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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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17 Career Development Applications Evolve!

17 Career Development Social Media Applications

Hollandcodes.com is maximizing our use of social media tools.

Social media tools are mobile and web technologies, e.g. Facebook, Linkedin, and Twitter.

Media technology promotes social networking, using already existing contacts to meet new people as potential social or business links.

According to Michael Wu, Ph.D., two major types of media tools:

Media Technology helps us –

  • Generate highly powerful traffic
  • Promote your products
  • Access to customer’s feedback
  • Announcing new products or services
  • Discover your customers’ preferences 

 Review the examples, highlights, descriptions, illustrations, and contact information for these applications -

  • Resource One: Blogs
  • Resource Two: Constant Contact
  • Resource Three: Delicious
  • Resource Four: Evernote – note taking and archiving software
  • Resource Five: Facebook
  • Resource Six: Igroops – social network
  • Resource Seven: Infographics – highly visual presentation tool
  • Resource Eight: Issuu – digital publishing platform
  • Resource Nine: Linkedin
  • Resource Ten: Mobile Web Site
  • Resource Eleven: Oovoo – video chat and instant messaging app
  • Resource Twelve: Powerpoint
  • Resource Thirteen: Prezi – cloud-based presentation software
  • Resource Fourteen: Scribd – web and mobile device online library
  • Resource Fifteen: Slideshare – document, PDF, video and webinar sharing software
  • Resource Sixteen: Twitter
  • Resource Seventeen: Wordle – word cloud generator software

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Career Development Infographics

Hollandcodes.com uses infographics to reveal keys to career development.

The Career Development Infographic describes the steps in the career planning process -

  • Awareness, Knowledge, and Assessment
  • Educational and Occupational Exploration
  • Career Planning

Assess your interests, explore careers, and find potential training programs.

The Holland Codes Infographic provides an overview of the Holland Codes Model.

The Holland Code Model matches jobs into job codes, interest clusters, work personality environments, or personality types.

The Occupational Codes are -

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

Here is information about our Holland Codes products -

Comprehensive, Validated, Reliable Tests:

  • Self Directed SearchPrinted Form R (English) , Form R (Spanish), Form R (English Canadian), Form E, Form CE, & Form CP, Internet, and Mobile Versions
  • My Career Profile (MCP) – Multi-User Holland Code Career Test!!!
  • Myers Briggs Type Indicator – The most widely used personality assessment in the world
  • MBTI & Strong Interest Inventory Reports (Special Discount)

Low Cost, Informal Tests:

  • Career Personality Inventory – Based on the MBTI personality types
  • RIASEC Inventory$5 Excellent Value!!!
  • STEM Career Inventory – Green Careers!!!
  • Strong Interest Explorer – Ideal for students and individuals transitioning into a new career or reentering the workplace!

Children, Limited Reading Ability, or Special Needs Tests, Posters, and Visual Aids:

Convergence of Media Technology 
and Career Development Resources

Some of the career development and media technology resources include -

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 -

http://www.hollandcodes.com/ncda.html

When you register, you are eligible for the following items -

Free Holland Codes Resource Center Membership (Offer expires 6/30/12.)
Entry into drawing for FREE app (Drawing ends 6/30/12.)

Register today.  Space is limited!

Hollandcodes.com is expanding our use of new media technology.

Join us -

Like us on Facebook    View our profile on LinkedIn    Follow us on Twitter

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)

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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

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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

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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

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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.

MCP Interest Inventory

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.

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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
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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
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Personality Inventory

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

Job search

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
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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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Powerful Career Resources for 2012

The O*NET is one of the world’s premier career exploration and occupational research tools.

The O*NET On-Line and Content Model had six descriptors or domains –

  • Worker Characteristics
  • Worker Requirements
  • Experience Requirements
  • Occupation Requirements
  • Occupation Specific
  • Occupation Characteristics

Worker Characteristics are the acquired knowledge, skills, effective work performance.

  • Abilities — Qualities that influence performance
  • Occupational Interests — Preferences for work environments
  • Work Values —Specific needs that are important to a person’s satisfaction
  • Work Styles — Personal characteristics that can affect how well someone performs a job.

Worker Requirements are characteristics descriptors relating to work-related qualities that are acquired and/or developed through experience and education.

  • Basic Skills — Developed abilities that facilitate learning or the gaining of knowledge
  • Cross-Functional Skills — Developed skills that increase performance of activities that occur across jobs
  • Knowledge — System of principles and facts
  • Education — Prior educational experience required to perform in a job

Experience Requirements — requirements that are required to perform to work activities and explicitly linked to certain types of work activities.

Experience and Training — When someone is hired to perform a job, there are the following requirements –

  • Basic Skills – Entry Requirement — Entry requirement for skills that are need to increase learning or the gaining of knowledge
  • Cross-Functional Skills – Entry Requirement — Entry requirement for developed abilities and skills that impove performance of activities that occur across jobs
  • Licensing — Licenses, certificates, or registrations that are awarded to show that a job holder has gained certain skills.

Occupation-Specific Information

  • Tasks — Occupation-Specific Tasks
  • Tools and Technology — Machines, equipment, tools, software, and information technology workers used to perform work tasks.

Workforce Characteristics

  • Labor Market Information — Current labor force characteristics of occupations
  • Occupational Outlook — Future labor force characteristics of occupations

Occupational Requirements are factors that describe what various occupations require.

  • Generalized Work Activities — General types of job behaviors
  • Detailed Work Activities — Detailed types of job behaviors
  • Organizational Context — Characteristics of the organization that influence how people do their work
  • Work Context — Physical and social factors that influence the nature of work

Source: O*NET OnLine Career Exploration Tools

DOL/ETA (U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration) is  the exclusive owner of all rights under U.S. copyright laws and international treaty provisions in the O*NET ™ Career Exploration Tools.
Any other copyright notices refer only to Learning for Life Resource
Center’s original work in the product.

O*NET and O*NET IN IT and logos are trademarks of the DOL/ETA (U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration).

Here are O*NET career exploration tools –

  • Enhanced Occupational Outlook Handbook
  • O*NET and Holland Codes Fact Sheets
  • Career Interests Inventory

Enhanced Occupational Outlook Handbook

For Doing In-Depth Research on Job Descriptions, Career Options, and Education Options

Enhanced Occupational Outlook Handbook 

The Enhanced Occupational Outlook Handbook is:

  • Must-read resource for counselors and teachers
  • An essential reference book that is a requirement for any career advisement, counseling, or counseling program, library, or resource room

The Enhanced Occupational Outlook Handbook is the best reference guide available that lists information about:

  • Career Clusters/ GOE Interest Groups
  • Holland Codes
  • ONET Codes
  • Job descriptions

The Handbook has more than 6,500 job descriptions — more than in any other career research book:

  • All job descriptions from the Occupational Outlook Handbook
  • Plus thousands more from the ONet and Dictionary of Occupational Titles

The Enhanced Occupational Outlook Handbook combines information from the most authoritative occupational data sources:

  • Occupational Outlook Handbook
  • O*NET database
  • Dictionary of Occupational Titles
  • Dictionary of Holland Occupational Codes

How to use the Enhanced Occupational Outlook Handbook

The major tools to using the Enhanced Occupational Outlook Handbook are:

  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction
  • Appendix
  • Indexes
The Table of Contents lists the following interest clusters or job groupings:
  • Management, Business, and Financial Operations Occupations
  • Professional and Related Occupations
  • Service Occupations
  • Sales and Related Occupations
  • Office and Administrative Support Occupations
  • Farming, Fishing, and Forestry Occupations
  • Construction, Trades, and Related Workers
  • Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations
  • Production Occupations
  • Transportation and Material Moving Occupations
  • Job Opportunities in the Armed Forces

The Introduction section provides information of the following topics:

  • Occupational Outlook Handbook and Job Descriptions
  • O*NET and Job Descriptions
  • Dictionary of Occupational Titles and Job Descriptions
  • 16 GOE Interest Areas
  • Holland Personality Types
  • OOH Job Descriptions
From the Occupational Outlook Handbook and Job Descriptions, you receive the listing of the following topics:
  • Job Title and O*NET Job Numbers
  • Holland Personality Types
  • Significant Points
  • Nature of the Work
  • Working Conditions
  • Employment
  • Training, Other Qualifications, and Advancement
  • Job Outlook
  • Earning
  • Related Occupations
  • Sources of Additional Information

The Appendix has information about Tomorrow’s Jobs discussing changes in:

  • Population
  • Labor Force
  • Employment
  • Industry
  • Occupation
  • Education
  • Total Openings
The Handbook are two (2) Indexes:
  • Alphabetized Index of Major Job Titles from Occupational Outlook Handbook
  • Alphabetized Index of ONET and DOT Job Titles

O*NET and Holland Codes Fact Sheets

The benefits of the O*NET and Holland Codes FACT Sheetsare -

  • Low cost
  • Easy to read format
  • Comprehensive and detailed lists
  • Latest career information
  • Links between Holland Codes and O*NET Codes
  • Summary of information from reliable source – Occupational Information Network

