Keeping Up With Career Cruising

STORY BY HANNAH BROWN »
Contrary to what most students
think, closed power hour isn’t meant
to be a punishment, originally it was
meant as an opportunity to allow each

student time to work on their individ-
ual plans of study. To do this, students

at Eudora High have begun using
Career Cruising, a website designed to
prepare them for college, summer jobs,
internships and much more.
“Ultimately, we believe you have
a better chance of getting where you
truly want to be if you actually have
a plan of where you want to go,” said
school counselor, Brett Misse.
Misse believes that Career Cruising
is a readily available tool that can help
students immensely.
“Two or three years ago, the state
mandated that we provided some form
of system that allowed each student
to have an individual plan of study,”
Misse said, “So we believed in it, but it
was also mandated.”
Students are required to follow
through on a few assignments on this

website each year. Whether it’s updat-
ing their 4-year-plan or adding goals

to their goal tab, students usually have
anywhere between 45-80% done.
“Even the students who are doing
the bare minimum that we require, I
think we are benefiting from it.” Misse
strongly believes that students who go
further benefit from it even more.
Freshman, Sabrina Jankowski said
she puts a lot of thought into it.
“It seems pretty important to me,”
she said. “Career Cruising has already
helped me organize so much.”
Jankowski said it’s helped her
discover many colleges and careers she
hadn’t heard of before. “It’s helped me
figure out what I want to be, which is
an agricultural technician.”
Jankowski isn’t the only one who

has been discovering new opportuni-
ties.

“I actually found a specific job on
there,” Angel Townsend, Soph., said.
“Career Cruising pulled up wages and
what they could be in different places.”

Career Cruising is a gateway for stu-
dents to find new opportunities and

career paths.
“Viewing a career video and then
saying ‘oh, okay, that’s similar to what
I was thinking about, let’s look at
the education requirements for that,’”
Misse said, “That’s how it is the most
efficient, but not everybody utilizes it to
its full extent.”
However, in the scheme of things,
some students like Townsend don’t
really find Career Cruising to be all that
helpful.
“On a scale of one to ten, for me, it’s
like 3.4,” Townsend responded when
asked just how much she thought she
needed the tool. She believes that
while it may be beneficial to others, she
could live without it.
Not all students find the website
helpful, but it’s all about the time an
effort they are willing to put into it.