Galaxy, Navigator, Journey; these are the new names you will begin to hear from Kuder for reliable, engaging, and age-appropriate online career planning solutions. For 12 years, we have offered proven tools to explore and navigate life’s career journey. Today, Kuder is excited to announce the upcoming release of a new Kuder^® Career Planning System for career planners of all ages that includes: Kuder^® Galaxy for children in grades PreK-5, their parents, and educators; Kuder^® Navigator for students in middle school and high school, their parents, and educators; and Kuder^® Journey for postsecondary students, adult career changers, and career counseling professionals. Each new product includes database management capabilities to track individual progress and aggregate trends, and the real-time accountability resources to quantify program success.

Like all Kuder solutions, the new suite is grounded in ongoing research to provide improved graduation rates, ease academic and career transitions, facilitate reliable career choices that impact workforce development and economic growth, and support the development of a talent pipeline. Individually, the solutions have been carefully designed for each age level with developmentally-appropriate content, interactive tools, and fresh graphics to keep users coming back for more. Collectively, the suite of solutions provides a comprehensive system of proven, relevant, and engaging education and career planning resources unparalleled to other tools available today.

You asked, we listened and delivered! In response to the increasing importance being placed on early career awareness, Kuder is excited to release its first elementary solution, Kuder Galaxy. Read our related article on the importance of elementary career awareness and check out a Sneak Peek of Galaxy.

A brief overview of Galaxy:

• Simplifies understanding of self and awareness of careers into four action-based categories of activities – Play, Watch, Do, and Explore – for elementary students.
• Aligns all activities to career clusters, core school subjects, and National Career Development Association and American School Counselor Association goals and guidelines.
• Supports differentiation with simple, self-guided exploration and developmentally-appropriate activities, which are easily integrated into any classroom setting.
• Keeps users engaged and coming back to the system with regularly updated content.
• Features parent and teacher dashboards for tracking individual and classroom progress.

You may recognize Kuder Navigator as a solution based on our highly successful and proven Kuder Career Planning System platform. By integrating a fresh design, more interactive features, and reliable tools and content redeveloped for secondary students, Navigator makes career planning fun, engaging, and relevant for the middle school and high school levels.

Highlights of Navigator include:

• Introduction to lifelong electronic portfolio development with research-based assessments, four-year planning, and preparation for the various options after high school.
• Guided exploration by an interactive career planning timeline.
• In-depth component for parents, allowing them to access informational resources and play an important, active role in their child’s planning process.
• Flexible individual guidance and data-driven decision making with an enhanced administrative database management system.

Kuder Journey is an expanded solution from the Kuder^® 4 Adults product released last year. Journey is tailored to the individual needs of postsecondary students and adults, whether they are just beginning the job search process, lost their job, or are looking to advance their career.

Journey’s dynamic features:

• Comprehensive system for exploring career interests and occupational options, considering new or additional education and training, preparing for today’s workforce, and finding jobs.
• Reliable and personalized guidance tailored to each unique user.
• Flexible step-by-step process that includes development of an electronic portfolio that may be shared online.
• Accountability resources for career centers and workforce agencies to show real-time results.

Contact us for information on the availability of Galaxy, Navigator, and Journey, and find out when you can put the new Kuder Career Planning System into place at your school or organization. Also, ask us how including Connect 2 Business^® gets business and industry involved in increasing awareness of high demand, high growth industries; improving workforce preparation; and supporting economic recovery.

Contact us today at 877.773.8444 or info@kuder.com and don’t forget about the $100 discount on Galaxy if you pre-order by May 15, 2009.

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