Using the ONET, the Occupational Information Network, Hollandcodes.com is preparing FACT SHEETS that will highlight the relationship between careers, O*NET Codes, Holland Codes, and the following factors –

  • Tasks
  • Knowledge
  • Skills
  • Abilities
  • Work Activities
  • Work Context
  • Job Zone
  • Interests
  • Work Values

O*NET Codes and Holland Codes FACT Sheets

O*NET Codes and Holland Codes FACT Sheets lists the -

  • O*NET-SOC Code
  • O*NET-SOC Job Title
  • Holland Codes
  • Description
Educational Levels Required for Different Occupations O*NET Codes and Holland Codes FACT Sheets

O*NET Codes and Holland Codes FACT Sheets – Educational Levels Required for Different Occupations lists the required levels of education from the selected sample. The largest number of people had one of the following levels of education

  • Less than a High School Diploma
  • High School Diploma (or GED or High School Equivalence Certificate)
  • Post-Secondary Certificate
  • Some College Courses
  • Associate’s Degree (or other 2-year degree)
  • Bachelor’s Degree
  • Post-Baccalaureate Certificate
  • Master’s Degree
  • Post-Master’s Certificate
  • First Professional Degree
  • Doctoral Degree
  • Post-Doctoral Training

Ability Areas for Different Occupations O*NET Codes and Holland Codes FACT Sheets

O*NET Codes and Holland Codes FACT Sheets – Ability Areas for Different Occupations lists the following Ability Areas -

  • Cognitive Abilities — Abilities that influence the acquisition and application of knowledge in problem solvingnformation Ordering — The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
    • Mathematical Reasoning — The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem.
    • Memorization — The ability to remember information such as words, numbers, pictures, and procedures.
    • Number Facility — The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly.
    • Oral Comprehension — The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
    • Oral Expression — The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
  • Physical Abilities — Abilities that influence strength, endurance, flexibility, balance and coordination.
  • Psychomotor Abilities — Abilities that influence the capacity to manipulate and control objects
  • Sensory Abilities — Abilities that influence visual, auditory and speech perception

Job Zones O*NET Codes and Holland Codes FACT Sheets

O*NET Codes and Holland Codes FACT Sheets – Job Zones lists the following Job Zones -

  • Job Zone One: Little or No Preparation Needed
  • Job Zone Two: Some Preparation Needed
  • Job Zone Three: Medium Preparation Needed
  • Job Zone Four: Considerable Preparation Needed
  • Job Zone Five: Extensive Preparation Needed
For each Job Level, there is information about -
  • Experience
  • Education
  • Job Training
  • Examples of job skills
  • Examples of occupations

Knowledge Areas, O*NET Codes, and Holland Codes FACT Sheets

O*NET Codes and Holland Codes FACT Sheets – Knowledge Areas lists the following Knowledge Areas -

  • Knowledge
  • Administration and Management
  • Biology
  • Building and Construction
  • Chemistry
  • Clerical
  • Communications and Media
  • Computers and Electronics
  • Customer and Personal Service
  • Design
  • Economics and Accounting
  • Education and Training
  • Engineering and Technology
  • English Language
  • Fine Arts
  • Food Production
  • Foreign Language
  • Geography
  • History and Archeology
  • Law and Government
  • Mathematics
  • Mechanical
  • Medicine and Dentistry
  • Personnel and Human Resources
  • Philosophy and Theology
  • Physics
  • Production and Processing
  • Psychology
  • Public Safety and Security
  • Sales and Marketing
  • Sociology and Anthropology
  • Therapy and Counseling
  • Transportation
Source: O*NET ™ Career Exploration Tools
DOL/ETA (U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration) is the exclusive owner of all rights under U.S. copyright laws and international treaty provisions in the O*NET ™ Career Exploration Tools. Any other copyright notices refer only to Learning for Life Resource Center’s original work in the product.

O*NET and O*NET IN IT and logos are trademarks of the DOL/ETA (U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration).

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Career Interests Inventory

The Career Interests Inventory,  a printed, career self assessment test, measures Holland Codes, personalities, and careers. Here is some information about the inventory. The Career Interests Inventory measures six Holland Occupational Codes -

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

The Inventory is a version of Dept. of Labor’s O*NET Interest Profile.
O*NET Career Interests Inventory is a 6-panel foldout inventory with
180 statements. The inventory takes about 30 minutes to complete. The
responses are added; the results are matched to the Holland (RIASEC)
Career Model and hundreds of related occupations. The occupations are
divided into categories based upon education, preparation, or training
requirements.

Read about O*NET Codes and Holland Codes products ….

Kid Career Downloads for 2012!

The following downloads are on sale -

  • Bingo Cards
  • Destiny Discovers Purpose Activity PAK
  • Internet Resources for Kids
  • Rainbow Careers Awareness System
  • Unlock Your Treasure Chest

Destiny Discovers Purpose Activity PAK

Activity Sheet

The printed activity sheets have -

  • Six sections
  • 72 items

The printed activity sheets can be administered to groups and individuals.

For the activity sheets, you use paper-and-pencil.

The estimated time to complete the activity sheets is 30 minutes, and activity sheets are self–scoring.

Color Chart

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The Color Chart provides information about forty-four careers -

  • Job Titles
  • Color Career Group

Internet Resources for Kids

Children Unlock Treasure Chest, Internet Resources for Teachers, Counselors, Parents, Adults, Kids and Children has information on career exploration web sites and books.

There are the different types of Children Unlock Treasure Chest, Exploring Career Web Sites

  • Curriculum
  • Career Information
  • Career Groups – Science
  • Specific Careers — Science

Career Kid Curriculum Web Sites

Resource One: Career Cruiser

career cruiser

The Career Cruiser is a career kid site/ guidebook for middle school students. The Career Cruiser has self — assessment activities to match personal interests to careers. The Career Cruiser has information on HOLLAND CODES. Careers are grouped into 16 career clusters. The Career Cruiser has information on occupational descriptions, average earnings, and minimum educational level required for the job.

A Teacher’s Guide is also available.

Resource Two: Elementary Core Career Connection

career connection

The Core Career Connections is a career kid collection of instructional activities, K — 6 and 7 — 8, designed by teachers, counselors, and parents. Each grade level has instructional activities that align directly with state department of education requirements. This instructional resource provides a framework for teachers, counselors, and parents to integrate career awareness with the elementary and middle level grade students.

Career Kid Information

Resource Four: Career Ship

career ship

Career Ship is a free online career teen exploration tool for middle and high school students.

Career Ship uses Holland Codes and the O*NET Career Exploration Tools.

For each career, Career Ship provides the following information:

  • Tasks
  • Wages
  • Career outlook
  • Interests
  • Education
  • Knowledge
  • Skills
  • Similar careers

Career Ship is a product a public—service web site providing career, college, financial aid, and financial literacy information and services.

Resource Six: Destination 2020

destination 2020

Destination 2020 helps youth discover how everyday tasks can help them build skills they will need to face the many challenges of the workforce.

Skills are linked to –

  • School Subjects
  • Other School Activities
  • Play Activities At Home
  • Work at Home

Through career teen quizzes, activities and articles, students find some answers or, at least, a direction about their future. There are more than 200 profiles of real people who are describing what a day at work is like for them.

Career Kid Career Groups Websites — Science

Resource Eight: EEK! Get a Job – Environmental Education for Kids

Eek! Get a Job

Eek! Get a Job – Environmental Education for Kids is a career kid site/ electronic magazine for children in grades 4 — 8. Eek! Get a Job provides information about –

  • Forestry
  • Hydrogeologist
  • Engineering
  • Herpetologist
  • Park Ranger
  • Wildlife Biologist
  • Park Naturalist

There is a job description for each career, a list of job activities, suggested activities to begin exploring careers, and needed job skills.

Resource Eleven: San Diego Zoo Job Profiles for Kids

San Diego Zoo is a career kid website that has job profiles. Job Profiles discussed jobs for people who –

  • Work with animals
  • Work with plants
  • Work with science and conservation
  • Work with people
  • Work that helps run the Zoo and Park

There are activities listed under each area, for example –

  • What we do
  • What’s cool about this job
  • Job challenges
  • How this job helps animals
  • How to get a job like this
  • Practice Being a …
  • How to Become a …

Specific Career Kid Websites — Science

Resource Fourteen:  About Veterinarians

Veterinarian

About Veterinarians is a website that has career kid facts about –

  • What is a Veterinarian?
  • Veterinary Education
  • Roles of Veterinarians
  • Employment Outlook
  • Becoming a Veterinary Technician

Resource Sixteen: Engineering – The Stealth Profession

Engineering

Engineering – The Stealth Profession has a lot of career kid information about engineers –

  • Types of Engineers
  • True Stories
  • Salaries
  • Education Required
  • Work Schedules
  • Equipment Used

Resource Eighteen: Do You Want to Become a Volcanologist?

