CashCrunch Games was founded by Paul Vasey a former teacher of business studies. He has a variety of resources on his website to help people recognize there are choices when it comes to handling money. They also offer CashCrunch Careers a tool to help students and adults choose a career that will best fit them. We recently had an opportunity to use and review CashCrunch Careers.
CashCrunch Careers starts with a 75 question survey that will take around 15-20 minutes to complete. As you go through the survey you need to answer each question it asks. It gives two different traits and asks which one is more like you. If you don't understand exactly what it means, you can hover over the word with your mouse and it will give a definition of the word. After competing the survey, you are given a Career Report which shows your: Career Work Styles, Motivators and De-Motivators, Career Attributes, and Matching Jobs. They use research from the US Department of Labor and different recruitment tools.
Next you can explore the different job opportunities. Under each career it tells you the tasks required in that job, activities, and attributes.
You can find out which colleges offer the courses needed.
And watch short videos related to the careers.
You can also investigate careers that do not show up on your Career Report.
I had two of boys, Alex age 14, and Nick age 16 take the CashCrunch Careers survey. Alex and Nick are complete opposites. They do not have any of the same interests or skills. But the survey gave them exactly the same results with management jobs being most of what showed up on their lists of 20 main occupations. I think if the survey included questions about their interests instead of just traits it may have been able to give better results. Nicholas I could see being some kind of manager but Alex wants to work with his hands. He loves building and making things.
We found some of the career information interesting. We were glad to be able to look up all the careers that were listed not just the ones on the report. It wont be long before the boys will be out of high school and I want them to find a path to do something that they will enjoy. I do not when them to waste money at college without knowing what type pf career field they want to go in or to go to a college that doesn't even support their degree. So all of the written information on the careers was very helpful. We checked out a few of the video links, but they were pretty outdated. I wish there was some kind of search option on the page that would take you quickly to the kind of career you are searching for. Though Construction Manager came up as a job in Alex's list, Construction Worker would be one he would be interested in looking at, and it would be nice to just be able to quickly search that. Also a search option showing what colleges in your state or the state of your child's interest would be a nice option instead of having to scroll through the list. You do have access to the information always, it is not a subscription that runs out.
I am glad we had an opportunity to try out CashCrunch Careers. There is a free CashCrunch 101 game you can check out on their website.
To see what my Crew Mates had to say about CashCrunch Careers, stop by the Crew Blog!
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