WISCareers & CareerLocker

WISCareers & WISCareers & CareerLockerCareerLocker

Amy RiveraTraining Representative

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Today’s Focus:

• How help your students use this tool for resources to help increase self-knowledge, explore career and labor market options, and set a plan of action into motion.

About WISCareers & About WISCareers & CareerLockerCareerLocker

• Provides:– Focus on self-direction in career development – More than 700 occupations/3400 colleges &

universities – Career assessments – ePortfolio and Individual Learning Plans (similar to

the IDP)– Links to job openings– Interactive budget builder, resume builder, job

interview tools– Free to all UW students, faculty & staff

Logging into the websiteLogging into the website

• Students, faculty and staff need to login to their MyUW. Click on the ‘Work Record’ tab, the WISCareers/CareerLocker button will be on bottom right of page.

• If there is no ‘Work Record’ tab, do a search for WISCareers in the search box

Getting Started

• WISCareers/CareerLocker contains sections on – Assessments– Occupations– Education– Job Seeking– Budgeting– ePortfolio

Grad students will most likely be interested in the job seeking, budgeting and ePortfolio tools.

Overview of the WebsiteOverview of the Website

Tying back to Career Tying back to Career DevelopmentDevelopment

What we have learned…What we have learned…

Angela Byars-Winston presentation:– Raised awareness of career development processes– Provided framework for approaching career

development facilitation– Encouraged your intentionality in facilitating

students’ career development– Described concrete strategies for enhancing your

career development opportunities for students

Primary Career Development Primary Career Development QuestionsQuestions

• Who Am I?• Where Am I Going?• How do I get there?

4 Components of Career 4 Components of Career ReadinessReadiness

Adapted from Angela Byars-Winston Graduate Student Success Presentation

WISCareers/CareerLocker helps WISCareers/CareerLocker helps reach career readinessreach career readiness

• WC/CL self-assessments• Exploring occupations and their education

paths in WC/CL

WISCareers/CareerLocker helps WISCareers/CareerLocker helps reach career readinessreach career readiness

• Exploring occupations and their education paths in WC/CL

• Researching occupation outlooks in WC/CL

WISCareers/CareerLocker helps WISCareers/CareerLocker helps reach career readinessreach career readiness

• Exploring occupations and their education paths in WC/CL

• Occupation outlooks and planning for job shadowing/informational interviews with finding employers in WC/CL

WISCareers/CareerLocker helps WISCareers/CareerLocker helps reach career readinessreach career readiness

• Saving all work into their WC/CL ePortfolio• Save lists of contacts, mentors, in their

ePortfolio• Share eportfolio any time

Amy RiveraTraining Representative

Center on Education & [email protected]

608-265-2860

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