Naviance Handbook 2011/2012
Davis Senior High School
NAVIANCE FAMILY CONNECTION
What Naviance Can Do For You!
Naviance Student/Parent Resource Guide
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Naviance is a web-based college, career planning,
and advising program for students and parents.
Prepared by the Davis Senior High School
Career Center
TABLE OF CONTENTS
|CATEGORIES |PAGE NUMBER |
|DSHS Counseling Staff |3 |
|Family Connection Introduction |4 |
|Naviance HOME Page |5 |
|Naviance COLLEGES Tab |6 - 7 |
|Naviance CAREERS Tab |8 |
|ROADTRIP NATION |9 |
|Naviance ABOUT ME Tab |9 - 10 |
|Naviance MY PLANNER Tab |10 |
|TEST PREP |10 |
|Naviance Sample SCREEN SHOTS |11 - 17 |
|HOLLAND CODES |18 |
DAVIS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL COUNSELING STAFF
Cristina Escareño – Counselor
(530) 757-5400 ext. 135
cescareno@
Kim Liu – Counselor
(530) 757-5400 ext. 148
kliu@
Ann Murao – Counselor
(530) 757-5400 ext. 142
amurao@
Linda Preciado – Counselor
(530) 757-5400 ext. 163
lpreciado@
Courtenay Tessler – Counselor
(530) 757-5400 ext. 144
ctessler@
Julie Clayton – Career Center
(530) 757-5400 ext. 140
jclayton@
Catherine Pereira – Counselor
(530) 757-5400 ext. 146
cpereira@
COUNSELING AND CAREER CENTER WEBPAGES
Please take the time to review the counseling and Career Center webpages on the DSHS school website at . These webpages offer a wealth of information, including counseling appointment online scheduler, transcript request process, college and career exploration resources, test prep websites, local scholarship applications, financial aid information, and much more to help students have a successful high school experience and to prepare them for life after high school.
NAVIANCE FAMILY CONNECTION
INTRODUCTION
Family Connection from Naviance® is a comprehensive web-based program designed especially for students and parents. Naviance can help you make decisions about colleges, careers and academic planning. Family Connection will allow you to:
• Plan your path to a career – learn more about careers that are the best match for your interests and talents, explore career clusters, and complete personality profiles.
• Research colleges – search for and compare colleges, make a college plan, find statistics using historical data from students who have applied from our high school.
• Sign-up for college visits – find out which colleges are visiting our school and sign-up to attend those sessions.
• Search for scholarships – see a list of local community scholarships offered to DSHS students, and use scholarship tools to find national scholarships online.
Creating a Naviance Student Account
As a sophomore, you will be given a temporary, personal code by the counseling department to log in to Naviance for the first time. After you have logged in, you will create your own username (your email address) and password (you choose the password).
Creating a Naviance Parent Account
After students have created their Naviance account, a letter will be sent home with instructions on how parents can set up their own account.
Naviance Website and Support
To access Naviance, go to: or the DSHS website at: , click on “Counseling, then click on “Naviance”. For help with Naviance, contact the Counseling Department or the Career Center.
This Guide was designed to provide an overview of what Naviance has to offer. We encourage you to utilize this program and to try the various search links and career surveys to expand your knowledge and gain a better perspective on your future and post graduation goals.
Naviance TABS
Naviance offers four main “Tabs” on the Home Page as follows:
( Colleges Tab
( Careers Tab
( About Me Tab
( My Planner Tab
Some links on the tabs are interchangeable and can be accessed and/or bring you to another tab once you utilize them.
The following pages will provide you with some of the planning tools Naviance offers along with a summary of what those items can do for you.
