Choose Holland Codes or Personality Styles Tests

 

Which Way to Go?

 

We received an excellent question from one of our customers. 

Our children are not sure about the college majors they want to study.

We are trying to decide the best place to start. 

At Hollandcodes.com, we know that you, your family or friends are asking the same question. 

Yet, in order to answer that question, 

You have to decide what is most important to you.

Do you want to learn first about career interests or personality preferences? 

The answer to this question will guide you in picking the right inventory.

 

Holland Codes vs. Personality Styles 

Career Interests or Holland Codes

A Holland Codes Interest Inventory helps people identify their career interests. Examples of Holland Codes Interest Inventories are the RIASEC Inventory or the Strong Interest Inventory.

Personality preferences or MBTI

Extroversion or Introversion is an important factor in deciding a career. The MBTI is most widely used personality assessment in the world.

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Learn about Career Interests or Personality Preferences from the Build Career Test. 

Build Career Test!

Build My Career Test helps you choose what is important to you. Career Interests or Personality Preferences! 

Build My Career Test is an online course available 24 hours a day. Build My Career Test is filled with FREE career tests!!! 

Find resources to - 

1.             Explore your interests

2.             Identify potential careers and training options

3.             Understand your likes, dislikes, and interests.

4.             Explore careers and training options

5.             Match your likes, interests to careers

6.             Find training programs that are matches to the careers that you are interested

7.             Plan for a future career

 

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RIASEC Inventory

 

The RIASEC Inventory gives you a fast and informative way to explore occupations based on your interests and explore different career options. 

The cost for the online RIASEC Inventory is $5. Please allow up to 24 hours to receive Access Code and Password!

 

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Cost: $5

 

MBTI

 

 

MBTI is most widely used personality assessment in the world. 

Results from the MBTI® produce the 16 types –

·             ISTJ

·             ISFJ

·             INFJ

·             INTJ

·             ISTP

·             ISFP

·             INFP

·             INTP

·             ESTP

·             ESFP

·             ENFP

·             ENTP

·             ESTJ

·             ESFJ

·             ENFJ

·             ENTJ 

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Cost: $35!!! 

Does not include Strong Interest Inventory report.

Please allow up to 24 hours to receive report!

Strong Interest Inventory

 

 

Strong Interest Inventory® is Online Interest Inventory, the most respected and widely used career planning instrument in the world. 

The Strong Interest Inventory® helps you identify - 

·        Interests

·        Holland Codes

·        Careers 

The Strong Interest Inventory comes in the following editions - 

·        Adult

·        High School

·        College

Order Strong Interest Inventory® W/ Interpretive Report

Cost: $70

 Does not include MBTI report!

Please allow up to 24 hours to receive report!

Two Sides of a Coin - A Look at Holland Codes and Career Clusters

Two Sides of a Coin - There are two popular ways to build self awareness and explore careers. 

Career Clusters and Holland Codes

 

 
Holland Codes is a tool that matches interests to careers.  A Career Cluster is a group of jobs and industries that are related by skills or products.  

Holland Codes

The Holland Codes identify interest areas, personalities, work environments and careers. The Holland Code Work Interest Areas are:

• Realistic
• Investigative
• Artistic
• Social
• Enterprising
• Conventional

The 16 Career Clusters® and 79 Career Pathways

After 50 years of research, there are research has reported the following 16 Career Clusters® & 79 Career Pathways -

Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources

• Agribusiness Systems
• Animal Systems
• Environmental Service Systems
• Food Products & Processing Systems
• Natural Resources Systems
• Plant Systems
• Power, Structural & Technical Systems

Architecture and Construction

• Construction
• Design/ Pre-Construction
• Maintenance/ Operations

Arts, A/V Technology and Communications

• A/V Technology & Film
• Journalism & Broadcasting
• Performing Arts
• Printing Technology
• Telecommunications
• Visual Arts

Business Management and Administration

• Administrative Support
• Business Information Management
• General Management
• Human Resources Management
• Operations Management

Education and Training

• Administration & Administrative Support
• Professional Support Services
• Teaching/ Training

Finance

• Accounting
• Banking Services
• Business Finance
• Insurance
• Securities & Investments

Government and Public Administration

• Foreign Service
• Governance
• National Security
• Planning
• Public Management & Administration
• Regulation 
• Revenue & Taxation

Health Science

• Biotechnology Research & Development
• Diagnostic Services
• Healthy Information
• Support Services
• Therapeutic Services

Hospitality and Tourism

• Lodging
• Recreation, Amusements & Attractions
• Restaurants & Food/ Beverage Services
• Travel & Tourism

