Test Drive Your Career Test Video Course

Test Drive Your Career Test! You Have The Keys! is a step-by-step tutorial that guide you through the process of selecting a career test.

Hollandcodes.com created this eight (8) part series to provide a detailed overview of the three (3) step process of career planning.

The Test Drive Your Career Test! You Have The Keys Virtual Course covers the following areas –

• Laying a Foundation – Getting Ready for Your Career Test Drive
• Building Self Awareness
• Taking the MCP Challenge
• Understanding Career Interest Groups – What do the scores mean?
• Matching Your Interests to Careers
• Selecting the Right Training Program

Take the MCP Challenge

On the Career Test Drive, you will look at the MCP. The MCP is a system that has 4 career tests, a career database, and an educational program database.

Discover your -

• Interests
• Values
• Skills
• Personality

Get information on -

• Holland Codes
• 1200+ Occupations
• 6000+ Schools

The My Career Profile Guidance System comes with a -

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

Self-Analysis System

1. My Interests Inventory

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

The Inventory provides a detailed description for each of the Holland Personality Types.

The Interests, Skills, Values, and Personality Inventories generate Occupational Lists.

You can access, review, and redo the Interests, Skills, Values, and Personality Inventories.

Research a Career Tool

Use the Research a Career database to find information on 1200+ occupations. Each Occupational List provides information on -

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

The Research a Career Tool allows you to research careers by name or Industry Group. The Industry Groups are -

• Architecture & Engineering
• Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media
• Building and Ground Cleaning and Maintenance
• Business and Financial Operations
• Community and Social Services
• Computer, Information Technology and Mathematics
• Construction and Extraction
• Education, Training and Library
• Farming, Fishing, and Forestry
• Food Preparation and Serving
• Healthcare Practitioners and Technology
• Healthcare Support
• Installation, Maintenance, and Repair
• Legal
• Life, Physical, and Social Science
• Management
• Military
• Office and Administrative Support
• Personal Care and Service
• Production
• Protective Service
• Sales and Related
• Transportation and Materials Moving

School Tool

The Interests, Skills, Values, and Personality Inventories generate School Lists. The School Tool obtains school from a database of 6000+ post-secondary institutions. The School Tool searches for schools according to the following criteria -

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

All career and school lists can be printed and saved for future reference.

2. My Values Inventory

Find out the things that are important to you, for example  -

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

The My Values Inventory provides a detailed description for each of the Values.

The My Values Inventory matches occupations to your Values and generates Occupational Lists.

3. My Skills Inventory

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

The My Skills Inventory provides a detailed description for each of the Skills.

The My Skills Inventory matches occupations to your Skills and generates Occupational Lists.

4. My Personality Inventory

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

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IKids and M2 Media Generation

Digital learners are waiting for the convergence and synchronization of career development principles with today’s electronic media.

Career development professionals are developing computing devices applications for the Media Generation.

We will be sharing information about the following topics -

• Uniqueness of today’s generation
• Career development best-practice models
• New media technology

With these resources, the iKids will develop 21st Century Skills.

Date: Friday, June 22, 2012

Time: 10:30 – 11:40 am

See you there!

Convergence of Media Technology and Career Development Webinars

If you unable to attend the conference, Hollandcodes.com will be reviewing the Convergence of Media Technology and Career Development information.

In July, we will be hosting a Convergence of Media Technology and Career Development webinar.

To sign up for the webinar and receive FREE resources, e.g. PowerPoint presentation.

Register at the Hollandcodes.com NCDA Workshop web page -

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What is a career assessment tool?

A career assessment tool is -

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

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

There are different career assessment tools -

• 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®) tool is the most widely used personality career assessment tool 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 tool 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 tool 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 tool 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 LevelBasic 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 tools -

• 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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New MBTI Inventory

Here are some tests that will help you identify your interests, abilities, and skills.  Unlock your potential, purpose, and destiny.

Career Personality Inventory

Based on the MBTI personality types

The Career Personality Inventory is -

• Self- scoring, self-interpreting, consumable, no other components needed
• Comparable results to the MBTI
• Match personality types to careers, work styles, skills, work environments, and work preferences with this easy-to-use assessment
• Is based on the MBTI personality types

The CPI uses a simple and innovative testing method requiring test takers to -

• Simply circle words that describe them
• Total the number of descriptors circled

The CPI then helps users consider how their personality relates to their careers by focusing on their top two traits.

Users can match their personality types to careers and work preferences.

Clients then use the career planning guide and worksheet to set goals and start their career research.

Valid and reliable, the CPI provides a powerful and cost-effective alternative to any organization using similar but more expensive personality inventories.

Product type: Printed booklet
Interest level: Middle School-High School
Pages Opens to 8-panel foldout
Size: 8.5 x 11

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Focus on Your Future in 2012

Here are some tests that will help you identify your interests, abilities, and skills.  Unlock your potential, purpose, and destiny.

Career and Life Explorer

Career and Life Explorer is a Holland Code assessment that uses:

• Appealing graphics
• Easy-to-follow instructions
• Proven career exploration principles
• Great information to get young people thinking about their future—and encourages them to stay in school, explore positive career and learning options, and dream big

Career and Life Explorer provides the following information:

• Start with “Uncover Career Clues.”
• Gather career information by looking at:
  • Who they admire
  • What they do well or enjoy doing
  • What are the key values
  • How important is money
  • What kinds of people they like to spend time with
  • How much education or training they would consider
  • What work environment they prefer, and more

• Step 2: Select top picks from among six Holland Code “Interest Groups”
• Step 3: Look up related jobs in a chart listing hundreds of job titles from the Occupational Outlook Handbook.
• Step 4: Use a “Discover Your Ideal Job”to write in key elements of their ideal job, including:
  • Values
  • Possible job titles
  • Skills
  • Education or training
  • Earnings
  • Other details

• Step 5: Use an Action Plan worksheet to help plan high school courses, extracurricular activities, and other life experiences.

Format: 5.5 x 8.5, 12-panel foldout
Reading Level: Grade 6
Interest Level: Grades 6 to 12

Career Exploration Inventory

Hollandcodes.com has information about the Career Exploration Inventory.

Career Exploration Inventory is a career interest inventory with career information and career planning information.

The Career Exploration Inventory:

• Is easy to read, self-scoring, self-interpreting
• Gathers career information by looking at past, present, and future activities of your life. These areas include Work, Leisure, and Learning activities.
• Helps you identify Clusters and GOE Interest Areas
• Provides a list of related jobs in a chart listing hundreds of job titles, career salary, career research, and career information from the Occupational Outlook Handbook.
• Provides additional career resources
• Create an Action Plan
• Help you set Short Term, Medium Term, and Long Term Goals

The Career Exploration Inventory:

• Is backed by strong validity
• Uses proven career exploration principles.
• Directs cross-reference to GOE and O’Net job reference systems.

The Scores from the Career Exploration Inventory connect you to 16 GOE career interest areas or Career Clusters with:

• Related jobs
• Education and training options
• Leisure activities listed for each interest area

Format: 8.5 x 11, 12-panel foldout, self-scoring/self-interpreting, consumable, no other components needed.
Interest Level: High School-Adult

With each Career Cluster/GOE purchase, you will receive with free Career Cluster, GOE Code, and Holland Code cross-reference and Internet resource sheets.

Career Interests Inventory

The Career Interests Inventory is a Holland Code career self assessment test.

The Career Interests Inventory is -

• Inexpensive – Save money.
• Easy to use – Complete the career self assessment test in 30 minutes.
• Tested, proven, and dependable – Based on Dept. of Labor’s O*NET Interest Profile.

The Career Interests Inventory has a variety of jobs. Find job that need little or no preparation, 2 year associate, 4 year college, graduate degree, or professional degree.

The Career Interests Inventory is a Holland Code career self assessment test.

Career Personality Inventory

Based on the MBTI personality types

The Career Personality Inventory is -

• Self- scoring, self-interpreting, consumable, no other components needed
• Comparable results to the MBTI
• Match personality types to careers, work styles, skills, work environments, and work preferences with this easy-to-use assessment
• Is based on the MBTI personality types

The CPI uses a simple and innovative testing method requiring test takers to -

• Simply circle words that describe them
• Total the number of descriptors circled

The CPI then helps users consider how their personality relates to their careers by focusing on their top two traits.

Users can match their personality types to careers and work preferences.

Clients then use the career planning guide and worksheet to set goals and start their career research.

Valid and reliable, the CPI provides a powerful and cost-effective alternative to any organization using similar but more expensive personality inventories.

Product type: Printed booklet
Interest level: Middle School-High School
Pages Opens to 8-panel foldout
Size: 8.5 x 11

Career Values Inventory

The O*NET Career Values Inventory helps individuals explore over 900 O*NET job titles based on their work values and motivators.

Unlike the first edition of the Values Inventory which used a card sort to explore work values, the new edition uses an easier forced-choice method.

Consisting of only 36 items and taking less than 20 minutes to complete, this method provides accurate results in less time, as well as simplifies administration and scoring.

Once individuals have identified their most important work values, the inventory guides them to match their results to potential careers organized by both values and the preparation required (using the DOL’s five “job zones”).

In depth suggestions for further research help individuals explore those careers, and a reproducible Job Information/Action Plan worksheet helps them pursue their goals.

The inventory is self-scoring and self-interpreting, takes less than thirty minutes to complete, and is based on decades of research.

Valid and reliable, this assessment is an ideal starting point for anyone engaging in career exploration.

Its incorporation of O*NET job titles also makes it highly compatible with a wide variety of occupational resources.

The O*NET is changing. The Department of Labor is revising and streamlining the Occupational Information Network to better match the rapidly changing economy. The Second Edition of the O*NET Career Values Inventory has been substantially revised.

In addition to moving from a card sort to a forced choice mechanic, it will feature streamlined instructions, an updated list of resources, an improved job information worksheet, and job titles drawn directly from the latest version of the O*NET.

Guide for Occupational Exploration Interest Inventory (GOEII)

Guide for Occupational Exploration Interest Inventory -

• Has appealing graphics
• Is easy-to-follow instructions
• Is self-scoring
• Matches your Interests to 250 Occupational Outlook Handbook and 1,000 O*NET career jobs with career salary information, career research, and career information
• Is organized around 14 GOE career interest areas

Guide for Occupational Exploration Interest Inventory provides the following information from the ORIGINAL GOE System presented in the Guide for Occupational Exploration (3rd Edition):

Step 1: Start with the following “14 Interest Areas or Career Clusters”-

1. GOE Code 1: Arts, Entertainment, and Media
2. GOE Code 2: Science, Math, Engineering
3. GOE Code 3: Plants and Animals
4. GOE Code 4: Law, Law Enforcement, and Public Security
5. GOE Code 5: Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers
6. Construction, Mining and Drilling
7. Transportation, Distribution & Logistics
8. GOE Code 6: Industrial Production
9. GOE Code 7: Business Detail
10. GOE Code 8: Sales &Marketing
11. GOE Code 9: Recreation, Travel and Other Personal Services
12. GOE Code 10: Education and Social Services
13. GOE Code 11: General Management and Support
14. Medical and Health Science

Step 2: Complete Inventory.
Step 3: Score profile.
Step 4: Use the “14 Interest Areas or Career Clusters” to Explore Career Options.
Step 5: Complete the Career Exploration Worksheet.
Step 6: Research career options.

Reading Level: Grade 8
Interest Level: Middle School-Adult

Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)

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.

My Career Profile

My Career Profile Guidance System is a Holland career self assessment test that provides information on interests, values, skills, personalities, and Holland Codes.

My Career Profile Guidance System is -

• Low cost – Save money.
• Easy to use – Follow simple instructions.
• Quick – In 20 minutes, you will have the results from the assessment.
• Fast – Immediately match the results 1500 careers.
• Tested, proven, and dependable – Use the database to get job earnings information

My Career Profile Guidance System provides information on interests, values, skills, personalities, Holland Codes, 1200+ occupations, and 6000 schools.

Discover your -

• Interests
• Values
• Skills
• Personality

Get information on -

• Holland Codes
• 1200+ Occupations
• 6000+ Schools

Search colleges by according to the following criteria -

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

Build your career portfolio.

PICS Career Survey

The PICS Career Survey is a Picture Interest Test and an easy-to-do Holland Code assessment that uses 36 sets of 3 pictures as a quick way to –

• Explore their career interests
• Find a job that fits

The PICS Career Survey is an excellent career test for ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTS and for other people -

• Who are In ESL/GED programs
• Who have limited reading ability
• Who have limited knowledge of English
• Who are developmentally delayed
• Who are learning disabled
• Who have special needs
• Who have limited access to education
• Who are chronically unemployed

The PICS Interest Test-

• Takes less than fifteen minutes to complete and score
• Uses pictures of people at work
• Is self-administered and self-scored

To finish the Career Survey (PICS), you -

• Look at 36 sets of 3 pictures.
• Choose which of the three portrayed occupations seems most interesting.
• Total the number and kind of pictures selected.

Paint Careers With Colors
Kids Career Test & Color Key

The Paint Careers With Colors Kids Job Test uses self-by-step activities, career games for Kids, and kids activities for career choices to highlight Holland Codes or Colors to Careers Codes. On each page, you choose the careers that you like or are interested in.

At the end of the job test for kids, you summarize your results. The Summary Sheet identifies your Holland Codes or Colors to Careers Codes.

The Paint Careers With Colors Kids Career Test comes with a Colors to Careers Career Model and Colors to Careers Code or Holland Code Descriptions. The Paint Careers With Colors Child Career Test is an excellent tool to introduce you to career exploration, Holland Codes, and Colors to Careers Codes. The graphics hold your attention as you identify your career interests.

The Colors to Careers Color Chart shows all of the information listed on the posters –

• Job Titles
• Career Color Codes
• 3 letter Holland Codes
• Colors to Careers Poster Numbers

RIASEC Inventory
A Quick and Easy Assessment

The RIASEC Inventory

• Uses Holland’s RIASEC coding system and latest O*NET job titles
• Scores into six interest areas: Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional
• Quick, 4-page assessment takes only 10-15 minutes to complete

The Holland Code inventory gives individuals a fast and informative way to explore occupations based on their interests. Using the RIASEC system developed by John Holland–the most widely used occupational interest coding system available.

Use this inventory to identify their job interests.

Complete only 72 work activity statements.

Match results those interests to potential careers.

The Holland Code inventory, a quick and easy assessment, is perfect for job seekers who have little time to spend on testing and career exploration.

Self Directed Search

The Self-Directed Search is -

• Low cost – Save money.
• Easy to use – Complete the career self 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.

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.

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.

Transferable Skills (TS) Survey

The TS Survey is a researched and validated assessment. The TS Survey is a short assessment that identifies an individual’s strongest soft (TS) skills skills. The eight (8) soft (TS) skills Skills are:

• Analytical
• Numerical
• Interpersonal
• Organizational
• Physical
• Informational
• Communicative
• Creative skills

The benefits of the TS Survey are -

• Complete in 20-25 minutes
• Is easy to use
• Has color-coded design
• Is Self-scoring and self-interpreting
• Can be used as both a career exploration guide and a job search strategy tool
• Includes suggested resources for career exploration as well as a worksheet for comparing possible careers
• Includes job titles from the most recent O*NET database
• Can be given to groups or individuals

The TS Survey has 5 sections -

1. Mark Your Answers
2. Add Your Scores
3. Interpret Your Scores
4. Identify Occupations that Match Your Skills
5. Explore Occupations that Match Your Skills

Reference material for the The TS Survey lists the relationship between Soft Skills and Holland Codes.

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Destiny and Purpose for 2012

Use Destiny Development Diaries in your search for destiny, purpose, and significance.

Destiny Development Diaries  come with variety of assessments -

• Interest inventory
• Value assessment
• Transferable skill assessment
• Personality type or trait cluster inventory
• Motivational gifts inventory

Overview

Start the Year Off Right!

Use the Destiny Development Diaries to - Identify Steps in the Career Planning Process Identify characteristics of interests, transferable skills, values, personality type/ trait cluster, or motivational gifts Explore occupations and occupational web sites Sort/ match occupations according to interests, transferable skills, values, personality type/ trait cluster, or motivational gifts Explore career and college major web sites Build Your Destiny Development Kit   Here are some popular combinations! Or build your own Destiny Development Diary!   To get more information, contact us or call us at 877-667-6565.

Destiny Development Kit #1

The Destiny Development Kit #1 has - Career Personality Inventory Career Interest Inventory Transferable Skills Scale Values Inventory Unlock Your Potential Diary Cost: $50

Destiny Development Kit #2

The Destiny Development Kit #2 has - Career Personality Inventory RIASEC Inventory Transferable Skills Scale Values Inventory Unlock Your Potential Diary Cost: $50

Destiny Development Kit #3

The Destiny Development Kit #3 has - Career Personality Inventory Self Directed Search Transferable Skills Scale Values Inventory Unlock Your Potential Diary Cost: $50

Destiny Development Kit #4

The Destiny Development Kit #4 has - Career Personality Inventory Strong Interest Explorer Transferable Skills Scale Values Inventory Unlock Your Potential Diary Cost $50

Create Your Own Kit!

Spice up your kit with the following items - Strong’s Interest Inventory Myer-Briggs Type Indicator Motivational Gifts Inventory

Career Direct

Administration and Consultation From
Trained Consultant

What Makes
Career Direct Guidance System Unique?

 Career Direct examines four essentials of career selection:

•  6 Personality Types

• 21 Vocational Interests

• 14 Skills and Abilities

• 29 Work Priorities/ Values

As a result, this is one of the most comprehensive guidance systems on the market today.

The guidance system was developed over a 10-year period and has been rigorously tested and validated, using standard psychometric principles of testing and measurement. Over 120,000 adults and students have benefited from taking the Complete Guidance System.

How long does it take to complete Career Direct?

The assessment component can be completed in about an hour.

What is included in the report?

You will receive a comprehensive, easy-to-read, personalized  report formats that can be read or viewed in PDF or html formats.

The report discusses:

• 6 Personality Yypes

• 21 Vocational Interests

• 14 Skills & Abilities

• 29 Work Priorities/ Values

 Personality Factors

There are six personality factors:

• Dominance

• Extroversion

• Compassion

• Conscientiousness

• Adventurous

• Innovation

The report provides strengths, weaknesses, and career implications for each personality factors.

Vocational Interests Groups

Next, there are five broad vocational categories and 21 General Interest Groups.

Skills and Abilities Areas

 In the third section, there are 14 Skills and Abilities Areas.

Work Priorites/ Values

The last section contains the Work Priorities/ Values section. The three parts in the section on 29 values are:

• Work Environment

• Work Outcomes

• Life Values

FREE 2-Hour Consultation

You do not have to interpret the Guidance System on your own.

After completing the Guidance System, you will receive a FREE two (2) hour consultation from trained Consultant. The consultation is conducted:

• In person (Phoenix, AZ area)

• Via Skype (Outside Phoenix area)

The Consultant is carefully selected and trained:

• Performance is also monitored on a daily basis.

• The standards are high, including training.

• Awareness of dealing with resources that have been entrusted to you, goals that you have, and the desire that you have to be a good steward with all that has been entrusted to you.

After Consultation

You will receive a variety of resources:

• Action Plan

• Job Sampler

• Access to MP3 files

• Career Development PDFs

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Multi-Media, Kid Career Tests

Kid Career Test Friday is this Friday, October 7, 2011.

This day is dedicated to multi-media, kid career test resources.

Hollandcodes.com is using cutting- edge media technology to build kid’s career awareness.

Kid multi-media career test resources -

• Are visual learning techniques that use colors to represent Holland Codes and careers
• Clarify thoughts, integrate new knowledge, and promote critical
  thinking. New concepts are more thoroughly and easily understood.

The Kid multi-media career test resources organize and analyze information. Children -

• See how Holland Codes are connected to careers
• Realize how careers can be grouped and organized

The kid multi-media career test resources also improve –

• Attention Span and Concentration: holds audience’s attention and helps people absorb information
• Memory Skills and Understanding: improves ability to absorb information
• Speed of Learning: reduces the time it takes to complete career tests.

Hollandcodes.com is featuring the following products -

• See Rainbow Career iPhone/ iPad App
• Destiny Discovers Purpose iPhone/ iPad App
•  My Rainbow Career Finder

The iPhone/ iPad Apps will be featured on MomsWithAppsApp Friday web page .

My Rainbow Career Finder

 

The My Rainbow Career Finder program is an alternative to the paper and pencil RIASEC kid career test. The Finder will automatically produce the three letter Holland code based on the selection that the child provides.

The My Rainbow Career Finder is an automated poster scoring system.

With the My Rainbow Career Finder, children sort posters according to likes and dislikes.

The automated scoring system tallies the results and generates a Holland Code.
There is no more counting, tallying, or figuring.

Kids, children, and students will enjoy making their selections and with just the click of a button.

Kids, children, and students have their unique Holland Code results displayed on the computer screen.

You will enjoy using this career exploration activity.

Read more about the My Rainbow Career Finder.

See Rainbow Careers!

Children’s Guide to Career Exploration

See Rainbow Careers is a fun way to introduce children to careers.

Careers are like rainbows.

The world is filled with 1000′s of careers.

Open your child’s eyes to the wonderful world of careers.

Discover your child’s career interests.

Learn about how careers are broken up into six career groups.

Discover careers in our world.
Read more about iPhone/ iPad App.

Testimonial

Here is a testimonial from Susan Taylor, our Editor

See Rainbow Careers

I found your ideas fresh and original which is always an asset in the children’s market. I particularly liked the character of Destiny (great choice of name) who is highly appealing, being both fun-loving but showing hidden depths. Your ability to connect each career to an appropriate rainbow color is a good reflection of your understanding of child development.

Susan Taylor
Children’s Books Reviewer
University Supervisor
Masters Degree in Children’s Literature
Diploma in Book Editing and Publishing

Destiny Discovers Purpose!

Children’s Guide to Self Discovery

Destiny Discovers Purpose is a fun way to introduce middle school students to careers.

