An overview of how to utilize Naviance (family connection)

2.  Family Connection is a Web-based program designed for
students and parents.
 It assists students and parents in helping make decisions
about courses, colleges and careers as well as assist in
finding funding.
 Information is specific to Ocean City High School.
 Counselors can update students and parents about up-
coming meetings, news, events, and other Web
resources for college and career information.
 No direct cost to the student or families as the service is
paid by the school district.

3.  Complete the “Do What You Are” to determine
individual personality type
 Career Interest Profiler (what careers match my
interests)
 Career Exploration/Clusters
 College Searches
 College “Look Up”
 Acceptance History***
 Visit Schedule
 Scholarship Opportunities

4. • On the OCHS home page, enter the code that was provided
to you tonight (or prior).
• Complete the registration page using your email address
and a password.
• NOTE: Future log-ins will only require your email and
password.
• Announcements, emails and other important information
are posted on the Welcome page. Check it often!

5.  Allows you to view and identify courses that may be of
interest to you while you are a student at OCHS.
 Register for courses and coordinate career goals with multi-
year course planning.
 Create lists of interesting courses
 personal notes to course plans

8.  Explore career profiles by different methods of
sorting such as by career clusters, by interest, by
personality type
 Provides you with career information such as
education requirements, specific job
responsibilities, average salaries, and jobs within
each career field.
 Allows you to take a personality test and career
interest profiler to help you find a career that
matches your interests.

13.  Allows you to create goals and tasks
 Allows you to create a profile and update test
scores
 Allows you to create and save documents, lists
colleges and career paths you find interesting,
record information from your personality test,
work on your resume and complete surveys

17.  Explore colleges in different ways: location, majors, resources,
etc. View average test scores, average GPA’s, funding sources
of students, tuition costs, student life, diversity levels,
attrition rates, etc.
 Identify how you compare (GPA and Test Scores) with other
students who applied to this school. The scattergram shows
test scores and GPA’s of past students who applied.
 Explore enrichment programs (ie. Summer programs).
 Explore scholarships and complete scholarship applications.
 Exercise: go to scattergrams and select Kean University or
Rutgers University as an example. What is the average GPA of
students accepted to Kean and Rutgers?

31.  Thank you for your time and attention tonight!
Tobi Oves
College and Career Counselor
Ocean City School District
609-814-8716
toves@ocsdnj.org