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Introduction .................................................................................................................................................................. 3
Career Exploration, and Planning ................................................................................................................................. 3
Keys to Career and College Major Planning ................................................................................................................ 5
Three Guideposts in the Career Planning Process ........................................................................................................ 6
Awareness, Knowledge, and Assessment ..................................................................................................................... 9
Activity Sheet for Interest Career Assessments.......................................................................................................... 12
Holland Career Personalities ...................................................................................................................................... 13
Activity Sheet for Career Decision Making ............................................................................................................... 17
Activity Sheet for Career Decision Matrix ................................................................................................................. 18
Interest Summary........................................................................................................................................................ 19
Educational and Occupational Exploration ................................................................................................................ 21
Activity Sheet for Career Exploration ........................................................................................................................ 23
College Major Exploration ......................................................................................................................................... 24
Activity Sheet for Exploring College Majors ............................................................................................................. 25
About the Author ........................................................................................................................................................ 26
Introduction
We are each significant, different, and special. We are a product of many intricate things - learning styles,
spiritual gifts, value systems, attitudes, vocational interests, and abilities. Because of our complexity,
uncovering our interests, abilities, and skills is not always clear or easy. We seek to understand the
inheritance that we have received - those gifts, abilities, and interests. We seek to learn in productive and
intellectual competencies. We develop problem solving and goal setting skills. We strive to understand
the learning process so that we can adequately and successfully gain knowledge. We use effective
learning techniques to build and plan successful career choices. We need strategies to achieve our goals.
As career explorers, we use career resources, for example, portfolios, videotapes, audio-tapes, games,
What are our vocational interests, the motivational gifts, the attributes, the endowments, and faculties?
What are the steps and resources that are necessary to develop our qualities and talents?
In order to learn according to our abilities, interests, and motivational gifts, we should -
Seek resources that educate (train) us according to their vocational interests, abilities, skills, beliefs,
and values
Discover experiences that meet career, cognitive, emotional, and behavioral goals
Motivation &
Inspiration
Know Know
About About
Self Occupations
&
Training
Programs
I. Career Planning
a. Keys to Career Planning
b. Steps Within Career Planning Process
Career planning is so important. We are each significant, different, and special. We are a
product of many intricate things –
Vocational interests
Personality types or trait clusters
Skills/Abilities
Values
The basis for most of career planning resources is the National Career Development
Guidelines. In 1987, the National Occupational Information Coordinating Committee
(NOICC) developed the National Career Development Guidelines. The guidelines’
competencies were organized into three areas –
Self-Knowledge
Educational and Occupational Exploration
Career Planning
Career planning includes self-assessment, career exploration, decision making, life role
formation, goal setting, and the implementation of career choices
The preliminary assessment is the first step in the career planning process. From the
assessments, we will gain knowledge and understanding of –
Abilities
Callings
Destinies
Educational plans
Interests
Personality trait clusters/ types
Priorities
Skills
Talents
Visions/ Dreams
Vocational plans
Informational Interview
Internet Career Exploration Resources
Advancement opportunities
Duties and responsibilities
Informational interview
Informational search
Knowledge required
Occupational research
Salary range
Training and skills needed
Working conditions
Economy or labor market
A typical working day in specific occupations
Interest inventory
Value assessment
Skill assessment
Personality type or trait cluster inventory
Holland developed a system of personality types to classify jobs into or work personality
environments. The system is the Holland Hexagon Model or Holland Codes. In the Holland Model,
these categories represent work personalities. Within the Holland’s Hexagon Model, there were six
types of personalities or environments.
Assessments using Holland typology link vocational interests to job families using a three-letter
RIASEC or Holland code. The first letter of each personality or environment formed the word
“RIASEC”. The “RIASEC” was an acronym that stood for Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social,
Enterprising, and Conventional. Different assessments provide information on the relationship
between these job personalities and –
Key characteristics
College majors
Hobbies
Abilities
Related careers
Reference: John Holland (1985) Making Vocational Choices (2nd ed.) Odessa, FL.: PAR, Inc
MCP
Self Directed Search
Strong Interest Inventory
Other Holland Codes Resource Center career tests
For on-line Holland Career Assessments: Print Your Test Scores or Results!!!
Now, complete the following table using the information provided in your test results. –
1. Write the first, First Holland Code Second Holland Code Third Holland Code
secondary, and Letter Letter Letter
third highest (_________________) (_________________) (_________________)
Holland Code in
the (__). (_________________) (_________________) (_________________)
2. Write the
corresponding
score for each
Holland Code.
3. Write careers
related to the
Holland Codes.
Manipulates tools,
Works with abstract Uses imagination and Interacts with people,
Possesses Leads, manages, and Orders activities paying
Strengths ideas and intellectual feelings in creative concerned with the
mechanical, manual, organizes attention to details
problems expression welfare of people
or athletic ability
Prefers to deal
Things Ideas and Things Ideas and People People Data and People Data and Things
with:
Craftsman, Fitness
Artist, Musician, Teacher, Clergy, Manager, Producer,
Trainer, Optician, Biologist, Chemist, Accountant, Banker,
Actor/ Actress, Coach, Therapist, Lawyer, Business/
Careers Policemen, Fire Historian, Researcher, Editor, Office Manager,
Designer, Writer, Nurse, Counselor, Marketing Executive,
Fighter, Physical Doctor, Mathematician Librarian, Reporter
Photographer Sociologist Entrepreneur, Principal
Education Teacher
The High Enterprising and High Social students enjoyed working with people. These individuals followed
jobs in business, education, journalism, and social science.
