8th Grade Career Cruising Checkup
Hi All! Please take a few moments to update and re-familiarize yourself with your Career Cruising account. This tool will become increasingly beneficial as you move into high school. To complete the checkup of your account, please follow the steps below. For extra help, a short tutorial video is also provided to help you understand what needs to be done to update your Career Cruising account. You owe it to yourself to spend some time in Career Cruising, it is a great way to plan for your future!
Career Cruising Checkup
Once you have finished these steps, your checkup is complete. Your progress bar in your EDP (Educational Development Plan) should be at 100% complete.
*** NOTE: If you started attending KHMS after September 30th this year, you may not be in the KHPS/Career Cruising system, so your login may not work. If you cannot get logged in, please let Mr. Kaman know. Most likely, he will send you down to Mr. Heyboer who can get you registered in the Career Cruising system.
- Click Here to go to the Career Cruising website
- Login: Your username is "kg-student#" (for example: "kh-76543") and password is your KHMS school password
- Once you are in, you will see a progress area indicating what you have completed and what you need to do. If you used Career Cruising last year, you will most likely need to complete the My Saved Pathways section and the Career & Life Goals section. However, I would advise you to first complete another Matchmaker session for this year. Remember, Matchmaker this the interest tool that we used in EdTech class last year. You will answer a series of 100+ questions that help you identify your possible career interests. If you recall, I recommended to you last year to complete once a year, and this is a great time to do it. Also, if you did not go to KHMS last year, you need to complete one to get your Career Cruising account going. To complete another Matchmaker session, simply click on the Assessment tab at the top of the webpage. There, you will find a blue button that says Start Matchmaker on the left side of that page. Click that button to start another Matchmaker session for this year. Remember, there are 3 sections to the survey, and after each section it will generate a list of career suggestions. On the left of the screen you will find a progress bar. Keep clicking Answer More Questions until the progress is complete. At some point, it will ask you to name this Matchmaker session. Title "January 2015" or "8th Grade" so you can keep it separate from your 7th grade Matchmaker session.
- Next in your checkup, complete the Saved Pathways section. This is pretty easy to do. It will ask you what your first and second choice is for Michigan Career Pathways. Below that, there are the recommendations based on your Matchmaker results. Simply choose the recommendations from the drop down lists for 1st and 2nd Choice.
- The last thing you will need to do as part of your checkup will be to set some Goals. The Career & Life Goals section will ask you to set a short term and long term goal. For short term goals, think of at least one goal you would like to accomplish in the next 1-2 years. For long term goals, think about at least one goal you would like to accomplish 5-10 years from now. Short term goals might be something like making a sports team, joining a club or group, an academic goal, family vacation, etc. A long term goal may be a career field you want to get into, a college or training program you want to attend after high school, someplace you want to travel to, etc. Please fill in your goals in the appropriate space.
Once you have finished these steps, your checkup is complete. Your progress bar in your EDP (Educational Development Plan) should be at 100% complete.
*** NOTE: If you started attending KHMS after September 30th this year, you may not be in the KHPS/Career Cruising system, so your login may not work. If you cannot get logged in, please let Mr. Kaman know. Most likely, he will send you down to Mr. Heyboer who can get you registered in the Career Cruising system.
Career Cruising Checkup Tutorial Video