Volcanologist

Do You Want to Become a Volcanologist? provides career kid descriptions of the –

  • Word ″Volcanologist″
  • Daily work
  • Traits for success
  • Education
  • Salaries

Rainbow Career Awareness System

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.

The Elementary School Career Exploration Kit contains the following items -

  • Book (iPhone/ iPad App) with following separately sold items -
    • Unit Plan
    • Instruction Sheet
    • Question and Answer Sheets
  • Career Activity Sheets
  • Color/ Career Chart
  • Posters

See Rainbow Careers Career Book and iPod/ iPad App

The See Rainbow Careers book is now available at the iTunes store.

The See Rainbow Careers book -

  • Has six sections and 40 colorful pages
  • Provides information about career group characteristics, career interest areas, and careers
  • Uses vibrant colors, animated graphics, and VISUAL learning techniques to help children build an career awareness
  • Clarifies thoughts, integrates new knowledge, and promotes critical thinking. New concepts are more thoroughly and easily understood.
  • Organizes and analyzes information.
  • 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.

red careers

Children, youth, and adults -

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

Use the career book at -

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

The career book is an career activities for ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTSand 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 See Rainbow Careers is an app listed on the iTunes Store. The See Rainbow Careers book is compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.

Order the See Rainbow Careers iTunes App at the iTunes store.

Unit Plan, Instruction Sheets, and Question and Answer Sheets

Reference Materials include Unit Plan, Instruction Sheets, and Question and Answer Sheets.

The Unit Plan covers -

  • Standards
  • Performance Goals
  • Academic Content Area(s)
  • Unit Assessment
  • Brief Summary
  • References

The Instruction Sheets provide the step-by-step for using -

  • Book (iPhone/ iPad App)
  • Career Activity Sheets

The Question and Answer Sheets is an excellent review for the information covered in the See Rainbow Careers book. Summarize key information concurrently, or use the sheets as a review.

Activity Sheets

Activity Sheet

The printed activity sheetshave -

  • Six sections
  • 72 items

The printed activity sheets can be administered to groups and individuals.

For the activity sheets, you use paper-and-pencil.

The estimated time to complete the activity sheets is 30 minutes, and activity sheets are self–scoring.

Color Chart

Colorkey

The Color Chart provides information about forty-four careers:

  • Job Titles
  • Color Career Group

Posters

kid career test
Over three hundred (300) Posters feature graphics, interest areas, and careers. The 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. The posters are an excellent way to explore careers. The poster shows you’re the relationship between Holland Codes and careers.

Rainbow Career Awareness System has -

  • Unit Plan
  • Instruction Sheet
  • Question and Answer Sheets
  • Career Activity Sheets
  • Color/ Career Chart
  • Posters

bingo cards

Bingo Cards Sets

The purpose of the 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.

The Bingo Cards have -

  • Bingo Card Set
  • Bingo Master
  • Bingo Master Cutouts
  • Bingo Instruction Sheet

Rainbow Career Awareness System

Entire Career Awareness System contains -

  • Unit Plan
  • Instruction Sheet
  • Question and Answer Sheets
  • Activity Sheets
  • Bingo Cards
  • Color/ Career Chart
  • Posters

Book (iPhone/ iPad App) sold separately at the iTunes store.

Unlock Your Treasure Chest

New Unlock Your Treasure Chest

Find the right career!

Now is the time to pinpoint your interests, abilities, skills, talents, and values!

Unlock your potential!

Discover who you really are and KNOW your likes, dislikes, and interests.

Match your likes, interests, skills, and personality styles to careers.

Find the right training programs matches your interests.

Succeed in planning a career.

unlock treasure chest

The Unlock the Treasure Chest. You Have the Keys! Guide to Career Planning is a step-by-step guide to explore careers and college majors. Use the guidebook to pinpoint your interests, abilities, skills, talents, and values.

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

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

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

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

The Unlock the Treasure Chest has 4 sections –

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

awareness

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

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

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

career planning map

  • Career Planning Map
  • Self-Analysis, Self Awareness, or Self Assessment
  • Self Awareness
  • Tools to Awareness
    • Interests Inventory
    • Values Inventory
    • Skills Inventory
    • Personality Styles Inventory
    • Career Match Making Using Interests, Values, Skills, and Personality Styles
  • Career Exploration
    • Database of 1200+ careers
    • Research A Career Tool
    • Career Profile
    • Research career information

Each career profile has the following information –

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

college exploration

The College Major Exploration section has -

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

Each school profile lists the following information –

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

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

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

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

Get the keys from our download library.

Power Up for 2012

Happy New Year

The following downloads are on sale -

  • Bingo Cards
  • Career Clusters and Holland Codes Connection and Posters
  • Destiny Discovers Purpose Activity PAK
  • Detectives of the Bible Club
  • Faith-Based Career Planning Curriculum
  • Green Careers and Holland Codes Fact Sheets and Posters
  • Internet Resources for Teachers, Counselors, Parents, Adults, Kids and Children
  • ONET and Holland Codes
  • Rainbow Careers Awareness System (Unit Plan, Instruction Sheet, Question and Answer Sheets, Career Activity Sheets, Color/ Career Chart, and Posters)
  • Unlock Your Treasure Chest

Career Clusters, the Guide for Occupational Exploration/
GOE Codes, and Holland Codes Connection & Posters

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The Career Clusters Resources, the Guide for Occupational Exploration/ GOE Codes, and Holland Codes Connection is a career cluster resource guide that provides information about Career Clusters, Guide for Occupational Exploration/ GOE Codes, Holland Codes, career exploration, career jobs, career salary, career research, and career information.

The Career Clusters, the Guide for Occupational Exploration/ GOE Codes, and Holland Codes Connection provides information on -

  • Background of Career Clusters and Guide for Occupational Exploration/ GOE Codes
  • Career Clusters, Guide for Occupational Exploration/ GOE Codes, and Holland Codes Cross-Reference Tables 1, 2, and 3
    • Table 1: The Career Clusters, Guide for Occupational Exploration Codes (GOE), and the Holland Codes Cross-Reference (Sorted by Holland Codes)
    • Table 2: The Career Clusters, Guide for Occupational Exploration Codes (GOE), and the Holland Codes Cross-Reference (Sorted by GEO Interest Area)
    • Table 3: The Career Clusters, the Original Guide for Occupational Exploration Codes (GOE), and the Holland Codes Cross-Reference (Sorted by GEO Interest Area)
  • Internet Guide for Occupational Exploration and Career Cluster Resources
    • State Career Clusters Initiative
    • Career Activity Files
    • Career Click
    • Career Cluster Frameworks
    • Career Clusters
    • Career Clusters & Pathways
    • Career Clusters Series
    • Career Prospects System
    • Career Voyages
    • Career Website for Students
    • Cluster and Career Videos

Holland Codes and Career Clusters Resource Posters Set shows the relationships between the Holland Codes and the Department of Education Career Clusters Structure.

The benefits of the Holland Codes and Career Clusters Resource Posters are -

  • Eye appealing – Is a colorful presentation
  • Easy to use – Facilitates learning through the use of graphics
  • Comprehensive – Shows the relationships between careers, interests, Holland Codes, and Career Clusters
  • Easy to understand – Simplifies the understanding of career exploration, Holland Codes, and the Career Clusters
  • Easy scoring – Sorts quickly according to likes and dislikes
  • Reproducible – Print as many posters as you need

The Holland Code and Career Cluster Resource Posters are used to -

  • Provide career exploration classroom activities for middle school students, children, kids, and adults who learn best using visual resources
  • Identify Holland Codes and Career Clusters
  • Identify characteristics of Holland Personality Types
  • Sort occupations according to Holland Codes and Career Clusters

The Holland Code and Career Cluster Resource Posters comes with -

  • Over 200 colorful, illustrated posters
  • Updated instruction sheets
  • Alphabetized poster list
  • State Career Clusters/ Pathways Fact Sheet
  • Super State Career Clusters/ Pathways Fact Sheet

This Holland Code and Career Clusters resource is an excellent supplement to any career education, counseling, coaching, and exploration program. Use the posters in conjunction with any career cluster or Holland Code resource.

Green Careers and Holland Codes Fact Sheets

Green Careers and Holland Codes Download

Find Holland Codes for more than 200 green careers in these twelve sectors below.

  • Agriculture and Forestry
  • Energy and Carbon Capture and Storage
  • Energy Efficiency
  • Energy Trading
  • Environment Protection
  • Governmental and Regulatory Administration
  • Green Construction
  • Manufacturing
  • Recycling and Waste Reduction
  • Renewable Energy Generation
  • Research, Design, and Consulting Services
  • Transportation

Green Careers and Holland Codes Posters

Green Careers and Holland Codes Poster Collection

Use Green Careers – Unlock Your Future posters as a guide to help you -

  • Identify interests and Holland Codes
  • Match Holland Codes to careers
  • Gain awareness of Green Careers

Find Holland Codes for more than 100 green careers in these twelve sectors below.

