Strong Interest Inventory

For nearly 80 years, the Strong Interest Inventory 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 inventory 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 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.

Use the Strong Inventory to –

• Explore and identify careers related to your interests
• Choose education and training options that match your interests and Holland Codes
• Understand how your personality is related to your interests
• Determine your preferred learning environment
• Understand your leadership, risk-taking, and teamwork preferences
• Improve career direction
• Focus on the future
• Find the dream job
• Achieve satisfaction in your work

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 Levels
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, and 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
• Working on teams

Profile Summary – Overview of Your Highest Themes, Theme code, Top Five Interest Areas, Areas of Least Interest, Top Ten Strong Occupations, Occupations of Dissimilar Interest, and 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.

College Profile Report

The College Profile Report covers additional information, for example –

• Using Your Themes – Listing your Primary Theme or Holland Code
• Considering Themes of Greatest Interest to You – Definition, Descriptions, Preferences, and Typical College Majors
• Using Your Basic Interest Scales – Definition, Descriptions, Camps Organizations/ Activities, Internships/ Job Settings, and College Courses
• Using Your Occupational Scales – Top Strong Occupations, Theme Code, Educational Preparation, College Courses, and Related Careers
• Using Your Personal Style – The relationship of Personal Style Scale to Preferences and Activities

High School Profile Report

The High School Profile Report has information designed for high school students, for example –

• General Occupational Themes – Listing Primary Theme, Holland Code, Educational Programs, Volunteer and Job Possibilities, and Work Environments
• Basic Interest Scales – Interest level, Descriptions, Values, Careers, and Sample Work Activities

Standard, College, or High School Interpretative Reports

The Interpretative Report has the following additional information –

• General Occupational Themes – General Interests or Holland Codes
• Basic Interest Scales – Specific activities you might like to do at work and in your leisure time
• Occupational Scales – Occupational suggested by interests
• Personal Style Scales – Your preferred styles of working and learning

For the six Occupational Themes or Holland Codes, there are –

• Definitions
• Descriptions
• Career fields
• Personal descriptors
• Leisure activities
• Career Motivators
• Motivator Combinations
• Action Steps

In the Basic Interest Scales areas, the report discusses –

• Top Strong Interest Areas
• The relationship between Basic Interest Scale, General Occupational Theme/ Holland Code, and Typical Interests and Activities
• Action Steps

The report outlines Similarity to Occupations. Similarity to Occupations highlights –

• Top Strong Occupations
• The relationship between Occupations, Holland Theme Code, Typical Work Tasks, and Selected Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
• Action Steps

In Your Personal Style, the Interpretive Report uses the Personal Style Scale Preferences to provide suggestions about your Work Style, Learning Environment, Leadership Style, Risk Taking, and Team Orientation.

The Interpretive Report Summary provides an overview of the –

• Highest Themes
• Personal and Work Environment Descriptors
• Specific Interests for Work, Leisure, and Learning
• Careers that might be Most Appealing
• How you like to work and learn

The Interpretive Report also lists Action Steps and Helpful Resources.

DELIVERY INFORMATION:

Strong Interest Inventory is an ON-LINE, Holland Code career self assessment test. When you complete your transaction, you will receive two e-mails. The first e-mail confirms payment received. The second e-mail lists the following information -

• Product Title
• Transaction ID
• Strong Interest Inventory Web Site Link
• Username
• Password
• Our contact e-mail explorecareers@qwest.net

COST for Make a Career Profile: $60/ Sale Price $50

Once you are transferred to the Strong Interest Inventory web site, you enter your User Name and Password, and access to the web site is immediate.

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Myers Briggs Type Indicator

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®) assessment is the most widely used personality 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

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) Career Report

The MBTI Career Report is a career exploration 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.

DELIVERY INFORMATION:

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) Career Report is an ON-LINE, Holland Code career self assessment test. When you complete your transaction, you will receive two e-mails. The first e-mail confirms payment received. The second e-mail lists the following information -

• Product Title
• Transaction ID
• Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) Career Report Web Site Link
• Username
• Password
• Our contact e-mail explorecareers@qwest.net

COST for Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) Career Report: $60/ Sale Price $50

Once you are transferred to the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) Career Report web site, you enter your User Name and Password, and access to the web site is immediate.

