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Purpose and Benefits:

Purpose:

• The program focuses on the students’ advancement in learning through speeding up the picking process for careers.
• It collects information about the student’s interests to find and help the student gain knowledge about that career and how to follow it.

Benefits:

• Newly initiated students can use this program to more quickly find a focus in studies. The student can spend less time doing all sorts of classes and spend a little time looking for the best one for themselves.
• They can spend more resources on one subject because they know its what they want to learn about and possibly major in after graduation.
• Students could spend more time getting ready for other important knowledge such as working at a job or being an intern.

Function:

• There are multiple surveys that together have enough information to find similar careers that match the interests or skills of the student using the program.
• Collects Student’s:
  • Interests
  • Work Ethic
  • Skills
• The student interacts with the program by filling out surveys that narrow down the career options the student might be interested or skilled in.

Concerns:

• Bias:
  • Bias against students can cause:
    • Loss of resources
    • Less career choices
  • Types of bias:
    • Favoring based on interests or interests
    • Judgment based on ideals.
• Security:
  • Harmful information can be gathered such as:
    • Name
    • Career survey results
    • Email
  • The information can be used to phish for personal data that a student may not know isn’t required for anything related to this program.
  • Fake websites can be used to save important information about the student.

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