Getting Started

Looking for how to set up Career Key Central for your organization? Go to Set Up.

Time to Complete

3 minutes

Overview

Welcome to Career Key Discovery (CKD)! In about 10 minutes, youth and adult discoverers learn about themselves and identify matching career and education choices most likely to lead to their success and career well-being.

CKD contains 3 parts:

  1. 5-minute scientifically valid personality and interest inventory based on Holland’s Theory of Career Choice,
  2. Exploration of best-fit thriving and promising work and academic environments using a unique, intuitive matching system that improves on 3-letter Holland Codes, and the
  3. 4-step ACIP decision making module. In CKD Transitions, this is called Managing Transitions.

Overview for Students

Takeaways

  • Learn more about Career Key Central resources and how to use them
  • Watch short video overviews of what CKD measure, how you can use it, and why it helps
  • Experience the assessment yourself by taking it
  • Get comfortable inviting discoverers into the CKD experience

Use Central’s Resources

We organize what you need to take action, and make action easy and effective.

Details about CKD Decision Module

Walk Through as a Discoverer

Part of getting ready to use CKD is to experience it yourself. Imagine you are in the place of the discoverer making a similar decision, and take the assessment with that in mind.

Review your assessment results and walk through the complete discovery process yourself. How did you edit your choices? What was important to you in making a decision? We’ve all made career and education choices and can relate to the opportunities and challenges they bring.

Your personal experience with the CKD will help you engage and answer questions with discoverers.

Complete the assessment now by visiting your organization’s host page for CKD — It takes 10 minutes or less.

Invite Discoverers

You can introduce discoverers to CKD in two ways:

  • Your website navigation: Bring visitors through your website to your web page hosting CKD
  • Email Invite: Invite them via email with a link to your web page hosting CKD

Both ways require discoverers either to register for a new account with your organization or be logged into an existing user account on your website. To learn how to host your CKD plug in or upload a list of discoverers you want to invite via email, please visit Set Up My Organization.

Get discoverers excited

With invitations sent, it’s time to motivate discoverers to invest themselves and begin the Discovery process. Some discoverers may be eager and jump right in, while others hesitate in choosing a career or education direction. There may be fear of missing out or making a decision that feels like getting locked in. Or a lack of urgency might lead them to put off the discovery process. Some discoverers face barriers like the lack of family support or a disability. Wherever discoverers are on their education journey, you have the tools to make it easy for them.

Tips for starting CKD

  • Share your CKD web page link with discoverers via SMS/Text or other methods (workshop, advertisement, social media) that capture their attention.
  • Use and customize email templates in Let’s Connect to invite discoverers to CKD and prompt their progress. They need to understand why it’s relevant and worth their time.
  • Please submit your feedback on what’s working and questions you’d like answered, and we’ll respond and take action on it in Career Key Central.
Next Step: Understanding How Career Key Discovery Helps

Related:

Support > Manage Discoverers