Kuder Quick Reference Guide

Kuder Quick Reference Guide is a three-part self-assessment designed to show you what kinds of careers you are best suited for and interested in. All three assessments take about twenty minutes each, but can be saved and returned to later if you are short on time. Below are instructions and helpful hints on how to access Kuder and how to analyze your results.

Kuder’sâ SC Personal Pathways College & Career Planning System

 

An innovative career planning system for South Carolinians, available 24/7

from any computer with Internet connections!  Here’s how to get started.

 

q  Direct your Internet browser to www.scpathways.org

 

q  Establish a complementary account by clicking New Users (top-left, below “South Carolina Student Loan” icon).  On the next screen select Student and use the pull-down menu to indicate your grade level.  (Indicating your grade level is required before software system will advance to next screen.)  Click Continue to begin the 3-step registration process to establish a Kuderâ/SC Personal Pathways account with unique user name and password; required information is noted with an asterisk/*.  If you encounter problems, look for prompts or error messages printed in red; these messages will alert you if required information has been entered incorrectly or omitted.  Record here, for future reference, your confirmed Kuder user name ____________________________ and password _________________________!  Please be aware that you may receive follow-up correspondence from Midlands Technical College regarding programs and services. 

 

q  Once you have successfully logged in to the Personal Pathways website select Take inventories or enter their results from the menu links on the left of the screen (below “My Career Planner” tab).  On the following screen select Take the Kuder Career Search with Person Match online (i.e., career interest inventory); and select your current education level and preferred language (English or Español).  Click GO! or Start.  Carefully follow the on-line directions; allow 10-25 minutes to complete this assessment.

 

q  After reviewing your “Kuderâ Career Search with Person Match” report, move to the second assessment inventory by clicking Return to your portfolio in the top-right corner of your report.  Again select Take inventories or enter their results from the menu links on the left of the screen.  On the following screen select Take the Kuder Skills Assessment online; and select your current education level and preferred language.  Click GO! or Start.  Carefully follow the on-line directions; allow 10-25 minutes to complete this assessment.

 

q  After reviewing your “Kuderâ Skills Assessment” report, move to the final assessment inventory by clicking Return to your portfolio in the top-right corner of your report.  Again select Take inventories or enter their results from the menu links on the left of the screen.  On the following screen select Take the Super Work Values Inventory online;  select your current education level and preferred language.  Click GO! or Start.  Carefully follow the on-line directions; allow 8-15 minutes to complete this inventory.

 

q  You may exit the Kuderâ assessment inventories at any point and save your work by clicking Exit and Finish Later in the top-right corner of the assessment question pages.

 

q  To completely exit Kuderâ/Personal Pathways, click Return to your portfolio in the top right corner of the assessment report and then click Logout at the bottom of the menu links on the left of your home portfolio page; your data entries will be saved and waiting for you when you re-enter Kuderâ/Personal Pathways on another occasion. 

q  Re-enter Kuderâ/Personal Pathways at any time by again directing your Internet browser to www.scpathways.org.  Click Log In (top-left, below “South Carolina Student Loan” icon) and enter the user name and password which you created during the new-user registration process.

 

q  To revisit or review any of your Kuderâ assessment reports, select Take inventories or enter their results from your Personal Pathways home portfolio page.  Scroll to the bottom of the next screen and click on Summary of all assessment results; click the View icon to the right of the assessment report you wish to view.  You may also click on Kuder Interests and Skills Composite Report for a bar graph chart combining the results of your career interest assessment (Kuderâ Career Search with Person Match) and your self-assessment of workplace skills (Kuderâ Skills Assessment-CA).

 

q  The Kuderâ/Personal Pathways career planning system contains an extensive and insightful database of occupational information.  From your Personal Pathways home portfolio page, click Get descriptions of careers or majors (left side of screen).  Select Careers on the next screen. Use the A-Z index to select a career of interest to you.  (You may also access this occupational database through the Explore the 16 career clusters link on your home portfolio page.)  Once you have opened the report for your selected career, you may view a closed caption video illustrating typical job activities.  You may also view sample job titles, significant points about the selected career, and links to relevant resources for additional information.  Be sure to check out the extensive information accessed through the four icons at the top-right of the page (e.g., About, Education, Income, etc.)!

 

q  Access information on colleges, financial aid, military opportunities, and apprenticeships by clicking Plan for education or training after high school on your Personal Pathways home portfolio page.  The college database allows you to search for institutions of higher learning using various criteria, including location, student enrollment, costs, majors offered, athletic conference affiliation, admissions standards, etc.  The financial aid section allows you to access the on-line FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid) as well as a database of scholarship information.

 

q  By clicking Prepare for getting a job on your Personal Pathways home portfolio page you will be linked to an easy to use on-line resume builder and to the South Carolina Employment Security Commission’s on-line “JobLink” database.

 

q  Heads-up:  The Kuderâ/Personal Pathways career planning system has a fairly “short-fused” automatic logout feature.  If you try to move to a particular page/screen after several minutes of inactivity on the Kuderâ/Personal Pathways site, you may find that you are instead moved to a log-in page; simply re-enter your Kuderâ/Personal Pathways user name and password, and click Log In.