Our guest post is by our partner Neilye Garrity, Candid Career Co-Founder.
How did you find yourself in your first job? Did you take it for the money? Was it the career your father or mother did? Or did you simply not have a better idea? Whatever the reason, it is too big of a decision to take lightly. Far too many students don’t have all the information to make the best choice or the information is hard to come by, boring to review, or even worse, fabricated. Until now!
CandidCareer.com is the premier provider of career profile videos to educate students on the possibilities. At Candid Career, we believe that the best career advice comes from the individuals that are actually doing the jobs every day, so that is exactly who we bring to you. We also believe that young people love video. As video becomes more common for educational purposes, the ability to access honest career information and advice through video becomes essential. The experience on CandidCareer.com is a convenient and non-intimidating one for students. After all, we know how much time they spend on YouTube!
Fit 2 Flourish
Candid Career has recently partnered with LEAP (Learning Enrichment and Assistance Program, LLC) to add even more clarification on finding a college major and career path that matches the interests of a student.
Since the 1950’s, the Birkman Method® has been an industry leader in personality assessment assisting over 3.5 million participants with dialing into their hard wiring. This multi-dimensional tool focuses on measuring usual behaviors, underlying needs, stress behaviors, and interests to reveal multiple ingrained personality dimensions. This information combined with a student’s academic profile directs the student in discovering the best match, economically safe careers, the college majors that lead to those positions, and the schools respected for these majors.
If a student can start college having chosen a major and career path confident needs will be met, interests embraced and stresses avoided then the 4-year graduation rate skyrockets saving thousands in future tuition.
Students take the 45-minute online assessment in the comfort of their homes. Once your Birkman and LEAP Student Profile are complete, we marry the two sets of information into best-fit suggestions for the individual student. Families receive via email the full 25 page Birkman® results, the 24 page LEAP Fit 2 Flourish report including at least 5 best-fit careers for exploration, majors leading to these careers, and colleges respected for these majors.
Dial In through Video
Students can take these career suggestions and explore them on CandidCareer.com. There are multiple search options when browsing through the thousands of videos on the website such as Industry, Career Title, College Major, College Attended, City, and State. Once students have found a career that piques their interest, learning more is as easy as clicking play. Industry professionals on the site speak to what they love about their careers and some of the challenges. Professionals also give advice on how to prepare for their careers, such as college majors, course work, and/or internships and training to consider.
CandidCareer.com and LEAP share a passion for helping students graduate on time with a job in a career path that excites them. The future is right around the corner, and those that prepare for success, are more likely to achieve it!