The High Realistic and High Enterprising clients or students adapted better to practical, hands-on
learning. Students who picked to learn in more practical settings expressed interests in business activities,
physical activities, and technical activities. These clients or students entered careers in agriculture,
business, law enforcement, machine trades, and vocational technical majors.
The fourth factor was Risk Taking/ Adventure Seeking. This factor indicated a willingness to take
physical and social risks, to act spontaneously and playfully, and to seek novel sensation and thrills.
Clients or students who possessed risk taking/ adventure seeking qualities are extroverted, independent,
and social. They were prone to careers in:
After this activity, write down five (5) statements explain the following statement –
After completing the activity, I have learned the following about myself.
1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
After completing assessments, you will be listing your interests, transferable skills, personality trait
clusters, and values.
Work abilities
Job requirements
Educational level and preparation requirements
Job outlook
Wages
Working conditions
3) Rating your ability to make decisions. Place a check ( ) in the appropriate space.
For this activity, you will create a career decision matrix. The matrix will rank careers according to
your most important interests.
Choice 1 Choice 6
Choice 2 Choice 7
Choice 3 Choice 8
Choice 4 Choice 9
Choice 5 Choice 10
Interest 1 Interest 2
Interest 3 Interest 4
2. Under each Potential Careers Column, write the potential careers (from p.39 #1).
3. Enter the names of the interests in the column under the Interests headings.
4. .Mark with an “X” if the career possess one or more of the values.
Interests
# Potential Careers
5. From the occupations listed in question 1, which five (5) careers had one (1) of the interests?
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
After this activity, write down five (5) statements explain the following statement –
After completing the activity, I have learned the following about myself.
1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
An excellent resource is an article entitled “Core Subjects and Your Career”. There are three areas
discussed within the article - “English and Your Career,” “Math and Your Career,” and “Science and
Your Career”. Each article integrates the subject with career planning.
In the article “English and Your Career”, the definition for communication is “the ability to understand
information other people give us and to have other people understand what we tell them”. There are three
levels of communication – basic, intermediate, and advanced.
“Basic communication requires the ability to interact with others and to follow simple oral and written
instructions…”
“Intermediate communication requires the ability to accurately give and follow instructions, to
persuade people to a particular point of view, and to write in an organized and grammatically correct
manner...”
“Advanced communication requires a strong ability to communicate both orally and in writing…”
For each level, high school and/or college courses are recommended. The article provides a list of
occupations for each level of communication.
Basic communication jobs are bank tellers, bus drivers, cashiers, and correctional officers.
Intermediate jobs are adjusters, investigators, collectors, architects, clerical supervisors and managers,
as well as construction and building inspectors.
Advanced jobs are actors, directors, producers, administrative services managers, adult education
teachers, and agricultural scientists.
Source:
Core Subjects and Your Career (from Occupational Outlook Quarterly, Summer 1999) -
http://stats.bls.gov/opub/ooq/ooqindex.htm
The Internet and the libraries are sources of educational and occupational information.
Educational and occupational exploration resources reveal the relationships between learning, work,
career information skills, job seeking, skill development, and the labor market. Career planning includes
self-assessment, career exploration, decision-making, life role formation, goal setting, and the
implementation of career choices. Examples of Internet career exploration resources are Occupational
Outlook Handbook and the O'NET, The Occupational Information Network.
Another United States governmental resource is the O’NET. The O’NET web address is -
http://online.onetcenter.org. The Occupational Information Network provides the following information –
Occupational profiles
Labor market information
Links to the dot classification systems
Location of 1,100 occupations using skill requirements or key words
Worker Characteristics and Requirements
Experience Requirements
Occupation Requirements, Specifics and Characteristics
What occupations did you gather information on? Are you still interested in that career?
Source of Information
Title of Occupations Are you still interested in that
(Site # 1 to 9) occupation? (YES or NO)
Realistic
Forestry
Investigative
Aerospace Studies Anthropology Biological Sciences Chemistry
Artistic
Classics Fine Art Music Philosophy
Russian Theater Arts
Social
Arts Management Asian Studies Dental Hygiene Education
Exercise Science Humanities Latin American Studies Nursing
Religious Studies Social Work Southwest Studies Women’s Studies
Enterprising
Art History Business Communication Hotel and Restaurant
Administration Management
History Political Science
Here is a college major exploration web site – College MatcherMaker. College Search is here to
help you make the best decision for you. To begin, choose one of two starting points. Use
MatchMaker to generate a list of colleges that match your preferences. Use QuickFinder to
research a college that you already have in mind.
Achievements:
National Career Development Association (NCDA) Conference 2012 Workshop Speaker
National Career Development Association (NCDA) Conference 2013& 2014 Round Table
Speaker
Participant in Psychological Assessment Resources (PAR) SDS Revision Advisory Panels –
2009, 2010, 2011, and 2013