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Are you having trouble setting career goals? In searching for the right career, there are so many options and decisions. Hollandcodes.com has the tools that will help you to make the right career decisions.

Overview

There are three steps in career planning cycle that will help you achieve your career goals and search for a career.

Step One: Get a Clear Career Goal

The first step in search for a job is setting a career goal.

In order to set a career goal, you have to take inventory of yourself to determine what you can offer an employer.

You need to –

• Build awareness, knowledge and understanding of our strengths, interests, abilities, and skills
• List your ambitions, values, education, and experiences
• Determine your job preferences –job duties, salary, geographic location, and work conditions

Step Two: Explore Career Options

In order to identify potential careers, you may use career exploration and social media resources to gather the following occupational information –

• Labor market
• Work industries
• Companies, organizations, or agencies
• Specific careers

Use online career exploration resources to identify potential careers.

Step Three: Overcome Career Roadblocks

When you are trying to reach a career goal, there will always be obstacles. You solve career problems by completing the following steps –

• Identify educational and career planning obstacles
• Create solutions or courses of action
• Set achievable goals
• Resolve conflicts
• Commit to reach our goals

Problem solving should take into consideration personal interests, skills, values, and financial resources. Big problems are broken down into smaller, more manageable steps. Achievable goals result in the production of new competencies, attitudes, and solutions.

As an individual, you:

• Set, formulate, prioritize, and rank goals
• Clearly state our vocational interests, abilities, and values
• Derive plans or strategies to implement the solutions
• Make a commitment to complete the plans
• Understand decision-making processes
• Evaluate the primary choice
• Consider a secondary occupational choice, if necessary

Decision-making processes include:

• Develop a career plan
• Identify potential occupations
• Select appropriate educational programs
• Figure the costs of educational training
• Consider the impact of career decisions

Step Four: Execution

You execute your career plans when you use different strategies –

• Reality testing
• Social Media
• Job Search Strategies – Resume Writing and Interview Preparation

Reality Testing

While implementing and, you translate vocational interests, abilities, and skills into job opportunities. You do reality testing by implementing the following strategies –

• Informational interviewing
• Networking
• Job shadowing
• Internships
• Part-time employment
• Full-time employment
• Volunteer work

We have a variety of different topics that we use different career/ academic advising sessions -

• Selecting Career test
• Different career tests
• Other career topics - social media, resume writing and interviewing

Different Career Tests

We offer assistance with interpreting the following tests -

• RIASEC Inventory
• Self Directed Search
• Strong Interest Inventory
• Online web-based tools

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Parents as Teen Career Explorer Guides

As parents, you help teen explore careers.

• You aid your teens as they search for meaning, purpose, and direction.
• You see their talents.
• You know their interests, abilities, and skills.
• You help teens plan for the future.

You understand teen. You know that teens -

• Are curious
• Love colorful, multimedia presentations
• Use their senses and imaginations in career exploration

You search for tools that will unlock their potentials.

Tips for Finding the Right Career Tool

Career tools help your teens explore who they really are.

Career tools include career tests, assessments, games, and web sites.

Career tests answer the question "Who am I?"

Career assessments point out your teen's likes, dislikes, or interests.

Search for the resource that meets your teen's needs. Look at the benefits. Find tests, assessments, games, and web sites that are -

• Eye appealing
• Easy to use
• Full of resources

With the right resource, teens are ready and willing to -

• Explore
• Investigate
• Learn
• Ask questions
• Enjoy discovering who they are
• Gain knowledge, wisdom, and understanding

An effective career tool motivates your teen to explore careers. Creative career tools build a foundation for more detailed career exploration.

Step One: Select a Career Test

How do you choose the right career test? Look at 3 major areas -

• Format - Printed  or on-line
• Cost - $10, $12, $15, $20 or more
• Resources - Information on interests, skills, and careers

When you look at a career test, ask yourself the following questions -

• What does your teen prefer? Printed or on-line career test?
• What is your budget for the tests?
• What resources do you have?

Find career tests that your teens are interested in and that provide valuable information about careers and your teen's interests. Look at career tests that use well-known career models.

There are a variety of career tests available for youth, college students, and adults.

Use career tests to match your teen's interest clusters to career or job codes.

Help  your teen continue to use career models expand their knowledge of careers and college majors.

Step Two: Explore Career Web Sites

Career tests prepare teens to explore careers. Gather information about fun, informative, and attractive career exploration web sites. Look for web sites that provide career information about -

• Tasks
• Wages
• Career outlook
• Interests
• Education
• Knowledge
• Skills
• Similar careers

Career exploration is a process.

