Chosing a major or career path? 


Need specific information about a career or occupation? 


Have no idea what you want to do?


Need financial aid? 


Searching for a college, university, or graduate school?


Need Alaska occupational information?


Looking for self-employment information?


Seeking job search resources and help?


Military information?


Let AKCIS help narrow these questions down for you.  Find detailed information on specific careers. Take the assesment tests or do the Occupational Search that AKCIS offers in order to help you decide what major of study or what career path to choose. Find out what occupations would best suit you personally. Search for financial aid opportunities. Search for colleges, universities, and grad schools that meet your personal preferences and neccessary criteria. AKCIS is a fabulous tool with a plethora of information to guide and assist you in your vocational and career endeavors.

**Click AKCIS AT A GLANCE to access a copy of our AKCIS hand out. Copies of all 15 of our handouts can be accessed by clicking on the "Other" link in our "Career Resources" section. Hard copies are also available on the wall outside our office.   

Accessing AKCIS

To access AKCIS, click on the AKCIS link on the right hand side of our home page www.uaacareerservices.com. Please be informed that the AKCIS website is licensed to CSC for UAA student use only. Use of this website requires a username and password to be provided by the Career Services Center upon presentation of student ID. If you are having trouble using AKCIS, please visit the Career Services Center and ask for some personal assitance in our computer lab. Read on below for more specific information about AKCIS. 


The Alaska Career Information System (AKCIS) is a comprehensive career guidance system that provides information and exploration tools to people throughout Alaska.

• AKCIS is the only regularly updated source of both Alaska and national occupational information.
• AKCIS provides information to Alaska native and rural populations.
• AKCIS is the only system that provides information based on the needs of Alaskans.
• AKCIS contains numerous tools for sorting its occupational and educational information.

AKCIS is information developed by Intocareers, a non-profit research center at the University of Oregon College of Education, and the Alaska Development Research and Analysis Division. Additional information is compiled by a consortium of CIS organizations from other states.


Unsure about a career?

Occupation Sort allows you to identify occupations related to abilities, interests and work preferences.

Skills is a comprehensive occupational sorting tool that allows you to identify and prioritize your skills. Skills then calculates a rating and shows how your  skills compare  to nearly 500 occupations .

O*NET Interest Profiler helps you to identify your strongest work-related interest.

Assessment Link provides a connection between several standard career assessment instruments and AKCIS.


AKCIS contains the  following education and training resources:


Programs of study and training

Apprentice information

Alaska vocational schools and colleges

National colleges and universities

Alaska and national financial aid

Career pathways  



Need help choosing a school?

School Sort allows you to input your preferences for location, school size, cost, admission requirements, and other related categories. Then, from a nation wide data base, it generates a list of two-year, four-year, or graduate schools that match your criteria.


Looking for financial aid?

Financial Aid Sort lists Alaska and national financial aid sources based on educational plans, abilities, background, interest areas and financial need.

The internet version of AKCIS contains all the same components as the desktop version, including links to related sources of information throughout the internet. It also offers additional features including: “My CIS” electronic portfolio, “ Real World” interviews, Compare Occupations, and a graduate school sort . It also allows the viewing of occupational videos on-line.

You can log onto the AKCIS Website by clicking on the AKCIS link on the right hand side of the page under Quick Links and calling the UAA Career Services Center to get the user name and pass word neccessary to access the site.  The Career Services Center purchases a license in order to give UAA students access to this fabulously helpful and informational website.  Please furnish a student ID number in person or over the phone in order to be given the user name and password.