MCIS = Minnesota Career Information System
Logging in
Screen will come up and you need to type in to the MCIS login
User name = luverne password cardinals (only use this the first time, after YOU register
you will log in with your own user name and password)
Click on sign in
It will then ask you if you are registered or not, you need to register
YOU NOW NEED TO register: on the right hand side it says create “MY MCIS”
Click on this and fill out all the information.
You create a user name and password YOU MUST REMEMBER. (Write it down)
On the privacy statement, say YES
You now need to print the Home page of MCIS. It should have your first name on the
top right side (Luverne High School Welcome _______________ Your first name
This is the only time you need to register, in the future you will just put in your user name
and password and it will log you in. I keeps your information so if you log out and
return, it will have your information.
There is a picture at the top of the screen with 5 headings below it. 1. Get Started, 2
Learn about myself, 3 Learn About Work, 4. Learn about Schools, 5 Learn About
Employment. We will work on the three bold ones during the career unit.
ASSIGNMENT #1 (3 parts a, b, c)
A. Interest Profiler: Career Cluster Inventory:
This test is going to ask your about whether you like, unsure or dislike an activity.
Answer them honestly, however if you put unsure for everything, it does not narrow
down you selection, so try to “like” or “dislike” items.
Once you have answered all 80 activities click on get results, and then PRINT those
results. (It will be a page with cluster rankings based on your answers.
B. Skills Assessment: click on the select skills button. It will ask you to score your job
skills that are 5 very satisfying, 10 moderate satisfying, and 20 somewhat satisfying.
There are 72 words to choose from. If you don’t know what the word means you can
click on the skill definition button at the bottom for a description. You will not rank all
of them and you can change your mind and move answers around. When you are
finished, click on the Get Results button. PRINT this page. ( they look very similar to
test 4 from our web activity)
Holland Code
Occupational Clusters
Top 30 occupations
All Occupations (don’t need to type this but may want to view it if your dream job
is not on the earlier list)
C. Work Importance Locator:
To find this, you need to put your cursor over the Assessment tab on the top of the
page, under “what skills and work Values are important to me”, slide down to the Work
importance locator and click on it. This test gives you 20 cards that you need to rank
from most (5) to least (1) onto a matrix that will distribute all 20 cards. Once again, you
can change you choice and move things around as each of the cards come up. Once
you’ve ranked all 20 cards and the statements on them, you will GET RESULTS, and
then Print those results. SAVE the results in your portfolio.
Assignment #2: Occupation
Need to get information about a career from your list on
assignment #1
MCIS
After logging into MCIS home page, click on the Occupation tab, on the top menu
bar. You now get an alphabetical listing of jobs. Click on the heading that says
“What can I learn about occupations?” Click on the Choosing Occupation tab
and then on the top menu bar click on titles index. Click on the letter for the
career of your choice. (A = Accountant). On the top right corner of the page on
your career, click on the “Print button”.
It will then give you a list of things that
it will print for you, Click on all of them
.
Print this list. Will end up with
about 10 pages of information on the career. High light key points
If you don’t like the MCIS information on the career, the next best site is
the occupational Outlook handbook.. To find that go to my web page and
“Lundgren Bookmarks” below the web activities are book marks for all of the
sites. The second Occupational Outlook site usually works the best, but others
are good depending on the careers. Some of the list will be longer then 4-10
pages.
Occupational Outlook Handbook
2nd choice is alphabetical. Once you click on this you need to go to the
PRINTER FRIENDLY choice in the upper right hand corner.This will get you
multiple page printout. High light key points
EXCEPT the last one RESOURCES
OR
ASSIGNMENT #3 Education and Training (MCIS) School Sort = 3B School Sort uses your preferences to
find schools that interest you. It is an exploratory tool that can be
used more than once to create lists based on different criteria.
After logging into MCIS home page, click on the Education tab, on the top menu
bar. Click on that and then click on the heading that says Which
occupations match my preferences? Occupation Sort
• Select the criteria that are important to you. It is not necessary to
answer every item. (Degree, Location (states & school setting),
Admissions, Size and Type, Tuition)
• On the left hand side, it tells you how many schools are on you
Search Criteria.... Once you get around 20 schools, you will want to
“Get my results” PRINT THIS LIST High light key points
• Click on Get My Results at any time to view a list of schools.
• Change your criteria to modify your list.
• Sort your list by the categories provided. •
ASSIGNMENT 3B
Research the schools that interest you by clicking on the name of
school from assignment #3A. ON LEFT HAND SIDE, CLICK ON:
General information, Student body, Cost, Financial Aid, Admissions.
You can do others as well but these are required. YOU WILL HAVE
TO COPY AND PASTE THESE TO PUT THEM ON ONE WORD
DOCUMENT….. Print this list for the school... Highlight key
points.