Post Secondary Planning

Are you wondering what you should do after high school?? There are many options to think about. 

• Do you want to go to college? If so, would you choose a 2 year or 4 year school? 

• Do you want to join the military?

• Are you interested in pursuing a trade or apprenticeship? 

• Do you want to go straight into the workforce?

• Do you want to go to college, but maybe not yet? Possibly thinking of taking a gap year?

These are all questions to consider when planning for your future after you graduate high school. The ONLY option that is not a good option is having NO plan or thoughts about what you will do! Request to speak with your counselor back clicking on the "contact" button under your counselor's picture on the "Meet the Team" page if you would like to discuss your options and review your plans!

Naviance

Naviance is a great resource that you should become familiar with while in high school. There are many features in Naviance that can help you plan your future. 

To access Naviance --> On your CMS Chromebook, log into your Launchpad where you will find the Naviance app. You will log in through your Clever account.

Here is a list of a few things to consider exploring in Naviance. You will access each of these through the navigation buttons at the top of your homescreen:

• Self-Discovery: Here, you can take several different inventories to help you better explore your interests and help you determine what you might like to do in the future and what best suits your individual personality! 

  • • Career Interest Profiler: captures your interests to help identify your personailty traits and suggests careers based on US Department of Labor's data. In your results, you can click on each career recommendation to explore that career further. Click the ❤️ to favorite the career and save it for later.

    • AchieveWorks Personality: helps you identify your personality type by asking you to choose scenarios that best represent how you behave in real life. 

    • AchieveWorks Skills: helps you identify and develop your skills and connects your skills to careers that might interest you.

    • Strengths Explorer: helps you identify your key strengths that you can use as you proceed on your college, career, and life readiness journey.

• Careers: Here, you can explore all different types of careers, learn about salaries, education needed, and essential duties of specific jobs. You will also find your favorited careers here if you clicked the ❤️ on any of the careers you found while exploring or completing the Career Interest Profile. You will also find information here regarding different Military Branches as we as finding Work-Based Learning opportunities.

  • • Explore Roadtrip Nation Videos: These videos are awesome and can really give you a good perspective on any career! Here, you will find videos of people who actually work in the jobs you may be interested in who give you background on their work, what got them there, and what you can expect from the job.

• Colleges: This tab is all about college! Here you can explore different schools, find schools that best match what you are looking for, and gather all kinds of information including the average GPA they accept, how much tuition is, what the student body looks like, activities available at the school, and much more!

  • • SuperMatch College Search: Go through each of the criteria listed at the top of this featured page to identify what you are looking for in a future college. Once you choose your criteria, you can move each thing back and forth between your "Must Have" box and your "Nice to Have" box to better identify the schools that meet your needs/desires. Once completed, a list of schools that match your criteria will be listed below. They will tell you what percentage of a match each school is to your criteria! Click on the school to explore their page in more depth and find our more information specific to that college.

    • Scattergrams: While we don't yet have data for this, keep a look out next year after we have our first graduating class! Here you will be able to look at different colleges and find out information about who here at PHS was accepted. What were their GPAs? What were their SAT/ACT scores? What types of students were accepted? You can compare your own data and get a better idea of your chances with that specific college.

    • Scholarship Search: Here you will find all scholarships that CMS has pushed out to its students to apply for.

    • Apply for College: This is where you will enter all necessary information for the schools you are applying to so your counselor can send the required documents. You will utilize this your senior year and your counselor will walk you through what to do. Hold off on this until you meet with your counselor senior year 😁