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Career Planning Gives You A Head Start
Career planning for high school and college students hepls identify potential carrer paths and areas of study based upon your unique aptitudes and core skills, is a predictor of success in academic programs.
The more prepared you are, the greater your chances for success in deciding on a career path, developing skills "UpSkilling" and gaining the experience you need to guide you in securing a fulfilling and rewarding job at graduatiion.
Smith Gruppe provides you with the most advanced AI and Machine Learning Educational And Career Assessment Software to assist you in your career planning efforts, beginning in high school. Our software allows you to selct the most fitting and appropriate educational and training programs, choose a college, a major, and career path to pursue your dreams.
We also support you in identifying the skills and experience to compete at the highest level for jobs, internships, and professional development programs.
Having Trouble Choosing A College Or A College Major?
Considering your first major career choice can be quite overwhelming. Many marginalized and underserved individuals don't have access to environments or relationships that can even help them understand how to choose a college or college major between the thousands of options available!
Many students in high school believe or feel that they have to decide their major when they commit to college, and while in college they have to decide on a final career while still in college - and they do not.
Most people in the workforce change not only their job but their entire career path more than once in their lifetime.
At least 35% of people in todays workforce are in jobs not at all related to their college major!
We can help you choose the right path to take for your future, and position you to take advantage of unexpected opportunities that may present themselves along the way.
Choose A College Major And Career Path That Aligns With Who You Are
Studies have shown that choosing something that you are interested in or passionate about, will make you more likely to do well, achieve better grades, participate more actively in your success, and talk about what you want to do more enthusiastically.
Our approach is very simple in that, you have a much better chance of realzing your dreams and being successful; and even becoming talented in somethin you are good at and that comes naturallyu to you.
The "UpSkill" Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Education and Career Assessment Development Software acts as your career counselor, and can help you weigh the decisions you need to make based on realities in the job marketplace and your specific career interests.
Our "Career Assessment" quizzes can help you identify the fields of study and career paths that are a perfect fit for you!
We assess for over 84+ datapoints based on your hard skills, soft skills, core competencies, education, certifications and training.
Make Informed Educational And Career Decisions
Making an informed decsion requires data and information on your strengths, weaknesses, hard skills, soft skills and core competencies. The more informed you are, the more comfortable and confident you will be in the choice you make.
Furthermore, making an informed decsion must include an understanding of your unique charactersistics and skills; and how they relate to various occupations and college majors.
Factors that must be considered in the decsion-making process are: hard skills, soft skills, core skills, abilities, interests, personalities, values, past work and leisure experiences, lifestyle you would like as well as information about which jobs in the marketplace align with those skills - the availability, entrance requirements, and growth potential in that field or discipline.
Steps we suggest that you follow:
1. Assess yourself
2. Evaluate your environment and tasks necessary to succeed
3. Identify schools and occupations to explore
4. Work with Smith Gruppe to "UpSkill" yourself, develop stratetgies, and stay motivated for success
Education And Career Planning Next Steps
The "UpSkill" platform can help you understand yourself, choose a college major and embark upon making a career choice. Our mission is to help you clarify your goals, career direction, and methods for achieving your goals.
What we have found is that once you begin to better understand yourself, you will alos improve your self-confience and overall esteem.
Contact us if you are in the process of choosing a college major, or if you are seeking to identify your perfect-fit career. to get started now give us a call to schedule an assessment to begin the process at 980-221-9377 or schedule an appointment here online.
Additional Things To Consider:
The process of choosing a major/career is a decision that requires extensive thought, planning, and work. What do I want to do? This is a huge question.
Let us break the question down into smaller questions for you, such as:
1. What do I really want to do on a day-to-day basis?
2. Where do I want to be in life one year from now? Five Years? Ten Years?
3. What do I want to have accomplished at the end of one year?
4. What kind of people do I enjoy being around and working with?
5. What kind of culture or work environment do I find myself being in most comfortably?
6. What kind of culture or work environment sets me up to succeed, and allows me to be most creative and productive?
7. What inspires me and drives me to do my best?
These answers will assist you in identifying your strengths, and supported by our data which you will have as a "Digital Profile" of yourself; will guide you in deciding what your contribution will be to the world that you live in.
The choice of a mojor and subsequent career choice is a vital aspect not only of ones mental health but also of ones physical and emotional well-being.
Our research has shown that work satisfaction and a fulfilling career is drectly related to employee absenteeism and job turnover!
The Education And Career Assessment Development Report Includes:
This report helps students identify and explore the following:
1. The Top 5 Interest Areas Aligned With Their Hard Skill, Soft Skills, Core Competencies, And Personality Types
2. Educational Disciplines And Areas Of Study Directly Related To Your Highest Quiz Results
3. Direct Access To The "UpSkill" Occupational And Workforce Development Databases To Further Explore Relevant Career Paths Including Skills And Tasks Required, And Employment Trends In That Industry Sector
4. Specific "UpSkill" Areas That Allow You To Increase Your Earning P:otential By Taking Courses Or Gaining Additional Certifications
Our E3CoE (Education-Economic Development-Entrepreneurship) Center Of Excellence Approach:
Our business model at the education and career development level is designed to prepare students for both college and careers. We deliver CoE (Center Of Excellence) best practices that link students with peers, community partners and stakeholders in both the education and economic development spaces in a structured environment that fosters academic and career success.
