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Hawaii Career Resource Network Project

Providing career development resources for Hawaii

Aloha
We all have heard it before. We live in a world of constant change. Decision-making is frequent and also fast. We need to become more effective career self-managers whatever stage in life we are in. The skills, knowledge, and attitude to become better can often be learned best through career development programs.

What is Career Development?
Career development is a lifelong process of exploring, choosing, and implementing decisions about educational, work, and life roles. It includes an individual’s values about work, their beliefs about their own interests and abilities, their decisions about education, the ways they negotiate transitions into and out of work experience and their unique interactions between work and life roles ( Edwin Herr, 2004).

Career development program combines various career intervention activities to help individuals learn more about educational and career options while developing the skills in decision-making and goal setting, and work habits and attitudes.

For career intervention activities, click here.

For importance of quality career development programs, click here.

Hawaii Career Resource Network Information and Resources
HCRN shares the mission of improved career decision-making by all with entities in the education, workforce development, and economic development worlds.

HCRN’s primary niche is the distribution of quality career and occupational information and support for quality career guidance and counseling programs through training, informational presentations, and networking.
Since 1997, HCRN has been part of the a nationwide program called the America’s Career Resource Network (ACRN) and funded through Carl Perkins Act, Section 118 until July 2006.

 

NEW National Career Development Guidelines
website: http://www.acrnetwork.org/ncdg/
The NEW National Career Development Guidelines list the competencies needed for successful career management in this rapidly changing knowledge-based global economy. The competencies are outlined along personal domain, social domain, and career management domain.
The guidelines can help identify gaps and strengths of career seekers as well of current career development intervention activities. It is a criteria for prioritizing resources and designing career development intervention programs and activities from P-20.

Hawaii Career Information Delivery System aka Career Kokua
website: http://www.careerkokua.org
Hawaii Revised Statutes 373c mandated the creation of a Career Kokua system. HCRN increased the value of this resource by supporting the early stages of its online version. This version has allowed Hawaii CIDS to expand in components and flexible in delivery while keeping to the high standards set by the National Association of Computer-Based Systems for Career Information (ACSCI).

Career Kokua provides:

  • Career assessment tools
  • Career exploration including extensive information on local occupations including outlook, educational requirement, nature of work, pay ; list of postsecondary education entities including apprenticeship programs; college search and financial aid
  • Job search strategies and tools
  • Database of business and employers offering career intervention activities like field trips and internships
  • Examples of career intervention activities for classrooms or schools
  • Tips for parents with elementary to High School age children

Hawaii Labor Market Information
website: http://www.hiwi.org
Tied closely to Career Kokua, Hawaii LMI drills down employment projections and prospects by jobs, industries, occupations, and county levels.

The Real Games Series
website: http://www.realgame.org
This is a series of career awareness and exploratory curricula for grade 3 students to adults. HCRN is supporting the training of facilitators and trainers so more career service providers can offer one of the higher quality, more effective, accountable, and affordable programs in the world to help students and adults connect with the futures they want.

To improve its value as a career exploratory tools, TRG fictional occupations were crosswalked with data of real occupations as listed in O*NET and Career Kokua. To increase the incorporation of TRG in Hawaii Middle and High Schools, HCRN supported crosswalk of The Real Game with the then HCPS II. DOE also sought an instructional material review of at least 4 of the 6 curricula.

  • State DOE HCPS Career and Life Skills Area and Real Games
    • HCPS II Career & Life Skills Area and The Real Game for 7th/8th grades
    • HCPS II Career and Life Skills Area and Be Real for 9th/10th grades
  • Occupational Crosswalk with Hawaii’s Local Occupations
  • DOE Instructional Material Review Updates (www.wetserver.net/imr/index.html)

The review of Grades 5 and 6 is posted on this website. DOE initiated or approved reviews that have not been uploaded to this website include the following:

  • Grades 7 and 8 The Real Game
  • Grades 9-10 Be Real Game
  • Grades 11-12 Make it Real Game

Parent Guides for Grades K-12
website: http://www.acrnetwork.org/parents.aspx
Parent involvement is a buzz phrase everywhere. This set of guides help children do well in school, make the most of their talents and interests, and get the education and skills they need for college and work. HCRN encourages DOE to offer these resources to parents. See listing in http://doe.k12.hi.us/counseling.htm

Informational presentations and materials
HCRN networks with various associations and entities to present value-adding resources and preferably through practitioners’ perspective.
These support continuing improvement in the delivery of career development intervention activities among educators, counselors, administrators, parents and collaborating partners

ACRN Website

The website, http://www.acrnetwork.org supports all States and island territories with links to relevant research work and resources. It is the source for:

  • New National Career Development Guidelines
  • Career Decision-Making Tool
  • Monthly News Flash
  • Parents Brochures
  • State Profiles with links to individual State websites

 

For local contact, call WDC at 586-8670, e-mail DLIR.workforce.council@hawaii.gov

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