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• RIASEC Inventory - Online Inventory
• Self Directed Search - Internet Version
• Strong Interest Inventory
• Explore Careers and College Majors System
• Master Course for Professionals

Career Test Features

Here are features of career tests -

 

RIASEC Inventory
Format: On-Line NEW!
Reading Level: High school student, college student, adult
Subject Area: Holland Codes, Interests, Occupations




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


Explore Careers and College Majors System
Format: On-Line
Reading Level: Youth/ Adult/ Children
Subject Area: Holland Codes, Interests,Abilities/Skills, Values
Databases: Occupations and Colleges/ Universities

Explore Careers and College Majors System is a personalized,online,  interactive, self-guided career planning and college planning system.

Master Course for Professionals
Format: On-Line/ Printed
Reading Level: Children/ Youth/ Adult
Subject Area: Holland Codes, Interests, Occupations
Databases: Occupations and Colleges/ Universities

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

 

 Self Directed Search
Format: On-Line
Reading Level: Youth/ Adult/ Children
Subject Area: Holland Codes, Interests, Occupations




The Self-Directed Search Assessment is easy to use - Complete the career assessment in 30 minutes.


Strong Interest Inventory®
Format: On-Line
Reading Level: Youth/ Adult/ Children
Subject Area: Holland Codes, Interests, Occupations





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.

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Explore Careers and College Majors System Videos!

Identify identity! Pursue purpose! Unlock potential with the Explore Careers and College Majors System!

Explore Careers and College Majors System is an online, interactive, self-guided career planning and college planning system.

Dashboard

The Dashboard is the control center of the Explore Careers and College Major System. 

There are five sections in the Dashboard -

• Self Assessments
• Explore the Possibilities
• Take Action
• Career and Education Planning Results
• Recommended Tools & Websites
• Self Assessments

Here are Explore Careers and College Major System videos.

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New Release: Explore Careers and College Majors System!

Explore Careers and College Majors System is an online, interactive, self-guided career planning and college planning system.

Dashboard

The Dashboard is the control center of the Explore Careers and College Major System. 

There are five sections in the Dashboard -

• Self Assessments
• Explore the Possibilities
• Take Action
• Career and Education Planning Results
• Recommended Tools & Websites
• Self Assessments

Self Assessment

There are four other assessments -

• Work Interest Assessment
• Personality Assessment
• Values Assessment
• Skills Assessment

Explore the Possibilities

The Explore the Possibilities is the Career Exploration, the College Major Exploration and the College Search sections of the Explore Careers and College Major System.

Career Exploration

In the Career Exploration section,

• You perform career research.
• You identify potential careers.
• You begin narrowing career options.

After completing the interests, skills, personality types, and/or values tests, you can match occupations to your results and click on any occupation that interests you. 

Then, you filter occupations by the following criteria -

• Alphabetically
• Job Family
• Green Job
• Bright Outlook
• Salary
• Saved Occupations

After completing Career Exploration, you will -

• Match Holland Codes to training programs
• Perform research to identify potential training programs
• Use training program search web site to find potential training programs

Explore any Occupation


Explore Any Major Area of Study That Interests You tool has excellent college search resources!

College Search options include -

• Type of College
• Enrollment & Costs
• Majors Offered
• Test Scores and Selectivity
• Location
• Athletics & Activities
• Search for colleges by name

Take Action

The purpose of the Take Action section is to create a road map of your academic and career development activities.  Take Action serves as an online portfolio.

The areas under the Take Action section are -

• My Education
• My Professional Development

Career and Education Planning Results

Career and Education Planning Results is a summary of your assessment results and saved preferences.

 

Recommended Tools and Websites

Recommended Tools and Websites include -

•  Extensive online step-by-step tutorial loaded with downloads and websites
• Job Boards and Internship Opportunities
• Links to Resources - including

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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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Key for Selecting the Right Career !!!!

Career guidance booklet provides you answers to your questions.

The tips help you find tools to discover your interests, abilities, and skills.

Learn about the careers that match your interests.

Discover the degree programs that are needed to help you reach your goals.

1. Finding the Right Career Test

2. Holland Career Model

Holland Codes matches personality types to jobs and college majors.

3. Holland Career Tests

Here is information about some popular career tests.

4. Detailed Career Test Rating Chart

The Test Rating Chart has the following details -

• Assessment
• Format
• Factors Measured
• Ease of Use
• Audience
• Rating

5. Hollandcodes.com Catalog

The catalog has detailed facts about career tests and other resources.

More Questions! Get the Career Planning Booklet! Here are some of the topics from 10 Top Tips Booklet – Follow The Road Map To Career Planning Recognize Your Interests, Abilities, Talents and Values. Learn Your Holland Personality Types and Codes. Explore Careers. Identify Potential College Majors. Get The Quick Career Test Facts! Use Career Test Rating Chart. Get Detailed Information from the HollandCodes.com Catalog. Put All of the Facts Together. Use Career Test Checklist.

Discover who you really are and understand your likes, dislikes, and interests. Identify our interests, abilities, and skills.

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Features of Most Popular Holland Code Career Tests

 
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Best Buy, Immediate Access
Format: On-Line
Reading Level: Youth/ Adult
Subject Area: Holland Codes, Interests, Occupations
Databases: Occupations and Colleges/ Universities

New!!!! Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
Format: On-Line
Reading Level: Youth/ Adult
Subject Area: 16 MBTI types
Databases: Occupations and Colleges/ Universities

RIASEC Inventory
Format: Printed/On-Line
Reading Level: Youth/ Adult
Subject Area: Holland Codes, Interests,Abilities/Skills, Values
Databases: Occupations and Colleges/ Universities

Self Directed Search (Form R, Form E, Form Career Explorer)
Format:  Printed/On-Line
Reading Level: Youth/ Adult/ Children
Subject Area: Holland Codes, Interests, Occupations

Strong Interest Inventory®
Format: On-Line
Reading Level: Youth/ Adult
Subject Area: Holland Codes, Interests, Occupations

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

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MBTI Reinvented

New!!!  Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®) Step 2 (Q) Report

Are you looking for an inventory that will match your personality to potential careers? The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®) assessment is

• 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

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

New!!!! MBTI Step II™ (Form Q) has 144 items 

(including the 93 Step I  M items)

• Is available online, takes approximately 35 minutes to complete
• Drills down to a finer level of detail to explore how individuals of the same personality type may express their personality differently
• Provides individuals’ 4-letter Myers-Briggs personality type code plus results on 20 facets of that type
• Provides in-depth development actions across a range of important individual issues
• Generates two reports: Profile and Interpretive Report

 

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®) Q Interpretive Report

• Offers personalized tips for professional development
• A full page each is devoted to applying results to communicating, making decisions, managing change, and managing conflict.
• The report describes your style in these four areas and suggests ways of using that style more effectively.
• The Step II™ Interpretive Report is a highly personalized narrative and graphical report that helps clients understand their MBTI® Step I™ and Step II™ results.
• The 17-page report then applies those results to four important components of professional development: communication, decision making, change management, and conflict management.

Features & Benefits

• Refreshed to be more engaging and user-friendly
• Graphically enhanced to illustrate facet results
• Graphs each of the 20 Step II™ facet results, with descriptions to help clients better understand their meaning, and integrates the results with their Step I results.

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