Naviance Family Connection HOME Page Item Summary
|HOME Page |
|CATEGORY |ITEM |DESCRIPTION |AVAILABLE TO THE FOLLOWING |
| | | |GRADE LEVELS |
| |EMAILS |Emails sent by DSHS |10 - 12 |
| |CONTACT US |Email Link to DSHS |10 - 12 |
| |COLLEGE VISITS |List of upcoming College Admission Representatives |10 - 12 |
| |TO DSHS |scheduled to visit DSHS. Students can sign-up to attend | |
| | |these college presentations. | |
| |DOCUMENT LIBRARY |Forms for student use can be accessed here. |10 - 12 |
Naviance Family Connection COLLEGES Tab Item Summary
|COLLEGES tab |
|CATEGORY |ITEM |DESCRIPTION |GRADE LEVELS |
|My Colleges |COLLEGES |You can create a list of colleges you are interested in. This is a great way | 10 - 12 |
| |I AM THINKING ABOUT |to save potential colleges so that you don’t have to search for them everytime| |
| | |you log in. | |
|My Colleges |COLLEGES |This list represents the colleges you have applied to. |10 - 12 |
| |I AM APPLYING TO | | |
|My Colleges |LETTERS OF REC |Request letters of rec and view status of those requests. |10 - 12 |
|My Colleges |UPCOMING COLLEGE EVENTS |View upcoming events at colleges across the country. |10 - 12 |
|My Colleges |UPCOMING COLLEGE |You can view all upcoming college visits at DSHS and sign-up for the colleges |10 - 12 |
| |VISITS |that interest you. | |
|College Research |SuperMatch College Search |You will be able to target your college searches by SAT scores, GPA, major, |10 - 12 |
| | |location, size, etc. They also provide demo videos! This is a great place to | |
| | |start your college search or refine your college list. | |
|College Research |COLLEGE MATCH | |10 - 12 |
| | |A list of colleges that may or may not be of interest to you. The colleges in| |
| | |the list have accepted students similar to you (based on GPA, test scores, | |
| | |etc) | |
|College Research |COLLEGE COMPARE |Compare your GPA and test scores to the average GPA and test scores of DSHS |10 - 12 |
| | |students who were admitted to the colleges you are considering. | |
|College Research |COLLEGE LOOK-UP |This tool provides comprehensive information on thousands of colleges, |10 - 12 |
| | |including general and admissions information, academics, cost, financial aid, | |
| | |student body characteristics, extracurricular and athletic programs. | |
|College Research |COLLEGE SEARCH |Enter criteria such as size, location, cost, availability of specific majors |10 - 12 |
| | |or athletic programs, and students can produce a list of colleges that meet | |
| | |their criteria. | |
|College Research |COLLEGE RESOURCES |Provides a list of links that can help you in your college and career search, |10 - 12 |
| | |such as colleges & careers, financial aid, test prep, college athletics, and | |
| | |military. | |
|College Research |COLLEGE MAPS |This link provides geographical maps that show where our students are |10 - 12 |
| | |attending and where they applied. | |
|COLLEGES Tab continued |
|CATEGORY |ITEM |DESCRIPTION |GRADE LEVELS |
|College Research |SCATTERGRAMS | |10 - 12 |
| | |A graphical view of application outcomes (accepted, denied, waitlisted) | |
| | |at a college for recent DSHS applicants, using GPA and SAT scores. | |
| | |Students can gauge their chances of acceptance by comparing personal | |
| | |GPA/SAT numbers with those of successful applicants. | |
|College Research |ACCEPTANCE HISTORY | |10 - 12 |
| | |This feature shows all colleges to which DSHS students have been | |
| | |accepted, as well as the number of students accepted and number enrolling| |
| | |at each. | |
|College Research |ENRICHMENT PROGRAMS |Lists ongoing and current Enrichment / Summer programs nationally, |10 - 12 |
| | |internationally and local opportunities. | |
|Scholarship & Money |SCHOLARSHIP MATCH |This feature will utilize any scholarships uploaded to Naviance by the |10 - 12 |
| | |DSHS Career Center and match to students who may meet the criteria. | |
|Scholarship & Money |SCHOLARSHIP LIST |All scholarship opportunities that come into the DSHS Career Center are |10 - 12 |
| | |posted here. We encourage students, especially seniors, to check this | |
| | |regularly. | |
|Scholarship & Money |SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATIONS |Students can record any scholarship applications that they submit. |10 - 12 |
|Scholarship & Money |NATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP SEARCH |Link to National Scholarship Search sponsored by Sallie Mae. |10 - 12 |
Naviance Family Connection CAREERS Tab Item Summary
|CAREERS Tab |
|CATEGORY |ITEM |DESCRIPTION |GRADE LEVELS |
|Explore Careers |FAVORITE CAREERS & |This link allows you to save the careers you are interested in. Your |10 - 12 |
| |CLUSTERS |counselor can also view this link to see what careers you are interested in | |
| | |and better assist you in investigating such endeavors. | |
|Explore Careers |EXPLORE CAREERS & CLUSTERS| |10 - 12 |
| | |You can investigate the various career paths based on your personality and | |
| | |interest test results. This link will bring you to an array of careers and | |
| | |career clusters you will be able to research and investigate. Careers that | |
| | |are of particular interest to you can be saved to your “My Careers” link in | |
| | |Naviance. Your counselor would be able to see your saved careers which would | |
| | |assist the counselor to broaden the dialog you have during your counselor | |
| | |meetings. This is a valuable communication tool to utilize when discussing | |
| | |your goals and career planning options. | |
|What are my |CLUSTER FINDER |Find Career Clusters that match your personality. |10 - 12 |
|Interests? | | | |
|What are my |CAREER INTEREST PROFILER |This link brings you to the Career Interest Inventory that will provide you |10 - 12 |
|Interests? | |with your Holland Codes. The Holland Codes is a system to classify jobs into | |
| | |job categories, interest clusters, or work personality environments. In the | |
| | |Holland Model, these categories represent work personalities. See the | |
| | |enclosed sheet for an illustration of these Holland Codes. | |
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|ROADTRIP NATION INTERVIEW ARCHIVE |
An innovative self-discovery curriculum that empowers students to explore opportunities for their future by watching videos of real people sharing their own life stories. There are over 3,500 videos featuring stories from around the world including rocket scientists, sports writers, business leaders and even a pro surfer who share their stories of fulfillment, perseverance and dedication as they build their life’s passions.
