The new Career Profile design is now the default setting in Compass. This means that students now see your highlighted careers with more photos, color, dynamic content, related links and resources, and an easy-to-navigate layout.
This is exciting news for your featured careers and the students who will match with them in Compass!
New engaging format
The new format makes it easier for students to quickly find the information they want about your company and careers. Whether it’s typical work hours and salary or social media links and a YouTube Short about why someone loves working for you, the new Career Profile design is engaging and helpful.
Here are some of the ways you can take advantage of these design features:
- Photos: Upload at least four images to your Career Profile of employees in the role working at your company. Photos can quickly help tell the story of your company and careers.
- Video: Link to at least one vertical, short (under one minute) video from your YouTube channel. Short career interviews, a mini tour of your facility, or a look into a particular career are great options. We can help if you need ideas to get started! Copy the embedded link from YouTube and paste it into the designated spot in the Career Profile form.
- Links: Easily add links to your company home page, career pages, social pages, career in O*NET Online, and any other related resources. These links appear in the right sidebar of the Career Profile and make it simple for students to learn more about you and follow along.
Career Profiles include featured sections about everything from job responsibilities to a day in the life, skills needed for success, and how students can prepare. By filling out these sections, you ensure your profile is complete, and students can scan the headers to find the information they need.
Bonus: If your company also offers work-based learning (WBL) opportunities in Compass, we can direct students to those opportunities directly from your Career Profiles.
Examples of recently published Career Profiles include:
- A. Thompson & Sons HVAC Technician
- North Dakota Department of Transportation Mechanic
- Red Rock Auto Heavy Line Technician
Practical ways Career Profiles support your future workforce
Here are a few hands-on ways Career Profiles can help you connect with students and find future talent:
- Promote your tuition reimbursement or scholarship opportunities available for careers at your company.
- Highlight new or difficult-to-understand careers and industries. For example, we’re helping The STEM Practice Company connect students with their Next Generation Cybersecurity Specialist role, which is created about advanced technologies and AI.
- Share your Career Profile online or at events via its open URL or create a QR code.
- Use your Career Profile to help regional school professionals understand what skills you need in your future workforce.
Improve your matches to students in Compass
Compass uses Holland Codes to proactively match students to your Career Profiles. These universal skill and interest codes (Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional) are used across industries to help people understand their potential aptitude for certain careers.
When students complete their Compass profiles, Compass uses their information to automatically generate their Holland Codes. Those codes are then used to match students to careers in the O*NET OnLine database. When you create your Career Profile in Compass and select “Related Careers” at the bottom of the profile form, you enable Compass to make those student and career matches. Finally, depending on students’ skills and interests (and Holland Codes), they will see Career Profiles recommended as “Best,” “Great,” or “Not Yet.”
You can provide students with even more ways of matching with your Career Profiles by completing the Holland Code and Personality Assessment sections. Use O*NET OnLine to look up the Holland Codes for your careers and include them in your profile. You can also have a few people at your company who are working in your Career Profile role complete the 10-minute personality assessment at www.16personalities.com and list their five-letter results codes in the personality section. Students take this same assessment as part of their Compass profile.
For more information
Unlimited employer-written Career Profiles are included with all Golden Path Solutions paid memberships. Higher-level memberships also include up to five professionally written profiles. Contact us for more information or to start offering more Career Profiles.
Let us know how we can better meet your future workforce development needs. We’re listening!