As parents, use resources that make your teen's journey enjoyable, educational, and effective.

Plan successful teen career exploration expeditions.

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Help your teens become a success.

For younger children, use newer picture-coded career tests that simply career models. The use of colors improves attention span, concentration, memory skills, and understanding.  Kid career tools should be fun, educational, and not boring.

What is an assessment?

A career assessment is -

• Career assessment test
• Career assessment tool
• Online assessment
• Student assessment
• Skill assessment
• Job assessment

Career assessments that will help you identify your interests, abilities, and skills.  Unlock your potential, purpose, and destiny.

There are different career assessment -

• Format - printed and internet resources, CD-ROM,
• Types: Job career assessments, job personality tests, career job assessments , career counseling tests, career placement assessments, career assessment tests, and career choice tests
• Cost - $10, $12, $15, $20, or more per assessment
• Resources that are available - Career job descriptions, career job opportunities, college majors information, job finder resources, career clusters information, holland code careers
• Grade Levels

Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®) assessment is the most widely used personality career assessment in the world – more than 2 million assessments worldwide each year.

• Reliable, valid, versatile, and dependable - Used for more than 50 years
• Guide to understand individual differences
• Source of understanding on how people think, communicate, and interact

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is a career assessment test and a personality test. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) types are in four groups –

• Extraversion / Introversion
• Sensing / Intuition
• Thinking / Feeling
• Judging / Perceiving

The type indicates a preference.

• The Extrovert prefers to focus on other people and things.
• The Introvert prefers to focus on internal thoughts and ideas.
• The Sensing person prefers to use the five senses to receive information.
• The Intuitive person receives input from internal thinking processes.
• The Thinking persons judges using logic.
• The Feeling person uses affective measures to judge.
• The Judging aspect of the type results in sequential step-by-step mental processing.
• The Perceiving responds in a spontaneous and flexible way.

The results from the MBTI produces the 16 types –

1. ISTJ
2. ISFJ
3. INFJ
4. INTJ
5. ISTP
6. ISFP
7. INFP
8. INTP
9. ESTP
10. ESFP
11. ENFP
12. ENTP
13. ESTJ
14. ESFJ
15. ENFJ
16. ENTJ

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Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) Career Report

The MBTI Career Report is a career assessment tool that helps you –

• Identify strengths and weakness that may influence the career exploration process
• Identify job families
• Choose a potential career
• Select a college or other form of training
• Provide information necessary to evaluate a possible career transition or job shift
• Develop a career plan

The MBTI Career Report has information on –

• MBTI Results – Reported Type and Clarity of Reported Preferences
• MBTI Types and Career Choice – preferred work environments, and action steps
• MBTI Types and Career Exploration – Strengths, challenges, strategies, and action steps
• MBTI Types and Career Development – Strengths, challenges, strategies, and action steps
• MBTI Types and Job Families – Job family ranking, Most attractive job families, Moderately attractive job families, Least attractive job families, Most popular occupations, Least popular occupations, and Tips for succeeding in atypical occupation. 

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Self Directed Search

The Self-Directed Search is -

• Low cost – Save money.
• Easy to use - Complete the career assessment test in 30 minutes.
• Tested, proven, and dependable - Used by over 22 million people worldwide.

Use the Self-Directed Search to -

• Get information on your personalities, interests, abilities, and skills. Know your strengths, interests, abilities, and skills.
• Find careers that maximize your personalities, interests, abilities, and skills.
• Narrow your career options. Save time and money. Eliminate careers that do not match your personalities, interests, abilities, and skills.

Find careers that will be most satisfying, appealing, and interesting to you.
Use the Self-Directed Search to explore careers.

Self Directed Search Form R is for adults, college students, and high school students. Form R is available in PRINTED or INTERNET Versions. The New! The Occupations Finder-Revised Edition now includes occupations that have emerged as a result of technological advances (e.g., Internet). The occupations have been updated and revised, and the jobs are referenced with the Occupational Information (O*NET) database. The Occupations Finder also provides the educational development level that each occupation requires and includes an alphabetical list of the occupations. Self-Directed Search Form R Occupations Finder has a list of 1,309 occupations matched to Holland Codes.

Self Directed Search Form E is for adults and teens who need easier-to-read format.

Self Directed Search Form Career Explorer is for middle school students.