At the Education and Career Development Level, there are four key elements to how execute, implement and delvier best practices that drive results:
1. Small Learning Communities That Are Technology Enmabled By Smith Gruppe Infrastructure Edge Data Centers
2. College Preparatory Asynchronous Curriculums With Career Themes
3. Direct Engagement Via Partnerships With Employers, Higher Education Institutions, And Broader Economic Development Stakeholders
4. A Sequenced, Comprehensive Hybrid Learning Management System Component
Benefits Of AI In Education
Smith Gruppe's AI and Machine Learning Platform "UpSkill" is making waves in various sectors of education, direct-source talent and recruitment and retention, as well as worforce development. AI in Ed-Tech refers directly to the integration of AI technologies dwployed at the K-12 and Higher Education levels to enhance learning and teaching. From our education and career assessments, personalized learning and career counseling solutions to predictive analytics and the ability to automate administrative tasks, the use cases for the "UpSkill" platform is limitless.
7 Key Benefits Of the UpSkill Platform In The Ed-Tech Space
1. Personalized Learning Experiences
Personalized learning experiences are one of the most significant advantages of the UpSkill platform, utilizing AI in supporting our educational institutional customers. Our patented AI algorithms can analyze student data and recommend customized learning solutions that fit each student's needs. This type of technology is often referred to as adaptive learning and is designed to accommodate each student's unique learning style. We have found that students are more interested and motivated to learn when afforded customized educational content, which improves academic results. Our strategic resource partners offer many different types of AI-based authoring tools that generate attractive course curricula within their Learning Management Systems.
2. Improved Access To Education
Our ongoing research gleaned from our expansive "Lessons Learned" repository has proven that AI greatly increases access to education, especially in our target markets of marginalized, underserved, and underrepresented communities. Access to online educational content is mandatory, and our AI technologies augment and suppor our client's virtual learning experiences. For example, most of our deployments are driven by our broad capabilities to deliver "Asynchronous" and/or or Hybrid Learning environments. The combination of on-premise and cloud-based solutions offers the powerful dynamic of an immersive educational environment, and our chatbots provide instant answers to both adminstrator and student questions.
3. Automation Of Administrative Tasks
Another value proposition and advantage of AI in education is the automation of administrative tasks. In the industry, it is referred to as RPA (Robotic Process Automation,) processes that you repeat consistently and are simple to execute. AI is employed in our education and career assessment platform, freeing up educational and career counselors to focus on what they do best - educating and counseling. AI further streamlines the lines of communication between counselors, students, parents, and in the career counseling space, between recruiters and talent retention managers.
4. Data Analytics
Predictive analytics is yet another tool in the toolkit of possibilities by AI in education. With the ability to analyze and process data, educators, counselors, and career advocates can predict and track students' performance and identify blind spots and risks of being misaligned with and educational tract or career path. This allows for intervention and the ability to improve outcomes. AI can also be used to determine the effectiveness of counseling methods and make data-driven decisions to enhance outcomes.
5. Enhancing Counselor Productivity
UpSkill can enhance and support counselor prodictiviy by as much as 47% by automating routine tasks, as stated above. The average candidate/student to counselor ratio as recommended by the Department Of Education in the United States is 363:1. Currently, that number at 763:1. UpSkill allows for educators and counselors to gain invaluable insights into student performance, which affords them the latitude to make data-driven decisions in differentiating future instruction. this supports the student's who need extra help and challenges those excelling, which leads to a more effective and immersive learning experience.
6. Closing the "Skills Gap"
The skills gap in the employment market is one of the biggest challenges facing employers today. AI addresses this dilemma in a very significant way. It is imperative that students be equipped for the future in view of the rising demand for technology-based skillsets. AI arms all stakeholders, students, parents, educators, counselors; and employers with the information and abilities they each need to co-exist and create a vibrant labor environment. At Smith Gruppe, our AI And Machine Learning Education And Career Development Software gives people who might not have otherwise had access to education and career-oriented technology a fair and equitable chance at participating in the digital economy and closing the digital divide.
7. Eliminates Biased And Ethical Challenges
UpSkill levels the playing field and eliminates biased education and career decisions, as well as mitigates the risk of unethical considerations. Biased decisions adn discrimination is all but eliminated so long as the algorithms that drive the AI is fair and ethical. Our data, privacy policies, and security measures underpin our treatment of the data we capture as an invaluable commodity. Because we understand these biases deeply and personally, through personal experience we have built our business model on eliminating such biases and discriminatory practices in education and career planning.
Finally, the cost of implementing AI can be a challenge; which is why we have adopted a hybrid environment, and support our users and clients by maintaining an AI Infrastructure at a fraction of the costs of big data institutions. We do this through our Managed IT Services model, supported and maintained across the mulitple lcoations that house our IEDCs (Infrastructure Edge Data Centers.)