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Naviance: Family Connection College and Career Readiness

What is Naviance? Naviance Student is a web-based resource that supports course, career and college planning Naviance will allow you and your child to: •Get involved in the planning and advising process – Build a resume, complete online surveys, and manage timelines and deadlines for making decisions about colleges and careers •Research colleges – Compare GPA, standardized test scores, and other statistics to actual historical data from our school for students who have applied and been admitted in the past •Research careers – Research hundreds of careers and career clusters, and take career assessments like the Do What You Are test. •Create plans for the future – Create goals and to-dos, and complete tasks assigned to you by the school to better prepare yourself for your future college and career goals.

Naviance Activities by Grade Level 9th Grade 10th Grade Learning Styles Inventory Career Interest Profiler Goal Setting Super Match College Search 11th Grade 12th Grade Do what you are (MBTI) Transcript Requests Super Match College Search Teacher LOR Requests College Rep Visits at ER College Application Organization Scholarship Search Senior Survey

Learning Styles Inventory • Students gain insight into their learning preferences • Understanding preferences can help students improve study habits and test-taking skills

Career Interest Profiler • Students complete an interest inventory • Their results will indicate high areas of interest, based on the Holland Code • Student access a list of matching careers matching their interests • The more an occupation meets the student’s interest, the more rewarding that career is likely to be

Do What You Are • Personality type indicator • Based on the Myers-Briggs Personality Assessment • Career interest inventory • Matching personality preferences and interests with careers will improve job satisfaction • Myers Briggs Codes: Extraverted/Introverted, Sensing/Intuition, Thinking/Feeling, Judging/Perceiving

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College Search • College information - technical, 2 and 4 year schools • Scattergrams • College Rep Visits at ER

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College Application and Scholarships • Requesting Transcripts • Scholarship Searches • Teacher Recommendations

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How does Naviance help? • College and Career Exploration • Shared resource linking home to school • Portfolio of student college and career interests/research • View student’s academic profile at specific colleges as compared to ERHS graduates who also applied to those schools. • Transcripts/Letters of recommendations/Tracking application deadlines