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New Career Resources For California's Colleges
Last Updated on Thursday, 15 December 2011 Written by Sandoval Chagoya Wednesday, 14 December 2011
Two new websites provide CCC students, faculty and staff with career resources intended to help create clear pathways from the classroom to meaningful careers.
Cacareercafe.com was built as a California Community Colleges student resource, while cacareerbriefs.com serves CCC faculty and career professionals.
The cacareercafe.com site is the virtual career center for CCC students, "Where Students Meet Success." Cacareercafe.com is open 24/7 and serves as a resource where students can assess their strengths and skills, identify their interests and passions, review their educational options, identify high-demand careers, find out how to get workplace experience and connect with professional associations.
"For some HOT Tips and COOL Connections come see what’s cooking at the cacareercafe.com."The cacareercafe.com website was developed by Irvine Valley College with funding from the Career and Work-based Connections to Professional Associations Grant, which is funded by SB70. The site offers resources and activities for community college students to help them find their career direction. Students can use the activities before they see a counselor or career professional to help them answer a few questions and get started on their journey. The site then leads students to connect a counselor or career professional. 
The cacareerbriefs.com website is a resource for California Community Colleges faculty and career professionals, "Linking Classrooms to Careers." The site houses the QT (Quick Tips for Classroom Instructors) electronic newsletter, which is distributed statewide to instructors 12 times per year, and Big Idea! for Career Professionals electronic newsletter, which is distributed statewide to career centers and career professionals five times per year. There are dozens of quick and easy classroom lessons and interesting and timely career workshops available. Each lesson and workshop on the site includes a video clip and downloadable student activity.
"To make more classroom-workplace connections and find lots of free resources, visit cacareerbriefs.com."The cacareerbriefs.com website was developed by Irvine Valley College in response to the need to revise the two websites for career development and work based learning into one site that would provide activities and resources for faculty and counselors and also house the advisory committee information. This website and resources and activities are funded through Perkins IV, Title 1B Statewide Leadership grants from the Chancellor's office.
The research, activities and resources for both career sites are developed by a team of professionals working together to provide the best possible activities and resources to support community college student success. The project partners are the Perkin's funded Career Development and Work Based Learning Statewide Advisory Committees and Collaborative Grant funded by Perkins IV, Title 1B Statewide Leadership funds. The project has successfully leveraged funds to develop this website and all of the activities and resources available to community college students, faculty and staff.
Sandoval Chagoya is the TechEDge Managing Editor and a Project Manager for the
California Community Colleges Technology Center and the California Virtual Campus.