Career interest areas are like gems.

The world is filled with 1000′s of careers.

Open your child’s eyes to the wonderful world of careers.

Discover your child’s destiny and purpose.

Learn about how careers are broken up into six interest areas.

Discover careers in our world.

Read more about  iPhone/ iPad App.

Testimonial

Here is a testimonial from Susan Taylor, our Editor.

Destiny Discovers Purpose

I found it a wonderful companion piece to See Rainbow Careers. The concept of the treasure box of gems is a clever reinforcement of your original idea.

Susan Taylor
Children’s Books Reviewer
University Supervisor
Masters Degree in Children’s Literature
Diploma in Book Editing and Publishing

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Back to School Bulk Career Test Sale

On Bulk User Career Tests (Single Users)

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• Career & Life Explorer
• Career Exploration Inventory
• Career Personality Inventory
• Career Values Inventory
• Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
• PICS Career Survey
• Paint Careers With Colors Career Test & Color Key
• RIASEC Inventory
• Strong Interest Inventory
• Transferable Skills Survey
• Back to School Single User items (On sale)

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Career and Life Explorer

Career and Life Explorer is a Holland Code assessment that uses:

• Appealing graphics
• Easy-to-follow instructions
• Proven career exploration principles
• Great information to get young people thinking about their future—and encourages them to stay in school, explore positive career and learning options, and dream big

Career and Life Explorer provides the following information:

• Start with “Uncover Career Clues.”
• Gather career information by looking at:
• Who they admire
• What they do well or enjoy doing
• What are the key values
• How important is money
• What kinds of people they like to spend time with
• How much education or training they would consider
• What work environment they prefer, and more

• Step 2: Select top picks from among six Holland Code “Interest Groups”
• Step 3: Look up related jobs in a chart listing hundreds of job titles from the Occupational Outlook Handbook.
• Step 4: Use a “Discover Your Ideal Job” to write in key elements of their ideal job, including:
• Values
• Possible job titles
• Skills
• Education or training
• Earnings
• Other details

• Step 5: Use an Action Plan worksheet to help plan high school courses, extracurricular activities, and other life experiences.

Format: 5.5 x 8.5, 12-panel foldout
Reading Level: Grade 6
Interest Level: Grades 6 to 12

Career Exploration Inventory

Hollandcodes.com has information about the Career Exploration Inventory.

Career Exploration Inventory is a career interest inventory with career information and career planning information.

The Career Exploration Inventory:

• Is easy to read, self-scoring, self-interpreting
• Gathers career information by looking at past, present, and future activities of your life. These areas include Work, Leisure, and Learning activities.
• Helps you identify Clusters and GOE Interest Areas
• Provides a list of related jobs in a chart listing hundreds of job titles, career salary, career research, and career information from the Occupational Outlook Handbook.
• Provides additional career resources
• Create an Action Plan
• Help you set Short Term, Medium Term, and Long Term Goals

The Career Exploration Inventory:

• Is backed by strong validity
• Uses proven career exploration principles.
• Directs cross-reference to GOE and O’Net job reference systems.

The Scores from the Career Exploration Inventory connect you to 16 GOE career interest areas or Career Clusters with:

• Related jobs
• Education and training options
• Leisure activities listed for each interest area

Format: 8.5 x 11, 12-panel foldout, self-scoring/self-interpreting, consumable, no other components needed.
Interest Level: High School-Adult

With each Career Cluster/GOE purchase, you will receive with free Career Cluster, GOE Code, and Holland Code cross-reference and Internet resource sheets.

Career Personality Inventory

Based on the MBTI personality types

The Career Personality Inventory is -

• Self- scoring, self-interpreting, consumable, no other components needed
• Comparable results to the MBTI
• Match personality types to careers, work styles, skills, work environments, and work preferences with this easy-to-use assessment
• Is based on the MBTI personality types

The CPI uses a simple and innovative testing method requiring test takers:

• Simply circle words that describe them
• Total the number of descriptors circled

The CPI then helps users consider how their personality relates to their careers by focusing on their top two traits.

Users can match their personality types to careers and work preferences.

Clients then use the career planning guide and worksheet to set goals and start their career research.

Valid and reliable, the CPI provides a powerful and cost-effective alternative to any organization using similar but more expensive personality inventories.

Product type: Printed booklet
Interest level: Middle School-High School
Pages Opens to 8-panel foldout
Size: 8.5 x 11

Career Values Inventory

The O*NET Career Values Inventory helps individuals explore over 900 O*NET job titles based on their work values and motivators.

Unlike the first edition of the Values Inventory which used a card sort to explore work values, the new edition uses an easier forced-choice method.

Consisting of only 36 items and taking less than 20 minutesto complete, this method provides accurate results in less time, as well as simplifies administration and scoring.

Once individuals have identified their most important work values, the inventory guides them to match their results to potential careers organized by both values and the preparation required (using the DOL’s five “job zones”).

In depth suggestions for further research help individuals explore those careers, and a reproducible Job Information/Action Plan worksheet helps them pursue their goals.

The inventory is self-scoring and self-interpreting, takes less than thirty minutes to complete, and is based on decades of research.

Valid and reliable, this assessment is an ideal starting point for anyone engaging in career exploration.

Its incorporation of O*NET job titlesalso makes it highly compatible with a wide variety of occupational resources.

The O*NET is changing. The Department of Labor is revising and streamlining the Occupational Information Network to better match the rapidly changing economy. The Second Edition of the O*NET Career Values Inventory has been substantially revised.

In addition to moving from a card sort to a forced choice mechanic, it will feature streamlined instructions, an updated list of resources, an improved job information worksheet, and job titles drawn directly from the latest version of the O*NET.

Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)

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.

PICS Career Survey

The PICS Career Survey is a Picture Interest Test and an easy-to-do Holland Code assessment that uses 36 sets of 3 pictures as a quick way to –

• Explore their career interests
• Find a job that fits

The PICS Career Survey is an excellent career test for ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTS and for other people -

• Who are In ESL/GED programs
• Who have limited reading ability
• Who have limited knowledge of English
• Who are developmentally delayed
• Who are learning disabled
• Who have special needs
• Who have limited access to education
• Who are chronically unemployed

The PICS Interest Test -

• Takes less than fifteen minutes to complete and score
• Uses pictures of people at work
• Is self-administered and self-scored

To finish the Career Survey (PICS), you -

• Look at 36 sets of 3 pictures.
• Choose which of the three portrayed occupations seems most interesting.
• Total the number and kind of pictures selected.

As bonuses, with each purchase, you receive the Career Locator and Career Planning Worksheet.

The Career Locator matches Holland Code interest areas to 600 careers. Careers are placed in one of the following groups – Careers that require Short Term On-the-Job-Training, Moderate Term On-the-Job-Training, Long Term On-the-Job-Training, Associate Degree, Bachelor’s Degree, Professional Degree, and Postsecondary Vocational Training.

On the Career Planning Worksheet, you record information about education required, projected earning, job outlook, skills, and next step.

Paint Careers With Colors

Kids Career Test & Color Key

The Paint Careers With Colors Kids Job Test uses self-by-step activities, career games for Kids, and kids activities for career choices to highlight Holland Codes or Colors to Careers Codes. On each page, you choose the careers that you like or are interested in.

At the end of the job test for kids, you summarize your results. The Summary Sheet identifies your Holland Codes or Colors to Careers Codes.

The Paint Careers With Colors Kids Career Test comes with a Colors to Careers Career Model and Colors to Careers Code or Holland Code Descriptions. The Paint Careers With Colors Child Career Test is an excellent tool to introduce you to career exploration, Holland Codes, and Colors to Careers Codes. The graphics hold your attention as you identify your career interests.

The Colors to Careers Color Chart shows all of the information listed on the posters –

• Job Titles
• Career Color Codes
• 3 letter Holland Codes
• Colors to Careers Poster Numbers

RIASEC Inventory

A Quick and Easy Assessment

The RIASEC Inventory

• Uses Holland’s RIASEC coding system and latest O*NET job titles
• Scores into six interest areas: Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional
• Quick, 4-page assessment takes only 10-15 minutes to complete

The Holland Code inventory gives individuals a fast and informative way to explore occupations based on their interests. Using the RIASEC system developed by John Holland–the most widely used occupational interest coding system available.

Use this inventory to identifytheir job interests.

Complete only 72 work activity statements.

Match results those interests to potential careers.

The Holland Code inventory, a quick and easy assessment, is perfect for job seekers who have little time to spend on testing and career exploration.

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.

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 LevelBasic 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.

Transferable Skills (TS) Survey

The TS Survey is a researched and validated assessment. The TS Survey is a short assessment that identifies an individual’s strongest soft (TS) skills skills. The eight (8) soft (TS) skills Skills  are:

• Analytical
• Numerical
• Interpersonal
• Organizational
• Physical
• Informational
• Communicative
• Creative skills

The benefits of the TS Survey are -

• Complete in 20-25 minutes
• Is easy to use
• Has color-coded design
• Is Self-scoring and self-interpreting
• Can be used as both a career exploration guide and a job search strategy tool
• Includes suggested resources for career exploration as well as a worksheet for comparing possible careers
• Includes job titles from the most recent O*NET database
• Can be given to groups or individuals

The TS Survey has 5 sections -

1. Mark Your Answers
2. Add Your Scores
3. Interpret Your Scores
4. Identify Occupations that Match Your Skills
5. Explore Occupations that Match Your Skills

Reference material for the The TS Survey lists the relationship between Soft Skills and Holland Codes.

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iStartStrong -

Middle School Online Strong Interest Inventory

The iStartStrongwill empower your students or clients by helping them achieve greater satisfaction with work and life.

The middle school Strong Interest Inventory will empower your clients or students to identify and pursue a career path that aligns with their interests and personality.

The report is based on results from the Strong Interest Inventory® assessment. It presents results as General Themes (based on GOTs) and Specific Interests (based on BISs) using engaging four-color graphics and provides hyperlinks to related O*NET occupations.

Designed to be used by individuals without an interpretation session, the Strong Interest Inventory report puts self-discovery into the hands of anyone seeking career direction.

This personalized report paints a clear picture of how one’s interests and themes link to various jobs, work settings, and career fields. Use it to help your clients or students expand their career options and chart a plan of action toward finding a fulfilling career.

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Career Resources for Homeschool Students

We have two all-in-one career exploration guidance programs for homeschool students -

• Kuder Career Guidance System
• My Career Profile

Kuder Test Survey

As homeschool students, the Kuder Journey helps you:

• Identify skills, interests, abilities, and values
• Find a cluster of careers that match your skills, interests, abilities, and values
• Prepare for post-secondary education
• Highlight specific programs based on interests and skills
• Focus on -
  • Specific career job descriptions
  • Job titles
  • General and detailed work activities
  • Specific tasks typical of the occupation
  • Working condition
  • Nature of the work
  • Important interests, abilities, skills, work values, and knowledge areas
  • Trends
  • Training
• Get information on -
  • Major areas of instruction
  • Specific instructional programs
  • College and school results
  • General homeschool students campus and student body information
  • Types of instructions or programs offered
  • Degree or certificate types offered or awarded
  • Graduation rate
  • Homeschool student application and admission factors and costs
  • Homeschool student costs and financial aid
• Search for jobs
• Create resume
• Build a portfolio or e-portfolio

For homeschool students, Kuder Journey has the following items -

• 3 job career tests
• College by major information
• Career job finder
• Career job descriptions
• Career portfolio
• Resume tutorial

Kuder Test Survey Career Tests

The Kuder Test Survey has three career tests for homeschool students -

• Career Search with Person Match
• Skills Test
• Super’s Work Values Inventory-Revised

Kuder Career Search with Person Match

The Kuder Career Search with Person Match is the Kuder General Interest Survey consisting of 60 questions.

The Kuder General Interest Survey report displays information on career cluster descriptions, and career profile database designed for homeschool students.

Kuder Skills Test

The Kuder Skills Test is a self-estimate of one’s abilities to perform work-related tasks. Kuder Skills Test consists of 90 multiple choice questions.

The results of the Kuder Skills Test match the interests, skills, and career clusters.

Super’s Work Values Inventory-Revised

The Super’s Work Values Inventory-Revised identifies which work characteristics are most important to the homeschool student test taker. The inventory consists of 72 multiple choice questions.

Super’s Work Values Inventory-Revised Report displays 12 work-related characteristics.

Career Test Reports

All reports provide homeschool students with suggestions for continued career exploration. Links from the tests are used to explore occupational listings by education level within each of the clusters.

Combining Results from Kuder Career Tests

• Kuder Test Survey Interests and Skills Composite Report – Once an individual completes both the interest and skills tests, a composite report compares the scores of the interests and skills tests. There are suggestions for further education and career exploration and planning. To view the composite report, click on the words Kuder Test Survey Interests and Skills Composite Report below the Kuder Test Results table.
• One-Page Summary Report – This report contains an outline of the most recent results for tests that have been completed. Access this report by clicking on the title below the Kuder Test Results table.

Kuder Online Portfolios

The Kuder Online Career Portfolio provides a gateway to lifelong career planning that allows individuals to store personal and academic information; search and save educational and occupational data; build resumés; and access results 24 hours a day.

The System features include:

• Education Planner – for planning coursework and tracking educational progress
• Planning Timeline – for guiding education and career planning
• Note Taker – for documenting the career development process
• Occupation Search and Career Comparison – for career exploration by cluster, title, or Holland Code
• College Major and Instructional Program Search – for learning more about a major as well as the postsecondary options within your state.
• College Search and Comparison – for researching approximately 7,000 post-secondary colleges, universities, education training centers, and other institutions.
• Financial Aid Information and Scholarship Search – for understanding your college financing options.
• Resumé Builder – for creating and managing multiple resumés.

My Career Profile – A Holland Career Self Assessment Test

Product Overview

The My Career Profile (MCP) has 4 career tests, a career database, and an educational program database specially designed to homeschool students.

The 4 career tests assess interests, values, skills, and personality styles. Benefits of the MCP tests are that the MCP tests are reusable. You can redo the tests as many times as you like. With most other tests, it is usually one-time use only.

The MCP helps you develop a list of potential careers. The MCP test results are matched to a list of careers. The My Career Profile lists careers that match the interests, values, skills, and personality. Some other tests provide limited lists, but the My Career Profile provides an extensive career list from a database of 1200+ occupations. From this database, you will find your dream job.

After selecting your career, it is important that you find the right educational program. You can get a career by attending a certificate, 2 year, and 4 year educational programs. In the MCP educational program database, you can find careers that require the completion of a certificate, 2 year, and four year educational programs.

If you are looking for
careers in a specific geographic area, the MCP allow you the option to search by region or state.

Finally, since the cost of education is a factor, the MCP educational program database search education programs according to college or other training program costs.

The My Career Profile Guidance System comes with a -

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

Self-Analysis System

1. My Interests Inventory

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

The Inventory provides a detailed description for each of the Holland Personality Types.

The Interests, Skills, Values, and Personality Inventories generate Occupational Lists.

You can access, review, and redo the Interests, Skills, Values, and Personality Inventories.

Research a Career Tool

Use the Research a Career database to find information on 1200+ occupations. Each Occupational List provides information on -

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

The Research a Career Tool allows you to research careers by name or Industry Group. The Industry Groups are -

• Architecture &
  Engineering
• Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media
• Building and Ground Cleaning and Maintenance
• Business and Financial Operations
• Community and Social Services
• Computer, Information Technology and Mathematics
• Construction and Extraction
• Education, Training and Library
• Farming, Fishing, and Forestry
• Food Preparation and Serving
• Healthcare Practitioners and Technology
• Healthcare Support
• Installation, Maintenance, and Repair
• Legal
• Life, Physical, and Social Science
• Management
• Veterans/ Military
• Office and Administrative Support
• Personal Care and
  Service
• Production
• Protective Service
• Sales and Related
• Transportation and Materials
  Moving

School Tool

The Interests, Skills, Values, and Personality Inventories generate School Lists. The School Tool obtains school from a database of 6000+ post-secondary institutions. The School Tool searches for schools according to the following criteria -

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

All career and school lists can be printed and saved for future reference.

2. My Values Inventory

Find out the things that are important to you, for example -

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

The My Values Inventory provides a detailed description for each of the Values.

The My Values Inventory matches occupations to your Values and generates Occupational Lists.

3. My Skills Inventory

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

The My Skills Inventory provides a detailed description for each of the Skills.

The My Skills Inventory matches occupations to your Skills and generates Occupational Lists.

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Start Year Off Right Career Test Sale

The following career tests are on sale -

• Career & Life Explorer
• Career Exploration Inventory
• Career Personality Inventory
• Career Values Inventory
• Guide for Occupational Exploration Interest Inventory
• PICS Career Survey
• Paint Careers With Colors Career Test & Color Key
• Transferable Skills Survey

Career and Life Explorer

Career and Life Explorer is a Holland Code assessment that uses:

• Appealing graphics
• Easy-to-follow instructions
• Proven career exploration principles
• Great information to get young people thinking about their future—and encourages them to stay in school, explore positive career and learning options, and dream big

Career and Life Explorer provides the following information:

• Start with “Uncover Career Clues.”
• Gather career information by looking at:
  • Who they admire
  • What they do well or enjoy doing
  • What are the key values
  • How important is money
  • What kinds of people they like to spend time with
  • How much education or training they would consider
  • What work environment they prefer, and more

• Step 2: Select top picks from among six Holland Code “Interest Groups”
• Step 3: Look up related jobs in a chart listing hundreds of job titles from the Occupational Outlook Handbook.
• Step 4: Use a “Discover Your Ideal Job” to write in key elements of their ideal job, including:
  • Values
  • Possible job titles
  • Skills
  • Education or training
  • Earnings
  • Other details

• Step 5: Use an Action Plan worksheet to help plan high school courses, extracurricular activities, and other life experiences.

Format: 5.5 x 8.5, 12-panel foldout
Reading Level: Grade 6
Interest Level: Grades 6 to 12

Regular Cost: $7 Sale Cost: $6

Career Exploration Inventory

Hollandcodes.com has information about the Career Exploration Inventory.

Career Exploration Inventory is a career interest inventory with career information and career planning information.The Career Exploration Inventory:

• Is easy to read, self-scoring, self-interpreting
• Gathers career information by looking at past, present, and future activities of your life. These areas include Work, Leisure, and Learning activities.
• Helps you identify Clusters and GOE Interest Areas
• Provides a list of related jobs in a chart listing hundreds of job titles, career salary, career research, and career information from the Occupational Outlook Handbook.
• Provides additional career resources
• Create an Action Plan
• Help you set Short Term, Medium Term, and Long Term Goals

The Career Exploration Inventory:

• Is backed by strong validity
• Uses proven career exploration principles.
• Directs cross-reference to GOE and O’Net job reference systems.

The Scores from the Career Exploration Inventory connect you to 16 GOE career interest areas or Career Clusters with:

• Related jobs
• Education and training options
• Leisure activities listed for each interest area

Format: 8.5 x 11, 12-panel foldout, self-scoring/self-interpreting, consumable, no other components needed.
Interest Level: High School-Adult

With each Career Cluster/GOE purchase, you will receive with free Career Cluster, GOE Code, and Holland Code cross-reference and Internet resource sheets.

Regular Cost: $7 Sale Cost: $6

Career Personality Inventory Based on the MBTI personality types

The Career Personality Inventory is -

• Self- scoring, self-interpreting, consumable, no other components needed
• Comparable results to the MBTI
• Match personality types to careers, work styles, skills, work environments, and work preferences with this easy-to-use assessment
• Is based on the MBTI personality types

The CPI uses a simple and innovative testing method requiring test takers to -

• Simply circle words that describe them
• Total the number of descriptors circled

The CPI then helps users consider how their personality relates to their careers by focusing on their top two traits.

Users can match their personality types to careers and work preferences.

Clients then use the career planning guide and worksheet to set goals and start their career research.

Valid and reliable, the CPI provides a powerful and cost-effective alternative to any organization using similar but more expensive personality inventories.

Product type: Printed booklet
Interest level: Middle School-High School
Pages Opens to 8-panel foldout
Size: 8.5 x 11

Regular Cost: $7 Sale Cost: $6

Career Values Inventory

The O*NET Career Values Inventory helps individuals explore over 900 O*NET job titles based on their work values and motivators.

Unlike the first edition of the Values Inventory which used a card sort to explore work values, the new edition uses an easier forced-choice method.

Consisting of only 36 items and taking less than 20 minutes to complete, this method provides accurate results in less time, as well as simplifies administration and scoring.

Once individuals have identified their most important work values, the inventory guides them to match their results to potential careers organized by both values and the preparation required (using the DOL’s five “job zones”). In depth suggestions for further research help individuals explore those careers, and a reproducible Job Information/Action Plan worksheet helps them pursue their goals.

The inventory is self-scoring and self-interpreting, takes less than thirty minutes to complete, and is based on decades of research.

Valid and reliable, this assessment is an ideal starting point for anyone engaging in career exploration.

Its incorporation of O*NET job titles also makes it highly compatible with a wide variety of occupational resources.The O*NET is changing. The Department of Labor is revising and streamlining the Occupational Information Network to better match the rapidly changing economy.

The Second Edition of the O*NET Career Values Inventory has been substantially revised. In addition to moving from a card sort to a forced choice mechanic, it will feature streamlined instructions, an updated list of resources, an improved job information worksheet, and job titles drawn directly from the latest version of the O*NET.

Regular Cost: $7 Sale Cost: $6

PICS Career Survey

The PICS Career Survey is a Picture Interest Test and an easy-to-do Holland Code assessment that uses 36 sets of 3 pictures as a quick way to –

• Explore their career interests
• Find a job that fits

The PICS Career Survey is an excellent career test for ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTS and for other people -

• Who are In ESL/GED programs
• Who have limited reading ability
• Who have limited knowledge of English
• Who are developmentally delayed
• Who are learning disabled
• Who have special needs
• Who have limited access to education
• Who are chronically unemployed

The PICS Interest Test -

• Takes less than fifteen minutes to complete and score
• Uses pictures of people at work
• Is self-administered and self-scored

To finish the Career Survey (PICS), you -

• Look at 36 sets of 3 pictures.
• Choose which of the three portrayed occupations seems most interesting.
• Total the number and kind of pictures selected.