  • Agriculture and Forestry
  • Energy and Carbon Capture and Storage
  • Energy Efficiency
  • Energy Trading
  • Environment Protection
  • Governmental and Regulatory Administration
  • Green Construction
  • Manufacturing
  • Recycling and Waste Reduction
  • Renewable Energy Generation
  • Research, Design, and Consulting Services
  • Transportation

Destiny Discovers Purpose Activity PAK

Activity Sheet

The printed activity sheets have -

  • Six sections
  • 72 items

The printed activity sheets can be administered to groups and individuals.

For the activity sheets, you use paper-and-pencil.

The estimated time to complete the activity sheets is 30 minutes, and activity sheets are self–scoring.

Color Chart

Color key

The Color Chart provides information about forty-four careers -

  • Job Titles
  • Color Career Group

Detectives of the Bible Club (DBC)

Detective of the bible Club

Now is the time to pinpoint your interests, abilities, skills, talents, and values!

Unlock your potential!

Discover who you really are and KNOW your likes, dislikes, and interests.

Match your likes, interests, skills, and personality styles to careers.

Find the right training programs matches your interests.

Succeed in planning a career.

The Detectives of the Bible Club is a fun, interactive way to explore the Word of God.

Each lesson is packed full of activities -

  • Bible stories
  • Bible verses
  • Coloring sheets
  • Crossword puzzle
  • Solving Cases Sheets
  • Bible Word Studies
  • Question and answer sheets

Good for Family Bible Studies!

Learn about some of the heroes from the Bible -

  • Jesus
  • David
  • Joshua
  • Abraham
  • Noah
  • Daniel
  • Mary

crossword puzzle

Good Character Building Curriculum!

The Detective of the Bible Club (DBC) has three areas -

  • Become a Detective of the Bible
  • Learn Hebrew and Greek
    • Flash Cards
    • Coloring Sheets
    • Bingo Cards
  • Seek the Holy Spirit
    • Fruit of the Spirit
    • Building Godly Character

The table of contents from a Detective of the Bible Club lesson covers -

Volume 1: Detectives of the Bible Club Manual

Leaders’ Guide
A Cry from the Heart
Inspector’s Pledge of Support
Biblical Guide to Train up a Child
Detectives of the Bible Club Theme Song
Bible Guest – David
Where Is The Story Of David – The Chosen One?
Where Is 1 Samuel 17?
Bible Guest – Jesus Born In Bethlehem
Who Is Jesus?
Where is the Story of a King is Born?
Where Is Luke 2:6 – 7
Bible Guest – Joshua
Where is the Story of a New Leader?
Bible Guest – Jesus at the Age of Twelve
Where is the Story of Boy in the Temple?
Where is Luke 2:46?

The special, illustrated, 383 page PDF Edition comes with -

  • Bible stories
  • Bible verses
  • Coloring sheets
  • Crossword puzzle
  • Solving Cases Sheets
  • Bible Word Studies
  • Question and answer sheets

Faith-Based Career Planning Curriculum Sale

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
  • Homeschool Students
  • Youth 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?

Internet Resources for Teachers, Counselors, Parents, Adults, Kids and Children

Children Unlock Treasure Chest, Internet Resources for Teachers, Counselors, Parents, Adults, Kids and Children has information on career exploration web sites and books.

There are the different types of Children Unlock Treasure Chest, Exploring Career Web Sites

  • Curriculum
  • Career Information
  • Career Groups – Science
  • Specific Careers — Science

Career Kid Curriculum Web Sites

Resource One: Career Cruiser

career cruiser

The Career Cruiser is a career kid site/ guidebook for middle school students. The Career Cruiser has self — assessment activities to match personal interests to careers. The Career Cruiser has information on HOLLAND CODES. Careers are grouped into 16 career clusters. The Career Cruiser has information on occupational descriptions, average earnings, and minimum educational level required for the job.

A Teacher’s Guide is also available.

Resource Two: Elementary Core Career Connection

career connection

The Core Career Connections is a career kid collection of instructional activities, K — 6 and 7 — 8, designed by teachers, counselors, and parents. Each grade level has instructional activities that align directly with state department of education requirements. This instructional resource provides a framework for teachers, counselors, and parents to integrate career awareness with the elementary and middle level grade students.

Career Kid Information

Resource Four: Career Ship

career ship

Career Ship is a free online career teen exploration tool for middle and high school students.

Career Ship uses Holland Codes and the O*NET Career Exploration Tools.

For each career, Career Ship provides the following information:

  • Tasks
  • Wages
  • Career outlook
  • Interests
  • Education
  • Knowledge
  • Skills
  • Similar careers

Career Ship is a product a public—service web site providing career, college, financial aid, and financial literacy information and services.

Resource Six: Destination 2020

destination 2020

Destination 2020 helps youth discover how everyday tasks can help them build skills they will need to face the many challenges of the workforce.

Skills are linked to –

  • School Subjects
  • Other School Activities
  • Play Activities At Home
  • Work at Home

Through career teen quizzes, activities and articles, students find some answers or, at least, a direction about their future. There are more than 200 profiles of real people who are describing what a day at work is like for them.

Career Kid Career Groups Websites — Science

Resource Eight: EEK! Get a Job – Environmental Education for Kids

Eek! Get a Job

Eek! Get a Job – Environmental Education for Kids is a career kid site/ electronic magazine for children in grades 4 — 8. Eek! Get a Job provides information about –

  • Forestry
  • Hydrogeologist
  • Engineering
  • Herpetologist
  • Park Ranger
  • Wildlife Biologist
  • Park Naturalist

There is a job description for each career, a list of job activities, suggested activities to begin exploring careers, and needed job skills.

Resource Eleven: San Diego Zoo Job Profiles for Kids

San Diego Zoo is a career kid website that has job profiles. Job Profiles discussed jobs for people who –

  • Work with animals
  • Work with plants
  • Work with science and conservation
  • Work with people
  • Work that helps run the Zoo and Park

There are activities listed under each area, for example –

  • What we do
  • What’s cool about this job
  • Job challenges
  • How this job helps animals
  • How to get a job like this
  • Practice Being a …
  • How to Become a …

Specific Career Kid Websites — Science

Resource Fourteen:  About Veterinarians

Veterinarian

About Veterinarians is a website that has career kid facts about –

  • What is a Veterinarian?
  • Veterinary Education
  • Roles of Veterinarians
  • Employment Outlook
  • Becoming a Veterinary Technician

Resource Sixteen: Engineering – The Stealth Profession

Engineering

Engineering – The Stealth Profession has a lot of career kid information about engineers –

  • Types of Engineers
  • True Stories
  • Salaries
  • Education Required
  • Work Schedules
  • Equipment Used

Resource Eighteen: Do You Want to Become a Volcanologist?

Volcanologist

Do You Want to Become a Volcanologist? provides career kid descriptions of the –

  • Word ″Volcanologist″
  • Daily work
  • Traits for success
  • Education
  • Salaries

ONET and Holland Codes

ONET Model

Benefits

The benefits of the O*NETCodes and Holland Codes FACT Sheets are -

  • Low cost
  • Easy to read format
  • Comprehensive and detailed lists
  • Latest career information
  • Links between Holland Codes and O*NET Codes
  • Summary of information from reliable source – Occupational Information Network

Using the ONET, the Occupational Information Network, Hollandcodees.com is preparing FACT SHEETS that will highlight the relationship between careers, O*NET Codes, Holland Codes, and the following factors –

  • Tasks
  • Knowledge
  • Skills
  • Abilities
  • Work Activities
  • Work Context
  • Job Zone
  • Interests
  • Work Values

Source: O*NET ™ Career Exploration Tools

DOL/ETA (U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration) is the exclusive owner of all rights under U.S. copyright laws and international treaty provisions in the O*NET ™ Career Exploration Tools. Any other copyright notices refer only to Learning for Life Resource Center’s original work in the product.

O*NET and O*NET IN IT and logos are trademarks of the DOL/ETA (U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration).

Use the O*NET Codes and Holland Codes FACT Sheets lists to compare the O*NET Codes to the careers listed in the Dictionary of Holland Occupational Codes. Save time and effort.

