About Georgia Career Information System
The Georgia Career Information Center operates the Georgia Career Information System (GCIS). Working with educational and labor market professionals, GCIS contains assessments, explorations, and search strategies as well as the most comprehensive and accurate state and national occupational and educational information. In addition to career management tools for individuals, tools are available to assist administrators.
GCIS provides Georgia’s students and adult learners with vital career information.
GCIS is used in Georgia's elementary, middle, and high schools; colleges and universities; technical colleges; Employment Service offices; Rehabilitation Services offices; Department of Labor offices; Department of Family and Children Services offices; Department of Juvenile Justice; and public libraries.
This year Georgians will access GCIS at more than 1,400 sites throughout the state.
Occupation Sort - Generates a list of occupations that use your abilities and interests
Occupation Sort Classic - Generates a list of occupations that use your skills, abilities, and interests
SKILLS Assessment - Links occupations with self-assessed skills
Interest Profiler - Identifies work activity interests and matches them with GCIS occupations
Work Importance Locator - Identifies work values and matches them with GCIS occupations
School Sort - Creates a list of colleges and
universities that match your perferences
Financial Aid Sort - Generates a list of financial awards that match your preferences
IDEAS™ - Provides a self-assessment tool that identifies career-related interests and matches them with GCIS occupations
Reality Check - Compares costs of living with career and educational goals
Career Cluster Inventory - Creates a list of occupations based on your preferences
Assessment Link - Links results of common assessments with GCIS occupations
Occupations - Contains descriptions of hundreds of occupations (Career Videos in English and Spanish)
Job Search - Offers advice about creating résumés and looking for a job
Keep That Job - Provides information about real-life skills and good job habits
Self-Employment - Examines how to start and run your own business
Military Employment - Describes career options in the military
Industries - Describes Georgia and national industries
Career Profiles - Provides a first person perspective about careers
Programs of Study - Describes admission requirements, course work, and instructional programs
Georgia Schools - Provides detailed information on schools in Georgia (2-year, 4-year, technical, and vocational)
U.S. Schools - Offers detailed information about national 2-year and 4-year colleges and universities
Financial Aid - Examines forms of financial assistance, such as scholarships, grants, and loans as well as tips, descriptions, links, and deadlines
Program Profiles - Provides a first-person perspective
about programs of study and training
The GCIS My Portfolio is an online, personal career folder to store your career research, educational plans, assessment and interest inventory results, financial awards, schools, occupations, programs of study, favorite items, personal plans, accomplishments, extracurricular activities, skills and abilities, awards and certificates, and job search information.
The GCIS My Portfolio offers a career plan of action using career information and assessments in GCIS along with career development worksheets and activities. My Portfolio in GCIS includes the following components for career enrichment:
| My Career Plan
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Create, review, and update a career and education plan
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| My Course Plan
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Generate and edit a multi-year education plan
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| My GCIS Favorites
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View, edit, and delete saved career and educational development research
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| My GCIS Sorts and Assessments
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View, edit, and delete outcomes from partial and completed assessments and sorting strategies
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| My Education and Work History
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Store employment and education information used to build and format résumés
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| My Files and Links
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Upload documents and save useful links
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| My Message
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Send and receive messages from site administrators, staff, parents, and visitors
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| My Visitors
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Invite people to view and critique a read-only version of portfolio (Optional)
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| My Parents
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Track progress on recommended and/or required components (Optional)
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| My Checklists
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Track progress on recommended and/or required components (Optional)
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| My Next Step
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Identify your next career and education goals
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Administration Tools give administrators, counselors, graduation coaches, teachers, and career advisors the ability to manage portfolios at their sites.
Reports - Generate site statistics, activity summaries, and site usage reports
Links - Access implementation support materials and resources
BRIDGE Act - Track, monitor, and report BRIDGE Act completion to the Georgia Department of Education
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= English and Spanish)