 Automated Advisor
The Automated Advisor connects your results from many career exploration
tests to related occupations, programs, and schools. Career exploration tests may be
grouped according to the type of score they produce: Holland/RIASEC codes, Work Value
Preferences, or 16 Federal Cluster Interests.
- The Personal Globe Inventory (PGI), the Inventory of
Children's Activities (ICA), and the O*Net Interest Profiler (OIP) all produce Holland
or RIASEC codes (i.e., work-interest scores), named after John L. Holland, whose
research showed that people and careers could be described and connected by six
factors: Realistic, Investigate, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional.
- The O*NET Work Importance Profiler (WIP) matches people and
careers on six general work values: Achievement, Recognition, Independence,
Relationships, Support, and Working Conditions.
- The Career Clusters Interest Survey (CCIS) measures
occupational interests according to 16 Federal clusters that link to curriculum
requirements in public education (such as Health Sciences or Finance).
Currently, scores from all of these tests may be automatically stored in the Automated
Advisor; results from other tests must be entered manually. The Automated Advisor's
merged databases from the United States Departments of Labor and Education are very
large, containing nearly 1,000 occupations and 7,000 schools. Not every school uses
the same names to identify academic programs. Although the Automated Advisor contains
dozens of program areas subdivided into hundreds of more specific academic programs,
the names of programs may vary from campus to campus.
Clicking on "My Advisor" opens a menu that permits you to create an account, take a
variety of career exploration tests, and view previously saved information on relevant
occupations, programs, and schools. Or you may simply browse the occupations,
programs, and schools currently in the Automated Advisor database.
The most efficient way to use the Automated Advisor would be to let it connect your
career interest test results with relevant occupations; you can then explore academic
programs and schools linked to those occupations.
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