Career Kokua, the Hawaii Career Information Delivery System, is a computerized system of career and related educational information. Its mission is to provide localized current information for career decision making and career planning. 2008 marks Career Kokua's 28th year of providing quality localized career information to Hawaii's schools and career development agencies.

Career Kokua can help you can learn about . . .

• 453 local Occupations covering 90% of the employment available in the state.
• Self-employment opportunties.
• the Military as an employer and its 140 military occupational specialties.
  
• Hawaii's 31 Industries and the services and products they provide.
  
• over 800 Programs of Study and Training in Hawaii and the types of degrees and certificate programs available.
  
• 100 local licensed and accredited schools and training agencies and over 4,000 colleges and universities in the U.S.
• over 1.6 million sources of Financial Aid.
  
• Job seeking and Job keeping strategies.
  
• 200 Community Resources willing to provide first-hand career information activities and learning opportunities.

Career Kokua provides an excellent start in the career exploration and planning process. It can give you a better sense of self, your career goals, and the decisions affecting the achievement of these goals.

Career Kokua includes career assessments which you can use to link your self-reported preferences to occupations.

• CAREER NAVIGATOR is a 28-item occupational sorting tool that matches an individual's work preferences and life priorities to occupational requirements.
  
• HOLLAND is an activity which will match your personality type to occupations.
  
• SKILLS is a skills analysis process for listing skills and finding matching occupations
  
• INTEREST PROFILER is a self-directed assessment that can help you learn information about yourself when exploring careers.
• WORK IMPORTANCE LOCATOR is a 20-item self-assessment career exploration tool that allows users to focus on what is important to them in a job.

See your teacher or counselor if you want to use Career Kokua. If you don't know whether your school or agency has Career Kokua, check the User Sites listing. If you are not a student or client of one of the schools or agencies listed, go to the nearest Workforce Development Office or One-Stop Career Center. 

If you are a teacher or counselor and are interested in getting Career Kokua for your school or agency, please send email to dlir.rs.hcids@hawaii.gov or contact us at (808)587-5515. 

The Career Kokua web site is funded by the State of Hawaii's Department of Labor & Industrial Relations.

Career Kokua is administered by the Hawaii State Department of Labor and Industrial Relations' Research and Statistics Office.

Career Kokua is a member of the CIS Network of state-based career information delivery systems.

Career Kokua is a Standards Compliant member of the Association of Computerized Systems for Career Information (ACSCI), a consortium for standards and training for advancing the operation and use of career information delivery systems.

Career Kokua is a proud member of America's Workforce Network.

O*NET is one of the data sources for the Career Kokua Occupations file. O*NET is a trademark of the US Department of Labor, Employment & Training Administration.

College and financial aid data are provided through a co-branded web site with Peterson's, a Nelnet Company.

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