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Holland Codes Photo Toolkit

The Holland Codes Photo Toolkit -

• Are excellent tools for visual learners
• Are supplements to Holland Code Assessments
• Introduce Holland Codes and occupations
• Show the relationships between Holland Codes and occupations

The Holland Codes Photo Toolkit is used to -

• Provide career exploration classroom activities for middle school students, children, and kids
• Identify Steps in the Career Planning Process
• Identify characteristics of Holland Personality Types
• Identify Holland Codes
• Sort occupations according to Holland Codes
• Explore Holland Code web sites
• Explore careers and career web sites
• Explore college majors and college major web sites
• Match college majors to Holland Codes
• Record results from assessments and occupational web sites

The Holland Codes Photo Toolkit has -

• 109 page Holland Code Resource Guide
• Eight (8) Holland Code Crossword Puzzles
• 100 Holland Codes Occupational Poster Cards
• 100 Holland Codes Bingo Cards
• Flash Cards
• Career Model Overview
• On-Line Holland Code Resources including -
• Career exploration lesson plans
• Computer based career exploration

Details about the Holland Codes Photo Toolkit.

Holland Codes Occupational PosterScoring System

The Holland Codes Occupational Poster Scoring System is an automated poster scoring system.

With the Holland Codes Occupational Poster Scoring System, clients sort posters according to likes and dislikes.

The automated scoring system tallies the results and generates a Holland Code. In addition, the new automated system can be used over and over again with individualized results based on the user’s selections.

Clients, students, and children will enjoy making their selections and with just the click of a button have their unique Holland Code results displayed on the computer screen. You will enjoy using this career exploration activity. There is no more counting, tallying, or figuring.

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Self Directed Search Form R INTERNET Version

The Self Directed Search INTERNET VERSION is -

• Easy to use - Complete the career assessment in 30 minutes.
• Tested, proven, and dependable - Used by over 22 million people worldwide.
• An excellent resource - Self Directed Search gives you a two or three-letter RIASEC or Holland code that tells the relationship between job personalities, key characteristics, college majors, hobbies, abilities, and careers.
• Updated to include careers from Information Technology Industry

With each purchase, the user receives by e-mail an identification number and password to generate a confidential, eight-to-twelve page interpretive report including information about 1,309 occupations matched to Holland Codes. After an individual takes the test and enters the User ID number and assigned password, the customized report is sent directly to the test-taker’s computer, where it can be stored or printed for easy reference.

With the purchase of any assessment, you get 5 FREE Holland Code Resources -

• Two (2) free Holland Code Assessments
• Three (3) free Holland Code Articles
• Two (2) web pages of free career planning and college major search resources

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When Hollandcodes.com receives all of the necessary information, you will receive an e-mail letting you know that the Registration is complete.

Hollandcodes.com will –

• Place Adobe Acrobat Product (download) on our download server.
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Posts from Other Blogs Number: Three

Holland's Theory Discussed -

Of the many career counseling theories, the most studied is John Holland's theory. His ideas, elaborated on in his Making Vocational Choices: A Theory of Vocational Personalities and Work Environments are both straightforward and widely applicable.

Assumptions behind the theory

• The selection of an occupation can be a reflection of a person's personality.
• An interest inventory can be a personality inventory. This is because Holland holds that perceived abilities, anticipated success, and expected satisfaction help define interests.
• Vocational stereotypes hold important psychological meaning.
• In our culture, there exist six different personality types against which we evaluate ourselves. Most people are a combination of types, not a pure type.
• There exist six distinct working environments; each is dominated by a specific type.
• People are motivated to seek out hobs that compliment their personalities, thereby maximizing their individual strengths and minimizing their weaknesses.
• Specific career related behaviors, such as success, satisfaction, and job stability, can be reasonably predicted by examining a person's P/E (personality/environment) fit.

