The University System of Georgia (USG) has launched a new career planning tool that provides students with additional career counseling services.
“The Career Resource Planning Platform is the most comprehensive career tool USG has ever offered, and it will be the foundation for future career and workforce development initiatives being created within the university system and across Georgia,” said USG chancellor Sonny Perdue.
The Career Resource Planning Platform will provide students access to information on degrees, job opportunities and salary ranges based on a student’s interests.
USG is the first university system in the nation to work with an Atlanta-based data analytics company to implement the platform system wide.
“As we prioritize affordability, efficiency and degree attainment, our ongoing work to serve workforce development needs furthers our goals and sets the stage for our graduates’ prosperity and success,” said Perdue.
USG students can access the platform through their regular campus portal and use it to research careers and specific jobs held by alumni of any of USG’s 26 institutions.
Among other services, students can find which companies alumni work for, average salaries and the potential majors and specific skills necessary to succeed in those career fields.
Students can also take an assessment that analyzes their strengths and offers potentially suitable work matches based on their interests. This information is broken down by geographic region, state and county and can be general or specific to an individual USG institution.
Data for the platform is collected and analyzed from hundreds of different sources such as online profiles, job postings, public salary databases, public filings, company firmographic databases and government sources such as the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The platform is part of a larger state initiative to provide Georgia high school students with integrated career and college guidance, a collaborative effort that includes the Georgia Student Finance Commission, the Georgia Department of Education, the Technical College System of Georgia and USG.
The Career Resource Planning Platform also builds on USG's Georgia Degrees Pay website that was launched last fall. The website provides a one-stop website to compare the cost of attending college, majors and fields of study, average student borrowing and the average career earnings of USG graduates.
The Georgia Degrees Pay was updated in January to include more data about students’ cost over time to earn a degree – including tuition, fees and foregone earnings – by institution and degree program. The Time to Degree Cost Calculator clarifies how taking less than a full course load increases the time to complete a degree and its total cost.
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