As bonuses, with each purchase, you receive the Career Locator and Career Planning Worksheet.

The Career Locator matches Holland Code interest areas to 600 careers. Careers are placed in one of the following groups – Careers that require Short Term On-the-Job-Training, Moderate Term On-the-Job-Training, Long Term On-the-Job-Training, Associate Degree, Bachelor’s Degree, Professional Degree, and Postsecondary Vocational Training.

On the Career Planning Worksheet, you record information about education required, projected earning, job outlook, skills, and next step.Regular Cost: $8 Sale Cost: $6

Paint Careers With Colors Kids Career Test & Color Key

The Paint Careers With Colors Kids Job Test uses self-by-step activities, career games for Kids, and kids activities for career choices to highlight Holland Codes or Colors to Careers Codes. On each page, you choose the careers that you like or are interested in.
At the end of the job test for kids, you summarize your results. The Summary Sheet identifies your Holland Codes or Colors to Careers Codes.

The Paint Careers With Colors Kids Career Test comes with a Colors to Careers Career Model and Colors to Careers Code or Holland Code Descriptions. The Paint Careers With Colors Child Career Test is an excellent tool to introduce you to career exploration, Holland Codes, and Colors to Careers Codes. The graphics hold your attention as you identify your career interests.

The Colors to Careers Color Chart shows all of the information listed on the posters –

• Job Titles
• Career Color Codes
• 3 letter Holland Codes
• Colors to Careers Poster Numbers

Regular Cost: $15 Sale Cost: $10

Transferable Skills (TS) Survey

The TS Survey is a researched and validated assessment. The TS Survey is a short assessment that identifies an individual’s strongest soft (TS) skills skills. The eight (8) soft (TS) skills Skills are:

• Analytical
• Numerical
• Interpersonal
• Organizational
• Physical
• Informational
• Communicative
• Creative skills

The benefits of the TS Survey are -

• Complete in 20-25 minutes
• Is easy to use
• Has color-coded design
• Is Self-scoring and self-interpreting
• Can be used as both a career exploration guide and a job search strategy tool
• Includes suggested resources for career exploration as well as a worksheet for comparing possible careers
• Includes job titles from the most recent O*NET database
• Can be given to groups or individuals

The TS Survey has 5 sections -

1. Mark Your Answers
2. Add Your Scores
3. Interpret Your Scores
4. Identify Occupations that Match Your Skills
5. Explore Occupations that Match Your Skills

Regular Cost: $7 Sale Cost: $6

Guide for Occupational Exploration Interest Inventory (GOEII)

Guide for Occupational Exploration Interest Inventory -

• Has appealing graphics
• Is easy-to-follow instructions
• Is self-scoring
• Matches your Interests to 250 Occupational Outlook Handbook and 1,000 O*NET career jobs with career salary information, career research, and career information
• Is organized around 14 GOE career interest areas

Guide for Occupational Exploration Interest Inventory provides the following information from the ORIGINAL GOE System presented in the Guide for Occupational Exploration (3rd Edition):

.Step 1: Start with the following “14 Interest Areas or Career Clusters” -

1. GOE Code 1: Arts, Entertainment, and Media
2. GOE Code 2: Science, Math, Engineering
3. GOE Code 3: Plants and Animals
4. GOE Code 4: Law, Law Enforcement, and Public Security
5. GOE Code 5: Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers
6. Construction, Mining and Drilling
7. Transportation, Distribution & Logistics
8. GOE Code 6: Industrial Production
9. GOE Code 7: Business Detail
10. GOE Code 8: Sales &Marketing
11. GOE Code 9: Recreation, Travel and Other Personal Services
12. GOE Code 10: Education and Social Services
13. GOE Code 11: General Management and Support
14. Medical and Health Science

Step 2: Complete Inventory.
Step 3: Score profile.
Step 4: Use the “14 Interest Areas or Career Clusters” to Explore Career Options.
Step 5: Complete the Career Exploration Worksheet.
Step 6: Research career options.

Reading Level: Grade 8
Interest Level: Middle School-Adult

Regular Cost: $7 Sale Cost: $6

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Kid Career Exploration System $99.95 Sale!

Sale ends 12/24/10!

Overview

The Paint Careers With Colors System is VISUAL learning techniques and career test for kids that use colors to represent Holland Codes and Paint Careers With Colors Codes.The Paint Careers With Colors Kids Career System clarifies thoughts, integrates new knowledge, and promotes critical thinking. New concepts are more thoroughly and easily understood.

The Paint Careers With Colors Kids System organizes and analyzes information. Children, youth, and adults -

• See how Holland Codes are connected to careers
• Realize how careers can be grouped and organized

The Paint Careers With Colors System also improves –

• Attention Span and Concentration: holds audience’s attention and helps people absorb information
• Memory Skills and Understanding: improves ability to absorb information
• Speed of Learning: reduces the time it takes to complete career tests.

Use the Paint Careers With Colors System at -

• Schools
• Boys and Girls Clubs
• YMCA/ YWCA Programs
• Afterschool Programs
• Kids Go To Work Days
• Career Days
• Summer School Programs

The Paint Careers With Colors Kids System is an excellent career test for ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTS and for other people -

• Who are In ESL/GED programs
• Who have limited reading ability
• Who have limited knowledge of English
• Who are developmentally delayed
• Who are learning disabled
• Who have special needs
• Who have limited access to education
• Who are chronically unemployed

The Paint Careers With Colors System has the following items -

• Kids Career Test (Printed Version)
• Online Career Test & Self Scoring Calculator
• Colors to Careers Posters
• Color Key
• Poster Analyzer
• Starter Kit
• Career Resource Guide
• Guide to Unlock Your Potential
• Unlock Your Treasure Chest Guide to Career Exploration
• Training Manual
• Flash Cards and Bingo Cards
• CD ROM Collection
• FREE Certification or Preview Programs (With Bulk Career Tests or CD Collection Site Licensing Purchases)

Read about Paint Careers With Colors System -

• Overview
• Purpose and Rationale for the Paint Career With Colors System
• Description of the Paint Career With Colors System
• Components
• Primary Markets
• Market Competition and Special Features
• Literature Review
• Preview/ Certification Program
• CD ROM Collection
• FREE Certification or Preview Programs (With Bulk Career Tests or CD Collection Site Licensing Purchases)

In career awareness programs, students do not make premature career choices. Elementary school career education is not career exploration or career preparation. Elementary students remain open to new career ideas and possibilities. Elementary students build awareness of -

• Self
• Personal interactions
• School
• Workforce

Career awareness programs use age appropriate materials that match the developmental levels of the students. Age appropriate activities expose students to a variety of -

• Different jobs
• Career information sources
• The reasons why people work

Programs also incorporate academic career pathways into classroom activities.

After completing an elementary school career awareness program, students have -

• Higher grades
• Higher academic achievement
• Improved school involvement, as well as
• An increase in career awareness exploration, personal, and interpersonal skills

In addition, the students complete more complex courses and have a higher graduation rate from high school.

In summary, in elementary school career programs, students:

• Learn and apply the academic material
• Know and value self
• Build self-esteem and confidence
• Identify interests and build relationships between the school environment and the work force
• Build academic, communication, problem solving, and social skills
• Increase awareness of the need for future jobs skills
• See the connections between learning in school, academic skills, job related skills, and careers
• See career possibilities
• See themselves as a future contributor to the job force
• Receive empowerment
• Build self-determination (2,7,9)

Purpose and Rationale for the
Paint Career With Colors System

1. What does the Paint Career With Colors System measure?

The Paint Careers With Colors System measures -

• Interests
• Abilities
• Skills

2. What are the concepts or theories underlying the development of this Paint Career With Colors System?

Dr. John L. Holland (1985) created Holland Code Career Model, Holland Hexagon Model or Holland Codes.

The Holland Code Career Model matches jobs into -

• Job codes
• Interest clusters
• Work personality environments
• Personality types

The Occupational Codes are -

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

Holland Codes assessments provide -

• Career cluster information
• College major information
• Lists of careers
• Job finder resources

Description of the Paint Career With Colors System

1. What is the structure of the instrument?

The Paint Careers With Colors System is VISUAL learning techniques and career test for kids that use colors to represent Holland Codes.

The Paint Careers With Colors Kids Career Test clarifies thoughts, integrates new knowledge, and promotes critical thinking. New concepts are more thoroughly and easily understood.

The Paint Careers With Colors Kids Job Test organizes and analyzes information. Children, youth, and adults –

• See how Holland Codes are connected to careers
• Realize how careers can be grouped and organized

2. How many parts are there in career test?
The Paint Careers With Colors test has six sections.

3. What does each section measures?

Each section measures the one of the six RIASEC or Holland Codes.
4. How many items does the Paint Career With Colors System contain?

The Paint Careers With Colors has 54 items.

5. What type(s) of scores are generated?
2 – letter Holland Code

6. What is the format of the System?
The Paint Careers With Colors is a printed test. Group or individual administration? Paint Careers With Colors can be administered to groups and individuals.

7. What are the required response modes of the System?
Paper-and-pencil

8. What is the total estimated time required for administration?
Total estimated time is 30 minutes.

9. What is the proposed scoring procedure?
The Paint Careers With Colors is self – scoring. How long will it take to score the Paint Career With Colors System? Total scoring time is 5 minutes.

Components

1. What nonconsumable (i.e., reusable) components do you anticipate will be required for administering, scoring, and interpreting the Paint Career With Colors System? (e.g., System manuals, scoring keys, System plates, booklets, manipulatives)?

Paint Careers With Colors System contains –

• Career Model
• Table of Contents
• Starter Kit
• Facilitator’s Manual
• Overview and Introduction to Teachers, Counselors, and Parents
• Occupational Posters with Colorful Graphics
• Poster Instruction Sheets
• Color Chart
• Web Site and Book Resource Guide

2. Describe each of these components in terms of the anticipated production characteristics: page size, number of pages, color(s) of ink, special forms (e.g., multi-forms, self-carboning), extraordinary use of graphical images, line drawings, or other illustrations, etc.

The Paint Careers With Colors System is VISUAL career exploration System for children that use colors to represent Holland Codes.

Career Models
There are two models –

• RIASEC Version
• Paint Careers With Colors Version

The RIASEC Version is for Middle School students. For Middle School students, the RIASEC Version should be used with the Self-Directed Search Career Explorer. The Paint Careers With Colors Version uses easier – to – read terms for elementary school students.

Starter Kit

The Starter Kit helps teachers, counselors, and parents prepare for a Paint Careers With Colors System. The Starter Kit has the following items –

• News Release
• Flyers for children
• Flyers for teachers, counselors, and parents
• Tent Cards
• Name Tags
• Stickers for Tent Cards and Name Tags

Facilitator’s Manual

The Facilitator’s Manual provides detailed step-by-step instructions to administer and implement the different aspects of the Paint Careers With Colors Kids Program.

Overview and Introduction to Teachers, Counselors, and Parents

The Overview and Introduction to Teachers, Counselors, and Parents gives a description of the different parts of the Paint Careers With Colors System.

Career Test Guide

The System Guide provides teachers and counselors with step – by – step instructions for teachers and counselors.

Occupational Posters with Poster Instruction Sheets

Over three hundred (300) Colors to Careers Posters feature–

• Graphics
• Holland Codes
• Paint Careers With Colors Codes.

The Paint Careers With Colors Posters are Easy Scoring. You sort the posters quickly according to likes and dislikes. At the end of the poster sorting exercise, you will have your Holland Code and Paint Careers With Colors Code. The posters are an excellent way to explore careers. The poster shows you’re the relationship between Holland Codes, Paint Careers With Colors Codes, and careers.

Paint Careers With Colors Color Chart

The Paint Careers With Colors Color Chart shows all of the information listed on the posters –

• Job Titles
• Career Color Codes
• 3 letter Holland Codes
• Colors to Careers Poster Numbers

Web Site and Book Resource Guide

The Web Site and Book Resource Guide provides additional information about web site and books for children.

Primary Markets

1. What is the target population for the Paint Careers With Colors System (i.e., demographic characteristics such as age, gender, etc.)
The target population for the Paint Career With Colors System is elementary or middle school students.

Other individuals who use the Paint Careers With Colors include people –

• Who are In ESL/GED programs
• Who have limited reading ability
• Who have limited knowledge of English
• Who are developmentally delayed
• Who are learning disabled
• Who have special needs
• Who have limited access to education

2. What professional discipline(s) would be the potential purchasers and users of this System?

Professional disciplines include –

• Universities and college – Elementary school education and counseling professors
• Teaching – Teachers, tutors, and home educators
• Counseling – School counselors, career development facilitators, life coaches, and career coaches
• Child Development – After – School Instructors, Career Day Facilitators, and Community Agency Staff
• Social Services – Social workers, crisis counselors, and At – Risk Children Program Staff

3. Which settings would be appropriate for use of this System (e.g., schools, private clinics, hospitals, private practice, etc.)?<

Settings for the Paint Careers With Colors include –

• Schools
• Boys and Girls Clubs, YMCA/ YWCA Programs, and other community organizations
• Afterschool Programs
• Kids Go To Work Days
• Career Days
• Summer School Programs

Market Competition and Special Features

What other Systems are currently available that serve a similar function?

There is not a wide selection of Holland Code, visual, color-coded career systems available for elementary or middle school students.

Paint Careers With Colors Model

There are two versions – the RIASEC Version and the Children’s Version.

The RIASEC Version is for Middle School students. For Middle School students, the RIASEC Version should be used with the Self-Directed Search Career Explorer.

Paint Careers With Colors Kids Career Test

The Paint Careers With Colors Kids Job Test uses self-by-step activities, career games for Kids, and kids activities for career choices to highlight Holland Codes or Colors to Careers Codes. On each page, you choose the careers that you like or are interested in.
At the end of the job test for kids, you summarize your results. The Summary Sheet identifies your Holland Codes or Colors to Careers Codes.
The Paint Careers With Colors Kids Career Test comes with a Colors to Careers Career Model, Colors to Careers Code or Holland Code Descriptions, and Color Key. The Paint Careers With Colors Child Career Test is an excellent tool to introduce you to career exploration, Holland Codes, and Colors to Careers Codes. The graphics hold your attention as you identify your career interests.

Career Test comes with -

• Children Test
• Children Test Guide
• Photo Test
• Photo Test Guide
• RIASEC Test
• RIASEC Test Guide

The Career Tests are printed on heavy-weight glossy, durable paper!

Colors to Careers Posters

Over three hundred (300) Colors to Careers Posters feature graphics, Holland Codes, and Colors to Careers Codes. The Colors to Careers Posters are Easy Scoring. You sort the posters quickly according to likes and dislikes. At the end of the poster sorting exercise, you will have your Holland Code and Colors to Careers Code. The posters are an excellent way to explore careers. The poster shows you’re the relationship between Holland Codes, Color-to Careers Codes, and careers.

Career Posters comes with -

• Children Version
• Leaders Version
• RIASEC Version
• Photo Posters
• Poster Card Instruction Sheet-2009 – Photo Version
• Poster Card Instruction Sheet-2009 – RIASEC Version
• Poster Card Instruction Sheet-2009 – Children Version

Cost: $25/ Student

Colors to Careers Key

The Colors to Careers Color Chart shows information listed on the career tests and posters –

• Job Titles
• Paint Careers With Colors Codes
• 3 letter Holland Codes
• Paint Careers With Colors Poster Numbers

Color Key Charts are available in the following versions -

• Color Key-RIASEC Version
• Color Key-RIASEC Alphabetized Version
• Color Key-Children Version
• Color Key-Children2-Alphabetized Version
• Color Key-Photo Version
• Color Key-Photo-Alphabetized Version

Cost: $10/ Student

Paint Careers With Colors Poster Analyzer

The Analyzer program is an alternative to the paper and pencil model of RIASEC Paint Careers With Colors. The Analyzer will automatically produce the three let code based on the selection that the test taker provides.

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.

There is no more counting, tallying, or figuring.

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.
Cost: $20.00

Paint Careers With Colors Promotional Starter Kit

Use the Starter Kit to promote the Paint Careers With Colors System.The Starter Kit helps teachers, counselors, and parents prepare for a Paint Careers With Colors System. The Starter Kit has the following items –

• News Release
• Flyers for children
• Flyers for teachers, counselors, and parents
• Tent Cards
• Name Tags
• Stickers for Tent Cards and Name Tags

The flyers and News Release help to advertise the Program.

The News Release advertises the beginning of the Paint Careers With Colors System. Send out the News Release prior to starting the system.

The Children’s and Adult’s Flyers provide information about the Paint Careers With Colors System.

Use Name Tags and Tent Cards to identify children, students, teachers, counselors, or parents.

Individuals place stickers on Name Tags and Tent Cards. The Stickers lists the 6 Holland Codes or 6 Colors to Careers Codes. When the children or students have completed the Career Test, they will be instructed to place the correct labels on their Name Tags and Tent Cards. The Stickers identify each individual’s Holland Codes or Colors to Careers Codes.
Cost: $25/ Starter Kit

Career Resource Guide

The Career Resource Guide (Internet Resources for Teachers, Counselors, Parents, Adults, and Teens) includes additional information from the following areas –

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

The Career Resource Guide (Internet Resources for Teachers, Counselors, Parents, Adults, and Teens) covers -

1. Look at Exploring Careers Web Sites

• CURRICULUM
• CAREER INFORMATION
• SCIENCE CAREER GROUP
• SPECIFIC CAREERS — SCIENCE

2. Look at Exploring Careers Books
Cost: $10.00/ Student

Guide to Unlock Your Potential Curriculum 2009

This Guide to Unlock Your Potential Curriculum provides strategies –

• To motivate students to expand their knowledge of themselves and the world of work
• To empower students with the skills, knowledge, and support they need to enhance their career and personal development
• To encourage the discovery and refinement of students’ work values, interests and skills, as well as their academic and career planning

The contents of the Guide to Unlock Your Potential Curriculum are -

1. Outline
2. Introduction
3. Career Exploration

• THREE STEPS WITHIN THE CAREER PLANNING AND EXPLORATION PROCESS
• STEP ONE: AWARENESS, KNOWLEDGE, AND ASSESSMENT
  • Types of Career Planning Resources
  • Examples of Holland Codes Resources
  • Four Personal Styles
  • Holland Code Assessment
• STEP TWO: EDUCATIONAL AND OCCUPATIONAL EXPLORATION
  • Internet Career Exploration Resources
  • Career Book Resources
• STEP THREE: CAREER PLANNING
  • Holland Codes and College Majors
  • Resume Writing
  • Resume Writing Web Sites
  • Preparing for an Interview

4. Bibliography
5. Appendix

• Career Exploration and Planning
• Areas Influencing Career Planning and Exploration
• Expanded List of Areas Influencing Career Planning and Exploration
• Career and Vocational Knowledge
• Different Occupational Areas
• Career Exploration Exercise Results
• Additional Career Websites

Cost: $10/ Student

Unlock Your Treasure – Children

The Children’s version of the Unlock Your Treasure Chest Guide to Career Exploration is used in conjunction with the Self Directed Search Career Explorer and the Paint Careers With Colors System (Children’s and RIASEC Version).

The Unlock Your Treasure Chest Guide to Career Exploration has 3 sections:

• Guide to Exploring Careers
• Internet Resources for Teachers, Counselors, Parents, Adults, Kids and Children
• Visual Aids or Screenshots from the Unlock the Treasure Chest Guidebook

The Unlock Your Treasure Chest Guide to Career Exploration is for kids and children who need a manual that will guide them through the steps of exploring careers.

The topics included in the Unlock Your Treasure Chest Guide to Career Exploration are:

• Learning about Yourself
• Find the Secret Code
• Understand the Secret Code – The Holland Code
• Find Your Career Group
• Identify Careers Using Paint Careers With Colors System
• Identify Careers Using the Self Directed Search Career Explorer
• Explore Careers Using Career Web Sites
• Explore Career Using Career Books

Cost: $15/ Student

Training Manual

The Training Manual provides detailed step-by-step instructions to administer and implement the different aspects of the Paint Careers With Colors System. The Training Manual covers the following areas –1. Introduction (For Parents, Teachers, & Counselors)
2. Paint Careers With Colors System –

• Model
• Career Test
• Posters
• Color Key

3. Awareness & Assessment: Teacher, Counselor, & Parent Guide

• 3 Ways To Choose a Right Career Test For Your Child or Student
• Holland Career Self Assessment Tests
• Features Of Career Self Assessments Tests

4. Guide To Exploring Careers – For Children

• Learning About Yourself
• Day One: Meet Your Guides and Get Your Map
• Day Two: Meet John Holland, a Great Explorer
• Day Three: Find The Secret Code
• Day Four: Understand The Secret Code – The Paint Careers With Colors Code
• Day Five: Find Your Career Group
• Day Six: Get Your Holland Code.
• Day Seven: Get Your Career List
• Day Eight: Look at Exploring Careers Web Sites
• Day Nine: Look at Exploring Careers Books

5. Career Posters – Keys To Explore Holland Codes, Paint Careers With Colors Codes, and Careers
6. Day Ten: Look at Career Posters
7. Paint Careers With Colors Career Posters

• Preparation For Career Poster Activity
• Sorting By Likes And Dislikes
• Summary Sheet
• Final Review
• Highest Code Letters

8. Starter Kit
9. Visual Aids Or Screenshots For Teachers, Counselors, Or Parents
10. Flash Cards
Cost: $20/ Training Manual

Flash Cards and Bingo Cards Sets

The purpose of the Flash Cards and Bingo Cards are to help the students:

• Discover their interests, abilities, and skills.
• Find out what makes their personality tick.
• Explore careers with middle school students, children, and kids.
• Link careers to interests, abilities and skills.

