Welcome to the WCS Guidance Department
Guidance Department Objectives:
The WCS Guidance Office desires to intentionally partner with parents in the education of their children. Our partnership goal is to assist in identifying and developing student’s giftedness in order to enable them to glorify God through the use of those gifts.
We do this through a commitment to partnering with parents in creating a four-year plan for each student, taking into consideration post secondary goals. We provide testing opportunities, which help to track students’ intellectual development, as well as career and college guidance to assist students in future planning. In addition, we collaborate with teachers, resources services, and administration in order to care for and encourage the holistic development of our students.
Scott Sevey, Guidance Counselor,
Masters of Arts: Guidance and School Counseling; Roosevelt University, 2008
Bachelors of Arts: Youth Ministry and Adolescent Studies; Judson College, 2004
E-mail: ssevey@westminsterchristian.org
Phone: 847/695-0310 x216
Office Hours:
Monday-Wednesday, 7:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. or by appointment
Thursdays, 12:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. by appointment only
Friday, 7:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. by appointment only
High School Code:141-774
TestCenterCode: 218-350
WCS Online Guidance Resources:
Access your guidance office 24/7 via these great resources!
Career Cruising
www.careercruising.com– Career Cruising is an internet-based high school and vocational career exploration and planning tool used by your son or daughter to explore career and college options and develop a career plan. Career Cruising can be accessed from school, from home, or wherever your son or daughter has access to the internet. Features of the program include:
- Education Plan (or High School Course Planner) – a tool that helps students and parents to make a four year high school plan that can be adjusted as students develop their giftedness and interests thoughts their high school career
- Interest and Skills Assessment – a world-renowned career assessment tool to help people identify suitable career options based on their interests and skills
- Career Profiles – thorough and up-to-date information about hundreds of different occupations, including direct links between careers and related college programs
- Multimedia Interviews – interviews with real people in each occupation, which add depth and realism to career profiles
- College and Financial Aid Information – comprehensive college and financial aid information, with a number of useful search tools to help students find the right college and the right scholarships
- Electronic Career Portfolio – available online, so students can develop their education and career plans from wherever they access Career Cruising
- Resume Builder – integrated with the portfolio to help students format and print professional-looking resumes quickly and easily
- Logging into Career Cruising:
School Username: wcs2700
School Password: warriors
Student’s Portfolio Login:
Username: Students full first and last name (ex: stevesmith)
Password: Student ID Number
PrepHQ
https://www.prephq.com/?id=westminster – PrepHQ is an internet-based guidance office resource geared specifically for WCS providing our students with valuable information regarding the college search process. PrepHQ, sponsored by myFootpath.com, provides current and reliable information on college and universities statistical data, admissions data, as well as anonymous data from previous WCS students who have applied to institutions in the past such as those students GPA, course information, and acceptance information. In addition PrepHQ provides a centralized location for all college data available at WCS including, all scholarship information, information on upcoming college fairs and college visits, information on financial aid, as well as upcoming college admission test information.
All transcript requests must be processed using PrepHQ. Instructions for using PrepHQ are available below.
Currently, in order to access PrepHQ, students must be a current high school student and must set up their own personal username and password. It is advised that students set this up using their full first and last name as their username, and their student ID number as their password in order that they keep their login information consistent with that of Career Cruising.
