In today’s rapidly evolving career landscape, providing students with accurate and personalized career guidance is more crucial than ever. In continued support of this, we’re excited to announce our expanded partnership with Human eSources® by integrating their AchieveWorks® assessment suite into Kuder Navigator®. This collaboration not only offers a powerful array of tools designed to help 6th—12th-grade students understand their career interests and develop actionable plans for their futures, but also empowers students to take charge of their own career exploration and self-discovery.
Educators can maximize student engagement and career planning with the following career readiness implementation strategies:
Utilizing the robust career planning tools and career assessments via Navigator in combination with AchieveWorks provides educators a wealth of new resources to leverage with students. The more resources that students access, the better they can begin to discover themselves and make meaningful career plans.
The three Kuder assessments remain the essential first step in the career-centric pathway planning process, allowing students to kick start their personalized career journey by learning how their interests, skills confidence, and work values align with careers and workplaces. The Kuder assessments include the following:
Kuder Career Interests Assessment® (Grades 6-12)
Drives self-discovery by showcasing top career clusters aligned to a student’s interests.
Kuder Skills Confidence Assessment® (Grades 7-12)
Empowers students to understand how their skills confidence relates to national career clusters, driving meaningful occupation exploration.
Super’s Work Values Inventory-revised (Grades 9-12)
Engages students in reviewing which work values are most important to them to help guide their career choices and places of employment they choose to pursue.
The AchieveWorks suite includes four assessments that review different aspects of student development, such as learning styles, personality traits, multiple intelligences, and essential skills to complement the Kuder assessments:
AchieveWorks Learning & Productivity (Grades 6-12)
Helps students identify how they can improve their learning and productivity by understanding how their sensory, environmental, and mindset preferences can work to their advantage.
AchieveWorks Intelligences (Grades 8-12)
Drives students to explore how their unique intelligences can work together to aid them in reaching their education goals and fuel career exploration aligned to their current intelligence profile.
AchieveWorks Personality (Grades 9-12)
Provides students with insight into how their personality impacts their learning, work, problem solving, communication, and collaboration in relation to careers.
AchieveWorks Skills (Grades 10-12)
Fuels career exploration tied to top skills and learning related to developing new skills needed for school and work based on recognition of their current skillset.
By leveraging these comprehensive assessments and administering them on an annual basis, educators and students can better understand everyone’s unique strengths and preferences, creating a solid foundation for career exploration and planning. With annual review, students’ evolving preferences, skills, and values are able to be accurately reflected. This comprehensive approach ensures that no aspect of a student’s potential is overlooked, leading to a more effective and engaging career planning experience.
The integration of AchieveWorks assessments with Navigator enables an equitable approach to career exploration, creating a synergy that enhances the power and depth of career guidance. The breadth of assessments and career readiness tools enables educators to utilize a career-centric pathway planning approach, serving all students – regardless of their postsecondary plans.
Educators can guide students to utilize their complete assessment results to explore a more refined list of education and career options by utilizing multiple assessments. Each assessment provides unique insights, allowing students to connect with the results that resonate most with them, thereby making the career planning process more engaging and tailored to their individual needs.
The value of assessments truly lies in how their insights are applied and reviewed. Navigator’s tools offer additional perspectives on career interests and skills directly tied to career exploration within the platform, along with recommended work-based learning opportunities, and CTE programs of study. At the same time, AchieveWorks reports provide personalized recommendations for academic success, interpersonal communication, and additional career guidance.
Educators can help students create tailored academic and career plans by informing students how they can leverage the insights available to them. These actionable plans can guide students through the transition from high school to higher education and, ultimately, into their chosen careers. The enhanced clarity and direction provided by these integrated tools ensure that students can make informed decisions about their futures.
The strong partnership between Kuder and Human eSources provides integrated assessments that significantly advances career and education planning. By utilizing a broad range of assessment tools, employing a career-centric pathway planning approach, and translating insights into actionable plans, educators and career advisors can offer students a more comprehensive and personalized career guidance experience. Leveraging the full suite of assessments keeps students engaged in the career planning process as they progress through middle school, high school, and beyond to gain fresh insights as they grow. As educators embrace these innovative resources, they can pave the way for students to navigate their futures confidently and clearly.
