Online Student Success

Career Counseling is available upon student request in order to assist with :

• Making decisions about current education and future career choices.
• Finding a good fit based on who they are personally and their career possibilities.
• Identifying their personality traits, interests, strengths, values, and skills in relation to the decision about academic majors and the potential career path.
• Actively moving through the four stages of career planning within the four years of college.

Career Preparation

Get help on any of the following:

• Writing Effective Cover letters
• Writing Effective Resumes
• Letters of Recommendation – Strategies and Tips
• Informational Interviewing
• Networking
• Internship Search and Success Strategies
• Graduate School Application Essentials

Computer Based Assessment

The following websites offer free self-exploration and career possibilities.

• Human Metrics – an assessment based on Carl Jung’s and Isabel Briggs Myers’ typological approach to personality identification. This inventory is also known as the Jung Typology Personality Test.  www.humanmetrics.com
• Kiersey Temperament Sorter – personality inventory with career suggestions. www.keirsey.com
• Type Logic – offers more detail about the MBTI personality type and how to use it in planning your major, and potential career opportunities.  www.typelogic.com
• O’Net Skills Assessment – Assessing your skills and suggestions how to use your skills and abilities in the workplace.  www.onetonline.org/skills
• Career One Stop –  Skills Profiler, Interest Profiler, Ability Profiler and Work Values Assessment. www.careeronestop.org
• MAPP Inventory – This inventory is a motivational assessment of personal potential. It gives ideas for career and job related ideas.  http://www.assessment.com/?Accnum=06-5639-106.00

Available Through the Academic Center Office

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator –  The MBTI is one of the most widely used personality inventories used in career identification.  The preferences suggested by the MBTI can help the students make career and personal decisions.  The scores highlight preferences on four dimensions.  The combinations of the preferences result in one of 16 personality types, which relate to career choices, communication modes, and learning styles.

Strengths Quest – identifying students’ strengths and examining how this identification can enable the student to make decisions about their academic and career goals.

College Student with Disabilities

Central Christian College of Kansas is committed to serving all students, including students who have documented disabilities. We provide a learning environment assuring the student with a disability equal access to all programs, activities, and facilities of CCCK. The Briner Academic Center works with each student in developing and providing reasonable academic aids and accommodations for their disabilities. Our goal is to provide each student with maximum independence and participation in college campus life.

Eligibility will be determined after:

• …the student meets all essential requirements for admission
• …the appropriate documentation by a licensed physician and/or certified psychologist, skilled in the diagnosis of the disability, is submitted to the Briner Academic Center. The documentation must be within the last three years. (LD, ADD/HD, Medical/Physical disabilities)

After the documentation is submitted, the student will need to make an appointment with the Briner Academic Center to review the documentation and determine any accommodation services or referrals needed.

Arranging Services and Accommodations

A student with a disability may choose not to access the services of the Briner Academic Center, but any student requesting accommodations is responsible for providing the Briner Academic Center with documentation of their disability. In addition, the student will need to make a specific request for accommodations at that time.

The student requesting accommodations must meet with the Director of the Briner Academic Center during the first two weeks of class each semester or term to discuss his/her needs. A Confidential Information Sheet (CIS) will be prepared for the student. This document (CIS):

• …verifies that there is a documented disability
• …describes the disability’s effect on the student’s academic performance
• …identifies the accommodations in the learning environment that will “level the playing field” to which the student is legally entitled.

The student will need to sign a document giving the Director of the Briner Academic Center permission to share required accommodations with their instructors and advisor. The student may choose not to use the disability services as stated on the CIS but should consider that decision carefully. Instructors are required to provide reasonable accommodations in accordance with the CIS, however, they are not required to provide accommodations that would affect the integrity of their courses. It is the student’s responsibility to meet with their instructors within the first week of class to discuss details of the recommended accommodations.

Incoming students will need documentation of their disability. Since services cannot be authorized until documentation has been received and reviewed, students should have it forwarded as soon as possible after acceptance to CCCK to avoid delays in the provision of services.