Holland's Typology

• Realistic Type, known in other interest surveys as mechanical, practical, technology/outdoors. R types are often pragmatic and like to work with their hands.
• Investigative Type, also called scientific or logical. I types are often engineers or scientists and like problem-solving and working alone.
• Artistic Type, also referred to as artistic, literary, and expressive. A Types often have jobs in the visual or performing arts, or as writers. They are known for their high degree of creativity often have jobs in the visual or performing arts, or as writers. They are known for their high degree of creativity.
• Social Type, also called helping or service-oriented. S Types often have jobs in the health or social fields. They are often altruistic people with an intuitive sense for reading others' feelings.
• Enterprising Type, sometimes called persuasive or assertive. They enjoy influencing others. E Types are drawn to positions in management and politics.
• Conventional Type, also known as socialized, clerical, computational, or organizational. They enjoy order and are often mathematically inclined. C Types are often found doing highly procedural work such as filing or bookkeeping.

Holland believed that the greater the congruency (or compatibility) between a person and their work environment, the greater that individual's chance of success. Also, the greater the consistency, or degree of similarity, between the first two letters of the code (as determined by their proximity on Holland's hexagon), the easier it is to make a career choice.

It is easier to decide on a career when there is a high magnitude of difference between the highest and lowest types instead of flatline (like, or dislike, everything about the same). Holland held that if the difference between the scores the first two codes was less than 8, they could be used interchangably. However, if the difference was less greater than 8, then the first code is dominant.

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Posts form Other Blogs Number: Two

posted by malaika at 9:14 PM on Jun 06 2006

R U CAREER CONFUZED ?.......

Shape Up Your Career Using Holland's Codes
You know when you are in a job you like. You also know when the task you’re doing just isn't right for you.

What lies behind our feelings of work satisfaction or dissatisfaction are our fundamental work interests: These are the things that we enjoy doing, whatever the industry or the job title. The trick to finding career satisfaction can be to identify those core interests and match your job to them.

For example, if you’re a science person, you may not be happy working in a job that needs quick decisions, or where you need to use your “gut” to guide you. Likewise, artistic people would be driven mad in a profession that has lots of rules and procedures, or which demands a lot of number crunching.

In a perfect world, we would all choose careers that suit our core interests. However this is not a perfect world: For all sorts of reasons, we can find ourselves in positions where what we’re doing just doesn’t suit our natural interests and abilities. This is where understanding how job and personality fit together can help you change the situation for the better.

Ability and personality are the two main things contribute towards job satisfaction. You’re likely to find that jobs that suit your ability and personality are much more rewarding than those that don’t. Here we look at your work interests – an important part of your work personality.

Understanding the Theory:Holland's Codes

In the 1970’s John Holland developed a popular theory of interest development based around these six personality types:

1. Realistic (R):
These are people who like well-ordered activities, or enjoy working with objects, tools, and machines. Realistic people: see themselves as mechanically or athletically talented, but may not be good with people. value concrete and tangible things like – money, power, and status.avoid “social” activities, those that need interaction with other people. Common traits: Hard-headed, inflexible, persistent, materialistic, practical, and genuine.

2. Investigative (I):
Investigative people like activities that involve creative investigation of the world or nature. Investigative people: see themselves as highly intelligent, but often lack leadership skills. value scientific endeavors. avoid activities that seem mundane, commercial or “enterprising”. Common traits: Analytical, curious, pessimistic, intellectual, precise, and reserved.

3. Artistic (A):
Artistic people like unstructured activities, and enjoy using materials to create art.

Artistic people: see themselves as talented artists. value aesthetics. avoid “conventional” occupations or situations. Common traits: Idealistic, complicated , introspective, sensitive, impractical and nonconformist.

4. Social (S):
Social people enjoy informing, training, developing, curing and enlightening others. Social people: perceive themselves as helpful, understanding and able to teach others. value social activities. avoid activities demanded by “realistic” occupations and situations. Common traits: Generous, patient, emphatic, tactful, persuasive, and cooperative.

5. Enterprising (E):
These people enjoy reaching organizational goals or achieving economic gain. Enterprising people: see themselves as aggressive, popular, great leaders and speakers, but may lack scientific ability. value political and economic achievement. avoid activities demanded by “investigative” occupations and situations. Common traits: Extroverted, adventurous, optimistic, ambitious, sociable, and exhibitionistic.