Flash Card Set has -

• Flash Cards – Adults Version
• Flash Cards – Children Version

The Bingo Cards has -

• Bingo Card Set – Children Version
• Bingo Master – Children Version
• Bingo Master Cutouts – Children Version
• Bingo Instruction Sheet – Children Version
• Bingo Card Set – RIASEC Version
• Bingo Master – RIASEC Version
• Bingo Master Cutouts – RIASEC Version
• Bingo Instruction Sheet – RIASEC Version

Cost: $10/ Bingo Card/ Flash Card Set

Paint Careers With Colors CD ROM Collection

There are four (4) Paint Careers With Colors CD Collection.

• Foundational CD-ROM
• Bonus CD-ROM Number 1 – Training Resources
• Bonus CD-ROM Number 2 – Promotional Starter Kit Materials
• Bonus CD-ROM Number 3 – Holland Codes Toolkit
• Bonus CD-ROM Number 4 – Presentational Materials

Here is a detailed outline of the Paint Careers With Colors CD Collection.

Foundational CD-ROM

1. Career Test – Children & RIASEC – Revising

• Children Test
• Children Test Guide
• Photo Test
• Photo Test Guide
• RIASEC Test
• RIASEC Test Guide

2. Color Key

• Color Key -RIASEC Version
• Color Key –RIASEC Alphabetized Version
• Color Key-Children Version
• Color Key-Children2-Alphabetized Version
• Color Key-Photo . Version
• Color Key-Photo-Alphabetized Version

3. Posters

• Children Version
• Leaders Version
• RIASEC Version
• Photo Posters
• Poster Card Instruction Sheet-2009 – Photo Version
• Poster Card Instruction Sheet-2009 – RIASEC Version
• Poster Card Instruction Sheet-2009-children Version

4. Introduction

• Overview
• RIASEC VS Children Table
• Fact Sheets
• Paint Careers With Colors Wheel – Children
• Paint Careers With Colors Wheel – RIASEC
• RIASEC & Children Model Table

Bonus CD-ROM Number 1 – Training Resources

1. Career Resource Guide
2. Curriculum 2009
3. Unlock Your Treasure – Children
4. Training Manual
5. Mini-Posters – Children’s Version

• Mini Posters Labels
• Mini Posters Instructions
• Mini Posters Scoring Sheet

6. Career and Holland Game

Bonus CD-ROM Number 2 – Promotional Starter Kit Materials

1. Brochure
2. Labels – Children Codes
3. Labels – RIASEC Codes
4. Flyer – Adults
5. Flyer – Children
6. Name Tags
7. News Release
8. Poster
9. Tent Cards

Bonus CD-ROM Number 3 – Holland Codes Toolkit CD-ROM

1. Analyzer
2. Flash Cards

• Flash Cards – Adults Version
• Flash Cards – Children Version

3. Bingo Cards

• Bingo Card Set – Children Version
• Bingo Master – Children Version
• Bingo Master Cutouts – Children Version
• Bingo Instruction Sheet – Children Version
• Bingo Card Set – RIASEC Version
• Bingo Master – RIASEC Version
• Bingo Master Cutouts – RIASEC Version
• Bingo Instruction Sheet – RIASEC Version

There are FREE Certification or Preview Programs (With CD Collection Purchases).

End of Year Sale -Paint Careers With Colors Site Licensing Purchases

Teachers and counselors in the USA can purchase a single license that entitles all of their students to use the Paint Careers With Colors CD Collection. The cost is discounted to a very affordable rate.

There are FREE Certification or Preview Programs (With CD Collection Purchases).

Offer expires December 24, 2010!

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Christmas Sale on Job Career Tests

The following career tests are on sale -

• Career & Life Explorer
• Career Exploration Inventory
• Career Personality Inventory
• Career Values Inventory
• Guide for Occupational Exploration Interest Inventory
• PICS Career Survey
• Paint Careers With Colors Career Test & Color Key
• Transferable Skills Survey

Career and Life Explorer

Career and Life Explorer is a Holland Code assessment that uses:

• Appealing graphics
• Easy-to-follow instructions
• Proven career exploration principles
• Great information to get young people thinking about their future—and encourages them to stay in school, explore positive career and learning options, and dream big

Career and Life Explorer provides the following information:

• Start with “Uncover Career Clues.”
• Gather career information by looking at:
  • Who they admire
  • What they do well or enjoy doing
  • What are the key values
  • How important is money
  • What kinds of people they like to spend time with
  • How much education or training they would consider
  • What work environment they prefer, and more

• Step 2: Select top picks from among six Holland Code “Interest Groups”
• Step 3: Look up related jobs in a chart listing hundreds of job titles from the Occupational Outlook Handbook.
• Step 4: Use a “Discover Your Ideal Job” to write in key elements of their ideal job, including:
  • Values
  • Possible job titles
  • Skills
  • Education or training
  • Earnings
  • Other details

• Step 5: Use an Action Plan worksheet to help plan high school courses, extracurricular activities, and other life experiences.

Format: 5.5 x 8.5, 12-panel foldout
Reading Level: Grade 6
Interest Level: Grades 6 to 12

Regular Cost: $7 Sale Cost: $5

Career Exploration Inventory

Hollandcodes.com has information about the Career Exploration Inventory.

Career Exploration Inventory is a career interest inventory with career information and career planning information.The Career Exploration Inventory:

• Is easy to read, self-scoring, self-interpreting
• Gathers career information by looking at past, present, and future activities of your life. These areas include Work, Leisure, and Learning activities.
• Helps you identify Clusters and GOE Interest Areas
• Provides a list of related jobs in a chart listing hundreds of job titles, career salary, career research, and career information from the Occupational Outlook Handbook.
• Provides additional career resources
• Create an Action Plan
• Help you set Short Term, Medium Term, and Long Term Goals

The Career Exploration Inventory:

• Is backed by strong validity
• Uses proven career exploration principles.
• Directs cross-reference to GOE and O’Net job reference systems.

The Scores from the Career Exploration Inventory connect you to 16 GOE career interest areas or Career Clusters with:

• Related jobs
• Education and training options
• Leisure activities listed for each interest area

Format: 8.5 x 11, 12-panel foldout, self-scoring/self-interpreting, consumable, no other components needed.
Interest Level: High School-Adult

With each Career Cluster/GOE purchase, you will receive with free Career Cluster, GOE Code, and Holland Code cross-reference and Internet resource sheets.

Regular Cost: $7 Sale Cost: $5

Career Personality Inventory Based on the MBTI personality types

The Career Personality Inventory is -

• Self- scoring, self-interpreting, consumable, no other components needed
• Comparable results to the MBTI
• Match personality types to careers, work styles, skills, work environments, and work preferences with this easy-to-use assessment
• Is based on the MBTI personality types

The CPI uses a simple and innovative testing method requiring test takers to -

• Simply circle words that describe them
• Total the number of descriptors circled

The CPI then helps users consider how their personality relates to their careers by focusing on their top two traits.

Users can match their personality types to careers and work preferences.

Clients then use the career planning guide and worksheet to set goals and start their career research.

Valid and reliable, the CPI provides a powerful and cost-effective alternative to any organization using similar but more expensive personality inventories.

Product type: Printed booklet
Interest level: Middle School-High School
Pages Opens to 8-panel foldout
Size: 8.5 x 11

Regular Cost: $7 Sale Cost: $5

Career Values Inventory

The O*NET Career Values Inventory helps individuals explore over 900 O*NET job titles based on their work values and motivators.

Unlike the first edition of the Values Inventory which used a card sort to explore work values, the new edition uses an easier forced-choice method.

Consisting of only 36 items and taking less than 20 minutes to complete, this method provides accurate results in less time, as well as simplifies administration and scoring.

Once individuals have identified their most important work values, the inventory guides them to match their results to potential careers organized by both values and the preparation required (using the DOL’s five “job zones”). In depth suggestions for further research help individuals explore those careers, and a reproducible Job Information/Action Plan worksheet helps them pursue their goals.

The inventory is self-scoring and self-interpreting, takes less than thirty minutes to complete, and is based on decades of research.

Valid and reliable, this assessment is an ideal starting point for anyone engaging in career exploration.

Its incorporation of O*NET job titles also makes it highly compatible with a wide variety of occupational resources.The O*NET is changing. The Department of Labor is revising and streamlining the Occupational Information Network to better match the rapidly changing economy.

The Second Edition of the O*NET Career Values Inventory has been substantially revised. In addition to moving from a card sort to a forced choice mechanic, it will feature streamlined instructions, an updated list of resources, an improved job information worksheet, and job titles drawn directly from the latest version of the O*NET.

Regular Cost: $7 Sale Cost: $5

PICS Career Survey

The PICS Career Survey is a Picture Interest Test and an easy-to-do Holland Code assessment that uses 36 sets of 3 pictures as a quick way to –

• Explore their career interests
• Find a job that fits

The PICS Career Survey is an excellent career test for ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTS and for other people -

• Who are In ESL/GED programs
• Who have limited reading ability
• Who have limited knowledge of English
• Who are developmentally delayed
• Who are learning disabled
• Who have special needs
• Who have limited access to education
• Who are chronically unemployed

The PICS Interest Test -

• Takes less than fifteen minutes to complete and score
• Uses pictures of people at work
• Is self-administered and self-scored

To finish the Career Survey (PICS), you -

• Look at 36 sets of 3 pictures.
• Choose which of the three portrayed occupations seems most interesting.
• Total the number and kind of pictures selected.

As bonuses, with each purchase, you receive the Career Locator and Career Planning Worksheet.

The Career Locator matches Holland Code interest areas to 600 careers. Careers are placed in one of the following groups – Careers that require Short Term On-the-Job-Training, Moderate Term On-the-Job-Training, Long Term On-the-Job-Training, Associate Degree, Bachelor’s Degree, Professional Degree, and Postsecondary Vocational Training.

On the Career Planning Worksheet, you record information about education required, projected earning, job outlook, skills, and next step.Regular Cost: $8 Sale Cost: $5

Paint Careers With Colors Kids Career Test & Color Key

The Paint Careers With Colors Kids Job Test uses self-by-step activities, career games for Kids, and kids activities for career choices to highlight Holland Codes or Colors to Careers Codes. On each page, you choose the careers that you like or are interested in.
At the end of the job test for kids, you summarize your results. The Summary Sheet identifies your Holland Codes or Colors to Careers Codes.

The Paint Careers With Colors Kids Career Test comes with a Colors to Careers Career Model and Colors to Careers Code or Holland Code Descriptions. The Paint Careers With Colors Child Career Test is an excellent tool to introduce you to career exploration, Holland Codes, and Colors to Careers Codes. The graphics hold your attention as you identify your career interests.

The Colors to Careers Color Chart shows all of the information listed on the posters –

• Job Titles
• Career Color Codes
• 3 letter Holland Codes
• Colors to Careers Poster Numbers

Regular Cost: $15 Sale Cost: $7.50

RIASEC Version

Transferable Skills (TS) Survey

The TS Survey is a researched and validated assessment. The TS Survey is a short assessment that identifies an individual’s strongest soft (TS) skills skills. The eight (8) soft (TS) skills Skills are:

• Analytical
• Numerical
• Interpersonal
• Organizational
• Physical
• Informational
• Communicative
• Creative skills

The benefits of the TS Survey are -

• Complete in 20-25 minutes
• Is easy to use
• Has color-coded design
• Is Self-scoring and self-interpreting
• Can be used as both a career exploration guide and a job search strategy tool
• Includes suggested resources for career exploration as well as a worksheet for comparing possible careers
• Includes job titles from the most recent O*NET database
• Can be given to groups or individuals

The TS Survey has 5 sections -

1. Mark Your Answers
2. Add Your Scores
3. Interpret Your Scores
4. Identify Occupations that Match Your Skills
5. Explore Occupations that Match Your Skills

Regular Cost: $7 Sale Cost: $5

Guide for Occupational Exploration Interest Inventory (GOEII)

Guide for Occupational Exploration Interest Inventory -

• Has appealing graphics
• Is easy-to-follow instructions
• Is self-scoring
• Matches your Interests to 250 Occupational Outlook Handbook and 1,000 O*NET career jobs with career salary information, career research, and career information
• Is organized around 14 GOE career interest areas

Guide for Occupational Exploration Interest Inventory provides the following information from the ORIGINAL GOE System presented in the Guide for Occupational Exploration (3rd Edition):

.Step 1: Start with the following “14 Interest Areas or Career Clusters” -

1. GOE Code 1: Arts, Entertainment, and Media
2. GOE Code 2: Science, Math, Engineering
3. GOE Code 3: Plants and Animals
4. GOE Code 4: Law, Law Enforcement, and Public Security
5. GOE Code 5: Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers
6. Construction, Mining and Drilling
7. Transportation, Distribution & Logistics
8. GOE Code 6: Industrial Production
9. GOE Code 7: Business Detail
10. GOE Code 8: Sales &Marketing
11. GOE Code 9: Recreation, Travel and Other Personal Services
12. GOE Code 10: Education and Social Services
13. GOE Code 11: General Management and Support
14. Medical and Health Science

Step 2: Complete Inventory.
Step 3: Score profile.
Step 4: Use the “14 Interest Areas or Career Clusters” to Explore Career Options.
Step 5: Complete the Career Exploration Worksheet.
Step 6: Research career options.

Reading Level: Grade 8
Interest Level: Middle School-Adult

Regular Cost: $7 Sale Cost: $5

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Assess Your Interests, Explore Careers

Steps to Successful Career Planning

Find the Right College Major!

Career Exploration: Link Interests & Careers

Discover Your Career Interest Areas!

Take the MCP Challenge!

Build Self Awareness

TEST DRIVE YOUR CAREER TEST! YOU HAVE THE KEYS!

New Revised Self Directed Search Occupations Finder

The New Self Directed Search 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. The Self-Directed Search Form R Occupations Finder has a list of 1,309 occupations matched to Holland Codes.

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Career Services Plants Seeds of Purpose in Student Minds

Submitted by Staff Report on September 13, 2010 – 5:30 pm

By Keleigh Norman

Dr. Mary Askew presents at the Lunch N’ Learn

Career Services presented its first Lunch & Learn session on Monday, Sept. 13, in McKinley Hall in the Student Union.

Dr. Mary Askew was the first presenter of a larger series planned to introduce FOCUS, an online resource that enables students to take a test that compares various qualities and desires, eventually compiling a range of careers worth exploring.

Every student left the Lunch & Learn feeling more prepared and more inspired. Askew, an adviser with Career Services at GCU, illustrated a poignant picture of what a new college student’s future might look like without a purpose. She urged students to search for their destiny and challenge themselves on a daily basis.

“I already know what I want to do with my life, but I’ve been considering a minor,” said freshman Tania Jaramillo. “I understand now that a test is available to help me narrow down my search.”

The session provided facts as well as tools for students to use to find their purpose and be better equipped to make important decisions.

“I would like to see more students take advantage of these Lunch & Learn opportunities,” said Constance Ady, executive administrative assistant to the dean of the College of Education.

Askew closed her presentation with the statement, “You need to focus on your destiny.” Whatever the future may hold for these young students, they now have more resources to use in focusing on it.

The next Lunch & Learn, scheduled for noon on Sept. 20, will help students in crafting a personal mission statement.

Keleigh Norman is a GCU freshman in secondary education with a specialty in English studies. She is a student worker in the Career Services Center.

Source: http://herd.gcu.edu/2010/09/career-services-plants-seeds-of-purpose-in-student-minds/

Herd on Campus:Career Services Offers Find Your Purpose Lunch & Learn Sept. 13

Submitted by Zane Ewton on September 10, 2010 – 11:14 am
By Zane Ewton
Communications Staff

“We have received seeds of destiny, seeds of purpose. When we are born, each one of us possesses seeds – interests, abilities, skills and talents.”
-       “Seeds of Destiny” by Dr. Mary Askew

Dr. Mary Askew, GCU’s career services adviser, found her purpose in helping others find their own. As a nutritionist, a homemaker and now a career adviser, she has worked to provide people with all the food they need to fulfill their purpose.

“I believe everyone has a purpose and a destiny and it is important to discover it,” she says. “This is an important time for young people to find what they want out of life. It’s not what you do, it’s who you are.”

Dr. Mary Askew and Jacqueline Smith

In 2004, Askew helped pilot the Career Services Center at GCU. She earned degrees in nutrition at Hampton (Va.) University and Howard University (Washington, D.C.). She earned her doctorate in career development at Logos Bible College (Jacksonville, Fla.).She believes she found her destiny and purpose at GCU.

Askew will be the presenter at the first Career Services Lunch & Learn on Monday, Sept. 13. The event will follow Chapel and will be held in McKinley Hall in the Student Union. The topic: Find Your Purpose.

Career Services will unveil the FOCUS-2 program, an interactive online tool to help students evaluate their interests, values, preferences and skills, then measure that against college major interests and career goals.

Career Services Director Jacqueline Smith says the in-depth program will be an invaluable tool for all students at GCU, both on campus and online. According to Smith, the program is much deeper and broader than the Holland Codes and other similar career-guidance tools.

“FOCUS measures a person’s readiness,” Smith says. “Students can make sure they are on the right path. The more they know about themselves, the more they can feel confident in their decisions.”

Career Services Lunch & Learns are currently capped at 70 students. They are first come, first served.

Upcoming events include:

• Sept. 20 – Creating a personal mission statement with Robin Hanson
• Oct. 4 – Social media tips with Robyn Itule
• Nov. 8 – From Rags to Enrichment with Brenda Combs

For more information, visit Career Services in the Student Union, or call 602.639.6606 or toll-free 877.610.5506, or email careerservices@gcu.edu.

Follow Career Services on Facebook at Facebook – Career Services.

Visit the Career Services website at www.gcu.edu/gcucareerservices.

Contact Zane Ewton at 602.639.7086 or zewton@gcu.edu.

Source: http://herd.gcu.edu/2010/09/career-services-offers-find-your-purpose-lunch-learn-sept-13/

Creating a Career Portfolio

Career Portfolios

The Importance of Career Planning When in School

Career portfolios focus on the importance of career planning in school. What are career interest portfolios?

A career interest portfolio is -

• Snap shot of the interests, abilities, and skills
• Diary that lists your goals, dreams, and visions
• Log book for career exploration and planning
• Guidebook to future career planning
• Storybook of your lifetime journey

Career interest portfolios are self awareness or occupational exploration portfolios. These portfolios provide guidance in completing the three steps of the career planning process –

• Self-Knowledge
• Educational and Occupational Exploration
• Career Planning

Self-knowledge deals with our self-concept, interpersonal skills, growth, and development.

Educational and occupational exploration reveals 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.

A Career interest portfolio lists -

• Career test results
• Career interests -What you like to do
• Skills – Activities that you do well
• Values – Beliefs that are important to you
• Favorite subjects
• Favorite activities and hobbies
• Career experiences: Field trips, interviews with people at work, and interactions with mentors or key resource people
• Future job possibilities

A career interest portfolio helps you -

• Highlight your interests, abilities, and skills
• Recognize your strengths
• See the relationships between extracurricular activities and career goals
• Learn about world of work
• Open your eyes to new job opportunities
• Identify workplace skills
• List your career exploration objectives
• Focus on achieving the right career objectives
• Set realistic achievable goals
• Make educational and career plans

The career interest portfolio is an excellent aid for students. Education, learning, and training serve as the bridge between school and world of work. School is a time of transition. A career interest portfolio serves as a journal to record special activities and events.

The career interest portfolio helps students -

• Increase self awareness
• Expand knowledge of careers
• Improve career exploration and planning skills
• Develop motivation and self confidence

Career interest portfolios provide students with awesome opportunities to gain self awareness as well as to explore and understand the world of work.

Use the career interest portfolios with the Paint Careers With Colors Career Tests.

There are two (2) career assessments that have career portfolios -

• Kuder Career Planning Survey – For Adults and College Student
• Paint Careers With Colors – Middle School Students

Career Exploration Steps Two and Three

Step One: Self Awareness

Keys to Successful Career Planning

Tips from a University Career Advisor

We are all looking for ways to identify our interests, abilities, and goals. We read that career assessments and tests are helpful. Yet, taking a career assessment or test is just one of the five keys in the Career Planning Process.

Key One: Career Assessment and Awareness

We take career assessment or test to gain knowledge and understanding of our abilities, ambitions, aptitudes, identities, interests, life goals, resources, skills, and values. We learn different types of career assessments or tests –

• Computerized
• Online
• Printed

Sometimes, we need assistance deciding which test is best!

Are we decided or undecided?

• We can be decided yet we might need confirmation
• We may lack the skills to implement our choices
• We may also choose to avoid making a decision because we do not want to create a stressful situation.

Holland Code Career Tests

Career tests help us transition from indecision to decisiveness. Holland Code career tests are among one of
the most popular career tests. Holland Code career test are based upon the Holland Career Model.

Holland Career Model

Holland Career Model classifies jobs into job categories, interest clusters, and work environments.

In the Holland Career Model, people have interests in working in one of the six Holland Code areas –

· People	· Things
· Data	· Ideas
· People and ideas	· Ideas and things
· Things and data

These Holland Career Model areas are matched to Holland Codes –

Holland Career Model Areas	Holland Codes	Holland Code Letters
Things	Realistic	R
Ideas and things	Investigative	I
People and ideas	Artistic	A
People	Social	S
People and data	Enterprising	E
Things and data	Conventional	C

Holland Code career tests link vocational interests to job families.

The career test generates a three-letter or two-letter RIASEC or Holland code.

Different Holland Code assessments provide information on the relationship between these job personalities and key characteristics, college majors, hobbies, abilities, related careers.

