By Roxanne L. DuVivier

Your Strategic Future is a CD-based product, that post-secondary schools can use as a student assessment program, helping to put their students into the right program, going towards the right career path early on. It's a program that helps students discover things about themselves that will lead them on a path to success in school and work. The personality self-assessment provides a creative approach, with a high level of interactivity and dynamic presentation that engages the user and makes the assessment process fun and appealing. It's a Personality Assessment + Career Exploration + Academic Planning Guide, all-in-one. It has a dynamic interface, and is based on all of the major personality and vocational experts' research including but not limited to: Gittinger, Heiman, Gardiner, Goleman, and Holland. Faculty and staff can use Your Strategic Future to track the progress of individual students, as well as analyze aggregate data of the whole student population. There is also an Individual version that can be bundled with any Delmar text or is available on its own.

Features and Benefits:
• A unique multimedia program that kick-starts student success both academically and personally through structured success planning
• Interactive software is fun and entertaining and helps keep students engaged throughout the assessment
• Provides advisors with more precise academic career matching with assessment results
• Advisors and administrators can track student progress with student tracking and reporting as well as analyze aggregate data of the whole student population
• Results in a positive effect on retention, keeping students motivated, while focusing on their goals and remaining enrolled in school