Education & Career Planning Software

SIGI³ integrates self-assessment with in-depth and up-to-date career information that is easy to use and provides students and adults with a realistic view of the best educational and career options for their future success.

SIGI³ helps each user examine key motivators and matches work-related values, interests, and skills to educational and career pathways. Individuals explore a range of options based on their personal choices.

SIGI³ is a rewrite of SIGI PLUS that maintains the content and philosophy of the older product while providing a more modern and more efficient student interface. All of the great features of SIGI PLUS remain (or are enhanced), and navigating through the software is much easier.

We gave SIGI³ a new look, and added a complete management and reporting section for administrators.

Unlike SIGI PLUS that was only updated once per year, SIGI³ will be updated on a regular basis. As we add features, and change links and job information, we will update the web site.

A Penetrating Personal Analysis

What's most important? Making money? Improving society? Status? Personal fulfillment? With SIGI³career planning software, it's up to the individual. There are no right or wrong answers. Only SIGI³ helps each user examine key motivators and matches work-related values, interests, and skills to educational and career pathways. Individuals explore a range of options based on their personal choices.

A Process Made Dazzlingly Simple

SIGI³ takes the confusion out of career and educational planning. Straightforward instructions and logical sequencing enable users to work independently, right from the start. Students and job seekers work through the program at their own pace, moving steadily toward their goals. They can follow the recommended sequence or simply access relevant sections.

SIGI3 will help you: Clarify your work-related values Search and create a list of occupations based on: values, interests, and work skills technical cluster in high school major field of study in college Obtain up-to-date information and printouts on hundreds of occupations Determine education and training requirements for each occupation Put your career plan into action

	SIGI3 is a comprehensive, up-to-date educational and career planning program.
	It helps you pinpoint your career options based on your interests, values, and education.
	It searches and creates printouts of occupational information with critical major and education requirements.
	It includes links to the best educational and career planning Web sites.
	It also features college and graduate school selectors to help you make the best match.

Benefits

	Access 24/7 from any PC on or off-campus
	Self-directed, flexible, and easy-to-use. You take charge of your own career decision making. Use the program all at once or a section at a time. Come back as often as you like. Try different scenarios and choices until it feels right.
	Saves your work in SIGI3 for your future use.
	Saves you money, time, and energy. SIGI3 takes the guesswork and frustration out of career and educational planning by providing an easy step-by-step process.

What Makes SIGI³Unique?

In the early 1980s, Dr. Martin Katz of Educational Testing Service introduced a revolutionary, values-based theory of career decision making. The basic tenet of this theory is that people look for certain values in their work and that careers can be rated on the degree that they reflect these values. Dr. Katz, his associates, and many others had been researching and testing decision theory and how it relates to career choices for 30 years and the results came to fruition in SIGI PLUS. Based on this research, SIGI PLUS approached career decision-making as follows:

• Career decision making is a lifelong activity that can be learned through use of a carefully constructed system that allows for individual choice and flexibility.
• People increasingly change careers but rarely change their career values.
• Career values can apply to a broad number of job or career categories.
• People, even young people, have an understanding of their basic career values. When supplied with real life examples, students can relate them to the values that are most important to them.
• Studies suggest that stated career values (when a person is helped to define them) are easily as good a predictor of eventual career choice as are interest inventories.
• Other studies suggest that people often choose answers on interest inventories that they recognize will support a preconceived career choice. This time and energy is better directed in SIGI PLUS.
• With SIGI PLUS the experience and self-awareness of the user is respected. The user is not subjected to dozens of simplistic questions when he/she is capable of directly identifying work related values if properly guided.

SIGI³ is licensed nationwide to hundreds of educational institutions, states, one-stop career centers, libraries, and community-based organizations. Make it a part of your program today!

System Requirements Browser Client Internet Explorer 6.0 Netscape Navigator 6.2 Occupational Video Access 16-bit sound card and speakers 64K-color video display set to 800x600

For more information about SIGI³, call TOLL FREE 1-800-633-3321, or e-mail us at sales@valparint.com.