About Georgia Career Information Center

The Georgia Career Information Center is a research and outreach center located at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia. The center partners with various public, private, state and national agencies to provide career management information and services for students, counselors, career advisors, administrators, and industry professional. The center is nationally recognized for the high quality of its information and for its innovative efforts in the delivery of career information.

GCIC is a member of a 20-state consortium composed of state agencies, state universities, and non-profit organizations. The mission is to provide research-based career development resources that meet or exceed standards for quality, integrity, confidentiality, and accessibility.

Georgia Career Information System (GCIS)

The Georgia Career Information System (GCIS) is the center’s primary initiative. Working with educational and labor market professional, GCIS contains assessments, explorations, and search strategies as well as the most comprehensive and accurate state and national occupational and educational information. In addition to career management tools for individuals, tools are available to assist administrators. The GCIS site is a password-protected website at www.gcic.peachnet.edu. Ask your counselor or administrator for the user name and password.

Georgia Career Information System Junior (GCIS Junior)

The Georgia Career Information System Junior (GCIS Junior) provides prerequisite career development in a fun and rewarding structure. GCIS Junior helps answer three basic questions: Who Am I?, Where Am I Going?, and How Do I Get There?

GCIS Junior is ideal for elementary and middle school students, special populations, and in environments where refresher or inception career exploration is key.

The GCIS Junior site is a password-protected website at www.gcic.peachnet.edu. Ask your counselor or administrator for the user name and password.

Georgia Eligible Provider List

www.gcic.peachnet.edu/gawia

The Workforce Investment Act (WIA) is a federally supported, nationwide project that promotes the enhancement of each state's world-class workforce. Working in partnership with the Georgia Department of Labor (GDOL), GCIC develops and maintains the website containing information about eligible training providers and supporting programs of study. GDOL administrators utilize the site to match clients with appropriate schools and educational opportunities.

Information Parents Can Use (IPCU)

www.gcic.peachnet.edu/IPCU

Information Parents Can Use (IPCU) is a series of online brochures that enable parents, teachers, counselors, graduation coaches, and administrators to become involved in their students’ career and education planning process.

Occupational Supply Demand System (OSDS)

www.occsupplydemand.org

The OSDS combines national and state level occupational characteristics, projections, wage trends, and industry employment (demand) with postsecondary graduation data (supply) for analysis of labor markets and training options. OSDS helps business and industrial analysts, program planners, workforce administrators, and others determine labor availability and training program offerings based on the supply/demand mix. The OSDS was developed by a national consortium led by GCIC, in partnership with the Georgia DOL, under a grant from the U.S. DOL.

Georgia Technical College School Sort

www.gcic.peachnet.edu/tcsgsort