6. Conventional (C): Conventional people enjoy manipulating data, record keeping, filing, reproducing materials, and organizing written or numerical data. Conventional people see themselves as having clerical and numerical ability value business and economic achievementavoid unstructured or “artistic” activities Common traits: Efficient, practical, conscientious, inflexible, defensive, and methodical. The Model
Holland then arranged these six personality types into a hexagon (see figure 1, below) organized according to people’s preference for working with different stimuli at work: people, data, things, and ideas. Holland’s theory is that people with different personality types prefer working with different work stimuli, and that the distance between work personalities indicates the degree of difference in interests between them. For example Artistic people are least like Conventional people and most like Social and Investigative people.

Holland’s conclusion was that for any personality type, the career most aligned with that type is most likely to be enjoyable and satisfying. For example, a Realistic person would be best suited for a Technical job and least suited for Social job. Jobs with Conventional or Operational characteristics would be the next best choices.

The way that this works in practice is that people people use a personality test to identify their three top personality types. This gives their Holland's code (for example, ESA). This is then matched against the Holland's codes of people typically found within particular careers.

How to Use Holland Codes Career Model:

There are two good ways of using this model - either in helping you choose a career that suits you, or in helping you shape your existing job so that you maximize your fulfillment. To find your ideal career according to this approach, just complete steps i and ii below. To shape your job, use all of the steps we outline.

Using Holland’s Codes is a straightforward process, which is made all the easier by some useful online interest evaluation sites.

Part One: Identify your Work Personality....
Part Two: Analyze your job in terms of your interests....
Part Three: Set Goals to Bring Your Interests and Responsibilities in line....

http://absolutelyevrybody.blogspot.com/2006/06/r-u-career-confuzed.html

Posts from Other Blogs Number: One

Tuesday, September 05, 2006 11:03 PM by Jerry

What lies behind our feelings of work satisfaction or dissatisfaction are our fundamental work interests: Shape Up Your Career Using Holland’s Codes

…Understanding the Theory: Holland’s Codes

In the 1970’s John Holland developed a popular theory of interest development based around these six personality types:

1. Realistic (R):
These are people who like well-ordered activities, or enjoy working with objects, tools, and machines.

Realistic people:

• see themselves as mechanically or athletically talented, but may not be good with people.
• value concrete and tangible things like – money, power, and status.
• avoid “social” activities, those that need interaction with other people.

Common traits:

• Hard-headed, inflexible, persistent, materialistic, practical, and genuine…..

The Model

Holland then arranged these six personality types into a hexagon organized according to people’s preference for working with different stimuli at work: people, data, things, and ideas. Holland’s theory is that people with different personality types prefer working with different work stimuli, and that the distance between work personalities indicates the degree of difference in interests between them. For example Artistic people are least like Conventional people and most like Social and Investigative people…..

How to Use the Holland's Codes Career Model:

There are two good ways of using this model - either in helping you choose a career that suits you, or in helping you shape your existing job so that you maximize your fulfillment. To find your ideal career according to this approach, just complete steps i and ii below. To shape your job, use all of the steps we outline.

Using Holland’s Codes is a straightforward process, which is made all the easier by some useful online interest evaluation sites.

Part One Identify your Work Personality
Part Two: Analyze your job in terms of your interests
Part Three: Set Goals to Bring Your Interests and Responsibilities in line
Key Points

Holland’s Career Codes provides a useful framework for exploring your personal interests and the careers most likely to suit you.

Every occupation requires a particular set of characteristics. By identifying your particular interests you can quickly uncover the parts of your job that give your satisfaction. Likewise, you can identify areas of dissatisfaction and help you plan how to address these. This helps you develop your career in the right direction – one that will be a source of long-term

Holland’s conclusion was that for any personality type, the career most aligned with that type is most likely to be enjoyable and satisfying. For example, a Realistic person would be best suited for a Technical job and least suited for Social job. Jobs with Conventional or Operational characteristics would be the next best choices.

The way that this works in practice is that people people use a personality test to identify their three top personality types. This gives their Holland's code (for example, ESA). This is then matched against the Holland's codes of people typically found within particular careers.

