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New Skills Assessment will Provide Students with Career Matches
June 23, 2023
Beginning in June of 2023, there will be a new tab in My Career Plan called Top Careers. Top Careers will display a curated list of a student’s top 20 careers based on their most recent results from Interest Profiler, Skills, and Work Values career assessments.
New Skills Assessment will Provide Students with Career Matches
February 8, 2023
Career assessments to help students discover their strengths and interests, learn how they connect to fulfilling careers, and understand the steps they’ll need to realize their goals. As part of our continual efforts to improve the student user experience on CaliforniaColleges.edu, we have added a new career assessment for high school students called Skills. Skills will provide career matches based on a student’s skills.
Current assessments focus on interests, values, and other traits, but not skills. This fills a gap in students’ career exploration on CaliforniaColleges.edu.
Announcing the ‘Financial Aid for All’ Website to Improve Awareness, Application Completion
October 3, 2022
The California College Guidance Initiative (CCGI) is pleased to announce a new website aimed at providing California school districts with resources to improve financial aid awareness and application completion.
Our Career Assessments Just Got Even Better
August 29, 2022
We are excited to announce some new features that will improve the Career Assessments and overall user experience on CaliforniaColleges.edu.
2022 CSAC Integration Enhancements
August 23, 2022
The goal of CaliforniaColleges.edu is to streamline the college application process so that more students across the state are empowered to pursue higher education. We do this by ensuring that the educational systems serving students are able to successfully share data with one another through CaliforniaColleges.edu To accomplish this, we collaborate with educational institutions across the state, including the California Student Aid Commission (CSAC).