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SCOIS CIS Content: Comprehensive overviews of work and educational opportunities. Seamless connections between career aspirations and preparation requirements.
Career Clusters: 16 Career Clusters Showcased
Occupations: Explore the world of work with information covering the duties, requirements, employment, wages, skills and preparation for over 500 occupations. C
areer Majors: Learn about post-secondary education opportunities, from associate to professional degrees and link to schools offering those programs. Colleges and Universities: Detailed information about admission requirements, tuition, and programs of study for all accredited, public and private, two and four year colleges and universities here in South Carolina as well as the United States. Financial Aid: Discover major sources of financial aid for college and get specific information on more than $500 million in grants and scholarships. Self-Employment: Look at the rewards and costs of self-employment from a career planning perspective. Military Employment: Investigate careers in the military, military work life and education and training opportunities. Career Planning Portfolio: Create an online portfolio where you can store CIS information of interest, exploration tool responses, personal reflections, plans and education and work history. Course Planner: Generate a course plan based on career and educational goals. The plan can include classes for 9th through 12 grades plus two years of post-secondary education. Resume Writer: Use the information entered in the education and work history to generate a resume. Real World Interviews: Career profiles present personal perspectives on working in a specific occupation. Occupational Videos: Occupations come alive with short clips and narrated descriptions. Internet Links: Built-in links to websites for colleges, online applications, professional associations, licensing organizations, apprenticeships, JOBcentral, and other resources that expand research and planning opportunities. Administration Tools: Tools for counselors, teachers and site administrators to generate aggregate and individual user reports. Online Support Materials: CIS reference guides, worksheets and curriculum resources make applying CIS easy for counselors and instructors. Career Exploration Tools: Sorts to locate information based on personal characteristics, preferences and goals. Career Cluster Assessment: Identify career clusters related to the things you like to do. Occupation Match: Learn about the labor market while generating a list of occupations that match your interests, abilities and work preferences. Undergraduate and Graduate Sorts: Search for colleges and universities that match your educational needs and preferences. Financial Aid Search: Find scholarships and loans that match your educational plans, abilities and background. Assessment Link: Connect the results of standard career assessment instruments, such as the Self-Directed Search (SDS), the Career Occupational Preference System (COPS) and ASVAB to matching or closely related occupations in CIS. Quality: First and foremost, CIS content developers are committed to quality content-without good information, career planners can't develop good plans. Inclusiveness: CIS content includes all education and work aspirations. For example, CIS occupation information includes all types of work, ensuring access to relevant information for each and every person, not just the college bound. System Integrity: CIS is a true system of career information, not several resources associated together by a common website. Content so that career planners can begin their exploration and research anywhere and move through the information, linking the world of work to the world of education in a transparent and accurate way. Relevance: CIS components allow users to enter their personal preferences to locate occupations, schools and financial aid relevant to their interests. Training and Service: In addition to the CIS software, licensed sites receive free curriculum resources, online materials, technical assistance, training and phone consultation. Value: CIS provides an array of components and services that Are completely Free to all Public School Districts. For all other South Carolina organizations, there is a charge of $395.00 for program access. Research-based: CIS is maintained by intoCAREERS a unit within the College of Education at the University of Oregon. Collaboration: intoCAREERS seeks the input of all users to enhance CIS. The CIS Network includes several state-based organizations whose mission is to serve the career development needs of their respective states, including South Carolina.