Examples of Holland Code career tests are –

Comprehensive, Validated, Reliable Tests –

• MCP – My Career Profile
• Self Directed Search
• Strong Interest Inventory

Low Cost, Informal Tests –

• Strong Interest Explorer
• RIASEC Inventory
• Career Interests Inventory

Children, Limited Reading Ability, or Special Needs Tests –

• Paint Careers With Colors System (Children’s or RIASEC Versions)
• Picture Interest Career Survey

Key Two: Educational and Occupational Exploration

Once we take the career test, we become career explorers. We gather information about –

• Educational choices
• Benefits of educational achievement
• Economy or labor market
• Occupational choices
• Specific occupations and programs of study
• Training opportunities
• Relationship between work and learning
• Positive attitudes towards work and learning
• Personal responsibility and good work habits
• A typical working day for a specific occupation

Career guidance systems, for example, MCP – My Career Profile or the Kuder Career Planning System have the educational and occupational exploration features built into the system. This reduces time spent locating information from different career web sites.

Key Three: Problem solving

Using the information from the career tests and websites, we solve career problems by –

• Identifying educational and career planning obstacles
• Creating solutions or courses of action
• Setting achievable goals
• Resolving conflict and tension
• Making a commitment to reach our God-given potential

As we solve problems, we take into consideration personal values, interests, skills, and financial resources. We break big problems down into smaller, more manageable steps. We set achievable goals result to produce new competencies, attitudes, and solutions. We consider new educational and training opportunities.

Key Four: Goal Setting and Decision Making

Goal setting is a very important key. During the goal setting process, we –

• Clearly restate our vocational interests, abilities, and values
• Set, formulate, prioritize, and rank goals
• 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

In executing decision-making processes, we –

• Develop learning and career plans
• Identify suitable occupations
• Select appropriate educational programs
• Figure the costs of educational training
• Consider the impact of career decisions

Key Five: Implementation

After awareness, exploration, problem solving, and goal setting, we have to plan our plans in action. While implementing and executing our learning and career plans, we translate vocational interests, abilities, and skills into occupational possibilities. We do reality testing through interviewing current workers, job shadowing, part-time employment, full-time employment, and volunteer work. We obtain skill training, for example, social skills, resume writing, networking, and preparations for interviews.

When we use all of the keys for successful career planning, we will develop our interests, achieve our goals, and find careers that utilize our potentials.

Dr. Mary Askew specializes in career tests, websites, and books for students.  Students and adults need easy to use, yet comprehensive career resources. Find out how students and adults can reach their career potentials at http://www.hollandcodes.com. Contact Dr. Askew at learning4life.az@gmail.com.

Favorite Career Questions

Hollandcodes.com loves receiving calls and e-mails from our customers.

Here are some of the favorite questions -

• Which test is the right test for -

• High school students
• College Students
• Career changers
• People re-entering the workforce

• What is the difference between a career test and a career planning guidance system?
• What are the features of the different tests?

• Is the Self Directed Search available on-line? Or printed?
• Is the Strong Interest Inventory available on-line? Or printed?
• What does the Kuder Career Planning Survey have?

• What are the meaning of the Holland Code scores?
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Middle School Career Tests

for Teachers, Counselors, and Parents

Middle school teachers and counselors prefer VISUAL learning techniques and vibrant kid career resources. Teachers and counselors are looking for products that clarify thoughts, integrate new knowledge, and promote critical thinking. Teachers and counselors present new information so that the concepts are more thoroughly and easily understood.

Middle school career education tools should improve –

• Attention Span and Concentration: holds audience’s attention and helps people absorb information
• Memory Skills and Understanding: improves ability to absorb information
• Speed of Learning: reduces the time it takes to complete career tests.

Middle school career education tools introduce your students careers and interests. The graphics and visuals hold your students’ attention. The tools uses career kid self-by-step activities, tests, posters, games, and activities. Middle school career resources provide excellent ways to explore careers. The resources show the relationship between interest areas and careers.

Middle school career awareness programs use age appropriate materials that match the developmental levels of the students. Age appropriate activities expose students to a variety of –

• Different jobs
• Career information sources
• The reasons why people work

Programs also incorporate academic career pathways into classroom activities. After completing an middle school career awareness program, students have –

• Higher grades
• Higher academic achievement
• Improved school involvement, as well as
• An increase in career awareness exploration, personal, and interpersonal skills

In addition, the students complete more complex courses and have a higher graduation rate from high school.

Hollandcodes.com provides information about middle school career tests, career assessment tests, career exploration classroom activities, career planning curriculum, educational career assessments, kids games, kids activities, and educational resources. These resources are aligned with the following National Career Development Guidelines.  Hollandcodes.com sells the following kid career tests or career test activities –

• Self Directed Search Career Explorer (SDS CE)
• PICS Interest Career Survey
• Paint Careers With Colors System

Self Directed Search Career Explorer Assessment and Finder

The Self Directed Search is –

• Easy to use, printed – Complete the career self assessment test in 30 minutes.
• Tested, proven, and dependable – Used by over 22 million people worldwide.
• An excellent, introductory resource

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

The SDS Career Explorer has kids activities.

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

PICS Interest Career Survey

The PICS Interest Career Survey is a middle school career test, Picture Interest Test, and an easy-to-do Holland Code assessment that uses 36 sets of 3 pictures as a quick way to –

• Explore their career interests
• Find a job that fits

The PICS Career Survey (PICS) is an excellent kid career test for ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTS and for other people –

• Who are In ESL/GED programs
• Who have limited reading ability
• Who have limited knowledge of English
• Who are developmentally delayed
• Who are learning disabled
• Who have special needs
• Who have limited access to education
• Who are chronically unemployed

The Picture Interest Test –

• Takes less than fifteen minutes to complete and score
• Uses pictures of people at work
• Is self-administered and self-scored

To finish the PICS Career Survey, you –

• Look at 36 sets of 3 pictures.
• Choose which of the three portrayed occupations seems most interesting.
• Total the number and kind of pictures selected.

As bonuses, with each purchase, you receive the Career Locator and Career Planning Worksheet.

The Career Locator matches Holland Code interest areas to 600 careers. Careers are placed in one of the following groups – Careers that require Short Term On-the-Job-Training, Moderate Term On-the-Job-Training, Long Term On-the-Job-Training, Associate Degree, Bachelor’s Degree, Professional Degree, and Postsecondary Vocational Training.

On the Career Planning Worksheet, you record information about education required, projected earning, job outlook, skills, and next step.

Paint Careers With Colors Kid Career Test

The Paint Careers With Colors System is a kid career test that introduces you to interests, Holland Codes, and careers. There are two versions of the kid career test –

• RIASEC Version
• Children’s Version

The RIASEC Version is for Middle School students. For Middle School students, the RIASEC Version should be used with the Self-Directed Search Career Explorer.

The Paint Careers With Colors Kids Job Test uses self-by-step activities, career games for Kids, and kids activities for career choices to highlight Holland Codes or Colors to Careers Codes. On each page, you choose the careers that you like or are interested in.

At the end of the career test for kids, you summarize your results. The Summary Sheet identifies your Holland Codes or Colors to Careers Codes.

The Paint Careers With Colors Kids Career Test comes with a Colors to Careers Career Model and Colors to Careers Code or Holland Code Descriptions. The Paint Careers With Colors Child Career Test is an excellent tool to introduce you to career exploration, Holland Codes, and Colors to Careers Codes. The graphics hold your attention as you identify your career interests. Career Test comes with –

• Children Test
• Children Test Guide
• Photo Test
• Photo Test Guide
• RIASEC Test
• RIASEC Test Guide

In summary, in middle school career programs, students:

• Learn and apply the academic material
• Know and value self
• Build self-esteem and confidence
• Identify interests and build relationships between the school environment and the work force
• Build academic, communication, problem solving, and social skills
• Increase awareness of the need for future jobs skills
• See the connections between learning in school, academic skills, job related skills, and careers
• See career possibilities
• See themselves as a future contributor to the job force
• Receive empowerment
• Build self-determination

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Printable Worksheets

for Elementary/ Middle School Career Awareness and Career Exploration

Overview

The elementary career education printable worksheets are VISUAL learning techniques, and career test for kids that use colors to represent Holland Codes and Paint Careers With Colors Codes. The career education printable worksheets clarify thoughts, integrate new knowledge, and promote critical thinking. New concepts are more thoroughly and easily understood. The worksheets organize and analyze information. Children, youth, and adults -

• See how Holland Codes are connected to careers
• Realize how careers can be grouped and organized

The Paint Careers With Colors System also improves –

• Attention Span and Concentration: holds audience’s attention and helps people absorb information
• Memory Skills and Understanding: improves ability to absorb information
• Speed of Learning: reduces the time it takes to complete career tests.

Use the career education printable worksheets at -

• Schools
• Boys and Girls Clubs
• YMCA/ YWCA Programs
• Afterschool Programs
• Kids Go To Work Days
• Career Days
• Summer School Programs

The Paint Careers With Colors Kids System has an excellent printable worksheets and a career test for ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTS and for other people -

• Who are In ESL/GED programs
• Who have limited reading ability
• Who have limited knowledge of English
• Who are developmentally delayed
• Who are learning disabled
• Who have special needs
• Who have limited access to education
• Who are chronically unemployed

The Paint Careers With Colors System has the following items -

• Kids Career Test (Printed Version)
• Bulk Kids Career Tests (Printed Version)
• Online Career Test & Self Scoring Calculator
• Colors to Careers Posters
• Color Key
• Poster Analyzer
• Starter Kit
• Career Resource Guide
• Guide to Unlock Your Potential
• Unlock Your Treasure Chest Guide to Career Exploration
• Training Manual
• Flash Cards and Bingo Cards
• CD ROM Collection
• FREE Certification or Preview Programs (With Bulk Career Tests or CD Collection Site Licensing Purchases)

Read about Paint Careers With Colors System

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• Overview
• Purpose and Rationale for the Paint Career With Colors System
• Description of the Paint Career With Colors System
• Components
• Primary Markets
• Market Competition and Special Features
• Literature Review
• Preview/ Certification Program
• Bulk Career Tests Prices
• CD ROM Collection
• FREE Certification or Preview Programs (With Bulk Career Tests or CD Collection Site Licensing Purchases)
• Price Quote Forms

In career awareness programs, students do not make premature career choices. Elementary school career education is not career exploration or career preparation. Elementary students remain open to new career ideas and possibilities. Elementary students build awareness of -

• Self
• Personal interactions
• School
• Workforce

Career awareness programs use age appropriate materials and printable worksheets that match the developmental levels of the students. Age appropriate printable worksheets expose students to a variety of -

• Different jobs
• Career information sources
• The reasons why people work

Programs also incorporate academic career pathways into printable worksheets and classroom activities. After completing elementary school career awareness printable worksheets, students have -

• Higher grades
• Higher academic achievement
• Improved school involvement, as well as
• An increase in career awareness exploration, personal, and interpersonal skills

In addition, the students complete more complex courses and have a higher graduation rate from high school. In summary, using elementary school career education printable worksheets, students:

• Learn and apply the academic material
• Know and value self
• Build self-esteem and confidence
• Identify interests and build relationships between the school environment and the work force
• Build academic, communication, problem solving, and social skills
• Increase awareness of the need for future jobs skills
• See the connections between learning in school, academic skills, job related skills, and careers
• See career possibilities
• See themselves as a future contributor to the job force
• Receive empowerment
• Build self-determination (2,7,9)

Purpose and Rationale for the Paint Career With Colors Printable Worksheets

1. What does the Paint Career With Colors Printable Worksheets measure? The Paint Careers With Colors Printable Worksheets measures -

• Interests
• Abilities
• Skills

2. What are the concepts or theories underlying the development of this Paint Career With Colors Printable Worksheets? Dr. John L. Holland (1985) created Holland Code Career Model, Holland Hexagon Model or Holland Codes. The Holland Code Career Model matches jobs into -

• Job codes
• Interest clusters
• Work personality environments
• Personality types

The Occupational Codes are -

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

Holland Codes assessments provide -

• Career cluster information
• College major information
• Lists of careers
• Job finder resources

Description of the Paint Career With Colors Printable Worksheets

1. What is the structure of the instrument? The Paint Careers With Colors Printable Worksheets are VISUAL learning techniques and career test for kids that use colors to represent Holland Codes. The Paint Careers With Colors Kids Career Test and printable worksheets clarify thoughts, integrate new knowledge, and promote critical thinking. New concepts are more thoroughly and easily understood. The Paint Careers With Colors Kids Job Test and printable worksheets organizes and analyzes information. Children, youth, and adults –

• See how Holland Codes are connected to careers
• Realize how careers can be grouped and organized

2. How many parts are there in career test? The Paint Careers With Colors test printable worksheets have six sections. 3. What does each section measures? Each section measures the one of the six RIASEC or Holland Codes. 4. How many items does the Paint Career With Colors Career Test contain? The Paint Careers With Colors Career Test has 54 items. 5. What type(s) of scores are generated? 2 – letter Holland Code 6. What is the format of the System? The Paint Careers With Colors is a printed test. Group or individual administration? Paint Careers With Colors can be administered to groups and individuals. 7. What are the required response modes of the printable worksheets? Paper-and-pencil 8. What is the total estimated time required for administration? Total estimated time is 30 minutes. 9. What is the proposed scoring procedure? The Paint Careers With Colors Printable Worksheets are self – scoring. How long will it take to score the Paint Career With Colors Printable Worksheets? Total scoring time is 5 minutes.

Components

1. What nonconsumable (i.e., reusable) components do you anticipate will be required for administering, scoring, and interpreting the Paint Career With Colors Printable Worksheets? (e.g., System manuals, printable worksheets, scoring keys, System plates, booklets, manipulatives)? Paint Careers With Colors Printable Worksheets

contain –

• Career Model
• Table of Contents
• Starter Kit
• Facilitator’s Manual
• Overview and Introduction to Teachers, Counselors, and Parents Career System
• Occupational Posters with Colorful Graphics
• Poster Instruction and Printable Worksheets
• Color Chart
• Web Site and Book Resource Guide

2. Describe each of these components in terms of the anticipated production characteristics: page size, number of pages, color(s) of ink, special forms (e.g., multi-forms, self-carboning), extraordinary use of graphical images, line drawings, or other illustrations, etc. The Paint Careers With Colors Printable Worksheets are VISUAL career exploration System for children that use colors to represent Holland Codes. Career Models There are two models –

• RIASEC Version
• Paint Careers With Colors Version

The RIASEC Version is for Middle School students. For Middle School students, the RIASEC Version should be used with the Self-Directed Search Career Explorer. The Paint Careers With Colors Version uses easier – to – read terms for elementary school students. Starter Kit The Starter Kit helps teachers, counselors, and parents prepare for a Paint Careers With Colors System. The Starter Kit has the following items –

• News Release
• Flyers for children
• Flyers for teachers, counselors, and parents
• Tent Cards
• Name Tags
• Stickers for Tent Cards and Name Tags

Facilitator’s Manual The Facilitator’s Manual provides detailed step-by-step printable worksheets and instructions to administer and implement the different aspects of the Paint Careers With Colors Kids Program. Overview and Introduction to Teachers, Counselors, and Parents The Overview and Introduction to Teachers, Counselors, and Parents gives a description of the different parts of the Paint Careers With Colors Printable Worksheets. Career Test Guide The System Guide provides teachers and counselors with step – by – step instructions and printable worksheets for teachers and counselors. Occupational Posters, Poster Instruction Sheets, and Printable Worksheets Over three hundred (300) Colors to Careers Posters feature–

• Graphics
• Holland Codes
• Paint Careers With Colors Codes.

The Paint Careers With Colors Posters have easy scoring printable worksheets. You sort the posters quickly according to likes and dislikes. At the end of the poster sorting exercise, you will have your Holland Code and Paint Careers With Colors Code. The posters are an excellent way to explore careers. The poster shows you’re the relationship between Holland Codes, Paint Careers With Colors Codes, and careers. Paint Careers With Colors Color Chart and Printable Worksheets The Paint Careers With Colors Color Chart and Printable Worksheets show all of the information listed on the posters –

• Job Titles
• Career Color Codes
• 3 letter Holland Codes
• Colors to Careers Poster Numbers

Web Site and Book Resource Guide The Web Site and Book Resource Guide provides additional information about web site and books for children.

Primary Markets

1. What is the target population for the Paint Careers With Colors Printable Worksheets (i.e., demographic characteristics such as age, gender, etc.) The target population for the Paint Career With Colors System is elementary or middle school students. Other individuals who use the Paint Careers With Colors Printable Worksheets include people:

• Who are In ESL/GED programs
• Who have limited reading ability
• Who have limited knowledge of English
• Who are developmentally delayed
• Who are learning disabled
• Who have special needs
• Who have limited access to education

2. What professional discipline(s) would be the potential purchasers and users of this System? Professional disciplines include –

• Universities and college – Elementary school education and counseling professors
• Teaching – Teachers, tutors, and home educators
• Counseling – School counselors, career development facilitators, life coaches, and career coaches
• Child Development – After – School Instructors, Career Day Facilitators, and Community Agency Staff
• Social Services – Social workers, crisis counselors, and At – Risk Children Program Staff

3. Which settings would be appropriate for use of this System (e.g., schools, private clinics, hospitals, private practice, etc.)?< Settings for the Paint Careers With Colors include –

• Schools
• Boys and Girls Clubs, YMCA/ YWCA Programs, and other community organizations
• Afterschool Programs
• Kids Go To Work Days
• Career Days
• Summer School Programs

Market Competition and Special Features

What other Systems are currently available that serve a similar function? There is not a wide selection of Holland Code, visual, color-coded career printable worksheets available for elementary or middle school students.

Literature Review

Different researchers have discussed the need for elementary school career education. According Ediger (2000), elementary school career education is important. Ediger stated that “the elementary school years are not too early to begin to achieve a vision of what one desires to do in life contributing to the world of work”. Without career education, students have unrealistic perceptions of careers due to a lack of knowledge and poor decision making. Students have limited knowledge and exposure to careers. When students look at the different industries e.g. sports, media and entertainment, most students underestimate the skills and time required to have successful careers. Richard W. Auger, Anne E. Blackhurst, Kay Herting Wahl reported the importance of elementary school career education. There is increasing evidence in the research literature that career development is a lifelong process that begins in childhood (Magnuson & Starr, 2000; Trice, 1991; Trice & McClellan, 1993, 1994). Research also suggested that elementary-aged children may tend to aspire to careers that are out of the reach of all but a select few, such as a career as a professional athlete (Bobo, Hildreth, & Durodoye, 1998; Cook et al., 1996; Helwig, 2001). Donna E. Palladino Schultheiss, Thomas V. Palma, Alberta J. Manzi cited that research suggests that students who drop out of school at age 16 have psychologically disengaged from school as early as Grade 3 (McWhirter, McWhirter, McWhirter, & McWhirter, 1998). Moreover, sixth-through-ninth-grade children have demonstrated very little understanding of how school relates to the real world and seem to have little to no awareness of the skills and knowledge needed for success in the future (Johnson, 2000).

Paint Careers With Colors Model

There are two versions – the RIASEC Version and the Children’s Version. The RIASEC Version is for Middle School students. For Middle School students, the RIASEC Version should be used with the Self-Directed Search Career Explorer.

Testimonials

We used all three of your wonderful career training materials Paint with Colors, Picture Inventory Codes, and Holland’s Self Directed Search for children in K-12 settings in mainland China and met with tremendous success! Our company InterLangua was asked to establish Career Guidance with the YuCai Group Education Consortium (Shenzhen). Prior to this, Chinese families in the school would get together and decide what would interest their child. There was little formal exploration and matching of interests and abilities, rather, a seemingly rote list of jobs and titles that were typical and practical. From Elisabeth Montgomery, Ph.D. – InterLangua, LLC (Shenzhen, P.R. China) Great materials for training in life skills! The easy to use, visual, job posters, games, and career tests provide a wealth of ideas and discussions for us as career facilitators, and for teachers and parents. We now have a common vocabulary with which to steer children into worlds of discovery despite language and cultural barriers to career exploration. After our training, not only were youngsters able to identify jobs they wanted to do in the future, but middle school kids explored their current interests on deeper levels and talked to their parents about new jobs in emerging fields. From Sun Wei Hong – Quality Director, InterLangua LLC (Shenzhen, P.R. China) One of our Chinese students, applying for top 10 colleges in the USA wrote, “Another thing I really liked about the Holland Code test was how it offered a description of what kind of personalities and characteristics were suitable for different jobs. It helped me find my match more easily and led me to think more about what kind of person I really was and whether my ideal job was really a good match for my personality traits.” From: Wei Xiou Yang – senior student at Shenzhen Foreign Language School. Using your Holland SDS materials at InterLangua’s Trainings, college youth found more clarity in planning their college goals. One graduate student in finance wrote:“This is extremely useful for those who are planning their career, looking for jobs or thinking about changing jobs. Holland codes SDS helps them identify their potential domain and help them to achieve their goals more quickly therefore happily! It really serves as a compass which guides people to the direction of success.” From Cao Xiao Zhou “Ben” – graduate student, Paris High-Technology Poly-technic. I just reviewed the Paint Careers with Colors and really liked it. I look forward to using it in the 2007-08 school year here at Kealakehe Elementary in Kona As I mentioned, I will be teaching a state-wide distance learning course called Establishing an Elementary Career/Guidance Program for elementary school counselors to earn professional development credit. I will offer your website as a resource for them to participate in the preview program as well. Congratulations on developing a very user-friendly program for children! From: M. Bernier, School Counselor, Kealakehe Elementary School …I think the Paint with Colors is a great tool for career exploration with children. My students enjoyed using it, and I plan to use it in when I teach the Career Counseling course again next summer. Thank you for making it available… From: Dr. R. B. Palmer, Ph.D., Counseling Psychology Department, Eastern University The children’s version is simpler to understand and use than other interest inventories I have reviewed… The pictures are clear, informative and stimulate career exploration and conversation. From: A. Eubanks, Vocational Services Program Manager, Stanford Home for Children

Paint Careers With Colors Kids Career Test

The Paint Careers With Colors Kids Job Test uses self-by-step activities, printable worksheets, career games for Kids, and kids activities for career choices to highlight Holland Codes or Colors to Careers Codes. On each printable worksheet, you choose the careers that you like or are interested in.