O*NET Codes and Holland Codes FACT Sheets

O*NET Codes and Holland Codes FACT Sheets lists the -

  • O*NET-SOC Code
  • O*NET-SOC Job Title
  • Holland Codes
  • Description

Alphabetized O*NET Codes and Holland Codes FACT Sheets

O*NET Codes and Holland Codes FACT Sheets lists the -

  • O*NET-SOC Code
  • O*NET-SOC Job Title
  • Holland Codes
  • Description

Educational Levels,  O*NET Codes, and Holland Codes FACT Sheets

O*NET Codes and Holland Codes FACT Sheets – Educational Levels Required for Different Occupations lists the required levels of education from the selected sample. The largest number of people had one of the following levels of education

  • Less than a High School Diploma
  • High School Diploma (or GED or High School Equivalence Certificate)
  • Post-Secondary Certificate – awarded for training completed after high school (for example, in Personnel Services, Engineering-related Technologies, Vocational Home Economics, Construction Trades, Mechanics and Repairers, Precision Production Trades)
  • Some College Courses
  • Associate’s Degree (or other 2-year degree)
  • Bachelor’s Degree
  • Post-Baccalaureate Certificate – awarded for completion of an organized program of study; designed for people who have completed a Baccalaureate degree, but do not meet the requirements of academic degrees carrying the title of Master.
  • Master’s Degree
  • Post-Master’s Certificate – awarded for completion of an organized program of study; designed for people who have completed a Master’s degree, but do not meet the requirements of academic degrees at the doctoral level.
  • First Professional Degree – awarded for completion of a program that: requires at least 2 years of college work before entrance into the program, includes a total of at least 6 academic years of work to complete, and provides all remaining academic requirements to begin practice in a profession
  • Doctoral Degree
  • Post-Doctoral Training

Ability Areas, O*NET Codes, and Holland Codes FACT Sheets

O*NET Codes and Holland Codes FACT Sheets – Ability Areas for Different Occupations lists the following Ability Areas -

  • Cognitive Abilities — Abilities that influence the acquisition and application of knowledge in problem solving information Ordering — The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
    • Mathematical Reasoning — The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem.
    • Memorization — The ability to remember information such as words, numbers, pictures, and procedures.
    • Number Facility — The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly.
    • Oral Comprehension — The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
    • Oral Expression — The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
  • Physical Abilities — Abilities that influence strength, endurance, flexibility, balance and coordination.
  • Psychomotor Abilities — Abilities that influence the capacity to manipulate and control objects
  • Sensory Abilities — Abilities that influence visual, auditory and speech perception

Job Zones, O*NET Codes, and Holland Codes FACT Sheets

O*NET Codes, and Holland Codes FACT Sheets – Job Zones lists the following Job Zones -

  • Job Zone One: Little or No Preparation Needed
  • Job Zone Two: Some Preparation Needed
  • Job Zone Three: Medium Preparation Needed
  • Job Zone Four: Considerable Preparation Needed
  • Job Zone Five: Extensive Preparation Needed

For each Job Level, there is information about -

  • Experience
  • Education
  • Job Training
  • Examples of job skills
  • Examples of occupations

Knowledge Areas, O*NET Codes, and Holland Codes FACT Sheets

O*NET Codes and Holland Codes FACT Sheets – Knowledge Areas lists the following Knowledge Areas -

  • Knowledge — Organized sets of principles and facts applying in general domains.
  • Administration and Management — Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.
  • Biology — Knowledge of plant and animal organisms, their tissues, cells, functions, interdependencies, and interactions with each other and the environment.
  • Building and Construction — Knowledge of materials, methods, and the tools involved in the construction or repair of houses, buildings, or other structures such as highways and roads.
  • Chemistry — Knowledge of the chemical composition, structure, and properties of substances and of the chemical processes and transformations that they undergo. This includes uses of chemicals and their interactions, danger signs, production techniques, and disposal methods.
  • Clerical — Knowledge of administrative and clerical procedures and systems such as word processing, managing files and records, stenography and transcription, designing forms, and other office procedures and terminology.
  • Communications and Media — Knowledge of media production, communication, and dissemination techniques and methods. This includes alternative ways to inform and entertain via written, oral, and visual media.
  • Computers and Electronics — Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.
  • Customer and Personal Service — Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
  • Design — Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models.
  • Economics and Accounting — Knowledge of economic and accounting principles and practices, the financial markets, banking and the analysis and reporting of financial data.
  • Education and Training — Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects.
  • Engineering and Technology — Knowledge of the practical application of engineering science and technology. This includes applying principles, techniques, procedures, and equipment to the design and production of various goods and services.
  • English Language — Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
  • Fine Arts — Knowledge of the theory and techniques required to compose, produce, and perform works of music, dance, visual arts, drama, and sculpture.
  • Food Production — Knowledge of techniques and equipment for planting, growing, and harvesting food products (both plant and animal) for consumption, including storage/handling techniques.
  • Foreign Language — Knowledge of the structure and content of a foreign (non-English) language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition and grammar, and pronunciation.
  • Geography — Knowledge of principles and methods for describing the features of land, sea, and air masses, including their physical characteristics, locations, interrelationships, and distribution of plant, animal, and human life.
  • History and Archeology — Knowledge of historical events and their causes, indicators, and effects on civilizations and cultures.
  • Law and Government — Knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, agency rules, and the democratic political process.
  • Mathematics — Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.
  • Mechanical — Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance.
  • Medicine and Dentistry — Knowledge of the information and techniques needed to diagnose and treat human injuries, diseases, and deformities. This includes symptoms, treatment alternatives, drug properties and interactions, and preventive health-care measures.
  • Personnel and Human Resources — Knowledge of principles and procedures for personnel recruitment, selection, training, compensation and benefits, labor relations and negotiation, and personnel information systems.
  • Philosophy and Theology — Knowledge of different philosophical systems and religions. This includes their basic principles, values, ethics, ways of thinking, customs, practices, and their impact on human culture.
  • Physics — Knowledge and prediction of physical principles, laws, their interrelationships, and applications to understanding fluid, material, and atmospheric dynamics, and mechanical, electrical, atomic and sub- atomic structures and processes.
  • Production and Processing — Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods.
  • Psychology — Knowledge of human behavior and performance; individual differences in ability, personality, and interests; learning and motivation; psychological research methods; and the assessment and treatment of behavioral and affective disorders.
  • Public Safety and Security — Knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions.
  • Sales and Marketing — Knowledge of principles and methods for showing, promoting, and selling products or services. This includes marketing strategy and tactics, product demonstration, sales techniques, and sales control systems.
  • Sociology and Anthropology — Knowledge of group behavior and dynamics, societal trends and influences, human migrations, ethnicity, cultures and their history and origins.
  • Telecommunications — Knowledge of transmission, broadcasting, switching, control, and operation of telecommunications systems.
  • Therapy and Counseling — Knowledge of principles, methods, and procedures for diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of physical and mental dysfunctions, and for career counseling and guidance.
  • Transportation — Knowledge of principles and methods for moving people or goods by air, rail, sea, or road, including the relative costs and benefits.

Skills Areas, O*NET Codes and Holland Codes FACT Sheets

O*NET Codes and Holland Codes FACT Sheets – Skills Areas

Skills may be further divided into basic skills and cross-functional skills-

  • Basic skills, such as reading, facilitate the acquisition of new knowledge.
  • Cross-functional skills, such as problem solving, extend across several domains of activities.

Basic Skills — Developed capacities that facilitate learning or the more rapid acquisition of knowledge

  • Content — Background structures needed to work with and acquire more specific skills in a variety of different domains
  • Reading Comprehension — Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.
  • Active Listening — Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
  • Writing — Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
  • Speaking — Talking to others to convey information effectively.
  • Mathematics — Using mathematics to solve problems.
  • Science — Using scientific rules and methods to solve problems.
  • Process — Procedures that contribute to the more rapid acquisition of knowledge and skill across a variety of domains.
  • Critical Thinking — Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
  • Active Learning — Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
  • Learning Strategies — Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things.
  • Monitoring — Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.

Cross-Functional Skills — Developed capacities that facilitate performance of activities that occur across jobs

  • Social Skills — Developed capacities used to work with people to achieve goals
  • Social Perceptiveness — Being aware of others’ reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
  • Coordination — Adjusting actions in relation to others’ actions.
  • Persuasion — Persuading others to change their minds or behavior.
  • Negotiation — Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences.
  • Instructing — Teaching others how to do something.
  • Service Orientation — Actively looking for ways to help people.
  • Complex Problem Solving Skills — Developed capacities used to solve novel, ill-defined problems in complex, real-world settings.
  • Complex Problem Solving — Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
  • Technical Skills — Developed capacities used to design, set-up, operate, and correct malfunctions involving application of machines or technological systems.
  • Operations Analysis — Analyzing needs and product requirements to create a design.
  • Technology Design — Generating or adapting equipment and technology to serve user needs.
  • Equipment Selection — Determining the kind of tools and equipment needed to do a job.
  • Installation — Installing equipment, machines, wiring, or programs to meet specifications.
  • Programming — Writing computer programs for various purposes.
  • Operation Monitoring — Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly.
  • Operation and Control — Controlling operations of equipment or systems.
  • Equipment Maintenance — Performing routine maintenance on equipment and determining when and what kind of maintenance is needed.
  • Troubleshooting — Determining causes of operating errors and deciding what to do about it.
  • Repairing — Repairing machines or systems using the needed tools.
  • Quality Control Analysis — Conducting tests and inspections of products, services, or processes to evaluate quality or performance.
  • Systems Skills — Developed capacities used to understand, monitor, and improve socio-technical systems.
  • Judgment and Decision Making — Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
  • Systems Analysis — Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
  • Systems Evaluation — Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system.
  • Resource Management Skills — Developed capacities used to allocate resources efficiently.
  • Time Management — Managing one’s own time and the time of others.
  • Management of Financial Resources — Determining how money will be spent to get the work done, and accounting for these expenditures.
  • Management of Material Resources — Obtaining and seeing to the appropriate use of equipment, facilities, and materials needed to do certain work.
  • Management of Personnel Resources — Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job.