Holland Occupational Themes

Based on the theory of John Holland, Ph.D., people with the same or similar interests are often found in the same work environments. To discover the work environments suited to your interests, abilities and personality, consider the following categories/themes.

Step 1: For each theme, check those items which describe you.

REALISTIC R Total =

Are You: Can You Like To:

Practical Fix electrical things Tinker with mechanics

Athletic Solve mechanical problems Work outdoors

Straight forward Pitch a tent Be physically active

Mechanically inclined Play a sport Use your hands

A nature lover Read a blueprint Build things

Operate tools and machinery Work on cars……

Step 2: Total the items checked for each theme/category. Identify the top 3 categories/themes which create the most accurate picture of you..

My Top 3 categories/themes are: ______, ______, ______.

Step 3: How accurately do you believe your (3) top themes describe your personality and interests?

REALISTIC people are characterized by competitive/assertive behavior and by interest in activities that require motor coordination, skill, and physical strength. People oriented toward this role prefer situations involving "action solutions" rather than tasks involving verbal or interpersonal skills. They like to take a concrete approach to problem-solving rather than relying on abstract theory. They tend to be interested in scientific or mechanical rather than cultural and aesthetic areas…..

http://modernmanagers.com/CommunityServer/blogs/managers/archive/2006/09/05/19.aspx

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Career Tests, Toolkits, and Classroom Activities for Kids

HollandCodes.com has career assessment tests, career exploration classroom activities, career planning curriculum, educational career assessments, and educational resources that are designed for students in middle school grades.

Self Directed Search Career Explorer Assessment and Finder

The Self Directed Search Career Explorer (SDS CE) is a career test for kids with a 3rd grade reading level.

The career test for kids matches interests, activities, and skills to Holland Codes and 400 careers.

Holland Codes Resource Toolkit and the Unlock Your Treasure Chest Guide to Career Exploration Downloads

The Holland Codes Resource Toolkit and the Unlock Your Treasure Chest Guide to Career Exploration Downloads are a career exploration assessment tools that use career exploration classroom activities and visual aids to introduce Holland Codes and careers.

Use the Downloads to -

• Explore careers with middle school students,children, and kids.


• View colorful illustrations.


• Discover your interests, abilities, and skills.


• Find out what makes your personality tick.


• Explore careers.


• Link careers to interests, abilities and skills.

The Holland Codes Resource Toolkit Download has the following items-

• 100 Holland Code "Bingo" Cards with Instruction Sheet


• 100 Holland Code Occupational Posters


• Eight (8) Holland Code Word Puzzles


• Holland Code Resource Manual


• Flash Cards – Children
  


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Career Clusters & Holland Codes

History of the Career Clusters and
Guide for Occupational Exploration (GOE) Codes

In the 1960s, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) conducted research on Clusters, interest areas and work groups. The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) classified the Clusters and published the information in 1979 published in the Guide for Occupational Exploration (GOE). With the input of the Department of Education’s Office of Vocational and Adult Education and State Career Clusters Initiative, the GOE now consists of 16 Interests Areas or Guide for Occupational Exploration (GOE) Clusters -

1. Agriculture, Food, & Natural Resources


2. Architecture & Construction


3. Arts, A/V Technology & Communication


4. Business, Management & Administration


5. Education & Training


6. Finance


7. Government & Public Administration


8. Health Science


9. Hospitality & Tourism


10. Human Services


11. Information Technology


12. Law, Public Safety & Security


13. Manufacturing


14. Marketing, Sales & Service


15. Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics


16. Transportation, Distribution & Logistics

Career Clusters and Holland Codes Resources

HollandCodes.com has the following Career Clusters resources -

• Guide for Occupational Exploration Interest Inventory (GOEII)


• Career Exploration Inventory


• Kuder Career Planning System

Career Clusters and Holland Codes Resources

According to the Guide for Occupational Exploration (GOE), there is a correlation between the Clusters, GOE Interest Areas, and the Holland Codes. Some of the Clusters and GOE Interest Areas fit in one or more Holland Codes group.

Read more about Career Clusters and Holland Codes ...

