Review: CashCrunch Careers

Have you ever wondered what job would suit your personality? The easy part of a career is having your heart set on something you feel you would enjoy without seeing the whole picture. Then afterward realize that this isn’t what you want to spend the rest of your life doing. If you’re like me I know a lot of individuals who are doing jobs in a field they didn’t go to school for.

CashCrunch Games has created a system to help you narrow down your job search with CashCrunch Careers for a better fitting job for your career. When you grow up what do you want to do with your life?

Another feature of CashCrunch Games is that they have available free games to help with learning money management in a virtual game setting to simulate real life situations for all ages.

CashCrunch Careers is intended for middle school, high school, and adults. They use information/research from the Depart of Labor as an assessment along with corporate recruiting tools to figure out the best fit for a career off of your personality.

I received two codes to use with both of my children ages 12 and 15 to take the survey. CashCrunch Careers has a total of 75 questions to answer. The survey took no longer than 15 minutes to complete. You will need separate emails for each person to create an account. Setting up an account was very easy.

Once your account is set up you can take your survey without delay. I started with my 12 year old son. The survey is set up as multiply choice giving you two options that are based off your personality. You choose the option based off you. As you can see from the picture above it is based off your personality or inherited traits as they are called. Some of the questions my son thought a bit odd because depending on the situation he could be both. I told him to go off his instincts and choose the one that he felt more towards in those situations. They recommend you go off how you see yourself not how someone else views you. 

 One question was whether you are assertive or even tempered. In some situations my son is confident in. He will stand his ground and can be assertive but, at the same time he is even tempered. You can put your mouse over the words to give you a brief meaning of the words which just had one or two words. Some of the words he decided to look up the definition to see what it meant. Some words he just knew a fraction of the meaning. Looking up the words helped him make a final decision on some of the answers as that is my son’s logical side. 

My daughter took a bit longer due to her special needs and I had to work with her on it. I think she picked options on the way she wants to be and not her real personality. Due to her special needs it was impossible to try to explain some of the context with her.

After you are done with the survey a report is generated that can be accessed 24/7 for life or as long as the vendor is around. You can also print out or save the report as a PDF. 

The first section talks about your “Career Work Styles” this goes over a basic overview of what kind of worker you will be based off the survey. It says you, “Know what you can do, what you would like to do and how you are able to do it.” For my son it said he was logical minded and determined to find a solution for a problem regardless of how many times it takes him.

For my daughter it stated she likes to help others and maintains your emotions calmly. 

The second portion of the report “Motivators and De-motivators” which talks about, “Something that provides a reason or stimulus to do or don't do something.”

For my son it talks about how he thinks logically and thinks problems through. He is laid-back, low key, thinks things through before taking actions. He doesn’t like things to be stuck in the past and prefers not to be in a noisy environment. For my daughter prefers to do things by the book, sociable, and open to a variety in your work environment.

The third part of the report “Career Attributes” Qualities or features regarded as a characteristic or inherent part of you. It breaks it up in a few words. This would be your strengths in the workplace.

My son is self- controlled: Composed, assured, and balanced. Social Orientation: Team-oriented, Concerned, and Congenial. Innovation: Creative, Conceptual, and Clever. Analytical Thinking: Logical, Authoritative, and Examining. Persistent: Persistent, Self-assured, and Confident.

My daughter is Concern for Others: Caring, Helpful, and Devoted. Independence: Semi-Independent. Cooperation: Good-natured, Charming, and Team-oriented. Adaptively/Flexibility: Adaptable, Accepting, and Approachable. Integrity: Ethical, Conscientious, and Dutiful.

I agree with the assessment on my son on the first sections. My daughter.. I agree but, it doesn’t take into account her disabilities so for her I see her as caring, helpful, devoted, and conscientious. She isn’t independent and not good working in a team. I don’t know if this is a good fit for a child with limitations due to disabilities.

The forth section is the section that gives you an overview of career options. We were a bit confused at first because they are exactly the same. I think it has a general overview of jobs and when you click on it has a list of several jobs in that particular field. There are 20 general options and when you click on the left side it opens up more information.

 
You can click on a job area and it gives you a “projected growth of the field” and a “projected Need” in the area. Good information to see if this is a good option in the future.  It goes over the task, activities, and attributes and allows you to see if this is a good fit for the particular job. 

There are tabs at the top that gives you links to colleges for that particular field. We were able to look up colleges in the technology field and engineering with my son. I liked that it takes the guess out of what colleges has certain programs of studies. I can look at the requirements of the colleges to plan for his courses while in high school. 

Some of them have videos about the career. The videos are a bit odd and seem to be really outdated in my opinion. The videos are not appealing at all considering the technology we have now.

What We Thought

I saw slight differences in the reports. Mostly they seemed identical. Maybe this is where career counselors come in handy to break this down and maybe it requires a trained eye to really get the most out of it.

I don’t think this is what we expected. We did however find that the list of careers opened up a unique opportunity to look at other career options that we haven’t considered. I really like the links to the college pages and found that extremely beneficial. 

To be fair according to the company that having the categories that are similar is okay. That should be the same for most people. It’s the other portion of the report that is hugely different like your personality and attributes (which I would agree with that statement.) The beyond categories is a list of careers that might be appealing to research. The report did make us look at possibilities that we didn’t consider. Like I mentioned before I really liked the ability to research colleges in related fields.

Overall, this has been useful and interesting to add to future planning of careers and colleges.

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