Rainbow Career Awareness System

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

The Elementary School Career Exploration Kit contains the following items -

  • Book (iPhone/ iPad App) with following separately sold items -
    • Unit Plan
    • Instruction Sheet
    • Question and Answer Sheets
  • Career Activity Sheets
  • Color/ Career Chart
  • Posters

See Rainbow Careers Career Book and iPod/ iPad App

The See Rainbow Careers book is now available at the iTunes store.

The See Rainbow Careers book -

  • Has six sections and 40 colorful pages
  • Provides information about career group characteristics, career interest areas, and careers
  • Uses vibrant colors, animated graphics, and VISUAL learning techniques to help children build an career awareness
  • Clarifies thoughts, integrates new knowledge, and promotes critical thinking. New concepts are more thoroughly and easily understood.
  • Organizes and analyzes information.
  • 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.

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Children, youth, and adults -

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

Use the career book at -

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

The career book is an career activities for ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTSand 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 See Rainbow Careers is an app listed on the iTunes Store. The See Rainbow Careers book is compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.

Order the See Rainbow Careers iTunes App at the iTunes store.

Unit Plan, Instruction Sheets, and Question and Answer Sheets

Reference Materials include Unit Plan, Instruction Sheets, and Question and Answer Sheets.

The Unit Plancovers -

  • Standards
  • Performance Goals
  • Academic Content Area(s)
  • Unit Assessment
  • Brief Summary
  • References

The Instruction Sheets provide the step-by-step for using -

  • Book (iPhone/ iPad App)
  • Career Activity Sheets

The Question and Answer Sheets is an excellent review for the information covered in the See Rainbow Careers book. Summarize key information concurrently, or use the sheets as a review.

Activity Sheets

Activity Sheet

The printed activity sheetshave -

  • Six sections
  • 72 items

The printed activity sheets can be administered to groups and individuals.

For the activity sheets, you use paper-and-pencil.

The estimated time to complete the activity sheets is 30 minutes, and activity sheets are self–scoring.

Color Chart

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The Color Chart provides information about forty-four careers:

  • Job Titles
  • Color Career Group

Posters

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Over three hundred (300) Posters feature graphics, interest areas, and careers. The 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. The posters are an excellent way to explore careers. The poster shows you’re the relationship between Holland Codes and careers.

Rainbow Career Awareness System has -

  • Unit Plan
  • Instruction Sheet
  • Question and Answer Sheets
  • Career Activity Sheets
  • Color/ Career Chart
  • Posters

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Bingo Cards Sets

The purpose of the 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.

The Bingo Cards have -

  • Bingo Card Set
  • Bingo Master
  • Bingo Master Cutouts
  • Bingo Instruction Sheet

Rainbow Career Awareness System

Entire Career Awareness System contains -

  • Unit Plan
  • Instruction Sheet
  • Question and Answer Sheets
  • Activity Sheets
  • Bingo Cards
  • Color/ Career Chart
  • Posters

Book (iPhone/ iPad App) sold separately at the iTunes store.

Unlock Your Treasure Chest

New Unlock Your Treasure Chest

Find the right career!

Now is the time to pinpoint your interests, abilities, skills, talents, and values!

Unlock your potential!

Discover who you really are and KNOW your likes, dislikes, and interests.

Match your likes, interests, skills, and personality styles to careers.

Find the right training programs matches your interests.

Succeed in planning a career.

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The Unlock the Treasure Chest. You Have the Keys! Guide to Career Planning is a step-by-step guide to explore careers and college majors. Use the guidebook to pinpoint your interests, abilities, skills, talents, and values.

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

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

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

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

The Unlock the Treasure Chest has 4 sections –

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

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

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

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

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  • Career Planning Map
  • Self-Analysis, Self Awareness, or Self Assessment
  • Self Awareness
  • Tools to Awareness
    • Interests Inventory
    • Values Inventory
    • Skills Inventory
    • Personality Styles Inventory
    • Career Match Making Using Interests, Values, Skills, and Personality Styles
  • Career Exploration
    • Database of 1200+ careers
    • Research A Career Tool
    • Career Profile
    • Research career information

Each career profile has the following information –

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

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The College Major Exploration section has -

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

Each school profile lists the following information –

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

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

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

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

Get the keys from our download library.

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 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.

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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.

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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

Career Personality Inventory

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

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 Interest Inventory

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)

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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

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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

Picture Interest 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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

Transferable Skills Scale

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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Access your purposeLock in on your destinyTake charge of your life by focusing on your interests, abilities, and skills.

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Career Clusters and Holland Codes

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The Career Clusters Resources, the Guide for Occupational Exploration/ GOE Codes, and Holland Codes Connection is a career cluster resource guide that provides information about Career Clusters, Guide for Occupational Exploration/ GOE Codes, Holland Codes, career exploration, career jobs, career salary, career research, and career information.

The Career Clusters, the Guide for Occupational Exploration/ GOE Codes, and Holland Codes Connection provides information on -
  • Background of Career Clusters and Guide for Occupational Exploration/ GOE Codes
  • Career Clusters, Guide for Occupational Exploration/ GOE Codes, and Holland Codes Cross-Reference Tables 1, 2, and 3
    • Table 1: The Career Clusters, Guide for Occupational Exploration Codes (GOE), and the Holland Codes Cross-Reference (Sorted by Holland Codes)
    • Table 2: The Career Clusters, Guide for Occupational Exploration Codes (GOE), and the Holland Codes Cross-Reference (Sorted by GEO Interest Area)
    • Table 3: The Career Clusters, the Original Guide for Occupational Exploration Codes (GOE), and the Holland Codes Cross-Reference (Sorted by GEO Interest Area)
  • Internet Guide for Occupational Exploration and Career Cluster Resources
    • State Career Clusters Initiative
    • Career Activity Files
    • Career Click
    • Career Cluster Frameworks
    • Career Clusters
    • Career Clusters & Pathways
    • Career Clusters Series
    • Career Prospects System
    • Career Voyages
    • Career Website for Students
    • Cluster and Career Videos

Holland Codes and Career Clusters Resource Posters Set shows the relationships between the Holland Codes and the Department of Education Career Clusters Structure.

The benefits of the Holland Codes and Career Clusters Resource Posters are -
  • Eye appealing – Is a colorful presentation
  • Easy to use – Facilitates learning through the use of graphics
  • Comprehensive – Shows the relationships between careers, interests, Holland Codes, and Career Clusters
  • Easy to understand – Simplifies the understanding of career exploration, Holland Codes, and the Career Clusters
  • Easy scoring – Sorts quickly according to likes and dislikes
  • Reproducible – Print as many posters as you need
The Holland Code and Career Cluster Resource Posters are used to -
  • Provide career exploration classroom activities for middle school students, children, kids, and adults who learn best using visual resources
  • Identify Holland Codes and Career Clusters
  • Identify characteristics of Holland Personality Types
  • Sort occupations according to Holland Codes and Career Clusters

The Holland Code and Career Cluster Resource Posters comes with -

  • Over 200 colorful, illustrated posters
  • Updated instruction sheets
  • Alphabetized poster list
  • State Career Clusters/ Pathways Fact Sheet
  • Super State Career Clusters/ Pathways Fact Sheet
This Holland Code and Career Clusters resource is an excellent supplement to any career education, counseling, coaching, and exploration program. Use the posters in conjunction with any career cluster or Holland Code resource.

Destiny Discovers Purpose Activity PAK

Activity Sheet

The printed activity sheets have -

  • Six sections
  • 72 items

The printed activity sheets can be administered to groups and individuals.

For the activity sheets, you use paper-and-pencil.

The estimated time to complete the activity sheets is 30 minutes, and activity sheets are self–scoring.

Color Chart

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The Color Chart provides information about forty-four careers:

  • Job Titles
  • Color Career Group

Detectives of the Bible Club (DBC)

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Now is the time to pinpoint your interests, abilities, skills, talents, and values!

Unlock your potential!

Discover who you really are and KNOW your likes, dislikes, and interests.

Match your likes, interests, skills, and personality styles to careers.

Find the right training programs matches your interests.

Succeed in planning a career.

The Detectives of the Bible Club is a fun, interactive way to explore the Word of God.

Each lesson is packed full of activities -

  • Bible stories
  • Bible verses
  • Coloring sheets
  • Crossword puzzle
  • Solving Cases Sheets
  • Bible Word Studies
  • Question and answer sheets

Good for Family Bible Studies!

Learn about some of the heroes from the Bible -

  • Jesus
  • David
  • Joshua
  • Abraham
  • Noah
  • Daniel
  • Mary
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Good Character Building Curriculum!