At the end of the job test for kids, you summarize your results. The Summary Sheet identifies your Holland Codes or Colors to Careers Codes

.

The Paint Careers With Colors Kids Career Test comes with a Colors to Careers Career Model, Colors to Careers Code or Holland Code Descriptions, and Color Key. The Paint Careers With Colors Child Career Test is an excellent tool to introduce you to career exploration, Holland Codes, and Colors to Careers Codes. The graphics hold your attention as you identify your career interests. Career Test comes with -

• Children Test
• Children Test Guide
• Photo Test
• Photo Test Guide
• RIASEC Test
• RIASEC Test Guide

Colors to Careers Posters

Over three hundred (300) Colors to Careers Posters feature graphics, Holland Codes, and Colors to Careers Codes. The Colors to Careers Posters are easy scoring printable worksheets. You sort the posters quickly according to likes and dislikes. At the end of the poster sorting exercise, you will have your Holland Code and Colors to Careers Code. The posters are an excellent way to explore careers. The poster shows you’re the relationship between Holland Codes, Color-to Careers Codes, and careers. Career Posters comes with -

• Children Version
• Leaders Version
• RIASEC Version
• Photo Posters
• Poster Card Instruction Sheet-2009 – Photo Version
• Poster Card Instruction Sheet-2009 – RIASEC Version
• Poster Card Instruction Sheet-2009 – Children Version

Paint Careers With Colors Poster Analyzer

The Analyzer program is an alternative to the paper and pencil model of RIASEC Paint Careers With Colors. The Analyzer will automatically produce the three let code based on the selection that the test taker provides. 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. There is no more counting, tallying, or figuring. 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.

Paint Careers With Colors Promotional Starter Kit

Use the Starter Kit to promote the Paint Careers With Colors System. The Starter Kit helps teachers, counselors, and parents prepare for a Paint Careers With Colors System. The Starter Kit has the following items –

• News Release
• Flyers for children
• Flyers for teachers, counselors, and parents
• Tent Cards
• Name Tags
• Stickers for Tent Cards and Name Tags

The flyers and News Release help to advertise the Program.

The News Release advertises the beginning of the Paint Careers With Colors System. Send out the News Release prior to starting the system.

The Children’s and Adult’s Flyers provide information about the Paint Careers With Colors System. Use Name Tags and Tent Cards to identify children, students, teachers, counselors, or parents. Individuals place stickers on Name Tags and Tent Cards. The Stickers lists the 6 Holland Codes or 6 Colors to Careers Codes. When the children or students have completed the Career Test, they will be instructed to place the correct labels on their Name Tags and Tent Cards. The Stickers identify each individual’s Holland Codes or Colors to Careers Codes.

Career Resource Guide

The Career Resource Guide (Internet Resources for Teachers, Counselors, Parents, Adults, and Teens) includes additional information from the following areas –

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

The Career Resource Guide (Internet Resources for Teachers, Counselors, Parents, Adults, and Teens) covers – 1. Look at Exploring Careers Web Sites

• Curriculum
• Career Information
• Science Career Group
• Specific Careers — Science

2. Look at Exploring Careers Books

Guide to Unlock Your Potential Curriculum 2009

This Guide to Unlock Your Potential Curriculum provides strategies –

• To motivate students to expand their knowledge of themselves and the world of work
• To empower students with the skills, knowledge, and support they need to enhance their career and personal development
• To encourage the discovery and refinement of students’ work values, interests and skills, as well as their academic and career planning

Unlock Your Treasure – Children

The Children’s version of the Unlock Your Treasure Chest Guide to Career Exploration is used in conjunction with the Self Directed Search Career Explorer and the Paint Careers With Colors System (Children’s and RIASEC Version). The Unlock Your Treasure Chest Guide to Career Exploration has 3 sections:

• Guide to Exploring Careers
• Internet Resources for Teachers, Counselors, Parents, Adults, Kids and Children
• Visual Aids or Screenshots from the Unlock the Treasure Chest Guidebook

The Unlock Your Treasure Chest Guide to Career Exploration is for kids and children who need a manual and printable worksheets that will guide them through the steps of exploring careers. The topics included in the Unlock Your Treasure Chest Guide to Career Exploration Printable Worksheets are:

• Learning about Yourself
• Find the Secret Code
• Understand the Secret Code – The Holland Code
• Find Your Career Group
• Identify Careers Using Paint Careers With Colors System
• Identify Careers Using the Self Directed Search Career Explorer
• Explore Careers Using Career Web Sites
• Explore Career Using Career Books

Training Manual

The Training Manual provides detailed step-by-step instructions and printable worksheets to administer and implement the different aspects of the Paint Careers With Colors System. The Training Manual covers the following areas – 1. Introduction (For Parents, Teachers, & Counselors) 2. Paint Careers With Colors System –

• Model
• Career Test
• Posters
• Color Key

3. Awareness & Assessment: Teacher, Counselor, & Parent Guide

• 3 Ways To Choose a Right Career Test For Your Child or Student
• Holland Career Self Assessment Tests
• Features Of Career Self Assessments Tests

4. Guide To Exploring Careers – For Children

• Learning About Yourself
• Day One: Meet Your Guides and Get Your Map
• Day Two: Meet John Holland, a Great Explorer
• Day Three: Find The Secret Code
• Day Four: Understand The Secret Code – The Paint Careers With Colors Code
• Day Five: Find Your Career Group
• Day Six: Get Your Holland Code.
• Day Seven: Get Your Career List
• Day Eight: Look at Exploring Careers Web Sites
• Day Nine: Look at Exploring Careers Books

5. Career Posters – Keys To Explore Holland Codes, Paint Careers With Colors Codes, and Careers 6. Day Ten: Look at Career Posters 7. Paint Careers With Colors Career Posters

• Preparation For Career Poster Activity
• Sorting By Likes And Dislikes
• Summary Sheet
• Final Review
• Highest Code Letters

8. Starter Kit 9. Visual Aids Or Screenshots For Teachers, Counselors, Or Parents 10. Flash Cards

Flash Cards and Bingo Cards Sets

The purpose of the Flash Cards and Bingo Cards is to help the students:

• Discover their interests, abilities, and skills.
• Find out what makes their personality tick.
• Explore careers with middle school students, children, and kids.
• Link careers to interests, abilities and skills.

Flash Card Set has -

• Flash Cards – Adults Version
• Flash Cards – Children Version

The Bingo Cards has -

• Bingo Card Set – Children Version
• Bingo Master – Children Version
• Bingo Master Cutouts – Children Version
• Bingo Instruction Sheet and Printable Worksheets – Children Version
• Bingo Card Set – RIASEC Version
• Bingo Master – RIASEC Version
• Bingo Master Cutouts – RIASEC Version
• Bingo Instruction Sheet and Printable Worksheets – RIASEC Version

Paint Careers With Colors CD ROM Collection

There are four (4) Paint Careers With Colors CD Collection.

• Foundational CD-ROM
• Bonus CD-ROM Number 1 – Training Resources
• Bonus CD-ROM Number 2 – Promotional Starter Kit Materials
• Bonus CD-ROM Number 3 – Holland Codes Toolkit
• Bonus CD-ROM Number 4 – Presentational Materials

Here is a detailed outline of the Paint Careers With Colors CD Collection. Foundational CD-ROM 1. Career Test – Children & RIASEC – Revising

• Children Test
• Children Test Guide
• Photo Test
• Photo Test Guide
• RIASEC Test
• RIASEC Test Guide

2. Color Key

• Color Key -RIASEC Version
• Color Key –RIASEC Alphabetized Version
• Color Key-Children Version
• Color Key-Children2-Alphabetized Version
• Color Key-Photo . Version
• Color Key-Photo-Alphabetized Version

3. Posters

• Children Version
• Leaders Version
• RIASEC Version
• Photo Posters
• Poster Card Instruction Sheet-2009 – Photo Version
• Poster Card Instruction Sheet-2009 – RIASEC Version
• Poster Card Instruction Sheet-2009-children Version

4. Introduction

• Overview
• RIASEC VS Children Table
• Fact Sheets
• Paint Careers With Colors Wheel – Children
• Paint Careers With Colors Wheel – RIASEC
• RIASEC & Children Model Table

Bonus CD-ROM Number 1 – Training Resources 1. Career Resource Guide 2. Curriculum 2009 3. Unlock Your Treasure – Children 4. Training Manual 5. Mini-Posters – Children’s Version

• Mini Posters Labels
• Mini Posters Instructions
• Mini Posters Scoring Sheet

6. Career and Holland Game Bonus CD-ROM Number 2 – Promotional Starter Kit Materials 1. Brochure 2. Labels – Children Codes 3. Labels – RIASEC Codes 4. Flyer – Adults 5. Flyer – Children 6. Name Tags 7. News Release 8. Poster 9. Tent Cards Bonus CD-ROM Number 3 – Holland Codes Toolkit CD-ROM 1. Analyzer 2. Flash Cards

• Flash Cards – Adults Version
• Flash Cards – Children Version

3. Bingo Cards

• Bingo Card Set – Children Version
• Bingo Master – Children Version
• Bingo Master Cutouts – Children Version
• Bingo Instruction Sheet – Children Version
• Bingo Card Set – RIASEC Version
• Bingo Master – RIASEC Version
• Bingo Master Cutouts – RIASEC Version
• Bingo Instruction Sheet – RIASEC Version

There are the following versions -

• English
• African American
• Chinese

There are FREE Certification or Preview Programs (With CD Collection Purchases).

Paint Careers With Colors Site Licenses

The School Buildings and School Districts in the USA can purchase a single license that entitles all of their staff members to use the Paint Careers With Colors CD Collection. The cost is discounted to a very affordable rate. We are offering greatly reduced pricing for complete school buildings and school district. School Building License: This allows all staff members at a single location to have unlimited access to the Paint Careers With Colors CD Collection. School District Licenses:   This allows all staff members within entire school district to have unlimited access to the Paint Careers With Colors CD Collection. There are FREE With Bulk Career Tests or CD Collection Site Licensing Purchases

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Paint Careers With Colors Preview/ Certification Programs

Purpose The purpose of the Paint Careers With Colors Preview/ Certification Programs is to provide -

• Awareness, knowledge, and understanding of the Paint Careers With Colors System, career assessments, occupational posters, training materials, powerpoint tools, and marketing resources
• Means for teachers, counselors, educators, trainers, and parents to become specialists in Paint Career With Colors Preview/ Certification Program resources

Benefits of the Programs

Take the Paint Careers With Colors Preview/ Certification Programs at your own pace. Access lessons that provide key information and samples of the different parts of the Paint Careers With Colors System. After completing all of the lessons and quizzes in the Paint Careers With Colors Preview/ Certification Program, you can -

• Possess knowledge and the skills necessary to implement the Paint Careers With Colors Program.
• Train other teachers, counselors, and parents
• Receive commissions for referring other teachers, counselors, and parents for the Paint Careers With Colors Program
• Receive a Paint Careers With Colors Program Preview/ Certification Program Certificate
• Be listed on the Hollandcodes.com web site as a Paint Careers With Colors Trainer

Program Contents

After joining the Preview/ Certification Programs, you will have access to the following Paint Careers With Colors Lessons, Activities, and Samples -

• Unit 1 Lesson 1 – Overview
• Unit 1 Lesson 2 – Fact Sheets
• Unit 1 Lesson 3 – Career Model
• Unit 1 Lesson 4 – Alphabetized Product List
• Unit 1 Lesson 5 – Step by Step Guide
• Unit 1 Lesson 6 – Educational Games
• Unit 2 Lesson 1 – Foundational CD-ROM
• Unit 2 Lesson 2 – Kids Job Test
• Unit 2 Lesson 3 – Occupational Posters
• Unit 3 Lesson 1 – Training Resources CD-ROM
• Unit 4 Lesson 1 – Promotional Starter Kit CD-ROM
• Unit 5 Lesson 1 – Holland Codes Toolkit CD-ROM
• Unit 6 Lesson 1 – Powerpoint Presentation CD-ROM

Preview/ Certification Program Costs

Cost: FREE Certification or Preview Programs with any Bulk Career Tests or CD Collection Site Licensing Purchases!!!

Career Tests for Children and Kids

It is never too early for career awareness!!

Children and kids are dreamers.

Children and kids love explore possibilities.

Children are open to new ideas.

Kids are still forming their belief systems.

Our goals to help children and kids build visions and goals of what they desire to do in the future.

Now, is the time to introduce them to careers.

We want children and kids to build career awareness.

We want to help to remain open to new career ideas and possibilities.

We do not expect children and kids to make premature career choices or career preparations.

Now is a time to explore.

We need to present children and kids with VISUAL learning techniques and vibrant kid career resources.

Our goal is to clarify thoughts, integrate new knowledge, and promote critical thinking.

We seek to present new information so that the concepts are more thoroughly and easily understood.

We desire to use career tests that improve -

· Attention Span and Concentration: holds audience’s attention and helps people absorb information

· Memory Skills and Understanding: improves ability to absorb information

· Speed of Learning: reduces the time it takes to complete career tests.

Career tests introduce children and kids to careers and interests. The graphics and visuals hold your children’sand kids ‘ attentions. Career tests provide excellent ways to explore careers. The career tests show the relationship between interestareas and careers.

After completing career tests, children and kids have -

· Higher grades

· Higher academic achievement

· Improved school involvement, as well as

· An increase in career awareness exploration, personal, and interpersonal skills

In addition, the children and kids complete more complex courses and have a highergraduation rate from high school.

In summary, using career tests, children and kids:

· Learn and apply the academic material

· Know and value self

· Build self-esteem and confidence

· Identify interests and buildrelationships between the school environment and the work force

· Build academic, communication, problemsolving, and social skills

· Increase awareness of the need for futurejobs skills

· See the connections between learning inschool, academic skills, job related skills, and careers

· See career possibilities

· See themselves as a future contributor tothe job force

· Receive empowerment

· Build self-determination

Paint Careers With Colors Kids Career Test

The Paint Careers With Colors Kids Job Test uses self-by-step activities, career games for Kids, and kids activities for career choices to highlight Holland Codes or Colors to Careers Codes. On each page, you choose the careers that you like or are interested in.

At the end of the job test for kids, you summarize your results. The Summary Sheet identifies your Holland Codes or Colors to Careers Codes.

The Paint Careers With Colors Kids Career Test comes with a Colors to Careers Career Model, Colors to Careers Code or Holland Code Descriptions, and Color Key.

The Paint Careers With Colors Child Career Test is an excellent tool to introduce you to career exploration, Holland Codes, and Colors to Careers Codes. The graphics hold your attention as you identify your career interests.

Career Test comes with -

• Children Test
• Children Test Guide
• Photo Test
• Photo Test Guide
• RIASEC Test
• RIASEC Test Guide

Read more …

Paint Careers With Colors Career Test
Paint Careers With Colors Career Preview Program

Find the Right Career Test

Finding the right career test is a priority in looking for a career or college major.   The right career test identifies your interests, abilities, and skills.

A Holland Code job career test also helps you find -

• Career job opportunities
• Career job descriptions
• Career search sites

Holland career self assessment tests use Holland Codes to link vocational interests to job families.  Holland assessments use a two or three-letter RIASEC or Holland Occupational Codes.

Different Holland Code job career questionnaire tests provide information on the relationships between -

• Job personalities
• Key characteristics
• College majors
• Hobbies
• Abilities
• Related careers

Look for career assessments that are -

• Low to moderate cost
• Tested, proven, and dependable
• Excellent resources

Select the right career assessment, look at the -

• Format – printed and interest resources, CD-ROM,
• Types: Job career questionnaire test, job personality tests, career job finders, career counseling tests, career placement test, career assessment tests, and career choice tests
• Cost – $10, $12, $15, $20 or $50
• Resources that are available – Career job descriptions, career job opportunities, college majors information, job finder resources, career clusters information, holland code careers
• Grade Levels

Examples of Career Tests

The examples of Holland Code career self assessment tests are:

Comprehensive, Validated, Reliable Tests:

• MCP – Multi-User Holland Code Career Test!!!
• Kuder Career Planning System (Low Cost)
• Myers Briggs Type Indicator – The most widely used personality assessment in the world
• Self Directed Search – PRINTED Form R (English) , Form R (Spanish), Form R (English Canadian), Form E, Form CE, & Form CP or INTERNET Versions (Low Cost)
• Strong Interest Inventory assessment – the most respected and widely used career planning instrument in the world
  Also MBTI & Strong Interest Inventory Reports (Special Discount)

Low Cost, Informal Tests:

• NEW Easy-to-Use Strong Interest Explorer – Ideal for students and individuals transitioning into a new career or reentering the workplace!
• NEW Easy-to-Use Career Personality Inventory – Based on the MBTI personality types
• NEW! RIASEC Inventory – $5 Excellent Value!!!
• Career Interests Inventory
• Transferable Skills Scale – See the connection between Holland Codes and Transferable Skills

Children, Limited Reading Ability, or Special Needs Tests:

• Paint Careers With Colors System (Children’s or RIASEC Versions) & Young Person’s Occupational Handbook
• Picture Interest Career Survey

Do you need help making a selection?  Get a FREE Consultation!

Elementary School Teachers, Counselors, & Career Education Tools

As elementary school teachers and counselors, you know that the elementary school years are important. During the elementary school years, students build visions of what they desire to do in their lives as they contribute to the society.

With your help, students remain open to new career ideas and possibilities.

As you work with students, students do not make premature career choices or career preparations. For students, elementary school is a time to build career awareness.

Elementary teachers and counselors prefer VISUAL learning techniques and vibrant kid career resources. Elementary teachers and counselors are looking for products that clarify thoughts, integrate new knowledge, and promote critical thinking. Teachers and counselors present new information so that the concepts are more thoroughly and easily understood.

Elementary career education tools should improve -

• Attention Span and Concentration: holds audience’s attention and helps people absorb information
• Memory Skills and Understanding: improves ability to absorb information
• Speed of Learning: reduces the time it takes to complete career tests.

Elementary school career education tools introduce your students careers and interests. The graphics and visuals hold your students’ attention. The tools uses career kid self-by-step activities, tests, posters, games, and activities. Elementary school career resources provide excellent ways to explore careers. The resources show the relationship between interest areas and careers. Elementary school career awareness programs use age appropriate materials that match the developmental levels of the students. Age appropriate activities expose students to a variety of -

• Different jobs
• Career information sources
• The reasons why people work

Programs also incorporate academic career pathways into classroom activities. After completing an elementary school career awareness program, students have -

• Higher grades
• Higher academic achievement
• Improved school involvement, as well as
• An increase in career awareness exploration, personal, and interpersonal skills

In addition, the students complete more complex courses and have a higher graduation rate from high school.

In summary, in elementary school career programs, students:

• Learn and apply the academic material
• Know and value self
• Build self-esteem and confidence
• Identify interests and build relationships between the school environment and the work force
• Build academic, communication, problem solving, and social skills
• Increase awareness of the need for future jobs skills
• See the connections between learning in school, academic skills, job related skills, and careers
• See career possibilities
• See themselves as a future contributor to the job force
• Receive empowerment
• Build self-determination

Overview of Elementary School Career Education Program

The Paint Careers With Colors Program is VISUAL learning techniques and career test for kids that use colors to represent Holland Codes and Paint Careers With Colors Codes.

The Paint Careers With Colors Kids Career System clarifies thoughts, integrates new knowledge, and promotes critical thinking. New concepts are more thoroughly and easily understood.

The Paint Careers With Colors Kids Program organizes and analyzes information. Children, youth, and adults -

• See how Holland Codes are connected to careers
• Realize how careers can be grouped and organized

The Paint Careers With Colors System also improves –

• Attention Span and Concentration: holds audience’s attention and helps people absorb information
• Memory Skills and Understanding: improves ability to absorb information
• Speed of Learning: reduces the time it takes to complete career tests.

Use the Paint Careers With Colors System at -

• Schools
• Boys and Girls Clubs
• YMCA/ YWCA Programs
• Afterschool Programs
• Kids Go To Work Days
• Career Days
• Summer School Programs

The Paint Careers With Colors Kids System is an excellent career test for ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTS and for other people -

• Who are In ESL/GED programs
• Who have limited reading ability
• Who have limited knowledge of English
• Who are developmentally delayed
• Who are learning disabled
• Who have special needs
• Who have limited access to education
• Who are chronically unemployed

Preview the Paint Careers With Colors Program -

• Kids Career Test
• Online Career Test & Self Scoring Calculator
• Colors to Careers Posters
• Poster Color Key
• Starter Kit
• Career Resource Guide
• Guide to Unlock Your Potential
• Unlock Your Treasure Chest Guide to Career Exploration
• Training Manual
• Flash Cards and Bingo Cards
• Poster Analyzer
• CD ROM Collection

Paint Careers With Colors Model

There are two versions – the RIASEC Version and the Children’s Version.

The RIASEC Version is for Middle School students. For Middle School students, the RIASEC Version should be used with the Self-Directed Search Career Explorer.

Paint Careers With Colors Kids Career Test

The Paint Careers With Colors Kids Job Test uses self-by-step activities, career games for Kids, and kids activities for career choices to highlight Holland Codes or Colors to Careers Codes. On each page, you choose the careers that you like or are interested in.

At the end of the job test for kids, you summarize your results. The Summary Sheet identifies your Holland Codes or Colors to Careers Codes.

The Paint Careers With Colors Kids Career Test comes with a Colors to Careers Career Model and Colors to Careers Code or Holland Code Descriptions. The Paint Careers With Colors Child Career Test is an excellent tool to introduce you to career exploration, Holland Codes, and Colors to Careers Codes. The graphics hold your attention as you identify your career interests.

Career Test comes with -

• Children Test
• Children Test Guide
• Photo Test
• Photo Test Guide
• RIASEC Test
• RIASEC Test Guide

Colors to Careers Posters

Over three hundred (300) Colors to Careers Posters feature graphics, Holland Codes, and Colors to Careers Codes.

