CIFT: What’s in an Acronym?
CIFT, the first letters of the words Career Insights For Teens, is pronounced sift, which means 'to screen and separate out the good and valuable.' That is what prospectors do when panning or sifting for gold -- and that is exactly what we in CIFT help high school students do. Utilizing a comprehensive set of personal profiles and inventories combined with group and individualized counseling, we help teenagers screen out and identify their God-given interests and passions, abilities, personality traits and personal values. Or to put it another way, we help them confirm and, in many cases, discover for the very first time some amazing and wonderful things about themselves!
It is also what we teach our students to do in their follow-up online research -- sift through vast amounts of readily available information regarding suitable career options and higher education and training opportunities that would prepare a person for those careers.
So, when it comes to an acronym for our program, we think CIFT says it just right!
(Need we also mention that CIFT rhymes with gift?)