College and Career Information

CIS360

The Career Information System

Garfield-Palouse High School is a registered user of the CIS360 online information system. CIS360 is a Washington-based system that provides information and data about careers, academic programs, and institutions of post-secondary education.   Students begin using CIS360 during advisory periods in 9th grade and continue to use it periodically throughout high school.  Students receive the site key for our school and then create their own portfolio where they can save the career assessments and research that they have done.

The website is: wa.CIS360.org

CAREER INFORMATION: Upon completing various assessments, students are provided with lists of careers that may be a suitable match for them.  They can then look up information about specific occupations, including job descriptions, expected growth/decline, average salaries and post-secondary education requirements.  Students who are not sure what they may want to do after high school may find the tools especially valuable.

Additional sites to look at: www.careerexplorenw.org   and   www.careerbridge.wa.gov

PORTFOLIOS: Students create an online CIS360 portfolio to save information about careers, resumes, and results from different assessments and interest inventories. This portfolio is password protected so that only the creator of the account has access. 

There are a number of websites where you can search for colleges that match the criteria that you are looking for.  The one that I use most frequently is www.collegeboard.org.