Colors to Careers Poster Color Key

The Colors to Careers Color Chart shows all of the information listed on the posters –

• Job Titles
• Career Color Codes
• 3 letter Holland Codes
• Colors to Careers Poster Numbers

Paint Careers With Colors Promotional Starter Kit

Use the Starter Kit to promote the Paint Careers With Colors System.

The Starter Kit helps teachers, counselors, and parents prepare for a Paint Careers With Colors System.

Career Resource Guide

The Career Resource Guide (Internet Resources for Teachers, Counselors, Parents, Adults, and Teens) covers –

1. Look at Exploring Careers Web Sites

• CURRICULUM
• CAREER INFORMATION
• SCIENCE CAREER GROUP
• SPECIFIC CAREERS — SCIENCE

2. Look at Exploring Careers Books

Guide to Unlock Your Potential Curriculum 2009

This Guide to Unlock Your Potential Curriculum provides strategies to motivate students to expand their knowledge of themselves and the world of work.

Unlock Your Treasure – Children

The Children’s version of the Unlock Your Treasure Chest Guide to Career Exploration is used in conjunction with the Self Directed Search Career Explorer and the Paint Careers With Colors System (Children’s and RIASEC Version).

Training Manual

The Training Manual provides detailed step-by-step instructions to administer and implement the different aspects of the Paint Careers With Colors System.

Flash Cards and Bingo Cards Sets

The Flash Card Set has -

• Flash Cards – Adults Version
• Flash Cards – Children Version

The Bingo Cards has -

• Bingo Card Set – Children Version
• Bingo Master – Children Version
• Bingo Master Cutouts – Children Version
• Bingo Instruction Sheet – Children Version
• Bingo Card Set – RIASEC Version
• Bingo Master – RIASEC Version
• Bingo Master Cutouts – RIASEC Version
• Bingo Instruction Sheet – RIASEC Version

Paint Careers With Colors Poster Analyzer

The Analyzer program is an alternative to the paper and pencil model of RIASEC Paint Careers With Colors.

Paint Careers With Colors CD ROM Collection

Preview the four (4) Paint Careers With Colors CD Collection.

• Foundational CD-ROM
• Bonus CD-ROM Number 1 – Training Resources
• Bonus CD-ROM Number 2 – Promotional Starter Kit Materials
• Bonus CD-ROM Number 3 – Holland Codes Toolkit
• Bonus CD-ROM Number 4 – Presentational Materials

Here is a detailed outline of the Paint Careers With Colors CD Collection.

Foundational CD-ROM

1. Career Test – Children & RIASEC – Revising

• Children Test
• Children Test Guide
• Photo Test
• Photo Test Guide
• RIASEC Test
• RIASEC Test Guide

2. Color Key

• Color Key -RIASEC Version
• Color Key –RIASEC Alphabetized Version
• Color Key-Children Version
• Color Key-Children2-Alphabetized Version
• Color Key-Photo . Version
• Color Key-Photo-Alphabetized Version

3. Posters

• Children Version
• Leaders Version
• RIASEC Version
• Photo Posters
• Poster Card Instruction Sheet-2009 – Photo Version
• Poster Card Instruction Sheet-2009 – RIASEC Version
• Poster Card Instruction Sheet-2009-children Version

4. Introduction

• Overview
• RIASEC VS Children Table
• Fact Sheets
• Paint Careers With Colors Wheel – Children
• Paint Careers With Colors Wheel – RIASEC
• RIASEC & Children Model Table

Bonus CD-ROM Number 1 – Training Resources

1. Career Resource Guide
2. Curriculum 2009
3. Unlock Your Treasure – Children
4. Training Manual
5. Mini-Posters – Children’s Version

• Mini Posters Labels
• Mini Posters Instructions
• Mini Posters Scoring Sheet

6. Career and Holland Game

Bonus CD-ROM Number 2 – Promotional Starter Kit Materials

1. Brochure
2. Labels – Children Codes
3. Labels – RIASEC Codes
4. Flyer – Adults
5. Flyer – Children
6. Name Tags
7. News Release
8. Poster
9. Tent Cards

Bonus CD-ROM Number 3 – Holland Codes Toolkit CD-ROM

1. Analyzer
2. Flash Cards

• Flash Cards – Adults Version
• Flash Cards – Children Version

3. Bingo Cards

• Bingo Card Set – Children Version
• Bingo Master – Children Version
• Bingo Master Cutouts – Children Version
• Bingo Instruction Sheet – Children Version
• Bingo Card Set – RIASEC Version
• Bingo Master – RIASEC Version
• Bingo Master Cutouts – RIASEC Version
• Bingo Instruction Sheet – RIASEC Version

Purpose of Elementary School Career Education Program

Preview Paint Careers With Colors products -

• To build awareness, knowledge, and understanding of the Paint Careers With Colors System, career assessments, occupational posters, training materials, powerpoint tools, and marketing resources
• To present Paint Careers With Colors System to other teachers, counselors, educators, trainers, and parents

Benefits of the Elementary School Career Education Program

Preview the Paint Careers With Colors products at your own pace.

Evaluate the Paint Careers With Colors resources before purchasing the CD Collection.

Access lessons that provide key information and samples of the different parts of the Paint Careers With Colors System.

After completing all of the lessons and quizzes in the Paint Careers With Colors Preview Program, you can -

• Purchase the Paint Careers With Colors CD Collection.
• Possess knowledge and the skills necessary to implement the Paint Careers With Colors Program.

Elementary School Career Education Program Contents

After joining the Elementary School Career Education Program, you will have access to the following Paint Careers With Colors Lessons, Activities, and Samples -

• Unit 1 Lesson 1 – Overview
• Unit 1 Lesson 2 – Fact Sheets
• Unit 1 Lesson 3 – Career Model
• Unit 1 Lesson 4 – Alphabetized Product List
• Unit 1 Lesson 5 – Step by Step Guide
• Unit 1 Lesson 6 – Educational Games
• Unit 2 Lesson 1 – Foundational CD-ROM
• Unit 2 Lesson 2 – Kids Job Test
• Unit 2 Lesson 3 – Occupational Posters
• Unit 3 Lesson 1 – Training Resources CD-ROM
• Unit 4 Lesson 1 – Promotional Starter Kit CD-ROM
• Unit 5 Lesson 1 – Holland Codes Toolkit CD-ROM
• Unit 6 Lesson 1 – Powerpoint Presentation CD-ROM

Read more…

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Purpose of Program

Preview Paint Careers With Colors products -

• To build awareness, knowledge, and understanding of the Paint Careers With Colors System, career assessments, occupational posters, training materials, powerpoint tools, and marketing resources
• To present Paint Careers With Colors System to other teachers, counselors, educators, trainers, and parents

Benefits of the Program

Preview the Paint Careers With Colors products at your own pace.

Evaluate the Paint Careers With Colors resources before purchasing the CD Collection.

Access lessons that provide key information and samples of the different parts of the Paint Careers With Colors System.

After completing all of the lessons and quizzes in the Paint Careers With Colors Preview Program, you can -

• Purchase the Paint Careers With Colors CD Collection.
• Possess knowledge and the skills necessary to implement the Paint Careers With Colors Program.

Preview Program Contents

After joining the Preview Program, you will have access to the following Paint Careers With Colors Lessons, Activities, and Samples -

• Unit 1 Lesson 1 – Overview
• Unit 1 Lesson 2 – Fact Sheets
• Unit 1 Lesson 3 – Career Model
• Unit 1 Lesson 4 – Alphabetized Product List
• Unit 1 Lesson 5 – Step by Step Guide
• Unit 1 Lesson 6 – Educational Games
• Unit 2 Lesson 1 – Foundational CD-ROM
• Unit 2 Lesson 2 – Kids Job Test
• Unit 2 Lesson 3 – Occupational Posters
• Unit 3 Lesson 1 – Training Resources CD-ROM
• Unit 4 Lesson 1 – Promotional Starter Kit CD-ROM
• Unit 5 Lesson 1 – Holland Codes Toolkit CD-ROM
• Unit 6 Lesson 1 – Powerpoint Presentation CD-ROM

Overview

The Paint Careers With Colors Program is VISUAL learning techniques and career test for kids that use colors to represent Holland Codes and Paint Careers With Colors Codes.

The Paint Careers With Colors Kids Career System clarifies thoughts, integrates new knowledge, and promotes critical thinking. New concepts are more thoroughly and easily understood.

The Paint Careers With Colors Kids Program organizes and analyzes information. Children, youth, and adults -

• See how Holland Codes are connected to careers
• Realize how careers can be grouped and organized

The Paint Careers With Colors System also improves –

• Attention Span and Concentration: holds audience’s attention and helps people absorb information
• Memory Skills and Understanding: improves ability to absorb information
• Speed of Learning: reduces the time it takes to complete career tests.

Use the Paint Careers With Colors System at -

• Schools
• Boys and Girls Clubs
• YMCA/ YWCA Programs
• Afterschool Programs
• Kids Go To Work Days
• Career Days
• Summer School Programs

The Paint Careers With Colors Kids System is an excellent career test for ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTS and for other people -

• Who are In ESL/GED programs
• Who have limited reading ability
• Who have limited knowledge of English
• Who are developmentally delayed
• Who are learning disabled
• Who have special needs
• Who have limited access to education
• Who are chronically unemployed

Preview the Paint Careers With Colors Program -

• Kids Career Test
• Online Career Test & Self Scoring Calculator
• Colors to Careers Posters
• Poster Color Key
• Starter Kit
• Career Resource Guide
• Guide to Unlock Your Potential
• Unlock Your Treasure Chest Guide to Career Exploration
• Training Manual
• Flash Cards and Bingo Cards
• Poster Analyzer
• CD ROM Collection

Paint Careers With Colors Kids Career Test

The Paint Careers With Colors Kids Job Test uses self-by-step activities, career games for Kids, and kids activities for career choices to highlight Holland Codes or Colors to Careers Codes. On each page, you choose the careers that you like or are interested in.

At the end of the job test for kids, you summarize your results. The Summary Sheet identifies your Holland Codes or Colors to Careers Codes.

The Paint Careers With Colors Kids Career Test comes with a Colors to Careers Career Model and Colors to Careers Code or Holland Code Descriptions. The Paint Careers With Colors Child Career Test is an excellent tool to introduce you to career exploration, Holland Codes, and Colors to Careers Codes. The graphics hold your attention as you identify your career interests.

Career Test comes with -

• Children Test
• Children Test Guide
• Photo Test
• Photo Test Guide
• RIASEC Test
• RIASEC Test Guide

Colors to Careers Posters

Over three hundred (300) Colors to Careers Posters feature graphics, Holland Codes, and Colors to Careers Codes.

Colors to Careers Poster Color Key

The Colors to Careers Color Chart shows all of the information listed on the posters –

• Job Titles
• Career Color Codes
• 3 letter Holland Codes
• Colors to Careers Poster Numbers

Paint Careers With Colors Promotional Starter Kit

Use the Starter Kit to promote the Paint Careers With Colors System.

The Starter Kit helps teachers, counselors, and parents prepare for a Paint Careers With Colors System.

Career Resource Guide

The Career Resource Guide (Internet Resources for Teachers, Counselors, Parents, Adults, and Teens) covers –

1. Look at Exploring Careers Web Sites

• CURRICULUM
• CAREER INFORMATION
• SCIENCE CAREER GROUP
• SPECIFIC CAREERS — SCIENCE

2. Look at Exploring Careers Books

Guide to Unlock Your Potential Curriculum 2009

This Guide to Unlock Your Potential Curriculum provides strategies to motivate students to expand their knowledge of themselves and the world of work.

Unlock Your Treasure – Children

The Children’s version of the Unlock Your Treasure Chest Guide to Career Exploration is used in conjunction with the Self Directed Search Career Explorer and the Paint Careers With Colors System (Children’s and RIASEC Version).

Training Manual

The Training Manual provides detailed step-by-step instructions to administer and implement the different aspects of the Paint Careers With Colors System.

Flash Cards and Bingo Cards Sets

The Flash Card Set has -

• Flash Cards – Adults Version
• Flash Cards – Children Version

The Bingo Cards has -

• Bingo Card Set – Children Version
• Bingo Master – Children Version
• Bingo Master Cutouts – Children Version
• Bingo Instruction Sheet – Children Version
• Bingo Card Set – RIASEC Version
• Bingo Master – RIASEC Version
• Bingo Master Cutouts – RIASEC Version
• Bingo Instruction Sheet – RIASEC Version

Paint Careers With Colors Poster Analyzer

The Analyzer program is an alternative to the paper and pencil model of RIASEC Paint Careers With Colors.

Paint Careers With Colors CD ROM Collection

Preview the four (4) Paint Careers With Colors CD Collection.

• Foundational CD-ROM
• Bonus CD-ROM Number 1 – Training Resources
• Bonus CD-ROM Number 2 – Promotional Starter Kit Materials
• Bonus CD-ROM Number 3 – Holland Codes Toolkit
• Bonus CD-ROM Number 4 – Presentational Materials

Here is a detailed outline of the Paint Careers With Colors CD Collection.

Foundational CD-ROM

1. Career Test – Children & RIASEC – Revising

• Children Test
• Children Test Guide
• Photo Test
• Photo Test Guide
• RIASEC Test
• RIASEC Test Guide

2. Color Key

• Color Key -RIASEC Version
• Color Key –RIASEC Alphabetized Version
• Color Key-Children Version
• Color Key-Children2-Alphabetized Version
• Color Key-Photo . Version
• Color Key-Photo-Alphabetized Version

3. Posters

• Children Version
• Leaders Version
• RIASEC Version
• Photo Posters
• Poster Card Instruction Sheet-2009 – Photo Version
• Poster Card Instruction Sheet-2009 – RIASEC Version
• Poster Card Instruction Sheet-2009-children Version

4. Introduction

• Overview
• RIASEC VS Children Table
• Fact Sheets
• Paint Careers With Colors Wheel – Children
• Paint Careers With Colors Wheel – RIASEC
• RIASEC & Children Model Table

Bonus CD-ROM Number 1 – Training Resources

1. Career Resource Guide
2. Curriculum 2009
3. Unlock Your Treasure – Children
4. Training Manual
5. Mini-Posters – Children’s Version

• Mini Posters Labels
• Mini Posters Instructions
• Mini Posters Scoring Sheet

6. Career and Holland Game

Bonus CD-ROM Number 2 – Promotional Starter Kit Materials

1. Brochure
2. Labels – Children Codes
3. Labels – RIASEC Codes
4. Flyer – Adults
5. Flyer – Children
6. Name Tags
7. News Release
8. Poster
9. Tent Cards

Bonus CD-ROM Number 3 – Holland Codes Toolkit CD-ROM

1. Analyzer
2. Flash Cards

• Flash Cards – Adults Version
• Flash Cards – Children Version

3. Bingo Cards

• Bingo Card Set – Children Version
• Bingo Master – Children Version
• Bingo Master Cutouts – Children Version
• Bingo Instruction Sheet – Children Version
• Bingo Card Set – RIASEC Version
• Bingo Master – RIASEC Version
• Bingo Master Cutouts – RIASEC Version
• Bingo Instruction Sheet – RIASEC Version

Faith Based Career Curriculum

The faith based career planning curriculum covers the following areas -

• Holland codes
• Interests, Abilities, and skills
• Careers
• College Majors
• Job Search Resources

Use the career planning curriculum at -

• Private Schools
• Youth Groups
• Homeschool Groups
• Work Force Programs
• Church Afterschool Programs
• Bible Studies
• Retreats
• Bible Schools

Here is the table of contents from the faith based career planning curriculum -

• Three Steps Within the Career Planning and Exploration Process
• Biblical Principles
• Step One: Awareness, Knowledge, and Assessment
  • Types of Career Planning Resources
  • Examples of Holland Codes Resources
  • Holland Career Personalities
  • Four Personal Styles
  • Biblical Examples for Holland Personality Types
  • Holland Code Assessments
  • Holland Codes Resource Book
  • Activity Sheet for “Holland” Career Assessment
• Biblical Principles
• Step Two: Educational and Occupational Exploration
  • Internet Career Exploration Resources
  • Career Book Resources
• Biblical Principles
• Step Three: Career Planning
  • Holland Codes and College Majors
  • Resume Writing
  • Resume Writing Web Sites
  • Biblical Principles
  • Preparing for an Interview

Use the curriculum to provide career advice for youth and adults. Career planning also involves finding the right career resource. Use career job test to uncover -

• Interests
• Abilities
• Skills
• Talents

Use career search sites, career development software, and career planning books to provide -

• College major information
• Career job opportunities
• Career education requirements
• Career clusters information
• Transferable skills sets

As you search for college major information, ask yourself the following questions:

• What are my vocational interests, abilities, skills, and talents?
• What are the steps that are necessary to develop the interests, abilities, skills, and talents that I possess?
• What are the career goal setting steps that I need to do?
• What career tests are available?
• What college major information is available?

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African American Career Test

for Elementary School Students

Overview

The African American Paint Careers With Colors System is VISUAL learning techniques and career test for kids that use colors to represent Holland Codes and Paint Careers With Colors Codes.

The Paint Careers With Colors Kids Career System clarifies thoughts, integrates new knowledge, and promotes critical thinking. New concepts are more thoroughly and easily understood.

The Paint Careers With Colors Kids System organizes and analyzes information. African American children, youth, and adults -

• See how Holland Codes are connected to careers
• Realize how careers can be grouped and organized

The Paint Careers With Colors System also improves –

• Attention Span and Concentration: holds African American children’s attention and helps people absorb information
• Memory Skills and Understanding: improves ability to absorb information
• Speed of Learning: reduces the time it takes to complete career tests.

Use the Paint Careers With Colors System at -

• Schools
• Boys and Girls Clubs
• YMCA/ YWCA Programs
• Afterschool Programs
• Kids Go To Work Days
• Career Days
• Summer School Programs

The Paint Careers With Colors Kids System is an excellent career test for African American ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTS and for other people -

• Who are In ESL/GED programs
• Who have limited reading ability
• Who have limited knowledge of English
• Who are developmentally delayed
• Who are learning disabled
• Who have special needs
• Who have limited access to education
• Who are chronically unemployed

The Paint Careers With Colors System has the following items -

• Kids Career Test
• Colors to Careers Posters
• Poster Color Key
• Starter Kit
• Career Resource Guide
• Guide to Unlock Your Potential
• Unlock Your Treasure Chest Guide to Career Exploration
• Training Manual
• Flash Cards and Bingo Cards
• Poster Analyzer
• CD ROM Collection
• Bulk Orders

Paint Careers With Colors Model

There are two versions – the RIASEC Version and the Children’s Version.

The RIASEC Version is for African American Middle School students. For Middle School students, the RIASEC Version should be used with the Self-Directed Search Career Explorer.

Testimonials

…I think the Paint with Colors is a great tool for career exploration with children. My students enjoyed using it, and I plan to use it in when I teach the Career Counseling course again next summer. Thank you for making it available…

From: Dr. R. B. Palmer, Ph.D., Counseling Psychology Department, Eastern University

The children’s version is simpler to understand and use than other interest inventories I have reviewed… The pictures are clear, informative and stimulate career exploration and conversation.

From: A. Eubanks, Vocational Services Program Manager, Stanford Home for Children

We used all three of your wonderful career training materials Paint with Colors, Picture Inventory Codes, and Holland’s Self Directed Search for children in K-12 settings in mainland China and met with tremendous success! Our company InterLangua was asked to establish Career Guidance with the YuCai Group Education Consortium (Shenzhen). Prior to this, Chinese families in the school would get together and decide what would interest their child. There was little formal exploration and matching of interests and abilities, rather, a seemingly rote list of jobs and titles that were typical and practical.

From Elisabeth Montgomery, Ph.D. – InterLangua, LLC

Paint Careers With Colors Kids Career Test

The Paint Careers With Colors Kids Job Test uses self-by-step activities, career games for African American children, and kids activities for career choices to highlight Holland Codes or Colors to Careers Codes. On each page, you choose the careers that you like or are interested in.

At the end of the job test for African American children, you summarize your results. The Summary Sheet identifies your Holland Codes or Colors to Careers Codes.

The Paint Careers With Colors Kids Career Test for African Americans comes with a Colors to Careers Career Model, Colors to Careers Code, or Holland Code Descriptions. The Paint Careers With Colors Child Career Test is an excellent tool to introduce you to career exploration, Holland Codes, and Colors to Careers Codes. The African American graphics hold your attention as you identify your career interests.

Career Test comes with -

• Children Test
• Children Test Guide
• RIASEC Test
• RIASEC Test Guide

Colors to Careers Posters

Over one hundred (100) Colors to Careers Posters feature African American graphics, Holland Codes, and Colors to Careers Codes. The Colors to Careers Posters are Easy Scoring. You sort the posters quickly according to likes and dislikes. At the end of the poster sorting exercise, you will have your Holland Code and Colors to Careers Code. The posters are an excellent way to explore careers. The poster shows you’re the relationship between Holland Codes, Color-to Careers Codes, and careers.

Career Posters comes with -

• Children Version
• Leaders Version
• RIASEC Version
• Poster Card Instruction Sheet-2009 – RIASEC Version
• Poster Card Instruction Sheet-2009 – Children Version

Colors to Careers Poster Color Key

The Colors to Careers Color Chart shows all of the information listed on the posters –

• Job Titles
• Career Color Codes
• 3 letter Holland Codes
• Colors to Careers Poster Numbers

Color Key has the following sections -

• Color Key-RIASEC Version
• Color Key-RIASEC Alphabetized Version
• Color Key-Children Version
• Color Key-Children2-Alphabetized Version

Paint Careers With Colors Promotional Starter Kit

Use the Starter Kit to promote the Paint Careers With Colors System.

The Starter Kit helps teachers, counselors, and parents prepare for a Paint Careers With Colors System. The Starter Kit has the following items –

• News Release
• Flyers for children
• Flyers for teachers, counselors, and parents
• Tent Cards
• Name Tags
• Stickers for Tent Cards and Name Tags

The flyers and News Release help to advertise the Program.

