Summer 2011
JED videos online
By popular request, the online version of the Job Explorer Database now includes JED’s career videos. So licensed users accessing JED from the internet can get over 200 great job videos, just like you get with the installed version.
If you were holding back from adding videos to your JED licence, now is a great time to get them. The video pack is just £20 extra, for your whole school or college. Contact Careersoft to try them, or look at the videos for medical photographer or zoo keeper which are available in any version of JED.
Also new this year are bigger widescreen videos. So even at full size on a whiteboard, you get great video quality that everyone can enjoy.
And the winner is...
You may remember from our last newsletter that Ann Starkie had been nominated for a National Career Award, for her World of Work project. Well, we’re absolutely thrilled that she won.
The project featured Careersoft’s First Jed as the way in which students found out about various jobs. Congratulations to Ann on a great result.
Ann Starkie (right) with Richard and Liz from Careersoft, at the National Career Awards 2011
Adaptive logic for career matching
JED’s interest-matching quizzes for careers suggestions were thoroughly revised for 2010/11, and we’re getting good feedback from users.
JED’s ‘big quiz’ has
55 questions that are
within a typical student’s
experience. No high-
level questions about
aptitude for driving or
financial transactions.
Just straightforward
questions like ‘would you like a job where you
work outdoors’, and ‘do you enjoy maths.’
For those students for whom even 55 questions in
one go might be too much, there is JED’s ‘quick
quiz.’ This starts with just
16 questions, but then JED
continues to ask users a
question at a time as they
browse various jobs.
Adaptive logic in the
Job Explorer Database
means that at each stage
it asks the best question
for that user, based on
their answers so far.
JED promo video
The new promotional video for JED
is a great way to show students
and clients what Careersoft’s Job
Explorer Database can do. Perfect
for showing on a large screen in your
Connexions Centre or reception area, or even for
students in the dinner queue. It can be used with
or without sound, and on a loop.
Watch it on Careersoft's YouTube channel, or contact us and we'll be happy to send it to you as a DVD or as a HD video file (free for all JED subscribers).
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