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Xello's CV Builder

Xello has added CV Builder to the Student Experience!

A CV is a necessary part of applying to jobs, internships, volunteer opportunities and so much more. To help with the often overwhelming experience of writing a CV for the first time, the CV Builder pulls in the work students have already completed in other parts of Xello so your students can confidently start applying for those opportunities they're interested in.

Watch the short video to see what your students experience when they use Xello's CV Builder. Share the video to help introduce the feature in class.

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Broward County Public Schools is providing Xello for all district students in grades K-12 to help with college and career planning! This world-class system is designed to inform students, parents, and schools with:

Researching careers, colleges, and majors
Finding local and national scholarships and enrichment programs
Exploring students’ career interests, learning styles, personality types, and multiple intelligences
Building resumes for job and college applications
Setting goals and developing personalized plans for success
Requesting and sending transcripts.
Learning about success skills, financial planning, self-discovery, and building a support network

What Can Xello Do?

Parent portal.

Parents can also have an account. A family portal gives parents and guardians access to Xello so you can view what they are working on such as your child's skills and interests, explore careers they like, goals and plans, and their future plans.

Reach out to your School Counselor for Parent Portal access.

Research Careers, Colleges, and Majors

Xello contains a wealth of student-friendly content about careers, colleges, majors, and pathways. Robust search filters encourage students to think through factors important to them in considering careers (salary, demand, education level), schools (size, location, costs, application requirements), and programs of study (type, location).

Find Scholarships

Students will be able to search for local and national scholarships, store them in Xello, and work directly on the scholarship application in Xello. Scholarships can be added to their shortlist and students can keep track of their progress by updating the status of their scholarships to indicate that they’ve applied and if they’ve won. BCPS will also add all local scholarships into the system so students can find and match with community-based opportunities.

Explore your interests, styles, personality, and intelligences

Xello helps students discover more about themselves by encouraging them to record and reflect on their strengths, skills, and interests.

Students can take a variety of research-based self-assessments:

Personality Style Assessment
Learning Style Assessment
Skill Lab Assessment
Career Matchmaker

These results provide recommendations for applying this knowledge to improve study skills, relationships, college selection, and career choices.

Build resumes and portfolios for job and college applications

With built-in guidance and tips, Xello’s resume builder helps middle and high school students of all abilities create a stand-out resume.

Set goals and develop personalized plans

With four primary components— visual planning tools where students can create plans and set goals, a high school course planner, and a college planning tool— students connect the pieces and move from exploration to planning and action.

Request transcripts

Students preparing for college can track their application deadlines, requirements, and progress directly in Xello. Once an application is created, students can easily request transcripts or letters of recommendation.

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Empower students to tell their personal story and boost application strength with Xello

One goal of K-12 education unites educators, parents, and students. That goal is to prepare students to have a productive and meaningful life. College and career readiness (CCR) helps students meet that goal. Part of that requires students to be able to genuinely tell their story.

How can educators empower students to tell their stories and prepare for college, careers, and life? For our October Roundtable , we welcomed Stephen Soderback, High School CCR Director, Vista High School, CA, Jennifer Park, CCR & CTE Counselor, Gadsden ISD, NM, and Matthew A. Fritzius, CTE Curriculum Supervisor, Broward County Public Schools, FL.

Here are a few tips they offered that can help students!

Empower students from a young age and throughout K-12

Young people need to feel empowered and make their own decisions. Telling them what they should want to do and how to do it is a recipe for chaos. The earlier students are empowered to make decisions – with guidance from educators and family – the better off they are.

From a young age, students can begin to think about what they want to do in the future. “We’re working with our lead elementary counselor to start career exploration with Xello early and really build out the scope and sequence to match what we do in the middle and high school,” says Jennifer, who’s district in New Mexico serves 13,000 students. The student population is about 90% Hispanic, and 80% of our students are English language learners, and about 75% fall in or qualify for free and reduced lunch.

