretty neatly organized.
[00:25:02.630]
Are you also noticed that I have my jobs?
[00:25:05.779]
If you see any jobs you wanna apply for, you
[00:25:07.858]
can also save those here. You can see I saved one for
[00:25:10.039]
a training instructor that's remote.
[00:25:14.400]
Oh, someone said, that's a very good question. They said are
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the schools included in the school search limited to schools
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in the US or does it include international schools?
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I believe it is only in the US,
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but I can check and get a definite answer for you.
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I'll include that in our follow up email tomorrow. Let
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me write that down. So don't forget,
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but I would guess it would just be US schools.
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Ok. Let me go back to our home page here
[00:25:44.108]
and our very last browsing
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option. So we've got our calls to action
[00:25:48.439]
the home page browse menu. We
[00:25:50.630]
still have our basic search here. So you can always do
[00:25:52.739]
a basic search if you come in and you know what
[00:25:54.769]
you're looking for. You can type in those terms
[00:25:57.239]
and our search assist is gonna pop up. So
[00:25:59.519]
if I'm looking for financial aid information,
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I can see, oh, I've got a financial aid quiz that I can
[00:26:06.568]
take and learn a little bit more about that.
[00:26:08.689]
So the basic search,
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we'll just recommend some searches for you, but you'll see that
[00:26:12.108]
if you clear it, we're also giving you popular
[00:26:14.459]
searches within the resource. So people are looking
[00:26:16.479]
at those schools and sat online
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and then trending terms as well.
[00:26:23.799]
All right.
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So that is Peterson's, that's our update and
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our full walk through.
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Um, before we head back to our slides, I did
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wanna show you
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because Peterson's just updated on
[00:26:34.009]
Monday. We are getting our support materials together
[00:26:36.689]
and update on the support site if you've
[00:26:38.818]
never been, uh, support.y.com
[00:26:41.269]
has a wealth of information, not just for Peterson's,
[00:26:43.430]
but for any of our products. So
[00:26:45.439]
if you go in
[00:26:47.108]
and browse products here,
[00:26:49.689]
I'm gonna type in Peterson, thats what I am looking for.
[00:26:52.880]
We'll go to test and career prep. We
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have our resource guide. So if you are needing
[00:26:57.500]
to train people on this at your library or
[00:26:59.559]
school, if you scroll down
[00:27:04.000]
right here, you'll see. It's been updated, the resource guide,
[00:27:06.390]
this really walks you through every
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part of the resource that we just looked at today. Doesn't
[00:27:10.799]
just focus on the updates, it focuses on, you know, the
[00:27:12.818]
resource as a whole. So what is it,
[00:27:15.140]
how you get started, find your contents.
[00:27:17.519]
This is a really great tool to use if you need to do
[00:27:19.578]
training quickly. Um But I would suspect
[00:27:22.868]
that we're gonna have the rest of the materials updated shortly
[00:27:24.910]
as well. Ok. But the resource
[00:27:27.098]
guide is a good place to head to for now.
[00:27:31.039]
All right, let me go back
[00:27:33.108]
to my slides here
[00:27:35.118]
and we will wrap up.
[00:27:43.828]
Ok. So after today,
[00:27:46.930]
if you'd like to connect with us, uh you do
[00:27:49.000]
have a customer success manager. You can email
[00:27:51.078]
at [email protected].
[00:27:53.640]
They're really great if you've got any questions about your
[00:27:55.670]
resources or Peterson's, you
[00:27:57.680]
also, if you don't have Peterson's yet you have a sales
[00:27:59.750]
consultant that you can access. Uh support.gale.com/repfinder
[00:28:03.529]
will help you figure out who that is. And
[00:28:05.848]
then just as I showed you the support site, support.gale.com
[00:28:08.463]
um has great information. Uh and
[00:28:10.814]
you can check any upcoming webinars that we may have
[00:28:13.134]
and then, and then check back to see what tools that we've updated
[00:28:15.453]
on the Peterson's page. But I do also
[00:28:17.684]
have a training session survey for you to take.
[00:28:20.025]
Let me know how I did any feedback on
[00:28:22.074]
the resources that we looked at. But I do
[00:28:24.094]
believe I have the session set up that, that after
[00:28:26.473]
we um wrap up here, it should open
[00:28:28.594]
on your desktop automatically.
[00:28:30.848]
Oh, ok. We have a question here.
[00:28:32.989]
So if someone asks, is there a way to track usage statistics
[00:28:35.358]
on topics completed within the course content?
[00:28:37.640]
I've only been able to do sessions and card
[00:28:40.019]
click count. So clicking on something,
[00:28:43.650]
Sarah, let me see,
[00:28:46.719]
Sarah. I would have to check with our product team and get
[00:28:48.838]
back to you on that because I'm not sure I see what you're saying about
[00:28:50.959]
tracking the specific usage.
[00:28:52.660]
You wanna know, like which of the course
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contents they're using.
[00:28:56.759]
I'm not certain that you can, but I can definitely check
[00:28:58.989]
with our product team and get back to you. Let me write
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that one down as well.
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And then someone else asked uh we are long
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time subscribers to test and or to test prep
[00:29:10.529]
and career prep. How do we convert?
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You don't have to, it converted for you. So when we update
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it on Monday, everybody's resources
[00:29:16.969]
um
[00:29:18.009]
updated with it. So it should already have the updated
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platform for you.
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your time today. Check out our webinars
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that way you can uh see what's coming up. Uh
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I'm, I'm gonna hang on the line for a few minutes,
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but otherwise I will see you
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at our next session. All right. Thank you so much. Bye.