Human Services

• Consumer Services
• Counseling & Mental Health Services
• Early Childhood Development & Services
• Family & Community Services
• Personal Care Services

Information Technology 

• Information Support & Services 
• Network Systems
• Programming & Software Development
• Web & Digital Communications

Law, Public Safety, Corrections and Security

• Correction Services
• Emergency & Fire Management Services
• Law Enforcement Services
• Legal Services
• Security & Protective Services

Manufacturing

• Healthy, Safety & Environmental Assurance
• Logistics & Inventory Control
• Maintenance, Installation & Repair
• Manufacturing Production Process Development
• Production
• Quality Assurance

Marketing 

• Marketing Communications
• Marketing Management
• Marketing Research
• Merchandising
• Professional Sales

Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics

• Engineering & Technology
• Science & Mathematics

Transportation, Distribution and Logistics ​

• Facility & Mobile Equipment Maintenance
• Health, Safety & Environmental Management
• Logistics Planning & Management Services
• Sales & Service
• Transportation Operations 
• Transportation Systems/ Infrastructure Planning, Management & Regulation
• Warehousing & Distribution Center Operations 

HollandCodes.com has developed resources that show the relationship between the Career Clusters, Green Careers and Holland Codes -

• Career Clusters and Holland Codes Cross-Reference Table 
• Green Careers, Career Clusters and Holland Codes Reference Guide

Career Clusters and Holland Codes Cross-Reference Table    

Here is an example of the Career Clusters and Holland Codes Cross-Reference Table.

Holland Code	Holland Codes Personality Type (1)	Holland Codes Personality Type (2)	GOE Interest Areas
RI	Realistic	Investigative	Agriculture, Food, & Natural Resources
R	Realistic		Architecture & Construction
R	Realistic		Manufacturing
R	Realistic		Transportation, Distribution & Logistics

Green Careers, Career Clusters and Holland Codes Reference Guide

The Green Careers, Career Clusters and Holland Codes Reference Guide provides detailed descriptions of more than 150 occupations, covering topics such as:

• O*NET-SOC Codes
• Job titles
• Green occupational categories
• Interest areas/ Holland Codes
• Career clusters/ career cluster pathways
• Daily tasks (what workers do on the job). 

The O*NET-SOC Codes is useful to find out additional information about the working conditions, the training and education needed, earnings, and expected job prospects.
This guide is an excellent reference for many different tasks -

• Career exploration
• Lesson planning
• College majors
• Career planning
• Occupational research 

The Green Careers, Career Clusters and Holland Codes resources are part of the extensive library of resources found in the Explore Green Careers and College Majors System.

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Hollandcodes.com Master Course Released!

The Hollandcodes.com Master Course is a training program for professionals who want to know master Holland Codes resources. 

You will -

• Receive key factors to determine the right inventory or test that meets the needs of your clients or students
• Learn the three steps in the career planning process
• Gain an understanding of Holland Codes as well as the interrelationship between Holland Codes, careers and college majors
• Have access to the leading Holland Codes inventories or activities
• Receive a supplemental career and college major exploration resources

After completing this course, you will -

• Have a step-by-step guide to explore careers and college majors
• Use the course to help your clients and students pinpoint interests and Holland personality styles.
• Have strategies to help your students and clients discover who they really are with tools to understand their likes, dislikes, and interests
• Know how to help your students and clients match their likes, interests, skills, and personality styles to careers
• Have resources to find training programs that are a match to the careers that they are interested.

This course is the result of 20 years of experience researching Holland Codes assessments, tests, activities, and resources.

Course Activities

Here are examples of course activities -

Step 1:  Read the files in the Introduction module.

Step 2:  Read the activities.  Activities come with fact sheets and other resources.

• Build Self Awareness
• Understand Career Interest Groups – What do the scores mean?
• Know RIASEC Personalities
• Selecting the Right Training Program
• Career Planning – Putting the Pieces Together

Step 3:  Complete the battery of Holland Code Inventories ($200 value) 

• Career Interest Inventory
• PIC Career Survey
• RIASEC Interest Inventory
• Self Directed Search
• Strong Interest Inventory

Step 4:  Match Interests to Career activity.

Step 5: Utilize Research a Career Tool.

Step 6: Build list of potential careers.

Step 7:  Perform Search for College Tool.

Step 8:  Make a list of potential college majors.

Step 9:  Complete other Career Planning activities.


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Looking for Career or Academic Coaching!!

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

 Get more details about our career and academic coaching...