What are Career Planners?

Making good career decisions requires reliable information about career opportunities available in the future. The Career Planner is an occupational information system specifically designed to provide such information to those individuals who historically need it the most but whose access to it has been limited due to physical and/or reading limitations (4th-5th grade reading/listening level). The Career Planner is designed to help individuals overcome these barriers.

The design is simple and clean, and it works with most assistive technology devices. A companion print version is included. By reducing the amount of text, adding voice-quality speech output and adding many photo-quality images and video clips, we have made the system easy to use and understand.

The most important aspect of The Career Planner is that it allows users to be actively involved in their career decision-making process. When users are involved in making their own post-secondary academic and career decisions, they are more likely to succeed in their goal setting and achieving processes.

Program Features

Provides occupational information and career planning activities for each occupation
Involves learners in creating their own transition plans
Includes occupational information such as:
Job requirements
Related jobs
Related interests
Physical demands
Working conditions
Skills needed (academic and technical)
Where to obtain these skills
Helpful high school courses
Ways to get a job
Licensing and certification
Wages
Job outlook
Creates a career portfolio for documenting post-secondary goals
Reading/listening level is at a 4th-5th grade level
Contains hundreds of video clips of people working in occupations

System Requirements

Windows Version
Windows 98, ME, 2000, XP, Vista
SVGA Graphics, 256 Color or better (16-bit recommended)
CD-ROM Drive (6X or better recommended)
Pentium or compatible processor (Pentium 4 processor recommended)
32 MB RAM minimum (128 MB recommended)
Sound card and speakers (16-bit sound recommended)
QuickTime 6.0
Printer

Macintosh Version
PowerPC Processor (G3 recommended)
OSX or better
SVGA Graphics, 256 Color or better (16-bit recommended)
CD-ROM Drive (6X or better recommended)
32 MB Ram minimum (128 MB recommended)
Sound card and speakers (16-bit sound recommended)
QuickTime 6.0
Printer

Career Planner Demo

We are now offering the Career Planner demo for download. You may also request a demonstration CD-ROM using our information request form.

The Career Planner Demo - Windows | Macintosh