The News Release advertises the beginning of the Paint Careers With Colors System. Send out the News Release prior to starting the system.
The Children’s and Adult’s Flyers provide information about the Paint Careers With Colors System.

Use Name Tags and Tent Cards to identify children, students, teachers, counselors, or parents.

Individuals place stickers on Name Tags and Tent Cards. The Stickers lists the 6 Holland Codes or 6 Colors to Careers Codes. When the children or students have completed the Career Test, they will be instructed to place the correct labels on their Name Tags and Tent Cards. The Stickers identify each individual’s Holland Codes or Colors to Careers Codes.

Career Resource Guide

The Career Resource Guide (Internet Resources for Teachers, Counselors, Parents, Adults, and Teens) includes additional information from the following areas –

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

The Career Resource Guide (Internet Resources for Teachers, Counselors, Parents, Adults, and Teens) covers -

1. Look at Exploring Careers Web Sites

• CURRICULUM
• CAREER INFORMATION
• SCIENCE CAREER GROUP
• SPECIFIC CAREERS — SCIENCE

2. Look at Exploring Careers Books

Guide to Unlock Your Potential Curriculum 2009

This Guide to Unlock Your Potential Curriculum provides strategies –

• To motivate students to expand their knowledge of themselves and the world of work
• To empower African American students with the skills, knowledge, and support they need to enhance their career and personal development
• To encourage the discovery and refinement of students’ work values, interests and skills, as well as their academic and career planning

The contents of the Guide to Unlock Your Potential Curriculum are -

1. Outline
2. Introduction
3. Career Exploration

• THREE STEPS WITHIN THE CAREER PLANNING AND EXPLORATION PROCESS
• STEP ONE: AWARENESS, KNOWLEDGE, AND ASSESSMENT
  • Types of Career Planning Resources
  • Examples of Holland Codes Resources
  • Four Personal Styles
  • Holland Code Assessment
  • STEP TWO: EDUCATIONAL AND OCCUPATIONAL EXPLORATION
    • Internet Career Exploration Resources
    • Career Book Resources
    • STEP THREE: CAREER PLANNING
      • Holland Codes and College Majors
      • Resume Writing
      • Resume Writing Web Sites
      • Preparing for an Interview

4. Bibliography
5. Appendix

• Career Exploration and Planning
• Areas Influencing Career Planning and Exploration
• Expanded List of Areas Influencing Career Planning and Exploration
• Career and Vocational Knowledge
• Different Occupational Areas
• Career Exploration Exercise Results
• Additional Career Websites

Unlock Your Treasure – Children

The Children’s version of the Unlock Your Treasure Chest Guide to Career Exploration is used in conjunction with the Self Directed Search Career Explorer and the Paint Careers With Colors System (Children’s and RIASEC Version).

The Unlock Your Treasure Chest Guide to Career Exploration has 3 sections:

• Guide to Exploring Careers
• Internet Resources for African American Teachers, Counselors, Parents, Adults, Kids and Children
• Visual Aids or Screenshots from the Unlock the Treasure Chest Guidebook

The Unlock Your Treasure Chest Guide to Career Exploration is for African American kids and children who need a manual that will guide them through the steps of exploring careers.

The topics included in the Unlock Your Treasure Chest Guide to Career Exploration are:

• Learning about Yourself
• Find the Secret Code
• Understand the Secret Code – The Holland Code
• Find Your Career Group
• Identify Careers Using Paint Careers With Colors System
• Identify Careers Using the Self Directed Search Career Explorer
• Explore Careers Using Career Web Sites
• Explore Career Using Career Books

Training Manual

The Training Manual provides detailed step-by-step instructions to administer and implement the different aspects of the African American Paint Careers With Colors System. The b>Training Manual covers the following areas –

1. Introduction (For Parents, Teachers, & Counselors)
2. Paint Careers With Colors System –

• Model
• Career Test
• Posters
• Color Key

3. Awareness & Assessment: Teacher, Counselor, & Parent Guide

• 3 Ways To Choose a Right Career Test For Your Child or Student
• Holland Career Self Assessment Tests
• Features Of Career Self Assessments Tests
• 4. Guide To Exploring Careers – For Children
  • Learning About Yourself
  • Day One: Meet Your Guides and Get Your Map
  • Day Two: Meet John Holland, a Great Explorer
  • Day Three: Find The Secret Code
  • Day Four: Understand The Secret Code – The Paint Careers With Colors Code
  • Day Five: Find Your Career Group
  • Day Six: Get Your Holland Code.
  • Day Seven: Get Your Career List
  • Day Eight: Look at Exploring Careers Web Sites
  • Day Nine: Look at Exploring Careers Books

5. Career Posters – Keys To Explore Holland Codes, Paint Careers With Colors Codes, and Careers
6. Day Ten: Look at Career Posters
7. Paint Careers With Colors Career Posters

• Preparation For Career Poster Activity
• Sorting By Likes And Dislikes
• Summary Sheet
• Final Review
• Highest Code Letters

8. Starter Kit
9. Visual Aids Or Screenshots For Teachers, Counselors, Or Parents
10. Flash Cards

Flash Cards and Bingo Cards Sets

The purpose of the Flash Cards and Bingo Cards is to help the African American students:

• Discover their interests, abilities, and skills.
• Find out what makes their personality tick.
• Explore careers with middle school students, children, and kids.
• Link careers to interests, abilities and skills.

Flash Card Set has -

• Flash Cards – Adults Version
• Flash Cards – Children Version

The Bingo Cards has -

• Bingo Card Set – Children Version
• Bingo Master – Children Version
• Bingo Master Cutouts – Children Version
• Bingo Instruction Sheet – Children Version
• Bingo Card Set – RIASEC Version
• Bingo Master – RIASEC Version
• Bingo Master Cutouts – RIASEC Version
• Bingo Instruction Sheet – RIASEC Version

Paint Careers With Colors African American CD ROM Collection

There are four (4) Paint Careers With Colors African American CD Collection.

• Foundational CD-ROM
• Bonus CD-ROM Number 1 – Training Resources
• Bonus CD-ROM Number 2 – Promotional Starter Kit Materials
• Bonus CD-ROM Number 3 – Holland Codes Toolkit

Here is a detailed outline of the Paint Careers With Colors CD Collection.

Foundational CD-ROM

1. Career Test – Children & RIASEC – Revising

• Children Test
• Children Test Guide
• RIASEC Test
• RIASEC Test Guide

2. Color Key

• Color Key -RIASEC Version
• Color Key –RIASEC Alphabetized Version
• Color Key-Children Version
• Color Key-Children2-Alphabetized Version

3. Posters

• Children Version
• Leaders Version
• RIASEC Version
• Poster Card Instruction Sheet-2009 – RIASEC Version
• Poster Card Instruction Sheet-2009 – Children Version

4. Introduction

• Overview
• RIASEC VS Children Table
• Fact Sheets
• Paint Careers With Colors Wheel – Children
• Paint Careers With Colors Wheel – RIASEC
• RIASEC & Children Model Table

Bonus CD-ROM Number 1 – Training Resources

1. Career Resource Guide
2. Curriculum 2009
3. Unlock Your Treasure – Children
4. Training Manual
5. Mini-Posters – Children’s Version

• Mini Posters Labels
• Mini Posters Instructions
• Mini Posters Scoring Sheet

6. Career and Holland Game

Bonus CD-ROM Number 2 – Promotional Starter Kit Materials

1. Brochure
2. Labels – Children Codes
3. Labels – RIASEC Codes
4. Flyer – Adults
5. Flyer – Children
6. Name Tags
7. News Release
8. Poster
9. Tent Cards

Bonus CD-ROM Number 3 – Holland Codes Toolkit CD-ROM

1. Analyzer
2. Flash Cards

• Flash Cards – Adults Version
• Flash Cards – Children Version

3. Bingo Cards

• Bingo Card Set – Children Version
• Bingo Master – Children Version
• Bingo Master Cutouts – Children Version
• Bingo Instruction Sheet – Children Version
• Bingo Card Set – RIASEC Version
• Bingo Master – RIASEC Version
• Bingo Master Cutouts – RIASEC Version
• Bingo Instruction Sheet – RIASEC Version

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Kuder Online Portfolios

The Kuder Online Career Portfolio provides a gateway to lifelong career planning that allows individuals to store personal and academic information; search and save educational and occupational data; build resumés; and access test progress and results 24 hours a day.

The System features include:

• Education Planner – for planning coursework and tracking educational progress
• Planning Timeline – for guiding education and career planning with a suggested sequence of events
• Note Taker – for documenting the career development process
• Occupation Search and Career Comparison – for career exploration by cluster, title, or Holland Code
• College Major and Instructional Program Search – for learning more about a major as well as the postsecondary options within your state.
• College Search and Comparison – for researching approximately 7,000 post-secondary colleges, universities, education training centers, and other institutions.
• Financial Aid Information and Scholarship Search – for understanding your college financing options.
• Resumé Builder – for creating and managing multiple resumés.

To read more about the Kuder Survey, click here…

Kuder Survey Career Tests

The Kuder Test Survey has three career tests –

• Career Search with Person Match
• Skills Test
• Super’s Work Values Inventory-Revised

You can –

• Begin an test
• Stop the test
• Save the results
• Complete the test at a later time

The Kuder Career Test –

• Is completed in 30 minutes or less
• Is scored automatically
• Generates an easy-to-read report is within 20-30 seconds after the final page is submitted
• Is available in either English or Spanish

Kuder Career Search with Person Match

The Kuder Career Search with Person Match is the Kuder General Interest Survey consisting of 60 questions.

The Kuder General Interest Survey report displays information on career clusters. There are three lists of Career Clusters – Kuder Career Clusters, Federal 16 Career Clusters, or state-specific cluster/pathway system. The ranking of the Career Clusters is matched to your interests. There are descriptions of the cluster.

The report also includes the unique Person Match feature which compares test results to a career profile database.

Kuder Skills Test

The Kuder Skills Test is a self-estimate of one’s abilities to perform work-related tasks. Kuder Skills Test consists of 90 multiple choice questions.

Kuder Skills Test Results are presented in rank order of career cluster preference. The results of the Kuder Skills Test match the interests, skills, and career clusters.

Super’s Work Values Inventory-Revised

The Super’s Work Values Inventory-Revised identifies which work characteristics are most important to the test taker. The inventory consists of 72 multiple choice questions.

Super’s Work Values Inventory-Revised Report displays 12 work-related characteristics in rank order of preference. The inventory assesses 12 work-related values. The 12 work values are presented in rank order. There are definitions of each work value.

Career Test Reports

All reports provide suggestions for continued career exploration. Links from the tests are used to explore occupational listings by education level within each of the clusters. Each occupation is cross-walked with and linked directly to additional information from the Occupational Outlook Handbook, O*Net and related military occupations to allow further exploration.

Combining Results from Kuder Career Tests

• Kuder Test Survey Interests and Skills Composite Report – Once an individual completes both the interest and skills tests, a composite report compares the scores of the interests and skills tests. There are suggestions for further education and career exploration and planning. To view the composite report, click on the words Kuder Test Survey Interests and Skills Composite Report below the Kuder Test Results table.
• One-Page Summary Report –This report contains an outline of the most recent results for tests that have been completed. Access this report by clicking on the title below the Kuder Test Results table.

To read more about the Kuder Survey, click here…

Kuder Test Survey – Overview

Since 1939, for the 65 years, Kuder Test Survey has helped millions of youth and adults worldwide discover their interests, skills, and work values.

The Kuder Test Survey is an excellent resource for -

• Post-Secondary students
• First-time job seekers
• Career changers
• Veteran or active member of the military
• Adult with a disability
• Ex-offender
• Retired person
• Career preparation and placement programs
• Career centers
• Workforce agencies

Kuder Journey is an easy step-by-step process tailored to your needs. Kuder Journey helps you -

• Select the right major and plan for a career
• Exploring interests and occupational options
• Consider new or additional education
• Prepare for the workforce
• Find a job
• Build an e-Portfolio to share goals and achievements online

The Kuder Surveys helps you answer the questions –

• What are my interests? What do I like to do?
• What are my abilities and skills? What am I good at? What can I learn to do?
• What are my values? What is most important to me? What is important for my future career success and happiness, income, security, co-workers, environment, something else?
• What careers and college majors match my skills, interests, abilities, and values?
• What classes should I take now and in the next few years?
• What should I do after graduation? Should I continue with school or get a job?
• What kind of school should you attend—technical, 2-year, 4-year, other? – College by major information
• What options are available to me?

The Kuder Surveys helps you:

• Identify skills, interests, abilities, and values
• Find a cluster of careers that match your skills, interests, abilities, and values
• Prepare for post-secondary education
• Highlight specific programs based on interests and skills
• Focus on -
  • Specific career job descriptions
  • Job titles
  • General work activities
  • Detailed work activities
  • Specific tasks typical of the occupation
  • Working condition
  • Nature of the work
  • Important interests
  • Important abilities
  • Important skills
  • Important work values
  • Important knowledge areas
  • Trends
  • Training
  • Additional information
• Get information on -
  • Major areas of instruction
  • Specific instructional programs
  • College and school results
  • General campus and student body information
  • Types of instructions or programs offered
  • Degree or certificate types offered or awarded
  • Graduation rate
  • Application and admission factors and costs
  • Costs and financial aid
• Search for jobs
• Create resume
• Build a portfolio or e-portfolio

Kuder Survey has the following items -

• 3 job career tests
• College by major information
• Career job finder
• Career job descriptions
• Career portfolio
• Resume tutorial

To read more about the Kuder Survey, click here…

InterLangua LLC – Authorized Dealer

by Elisabeth Montgomery, Ph.D., President
(Emeryville, California and Shenzhen, P.R. China)

InterLangua LLC
InterLangua Software (Shenzhen) LLC

Innovation & Creativity
Cross-Cultural Training & Evolution
Ecological Foresight & Planning

~ InterLangua LLC professionals build strong relationships with clients and offer innovative programs designed to meet the client’s needs and positively enhance their business and academic skills. Our clients develop innovative and creative critical ways of thinking about themselves and others, while taking courses in cross-cultural know-how provides them with concrete, disciplined tasks that help them achieve learning objectives. InterLangua’s ecological foresight and planning mission includes a broad context for applying what is learned from our natural environment.

InterLangua’s consultants tailor the clients’ needs to the most effective and efficient results by using processes from three vital areas:

Creative Leadership – InterLangua helps create leaders who have the courage, motivation, and discipline to believe they can produce something new in the world. InterLangua services incubate innovation and creative thinking on an individual and group basis through a multidisciplinary approach

Cross-cultural Know-How – For individuals, institutions, and organizations focused on effective interpersonal and written communication skills at all levels in:
(1) English Services for Academic Purposes (EAP): Writing, speaking, listening, and interviewing.
(2) English for Specific Purposes (ESP): Increasing skills for people in business and professional work situations. The company also provides formal research methods and styles training for editing, proof-reading and citing for international publication, theses, dissertations, grants and proposals, and applications.
(3) Career Development for All Ages: Utilizing state-of-the-art technology and materials based on John Holland’s Self-Directed Search, Picture Inventory and the new Paint Your Career with Colors, InterLangua provides career services to schools and individuals in P.R. China.

~Ecological Foresight & Planning : InterLangua provides individuals and organizations that are concerned with the protection and preservation of the natural environment with a project-oriented approach to stimulate imagination and passion for achieving agreed-upon ecological goals. Participants learn by experimentation to plan projects through pre-conceptual and conceptual stages. The projects may be simple at first, but become increasingly complex as the specific needs and requirements of the participants are revealed. In this sense, the projects are living organisms? that evolve solutions to problems. See http://www.eugenetsui.com for more details.

Holland Code Career Tests

A Holland Code job career test helps you find career job opportunities, career job descriptions, and career search sites. With a job career test, you test your own job aptitude.

To select the right career assessment, look at the -

• Format – printed and interest resources, CD-ROM,
• Types – Job career questionnaire test, job personality tests, career job finders, career counseling tests, career placement test, career assessment tests, and career choice tests
• Cost – $10, $12, $15, $20 or $50
• Resources that are available – Career job descriptions, career job opportunities, college majors information, job finder resources, career clusters information, holland code careers
• Grade Levels

Holland career self assessment tests use Holland Codes to link vocational interests to job families. Holland assessments use a two or three-letter RIASEC or Holland Occupational Codes. Different Holland Code job career questionnaire tests provide information on the relationship between job personalities and key characteristics, college majors, hobbies, abilities, and related careers.

The Holland Code career self assessment tests are:

Comprehensive, Validated, Reliable Tests:

• My Career Profile
  
• Kuder Career Planning System
• Myers Briggs Type Indicator
  
• Self Directed Search – PRINTED Form R (English) , Form R (Spanish), Form R (English Canadian), Form E, Form CE, & Form CP or INTERNET Versions
• Strong Interest Inventory

Low Cost, Informal Tests:

• NEW! RIASEC Inventory
  
• Career Interests Inventory
• Transferable Skills Scale
  

Children, Limited Reading Ability, or Special Needs Tests:

• Paint Careers With Colors System
  
• Picture Interest Career Survey

My Career Profile – Bulk Price Sale

The MCP Guidance System is a Holland career self assessment test that provides information on interests, values, skills, personalities, Holland Codes, 1200+ occupations, and 6000 schools.

Overview of MCP Guidance System

Discover your -

• Interests
• Values
• Skills
• Personality

Get information on -

• Holland Codes
• 1200+ Occupations
• 6000+ Schools

The My Career Profile Guidance System is -

• Low cost
• Easy to use
• Tested, proven, and dependable
• Excellent resources

The MCP Guidance System has the following resources:

• Self-Analysis (Exploration) System
• Career Exploration Resources
• Career Search Tools
• Portfolio Creator Tools
• College Search Database

Self-Analysis System

1. My Interests Inventory

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

The Inventory provides a detailed description for each of the Holland Personality Types.

The Interests, Skills, Values, and Personality Inventories generate Occupational Lists. You can access, review, and redo the Interests, Skills, Values, and Personality Inventories.

Research Career Tool

Research a career. The Research Career Tool creates Occupational Lists from a database of 1200+ occupations. The Occupational List has options to sort occupations. Each Occupational List provides information on -

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

The Research a Career Tool allows you to research careers by name or Industry Group. The Industry Groups are -

• Architecture & Engineering
• Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media
• Building and Ground Cleaning and Maintenance
• Business and Financial Operations
• Community and Social Services
• Computer, Information Technology and Mathematics
• Construction and Extraction
• Education, Training and Library
• Farming, Fishing, and Forestry
• Food Preparation and Serving
• Healthcare Practitioners and Technology
• Healthcare Support
• Installation, Maintenance, and Repair
• Legal
• Life, Physical, and Social Science
• Management
• Military
• Office and Administrative Support
• Personal Care and Service
• Production
• Protective Service
• Sales and Related
• Transportation and Materials Moving

School Tool

The School Tool obtains school from a database of 6000+ post-secondary institutions. The School Tool searches for schools according to the following criteria -

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

1. Location of School

Do you want to go to college in a large city, large town, or rural area? Find a college that matches your criteria!

The Location of School Tool searches for schools based upon -

• Locale or Degree of Urbanization
• Region
• My Skills Inventory
• My Personality Inventory

The Locale or Degree of Urbanization categories are -

• Large city
• Mid-size city
• Large town
• Small town
• Rural

The Regional component narrows the school options according to the following geographic regions:

• New England
• Mid East
• Great Lakes
• Plains
• South East
• South West
• Rocky Mountain
• West Coast
• Outside US

The States section allows you to select a college from a specific state.

2. Enrollment and Cost

How much do you want to pay for tuition?

What is your preference for the number of students enrolled at the college?

The Enrollment and Costs sections outline detailed school information that matches your criteria!

3. Type of School

Do you want to attend a -

• Certificate Program
• Community College
• Four-Year College/ University
• Public School
• Private School
• School with a Religious Affiliation

Find the school that meets your needs. The Type of School section selects schools that match the factors that you select.

4. Major Areas of Study

Are you looking for a school that offers a specific college major? The Major Areas of Study section focuses on schools from the following areas -

• Agriculture
• Architecture
• Biological and Biomedical Sciences
• Business, Management, and Marketing
• Communication and Journalism
• Communication Technology
• Computer and Information Sciences
• Construction Trades
• Education
• Engineering
• Engineering Technologies
• English Language and Literature
• Family and Consumer Sciences
• Foreign Languages
• Health and Clinical Sciences
• History
• Legal Professions
• Liberal Arts and Sciences
• Library Science
• Mathematics and Statistics
• Mechanics and Repair
• Military Technologies
• Multidisciplinary Studies
• Natural Resources and Conservation
• Parks, Recreation, Leisure, and Fitness Studies
• Personal and Culinary Services
• Philosophy and Religious Studies
• Physical Sciences
• Precision Production
• Psychology
• Public Administration and Social Service
• Science Technologies
• Security and Protective Services
• Social Services
• Theology and Religion
• Transportation and Materials Moving
• Visual and Performing Arts

The Schools can be saved to create a Custom School List.

All lists can be printed and saved for future reference.

2. My Values Inventory

Find out the things that are important to you, for example -

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

The My Values Inventory provides a detailed description for each of the Values.

The My Values Inventory matches occupations to your Values and generates Occupational Lists.

3. My Skills Inventory

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

The My Skills Inventory provides a detailed description for each of the Skills.

The My Skills Inventory matches occupations to your Skills and generates Occupational Lists.

4. My Personality Inventory

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

Career Exploration Tools

Explore careers and the matching -

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

In the My Career Profile Guidance System, the Career Exploration Tools include the Research a Career and Combining Your Assessments Tools.

The bulk costs for the My Career Profile Guidance System are -

• 10 Profiles – $500 ($50/Profile)
• 20 Profiles – $900 ($45/Profile)
• 30 Profiles – $1200 ($40/Profile)

To order the My Career Profile Guidance System, click on the link.