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__**DISCOVER**__

I will e-mail you a user name (in Blackboard e-mail), and you set your own password.

Go to the DISCOVER website, and log in with the user name I e-mailed you. You create your own password.

Select "Find occupations that fit me" and click "Select Path" button.

What shows in the first box is what you'll be doing: Learn about yourself and occupations
 * Take interest inventory (and/or enter scores from one you have already taken)
 * Take abilities inventory (and/or enter scores from one you have already taken)
 * Take values inventory
 * Select occupations that match suggested career areas

To start the inventories, click on the purple Inventories tab at the top of the page, and then as you're ready to take each one, click on the Interests, Abilities, and Values links that appear right under that tab. Take the inventories--all three. (Optional: you can enter results from other tests and inventories, including ACT, COMPASS, ASSET in the abilities area.)

Use the results to click through and read more about occupational clusters and specific careers--mark your favorites. When you complete an assessment, the World of Work Map appears. In the My Results box, you can click the name of the occupational cluster to keep looking into careers in that cluster. Clicking on a career name in the list brings up detailed information about that career; keep in mind you have to navigate through the links on the top menu bar for that career profile to see all the information for that career. Click the **"Add To My Favorites"** button to add a cluster or a specific occupation to your favorites list.

Once you've completed all the inventories, if there's careers that didn't come up in your results, you can find it by clicking the blue Occupations tab and searching there.

Click through from career profile information, or go to the green Majors tabs, and explore college majors and add to favorites if they interest you and/or if it relates to the careers you're considering.

This is a great assessment for starting with information about you, your abilities, interests, and values, and then exploring the world of work (and education/training) to see what matches it. It's OK to still be interested in something that doesn't match your interests, abilities, and values, but give some thought to how happy you'll be in that occupation...or unhappy!

How to submit: If you are able to **select my name as the counselor** you're working with, then I will be able to pull up your report on my computer. Just pop me an email to let me know you're done. If you can't select me as your counselor, when you're all done, click the red My Portfolio tab, click Portfolio Report, click Select All and Submit, then print that report. Using the Firefox browser, I had to right-click over the report and This Frame > Print Frame. Then mail or fax me the printed report.

I will be looking for: the **completion of all three inventories**, at least **five career areas (clusters) and/or occupations marked as favorites**, and at least **two majors marked as favorites**. All these results and favorites should show in your report.

You will continue to have access to DISCOVER as long as our college's current license is valid, so feel free to use the other features such as military occupations, school search, job search information, resume builder. This program is really great, how everything is cross-linked, so you can follow a train of thought and explore. Please feel free to call me if you need assistance or want to discuss how to operate DISCOVER or your results.

25 points, due 10/11/09.