College American Career Essay

First Time User

1. Go to https://www.cacareerzone.org/Links to an external site.
2. Choose Register Now! and create account

• Create an easy to remember portfolio account

Complete the Career Assessments:

1. Choose Begin Assessment

• Choose Quick Assessment and complete this section. (Save Results)
• Choose Interest Profiler and complete this section. (Save Results)
• Choose Skills Profiler and complete this section. (Save Results)
• Choose Work Importance Profiler and complete this section. (Save Results)

1. Choose Start Exploring

• Click on a job family and search related occupations within an area that you might enjoy!

1. Choose Make Money Choices

• Find out how much money you will need and which occupations will pay for your needs

Other Resources:

1. Choose Decide in the top right-hand corner.

• Use these tools to compare different options and learn what you need to pursue your goals
• Job tools such as Colleges and Training and Field of Study are found here

1. Choose Grow in the top right-hand corner

• Personal Reports are made to record your progress and to review your pervious work
• Job tools such as personal reports, documentation, job tools, and budget are found here

To EXIT close the website. All of the information you have completed will be saved under your name to view profile.

Returning User

1. Go to https://www.cacareerzone.org/Links to an external site.
2. Sign in by entering username and password
3. View your profile and continue

Your portfolio is yours to use and refer to while in college. There are a number of other great tools you can utilize in California Career Zone. This is a great resource to research careers and colleges. Start your Career and College exploration and return to this site often.

Submission

Write 20 different paragraphs about 20 different positions on what you learned and how this will benefit you with your career research. Remember that you can use this as one of your sources for your final career research paper.