Career Services

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The Guidance Information System (GIS) is designed to be the centerpiece for a comprehensive career planning program in a school. GIS is an electronic retrieval system for locating facts about colleges, professional schools, occupations, military careers, and scholarships. It contains accurate and up-to-date information on over 1,000 occupations, over 3,000 colleges and universities, and over 1 million dollars worth of financial aid. With the help of GIS, users can explorer all the possibilities with expedience, accuracy, and ease.

GIS also includes a powerful interest inventory, Harrington-O'Shea's Career Decision-Making System (CDM). CDM results can be related directly to the world of work and careers, as well as to information about colleges, universities, and majors. Through the CDM, students can explorer their interests, abilities, and goals. CDM then uses this information to narrow down the enormous range of options students might explorer. In this way, counselors can help students begin the process of career decision-making.

GIS is easy to use. The process begins by specifying the characteristics that matter most to the student in finding information on careers or schools. For each set of criteria entered, GIS provides a list of schools, career options, financial aid, or military enlistment choices. While the basic operations can be mastered within minutes, GIS also contains advanced features for more frequent users.

For 20 years, more than 1 million students have used GIS at thousands of locations. GIS can help clarify a student's objectives and may even lead him or her to discover new career paths.