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Strong Interest Inventory

For nearly 80 years, the Strong Interest Inventory career assessment has guided thousands of individuals in exploring careers and college majors. The Strong Interest Inventory assessment is the most respected and widely used career planning instrument in the world.
The Strong Inventory is a professional career interest assessment that is –

• Well researched and extensively validated
• Used by career coaches and college counselors worldwide

The Strong Interest Inventory is an on-line Holland Code career assessment that helps you identify -

• Interests
• Holland Codes
• Careers

The results include –

• Scores on the level of interest on each of the six Holland Codes or General Occupational Themes. Holland Code Themes include – Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional.
• Scores on 25 Basic Interest Scales (e.g. art, science, and public speaking)
• Scores on 211 Occupational Scales which indicate the similarity between the respondent's interests and those of people working in each of the 211 occupations.
• Scores on 4 Personal Style Scales (learning, working, leadership, and risk-taking).
• Scores on 3 Administrative Scales used to identify test errors or unusual profiles.

The Strong Interest Inventory has six (6) sections –

• General Themes – Description of the interrelationship between Holland Codes and interests, work activities, potential skills, personal values
• Basic Interest Scales – Identification of your Highest Holland Code Themes, Holland Theme Code, Standard Score, and Interest Level
  Basic Interest Scales point to work activities, projects, course work, and leisure activities that are personally motivating and rewarding. The Interest Scale Levels are Very Little, Little, Moderate, high, Very High.
  Your Basic Interest Scales Report will give you your TOP FIVE Interest Areas and the Areas of Least Interest.
• Occupational Scales – Comparison of your likes and dislikes with those people who are satisfied working in various occupations.
  The Occupational Scales matches your interests to 122 occupations. Your score matched the likes and dislikes of people who are working in and are satisfied that career. The occupations are an example of a larger job cluster. The TOP TEN Occupations are the careers that most closely match your interests. Within each Holland Code Theme, you will find careers that you are Dissimilar, Midrange, or Similar to your score, likes, and dislikes.
• Personal Style Scales – Description of relationship between Holland Code Themes, work styles, learning, risk taking, and team work. Examples of Personal Style Scales include – Working with People, Enjoying helping others, Preferring practical learning environments, Preferring short-term training, Taking charge of others, Taking risks, Making quick decisions, and Working on teams.
• Profile Summary – Overview of Your Highest Themes, Your Theme code, Your Top Five Interest Areas, Your Areas of Least Interest, Your Top Ten Strong Occupations, Occupations of Dissimilar Interest, and Your Personal Style Scales Preferences
• Response Summary – Summary of the Occupations, Subject Areas, Activities, Leisure Activities, People, and Characteristics Sections. You receive information about the number of responses in each section that were Strongly Like, Like, Indifferent, Dislike, or Strong Dislike.

There are three (3) editions: Standard (Adults), High School, and College.

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My Career Profile

The My Career Profile Guidance System comes with the following 4 career assessment tests -

• My Interests Inventory
• My Values Inventory
• My Skills Inventory
• My Personality Inventory

The My Career Profile Guidance System also has 1200+ occupations and 6000 college databases.

1. My Interests Inventory

The My Interests Inventory is a career assessment that generates a 3-letter Holland Codes and provides Interest Level Scores for the six (6) Holland Personality Types.

2. My Values Inventory
The My Values Inventory measures out the things that are important to you, for example -

• Helping Society
• Artistic Creativity
• Helping Others
• Independence
• Prestige
• Risk Taking
• Stability
• Working Outdoors

3. My Skills Inventory
The My Skills Inventory helps you know the things that you are good at, for example -

• Communication Skills
• People Skills
• Problem Solving Skills
• Management Skills
• Creative and Artistic Skills
• Scientific Skills

Personality Inventory

Discover your Personality. My Personality Inventory assessment identifies your personality, matches occupations to your Personality, and generates Occupational Lists.

Research a Career Tool

Use the Research a Career database to find information on 1200+ occupations

• Overview
• Job duties
• Skills
• Values
• Outlook
• Earnings
• Advancement
• Working Conditions
• Interest (Holland Codes) Scores
• Areas of Study
• Training or Educational Levels
• School Search Tools

School Tool

The School Tool obtains school from a database The School Tool of 6000+ post-secondary institutions does a college search by major according to the following criteria -

• Name of School
• Location of School
• Region in the USA
• Type of School
• Size and Cost
• College Majors/ Major Areas of Study

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