Students grow and change their minds regularly. Few know what they want to do in 10th grade, let alone middle school. “The students are young and learning about what they want to do,” she says. “The Xello assessments are so helpful because they don’t just give students the assessment but provide an opportunity to adjust answers, take another set of questions because obviously they’re going to change as they get older.” At Gatson, they start this process in 7th grade.

Another way to empower students is through their internships. They can figure out their interests by their experiences.

At Broward County Public Schools in Florida, which has 200 plus schools and serves 250,000 students, juniors are encouraged to pursue internships. To do so, the district insists they complete a variety of lessons to demonstrate readiness for the internship. The goal, according to Matthew A. Fritzius, the district’s CTE Supervisor, is to start the lessons in middle school and sprinkle them through high school.

Broward County is introducing Xello’s career planning tool to middle school students . Before students start thinking about internships, they need to determine what high school to go to since Broward is a choice district.

“As early as middle school, we expose students to the various different high school programs that exist,” says Fritzius. When students determine what career interests them, it makes picking the right school much easier.

Students can also consider long-term possibilities with Xello. “One of the things that I absolutely love about the Xello platform is the local labor market data where students can see what the job outlook looks like in a particular field and the salary range,” he says.

Put the story in writing

Whether the next path is more schooling or the work world, students need to tell their story through a resume. But how can students open a door with their resume when they have little experience?

“Building a resume is daunting for our students,” Park says. “Many put their education on the resume, but they don’t know what to do after that.” It’s like when family ask their students, “What did you do in school today?” The typical answer is nothing, but that’s certainly not true. Students don’t know what they don’t know. Therefore, they don’t realize they have other things that would be appropriate for their resume.

Our program has multiple features that make this task less overwhelming for students. Xello’s digital portfolios let students create and share digital work across subjects and reflect on what they’ve learned. The portfolio is accessible within Xello, so students, teachers, and families will get a more comprehensive view of a student’s learning.

Educators can give students the option to create shareable links to their portfolios. The links can then be viewed by colleges, employers, or members of the community.

“The portfolio is like a next generation resume,” says Soderback, whose California-based high school has 2,000 students. “There’s lots of places in Xello to be able to track and document past student experiences.”

Xello’s Resume Builder makes it easy for students to take valuable information they’ve learned about themselves through assessments and self-reflection and turn it into a professional resume. There are tips and samples on every page to guide students in the do’s and don’ts of writing a stand-out resume.

As they fill out each section of their resume using content already entered in the About Me section, they have the option to add new skills, interests, or experiences. New content is then synced and saved to their About Me profile. At any point, they’re able to readjust the order of the sections so they can put their most relevant skills and experiences first.

“Xello gives students the ability to keep track of their activities and volunteer experiences so they can tell not only the academic story but their career development story as it goes forward,” Soderback says. It’s their story, and it’s saved in an easy-to-review format. Students can draw on it and present it to potential employers, schools of interest, and more.

“Our students have been able to save their experiences and skills and apply it to their future work opportunities,” Park says. “It’s amazing when they start building their resumes because they can just start typing things in and then there are suggestions to add that can help them stand out.”

These days, employers focus on soft skills. “Employers are much more interested in someone they can mold and has the attitude and the approach they’re looking for than a laundry list of technical skills,” says Fritzius.

“I think the information provided about careers within Xello gives students a leg up right out of the gate,” Park says. “They build that prior understanding careers even before they choose to pursue it and have a career focus and goal that they can articulate.”

Engage students and educators

Getting students excited and engaged in CCR and Xello seems like it should be a slam dunk. Yet, like all new tasks, both parties need to be bought in before they feel engaged.

This is especially true for educators, bogged down with many responsibilities and pressures. To engage and excite the staff about a new procedure, champions are needed. Having someone (or multiple people) on campus to promote and sell the technology is essential. The champion encourages those reluctant users to engage and helps as needed.