Naviance Family Connection ABOUT ME Tab Item Summary
|ABOUT ME Tab |
|CATEGORY |ITEM |DESCRIPTION |GRADE LEVELS |
| Success Plan |GOALS |You can record and set your goals here. |10 - 12 |
|Success |TASKS |You can record your daily tasks here. |10 - 12 |
|Plan | | | |
|My Assessments |STRENGTHS |Discovering your strengths and interests will lead to better academic |10 - 12 |
| |EXPLORER |performance, higher scores, and ultimately the ability to reach your full | |
| | |potential after high school. Take this quick survey and discover your greatest| |
| | |strengths . . . you might be surprised! | |
|My Assessments |CAREER INTEREST |This link takes you to the Career Interest Inventory that will provide you |10 - 12 |
| |PROFILER |with your Holland Code. | |
|My Assessments |CLUSTER |Find Career Clusters that match your personality. |10 - 12 |
| |FINDER | | |
|Interesting Things |PORTFOLIO |Put some information about yourself here. This could be an informal “cover |10 - 12 |
|About Me | |letter” for anyone who looks at your portfolio. You could talk about where you| |
| | |were born, where you are going to school, and what your goals are. | |
|Interesting Things |FAVORITE COLLEGES |You can view and save your favorite colleges here. |10 - 12 |
|About Me | | | |
|Interesting Things |FAVORITE CAREERS & |You can view and save your favorite careers here. |10 - 12 |
|About Me |CLUSTERS | | |
|ABOUT ME Tab (Continued) |
|CATEGORY |ITEM |DESCRIPTION |GRADE LEVELS |
|Interesting Things |RESUME |Create and save your resumes that can be printed for an interview or |10 - 12 |
|About Me | |scholarship. | |
|Interesting Things |GAME PLAN |Provides students a framework to explore and create their post-high school |10 - 12 |
|About Me | |plan. | |
|Interesting Things |DOCUMENTS |Keep your personal documents here. |10 - 12 |
|About Me | | | |
|Interesting Things |JOURNAL |Keep your journal notes here. |10 - 12 |
|About Me | | | |
|Interesting Things |COMPLETED |Lists your COMPLETED surveys. |10 - 12 |
|About Me |SURVEYS | | |
|Official |PROFILE |Your Profile Page – contains personal information (name, birthdate, etc.) |10 - 12 |
|Things | | | |
|Official |ACCOUNT |Lists your username and password here as well |10 - 12 |
|Things | | | |
|Official |TEST SCORES |The counseling office updates your SAT, ACT and AP scores here. |10 - 12 |
|Things | | | |
|Official |NAVIANCE MOBILE APP |Take Naviance on the go with the Naviance Student mobile app for iPhone® and |10 - 12 |
|Things | |iPod touch®. | |
Naviance Family Connection MY PLANNER Tab Item
|MY PLANNER Tab |
|Overview, Goals, To-do-List, |Students can use this for personal notes, goals, daily tasks and journal entrys. |10 - 12 |
|Tasks Assigned to Me | | |
Naviance Family Connection TEST PREP
|TEST PREP |
|TEST PREP |Link to SAT and ACT websites where you can find practice questions and tests, study |10 - 12 |
|(Located on the College tab, click on |plans, skill development, join study groups and more. | |
|College Resources) | | |
|The following pages provide some sample |
|Naviance SCREEN SHOTS |
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|SUPERMATCH Feature in Naviance |
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|Naviance has a fantastic college search feature that allows you to target your college searches using a variety of criteria. You will be able to |
|target your colleges by SAT scores, GPA, major, location, size, etc. They also provide demo videos! |
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|The SuperMatch College Search is located on the COLLEGE Tab. |
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|The SCATTERGRAM Feature |
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|In using the Scattergram feature you will be able to see the most recent history of DSHS students (accepted, denied, waitlisted) at a particular |
|college using GPA and SAT scores. Students can gauge their chances of acceptance by comparing their own personal GPA/SAT numbers with those of |
|successful applicants. |
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|To get to this feature: |
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|Go to your COLLEGE Tab…. Select SCATTERGRAMS. Then choose your options such as name of college, and test score range (SAT 1600), to PLOT the data ….|
|Then select display graph. Once you do that you will see a graph like the one below. |
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|Naviance provides a Graph Legend at the bottom of the page to decipher the data. The square green box represents Accepted students; the red “x” |
|represents Denied students. |
COLLEGE MAPS
The map below plots where our students are attending college.
