Developing your own Personalized Career Track

CareerBooster (Skill Profiling and Assessments for the Student) is a simple way to build personalized career plans in meeting technology, project management, and business productivity skills, through interactive assessments and automated gap analysis.

Try CareerBooster's New Role Profiling Tool - Advance your career by targeting the skills you need based on requirements for specific job roles. Keep your education goals on track by adding courses of interest to your personal queue for assessment.

The CareerBooster Story
Today, many companies are faced with the challenge of migrating to and/or implementing new technologies to adapt to the changing business needs. As they plan for these initiatives, many questions may arise, like “Do we have the staff to support the initiative?" or "Will we keep the implementation of those strategies in-house or outsource?" or "How will we train our employees to support and utilize the investments that we have made?”

To plan and position these initiatives effectively, organizations need to assess the skill sets of their employees, map out their desired future skill base, identify their gaps, prioritize who and what skill knowledge to increase and finally, prove a return on their investment.

In 1998, the owners SMART decided to invest in the creation of a tool that would help organizations make those decisions. In 2000, SMART (Skills Measurement Assessment Resource Tool) was launched. This browser-based tool allows organizations to map job roles to technologies. Users are assessed on a wide variety of technologies of where skill gaps are then recognized. Specific educational solutions are produced with recommendations which align the right education for the right needs.

However, we soon realized that many people take a personal interest in developing their own skill sets too, so we created CareerBooster. CareerBooster is a tool that allows you to profile your own interests and assess your skill level based on numerous technologies and other on-demand skills. It helps determine skills gaps and then maps a personalized educational solution to close those gaps.

As an education provider, New Horizons of Great Lakes  not only uses the tool for the benefit of our students, we also use it internally for two audiences: our instructors and our training / career advisors. For example, Our instructors may view information and skill levels of their students prior to the first day of their class. From the data collected, they’re able to customize their teaching to the needs of the students and promoting an added degree of student service therefore promoting a higher than normal evaluations. Our training / career advisors use CareerBooster as a value added approach to validate training recommendations, track when students have taken classes and help improve our class utilization. All of these factors have helped with our overall success as an organization, which, from a customer service standpoint, help increase our quality as measured by Metrics That Matter (post-class evaluations).

Today,  New Horizons of Great Lakes supports both SMART and CareerBooster as a part of our overall business plan in delivering quality solutions to our students.

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