The Detective of the Bible Club (DBC) has three areas -

  • Become a Detective of the Bible
  • Learn Hebrew and Greek
    • Flash Cards
    • Coloring Sheets
    • Bingo Cards
  • Seek the Holy Spirit
    • Fruit of the Spirit
    • Building Godly Character

The table of contents from a Detective of the Bible Club lesson covers -

Volume 1: Detectives of the Bible Club Manual

  • Leaders’ Guide
  • A Cry from the Heart
  • Inspector’s Pledge of Support
  • Biblical Guide to Train up a Child
  • Detectives of the Bible Club Theme Song
  • Bible Guest – David
  • Where Is The Story Of David – The Chosen One?
  • Where Is 1 Samuel 17?
  • Bible Guest – Jesus Born In Bethlehem
  • Who Is Jesus?
  • Where is the Story of a King is Born?
  • Where Is Luke 2:6 – 7
  • Bible Guest – Joshua
  • Where is the Story of a New Leader?
  • Bible Guest – Jesus at the Age of Twelve
  • Where is the Story of Boy in the Temple?
  • Where is Luke 2:46?

The special, illustrated, 383 page PDF Edition comes with -

  • Bible stories
  • Bible verses
  • Coloring sheets
  • Crossword puzzle
  • Solving Cases Sheets
  • Bible Word Studies
  • Question and answer sheets

Faith-Based Career Planning 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
  • Homeschool Students
  • Youth 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?

Green Careers and Holland Codes Fact Sheets

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Find Holland Codes for more than 200 green careers in these twelve sectors below.

  • Agriculture and Forestry
  • Energy and Carbon Capture and Storage
  • Energy Efficiency
  • Energy Trading
  • Environment Protection
  • Governmental and Regulatory Administration
  • Green Construction
  • Manufacturing
  • Recycling and Waste Reduction
  • Renewable Energy Generation
  • Research, Design, and Consulting Services
  • Transportation
Green Careers and Holland Codes Posters

Green Careers and Holland Codes Poster Collection

Use Green Careers – Unlock Your Future posters as a guide to help you:

  • Identify interests and Holland Codes
  • Match Holland Codes to careers
  • Gain awareness of Green Careers

Find Holland Codes for more than 100 green careers in these twelve sectors below.

  • Agriculture and Forestry
  • Energy and Carbon Capture and Storage
  • Energy Efficiency
  • Energy Trading
  • Environment Protection
  • Governmental and Regulatory Administration
  • Green Construction
  • Manufacturing
  • Recycling and Waste Reduction
  • Renewable Energy Generation
  • Research, Design, and Consulting Services
  • Transportation

Internet Resources for Teachers, Counselors, and Parents

Children Unlock Treasure Chest, Internet Resources for Teachers, Counselors, Parents, Adults, Kids and Children has information on career exploration web sites and books.

There are the different types of Children Unlock Treasure Chest, Exploring Careers Web Sites

  • Curriculum
  • Career Information
  • Career Groups – Science
  • Specific Careers — Science

Career Kid Curriculum Websites

Resource One: Career Cruiser

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The Career Cruiser is a career kid site/ guidebook for middle school students. The Career Cruiser has self — assessment activities to match personal interests to careers. The Career Cruiser has information on Holland Codes. Careers are grouped into 16 career clusters. The Career Cruiser has information on occupational descriptions, average earnings, and minimum educational level required for the job. A Teacher’s Guide is also available.

Resource Two: Elementary Core Career Connection

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The Core Career Connections is a career kid collection of instructional activities, K — 6 and 7 — 8, designed by teachers, counselors, and parents. Each grade level has instructional activities that align directly with state department of education requirements. This instructional resource provides a framework for teachers, counselors, and parents to integrate career awareness with the elementary and middle level grade students.

Career Kid Information

Resource Four: Career Ship

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Career Shipis a free online career teen exploration tool for middle and high school students.

Career Ship uses Holland Codes and the O*NET Career Exploration Tools.

For each career, Career Ship provides the following information:
  • Tasks
  • Wages
  • Career outlook
  • Interests
  • Education
  • Knowledge
  • Skills
  • Similar careers
Career Ship is a product a public—service web site providing career, college, financial aid, and financial literacy information and services.

Resource Six: Destination 2020

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Destination 2020 helps youth discover how everyday tasks can help them build skills they will need to face the many challenges of the workforce.

Skills are linked to –
  • School Subjects
  • Other School Activities
  • Play Activities At Home
  • Work at Home
Through career teen quizzes, activities and articles, students find some answers or, at least, a direction about their future. There are more than 200 profiles of real people who are describing what a day at work is like for them.

Career Kid Career Groups Websites — Science

Resource Eight: EEK! Get a Job – Environmental Education for Kids

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Eek! Get a Job – Environmental Education for Kids is a career kid site/ electronic magazine for children in grades 4 — 8. Eek! Get a Job provides information about –

  • Forestry
  • Hydrogeologist
  • Engineering
  • Herpetologist
  • Park Ranger
  • Wildlife Biologist
  • Park Naturalist
There is a job description for each career, a list of job activities, suggested activities to begin exploring careers, and needed job skills.

Resource Eleven: San Diego Zoo Job Profiles for Kids

San Diego Zoo is a career kid website that has job profiles. Job Profiles discussed jobs for people who –

  • Work with animals
  • Work with plants
  • Work with science and conservation
  • Work with people
  • Work that helps run the Zoo and Park
There are activities listed under each area, for example –
  • What we do
  • What’s cool about this job
  • Job challenges
  • How this job helps animals
  • How to get a job like this
  • Practice Being a …
  • How to Become a …

Specific Career Kid Websites — Science

Resource Fourteen: About Veterinarians

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About Veterinarians is a website that has career kid facts about –

  • What is a Veterinarian?
  • Veterinary Education
  • Roles of Veterinarians
  • Employment Outlook
  • Becoming a Veterinary Technician

Resource Sixteen: Engineering – The Stealth Profession

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Engineering – The Stealth Profession has a lot of career kid information about engineers –

  • Types of Engineers
  • True Stories
  • Salaries
  • Education Required
  • Work Schedules
  • Equipment Used

Resource Eighteen: Do You Want to Become a Volcanologist?

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Do You Want to Become a Volcanologist? provides career kid descriptions of the –

  • Word ″Volcanologist″
  • Daily work
  • Traits for success
  • Education
  • Salaries

ONET and Holland Codes

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Benefits

The benefits of the O*NET Codes and Holland Codes Fact Sheets are -

  • Low cost
  • Easy to read format
  • Comprehensive and detailed lists
  • Latest career information
  • Links between Holland Codes and O*NET Codes
  • Summary of information from reliable source – Occupational Information Network

Using the ONET, the Occupational Information Network, Hollandcodees.com is preparing FACT SHEETS that will highlight the relationship between careers, O*NET Codes, Holland Codes, and the following factors –

  • Tasks
  • Knowledge
  • Skills
  • Abilities
  • Work Activities
  • Work Context
  • Job Zone
  • Interests
  • Work Values

Source: O*NET ™ Career Exploration Tools

DOL/ETA (U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration) is the exclusive owner of all rights under U.S. copyright laws and international treaty provisions in the O*NET ™ Career Exploration Tools. Any other copyright notices refer only to Learning for Life Resource Center’s original work in the product.

O*NET and O*NET IN IT and logos are trademarks of the DOL/ETA (U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration).

Use the O*NET Codes and Holland Codes FACT Sheets lists to compare the O*NET Codes to the careers listed in the Dictionary of Holland Occupational Codes. Save time and effort.

O*NET Codes and Holland Codes FACT Sheets

O*NET Codes and Holland Codes FACT Sheets lists the -

  • O*NET-SOC Code
  • O*NET-SOC Job Title
  • Holland Codes
  • Description

Alphabetized O*NET Codes and Holland Codes FACT Sheets

O*NET Codes and Holland Codes FACT Sheets lists the -

  • O*NET-SOC Code
  • O*NET-SOC Job Title
  • Holland Codes

Educational Levels O*NET Codes and Holland Codes FACT Sheets

O*NET Codes and Holland Codes FACT Sheets – Educational Levels Required for Different Occupations lists the required levels of education from the selected sample. The largest number of people had one of the following levels of education -

  • Less than a High School Diploma
  • High School Diploma (or GED or High School Equivalence Certificate)
  • Post-Secondary Certificate – awarded for training completed after high school (for example, in Personnel Services, Engineering-related Technologies, Vocational Home Economics, Construction Trades, Mechanics and Repairers, Precision Production Trades)
  • Some College Courses
  • Associate’s Degree (or other 2-year degree)
  • Bachelor’s Degree
  • Post-Baccalaureate Certificate – awarded for completion of an organized program of study; designed for people who have completed a Baccalaureate degree, but do not meet the requirements of academic degrees carrying the title of Master.
  • Master’s Degree
  • Post-Master’s Certificate – awarded for completion of an organized program of study; designed for people who have completed a Master’s degree, but do not meet the requirements of academic degrees at the doctoral level.
  • First Professional Degree – awarded for completion of a program that: requires at least 2 years of college work before entrance into the program, includes a total of at least 6 academic years of work to complete, and provides all remaining academic requirements to begin practice in a profession
  • Doctoral Degree
  • Post-Doctoral Training

