DISCOVER a world of career
opportunities!
The concept is simple. DISCOVER®
provides information to help people make important career and
educational decisions.
- Discover is the most
comprehensive computerized career guidance program available.
- Those who use it invest 4 hours
total (3 at home and 1 with the career counselor).
- Discover users receive detailed
information about their interests, abilities, values, preferred job
characteristics, and best choices for career.
- Discover includes three research-based
assessments of career-relevant interests, abilities, and job
values to help individuals consider career options that are a good
match for them.
- DISCOVER's guidance process
provides a way for individuals to make good decisions in choosing a
career and creating a plan to make it happen.
- The system offers complete,
current databases of occupations and college majors.
Distinctive
Features and Benefits
What sets DISCOVER
apart from other career programs?
Developmental guidance
process
Helps individuals
identify their strengths and needs and build a plan based on their
personal profiles.
Online and paper
inventories
Provides economical
and efficient assessments of an individual's career-relevant
interests, job values, and abilities.
Research and theoretical
bases
Gives you confidence
that the information provided to individuals is valid and correct
for them.
Organizes vast amounts
of information about occupations into six clusters, based on primary
work tasks, that can help individuals focus on preparing for
meaningful and appropriate employment.
Direct access to
information
Supports quick and
easy retrieval of current, comprehensive, meaningful information.
Occupation database
Provides detailed
information about hundreds of occupations in the current U.S. labor
market, with many ways to search the database. Related military
occupations are also provided.
Educational options
Helps individuals
identify postsecondary education or training alternatives for their
career choice.
Administrator reports
Helps monitor the
amount and type of system use by individuals and by groups, tracks
individuals' career plans, provides lists of individuals by
occupational cluster or interest, and much more.
Research
Connections
In contrast to
most other computer-delivered career planning systems, DISCOVER
makes extensive research-based documentation available to users.
DISCOVER materials and information are
copyrighted by ACT, Inc. and are being used with permission. DISCOVER is
a registered trademark of ACT, Inc. |