This link is located under the COLLEGE Tab.
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The NATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP SEARCH Link
You can complete a personal profile and visit profile to update as necessary.
The National Scholarship Search is located under the COLLEGE Tab.
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THE CAREERS Tab
This tab directs you to two areas “explore careers” and “what are my interests?”
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RESUME Builder in Naviance
The Resume Builder is a convienent tool to record your high school activities, awards, volunteer work, etc. You can save your resume (or multiple resumes) to use for colleges and/or employers.
The Resume is located under the ABOUT ME Tab.
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MY PLANNER Tab
Students can use this tab for their personal planning.
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HOLLAND CODES CHART
CAREER ASSESSMENT
WHAT KIND OF PERSONALITY ARE YOU?
The Holland Codes is a system to classify jobs into job categories, interest clusters, or work personality environments. In the Holland Model, these categories represent work personalities.
|Realistic |Investigative |Artistic |Social |Enterprising |Conventional |
|A person with a Realistic|A person with a |A person with a Artistic |A person with a |A person with an |A person with a Conventional|
|Personality tends to be |Investigative Personality|Personality tends to be |Social Personality |Enterprising Personality |Personality tends to be |
|frank, practical, |tends to be analytical, |Complicated, Original, |tends to be Helping, |tends to be |Careful, Conforming, |
|focused, mechanical, |intellectual, reserved, |Impulsive, Independent, |Informing, Teaching, |Characteristics: |Conservative, Conscientious,|
|determined, or rugged. |independent, and |Expressive, and Creative. |Inspiring, |Persuasive, Energetic, |Self-controlled, & |
| |scholarly. | |Counseling, and |Sociable, Adventurous, |Structured. |
| | | |Serving. |Ambitious, and | |
| | | | |Risk-taking. | |
|Examples of Abilities: |Examples of Abilities: |Examples of Abilities: |Examples of |Examples of Abilities: |Examples of Abilities: |
|include manipulating |include working with |include using imagination |Abilities: include |include leading, |include ordering activities |
|tools, doing mechanical |abstract ideas and |and feelings in creative |interacting with |managing, and organizing.|paying attention to details.|
|or manual tasks, or doing|intellectual problems. |expression. |people and concerned | | |
|athletic activities. | | |with the welfare of | | |
| | | |people. | | |
|Examples of Holland Code |Examples of Holland Code |Examples of Holland Code |Examples of Holland |Examples of Holland Code |Examples of Holland Code |
|Careers include |Careers include |Careers include Artist, |Code Careers include |Careers include Manager, |Careers include Accountant, |
|Craftsman, Fitness |Biologist, Chemist, |Musician, Actor/ Actress, |Teacher, Clergy, |Producer, Lawyer, |Banker, Editor, Office |
|Trainer, Optician, |Historian, Researcher, |Designer, Writer, and |Coach, Therapist, |Business/ Marketing, |Manager, Librarian, and |
|Policemen, Fire Fighter, |Doctor, and |Photographer. |Nurse, Counselor, and|Executive, Entrepreneur, |Reporter. |
|and Physical Education |Mathematician. | |Sociologist. |and Principal. | |
|Teacher. | | | | | |
|Possible College Majors |Possible College Majors |Possible College Majors |Possible College |Possible College Majors |Possible College Majors are |
|are Justice Studies, Fire|are Botany, Engineering, |are Art, Theater, Graphic |Majors are Nursing, |are Pre-Law, Business |Business, Accounting, and |
|Science, Athletic |Forestry Science, |Design, Music, Journalism,|Christian Education, |Management and |Management. |
|Training, Martial Arts, |Physics, and Foreign |and Communication. |Counseling, Biblical |Administration, | |
|Corporate Fitness, and |Languages. | |Studies, Social |International Business, | |
|Physical Education. | | |Science, and |and Political Science. | |
| | | |Education. | | |
Updated 2-7-17
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