Unlock the Treasure Chest - Do You Have the Keys? Guide to Career Planning

The Unlock the Treasure Chest - Do You Have the Keys? Guide to Career Planning is a step-by-step guide to explore careers and college majors.

Use the guidebook to pinpoint your interests, abilities, skills, talents, and values.

• Discover who you really are and KNOW your likes, dislikes, and interests.
  
• Match your likes, interests, skills, and personality styles to careers.
  
• Find training programs that are a match to the careers that they are interested.
  
• Succeed in planning a career.

Parents, you have a motivational tool to guide your teen or young adults as they explore careers and college majors.

Teachers, you have a classroom activities that is the resource for preparing career and college major exploration classes.

The Unlock the Treasure Chest- Do You Have the Keys? Guide to Career Planning is used in conjunction with the Make a Career Profile. Dr. Frank Minor, CEO of Career Dimensions has endorsed the Unlock the Treasure Chest- Do You Have the Keys? Guide to Career Planning.

The Unlock the Treasure Chest has 4 sections –

• Awareness, Assessment, and Knowledge Parent and Teacher Guide
  
• Guide to Career Exploration and Planning
  
• Internet Resources for Teachers, Counselors, Parents, Adults, and Teens
  
• Visual Aids or Screenshots from the Unlock the Treasure Chest Guidebook

Awareness, Assessment, and Knowledge Parent, Teacher, and Adult Guide outlines the process of selecting a career assessment. The selection process includes –

• Introduction to Career Planning
  
• Steps to Self Awareness
  
• Tools To Assess Self Awareness
  
• Selection of a Career Assessment or Test
  
• Career Test Checklist
  
• Features Of Career Self Assessments Tests

The Guide to Career Exploration and Planning is for teens or adults who need a manual that will guide them through the steps of career planning process. The topics included in the Guide are -

• Career Planning Map
  
• Self-Analysis, Self Awareness, or Self Assessment
  
• Self Awareness
  
• Tools to Awareness


• Interests Inventory
  
• Values Inventory
  
• Skills Inventory
  
• Personality Styles Inventory
  
• Career Match Making Using Interests, Values, Skills, and Personality Styles

• Career Exploration
  
• Research A Career Tool
  
• Career Profile
  
• Research career information

Each career profile has the following information –

• Overview
  
• Skills
  
• Values
  
• Outlook
  
• Earning
  
• Interest Profile
  
• Working Conditions
  
• Contact Info
  
• Areas of Study
  
• Search for Schools

The College Major Exploration section has -

• Database of 6000+ Schools
  
• Career Exploration Tool
  
• College Majors Exploration Tool

Each school profile lists the following information –

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

Internet Resources for Teachers, Counselors, Parents, Adults, and Teens include additional information from the following areas –

• Holland Code Career Assessment Activities
  
• Awareness, Assessment, and Knowledge Resources
  
• Career Exploration Sites
  
• College Majors Exploration Resources

The Visual Aids or Screenshots from the Unlock the Treasure Chest Guidebook are an additional bonus for teachers and counselors. These screenshots are excellent for group presentations. The screenshots present the concepts covered in the Guidebook. With each purchase, you will receive PDF and Powerpoint versions of the Visual Aids. The Unlock the Treasure Chest- Do You Have the Keys? Guide to Career Planning is a toolkit for teachers or counselors preparing students for graduation and transition into post-secondary training programs.

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College Majors & Careers

Hollandcodes.com has free career information from –

• College major search web sites
• Career information web sites
• Career exploration web sites
• Career planning web sites

Web sites provide information on –

• Holland Codes
• Careers
• College majors
• Descriptions
• Activities
• Competencies
• Transferable skills
• Career exploration

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Conventional Personality Types, Careers, and College Majors

Conventional is one of the Holland Personality Types. Conventional Personality Types prefer to deal with Data and Things.

• A person with a Conventional Personality tends to be Careful, Conforming, Conservative, Conscientious, Self-controlled, and Structured.
• Examples of Conventional Abilities include ordering activities paying attention to details.
• Examples of Conventional Careers include Accountant, Banker, Editor, Office Manager, Librarian, and Reporter.
• Possible Conventional College Majors are Business, Accounting, and Management.

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