Besides having a person available to help, there’s Xello Academy. Whether for new teachers learning about the program or veterans looking to brush up, the self-paced courses help educators integrate Xello into instruction. The courses are comprehensive and interactive, and information is presented in a clear sequence to ensure all participants master learning objectives.

To encourage educators to engage in Xello Academy , teachers get PD hours for using it, which is essential for retaining licensing.

Soderback suggests having a PD with instructors and counselors to ensure they understand the platform. “Have them play with their own profile and their own assessments, so they understand what the tool is about and the different features.”

Park has educators log into a student account at the same grade level that most of their students are in and then walk them through the lesson step by step. “I think people were excited when we rolled it out because they were able to do that, use a demo student account. They got to do their Matchmaker, and sometimes it showed them that they were in the right career, and that got them excited.”

How does that excitement get transferred to students? First, they need training. Soderback has an initial meeting with all the students. He takes the students through all the assessments and sets up a preliminary plan with them. “You need to be able to have students engage and be led through directly for that process.”

Starting slowly and taking it step by step with students is also helpful. Finally, incorporating Xello and CCR into every class rather than making it a separate class conveys the message that this is a worthwhile and necessary program.

Ultimately, students realize that Xello and CCR help their future, and it behooves them to engage in the program.

The future is both a scary and exciting place. Students are more prepared for their future path with a good CCR program. It helps them tell their story and determine their direction.

To learn more about how Xello’s features can help students tell their story, check out our October Roundtable .

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Xello has added Resume Builder to the student experience!

A resume is a necessary part of applying to jobs, internships, volunteer opportunities and so much more. To help with the often overwhelming experience of writing a resume for the first time, the Resume builder pulls in the work students have already completed in other parts of Xello so your students can confidently start applying for those opportunities they're interested in.

Check out this short video to see what your students experience when building out a resume .

Feature launch event: Resume builder recorded webinar

Check out this recorded webinar to learn how your students can quickly turn their Xello About me section into a professional resume with Xello's Resume builder . Watch as a Xello training specialist gives a comprehensive walkthrough of the tool, followed by an open Q&A with our product manager.

Resume builder makes it easy to take the valuable information students have learned about themselves through assessments, self-reflection, and early experiences, and turn it into a professional resume .

Students access this feature from their About me page. Once they've begun, they have access to the Tips & samples on every page to help guide them in do's and don'ts of writing a stand-out resume . As they fill out each section of their resume using content already entered in About me , they also have the option to add new skills, interests, or experiences. New content is then synced and saved to their About me profile. At any point they're able to readjust the order of the sections so they can put their strongest skills and experiences first. Once they're ready, they download their completed resume either as a fully formatted, professional PDF, or as an RTF file if they wish to style their resume their own way.

Educators view completed student resumes on the student's profile page, in the About student tab. You'll be able to view it once the student has added their contact details and completed the education section in the Resume builder .

To view a student's resume :

Scroll down to the Resume builder section to see when their resume was last modified.

Delivering Resume builder in the classroom

Check out these resources to support your Resume writing instruction.

To get students started, the Resume builder resource will help you successfully guide your students in using the tool and creating a resume through discussion prompts, modeling, and reflection prompts.

This standalone lesson will take about 30-40 minutes and includes:

Inquiry prompts
Tips for preparing to teach the lesson
Teaching strategies
Step-by-step guidance for assisting students in utilizing Resume builder
A discussion prompt for students to complete in a Xello assignment

For a more time-intensive but robust experience that provides context for Resume builder , the Resume writing instructional plan includes four activities to help you implement the Resume builder in the classroom face-to-face, online, or in a blended learning environment. Through these activities, your students will learn how to showcase themselves, analyze job ads, get tips on creating their resume , and learn how to write a cover letter.

This instructional plan can be broken up into four standalone lessons or one extended 95 minute lesson. It includes the components of the My resume lesson above, as well as:

Learning objectives
Future-ready skills and vocabulary
Real-world exploration of resume components and job-seeking tools
Student-facing instructions