Ability O*NET Codes and Holland Codes FACT Sheets

O*NET Codes and Holland Codes FACT Sheets – Ability Areas for Different Occupations lists the following Ability Areas -

  • Cognitive Abilities — Abilities that influence the acquisition and application of knowledge in problem solvingnformation Ordering — The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
    • Mathematical Reasoning — The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem.
    • Memorization — The ability to remember information such as words, numbers, pictures, and procedures.
    • Number Facility — The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly.
    • Oral Comprehension — The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
    • Oral Expression — The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
  • Physical Abilities — Abilities that influence strength, endurance, flexibility, balance and coordination.
  • Psychomotor Abilities — Abilities that influence the capacity to manipulate and control objects
  • Sensory Abilities — Abilities that influence visual, auditory and speech perception

Job Zones, O*NET Codes and Holland Codes FACT Sheets

O*NET Codes and Holland Codes FACT Sheets – Job Zones lists the following Job Zones -

  • Job Zone One: Little or No Preparation Needed
  • Job Zone Two: Some Preparation Needed
  • Job Zone Three: Medium Preparation Needed
  • Job Zone Four: Considerable Preparation Needed
  • Job Zone Five: Extensive Preparation Needed

For each Job Level, there is information about -

  • Experience
  • Education
  • Job Training
  • Examples of job skills
  • Examples of occupations

Knowledge Areas, O*NET Codes and Holland Codes FACT Sheets

O*NET Codes and Holland Codes FACT Sheets – Knowledge Areas lists the following Knowledge Areas -

  • Knowledge — Organized sets of principles and facts applying in general domains.
  • Administration and Management — Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.
  • Biology — Knowledge of plant and animal organisms, their tissues, cells, functions, interdependencies, and interactions with each other and the environment.
  • Building and Construction — Knowledge of materials, methods, and the tools involved in the construction or repair of houses, buildings, or other structures such as highways and roads.
  • Chemistry — Knowledge of the chemical composition, structure, and properties of substances and of the chemical processes and transformations that they undergo. This includes uses of chemicals and their interactions, danger signs, production techniques, and disposal methods.
  • Clerical — Knowledge of administrative and clerical procedures and systems such as word processing, managing files and records, stenography and transcription, designing forms, and other office procedures and terminology.
  • Communications and Media — Knowledge of media production, communication, and dissemination techniques and methods. This includes alternative ways to inform and entertain via written, oral, and visual media.
  • Computers and Electronics — Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.
  • Customer and Personal Service — Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
  • Design — Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models.
  • Economics and Accounting — Knowledge of economic and accounting principles and practices, the financial markets, banking and the analysis and reporting of financial data.
  • Education and Training — Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects.
  • Engineering and Technology — Knowledge of the practical application of engineering science and technology. This includes applying principles, techniques, procedures, and equipment to the design and production of various goods and services.
  • English Language — Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
  • Fine Arts — Knowledge of the theory and techniques required to compose, produce, and perform works of music, dance, visual arts, drama, and sculpture.
  • Food Production — Knowledge of techniques and equipment for planting, growing, and harvesting food products (both plant and animal) for consumption, including storage/handling techniques.
  • Foreign Language — Knowledge of the structure and content of a foreign (non-English) language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition and grammar, and pronunciation.
  • Geography — Knowledge of principles and methods for describing the features of land, sea, and air masses, including their physical characteristics, locations, interrelationships, and distribution of plant, animal, and human life.
  • History and Archeology — Knowledge of historical events and their causes, indicators, and effects on civilizations and cultures.
  • Law and Government — Knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, agency rules, and the democratic political process.
  • Mathematics — Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.
  • Mechanical — Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance.
  • Medicine and Dentistry — Knowledge of the information and techniques needed to diagnose and treat human injuries, diseases, and deformities. This includes symptoms, treatment alternatives, drug properties and interactions, and preventive health-care measures.
  • Personnel and Human Resources — Knowledge of principles and procedures for personnel recruitment, selection, training, compensation and benefits, labor relations and negotiation, and personnel information systems.
  • Philosophy and Theology — Knowledge of different philosophical systems and religions. This includes their basic principles, values, ethics, ways of thinking, customs, practices, and their impact on human culture.
  • Physics — Knowledge and prediction of physical principles, laws, their interrelationships, and applications to understanding fluid, material, and atmospheric dynamics, and mechanical, electrical, atomic and sub- atomic structures and processes.
  • Production and Processing — Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods.
  • Psychology — Knowledge of human behavior and performance; individual differences in ability, personality, and interests; learning and motivation; psychological research methods; and the assessment and treatment of behavioral and affective disorders.
  • Public Safety and Security — Knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions.
  • Sales and Marketing — Knowledge of principles and methods for showing, promoting, and selling products or services. This includes marketing strategy and tactics, product demonstration, sales techniques, and sales control systems.
  • Sociology and Anthropology — Knowledge of group behavior and dynamics, societal trends and influences, human migrations, ethnicity, cultures and their history and origins.
  • Telecommunications — Knowledge of transmission, broadcasting, switching, control, and operation of telecommunications systems.
  • Therapy and Counseling — Knowledge of principles, methods, and procedures for diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of physical and mental dysfunctions, and for career counseling and guidance.
  • Transportation — Knowledge of principles and methods for moving people or goods by air, rail, sea, or road, including the relative costs and benefits.

Skills Areas, O*NET Codes and Holland Codes FACT Sheets

O*NET Codes and Holland Codes FACT Sheets – Skills Areas

Skills may be further divided into basic skills & cross-functional skills -

  • Basic skills, such as reading, facilitate the acquisition of new knowledge.
  • Cross-functional skills, such as problem solving, extend across several domains of activities.

Basic Skills — Developed capacities that facilitate learning or the more rapid acquisition of knowledge

  • Content — Background structures needed to work with and acquire more specific skills in a variety of different domains
  • Reading Comprehension — Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.
  • Active Listening — Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
  • Writing — Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
  • Speaking — Talking to others to convey information effectively.
  • Mathematics — Using mathematics to solve problems.
  • Science — Using scientific rules and methods to solve problems.
  • Process — Procedures that contribute to the more rapid acquisition of knowledge and skill across a variety of domains.
  • Critical Thinking — Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
  • Active Learning — Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
  • Learning Strategies — Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things.
  • Monitoring — Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.

Cross-Functional Skills — Developed capacities that facilitate performance of activities that occur across jobs

  • Social Skills — Developed capacities used to work with people to achieve goals
  • Social Perceptiveness — Being aware of others’ reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
  • Coordination — Adjusting actions in relation to others’ actions.
  • Persuasion — Persuading others to change their minds or behavior.
  • Negotiation — Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences.
  • Instructing — Teaching others how to do something.
  • Service Orientation — Actively looking for ways to help people.
  • Complex Problem Solving Skills — Developed capacities used to solve novel, ill-defined problems in complex, real-world settings.
  • Complex Problem Solving — Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
  • Technical Skills — Developed capacities used to design, set-up, operate, and correct malfunctions involving application of machines or technological systems.
  • Operations Analysis — Analyzing needs and product requirements to create a design.
  • Technology Design — Generating or adapting equipment and technology to serve user needs.
  • Equipment Selection — Determining the kind of tools and equipment needed to do a job.
  • Installation — Installing equipment, machines, wiring, or programs to meet specifications.
  • Programming — Writing computer programs for various purposes.
  • Operation Monitoring — Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly.
  • Operation and Control — Controlling operations of equipment or systems.
  • Equipment Maintenance — Performing routine maintenance on equipment and determining when and what kind of maintenance is needed.
  • Troubleshooting — Determining causes of operating errors and deciding what to do about it.
  • Repairing — Repairing machines or systems using the needed tools.
  • Quality Control Analysis — Conducting tests and inspections of products, services, or processes to evaluate quality or performance.
  • Systems Skills — Developed capacities used to understand, monitor, and improve socio-technical systems.
  • Judgment and Decision Making — Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
  • Systems Analysis — Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
  • Systems Evaluation — Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system.
  • Resource Management Skills — Developed capacities used to allocate resources efficiently.
  • Time Management — Managing one’s own time and the time of others.
  • Management of Financial Resources — Determining how money will be spent to get the work done, and accounting for these expenditures.
  • Management of Material Resources — Obtaining and seeing to the appropriate use of equipment, facilities, and materials needed to do certain work.
  • Management of Personnel Resources — Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job.

Rainbow Career Awareness System

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.

The Elementary School Career Exploration Kit contains the following items -

See Rainbow Careers Career Book, and iPod/ iPad App

The See Rainbow Careers book is now available at the iTunes store.

The See Rainbow Careers book -

  • Has six sections and 40 colorful pages
  • Provides information about –
    • Career group characteristics
    • Career interest areas
    • Careers
  • Uses vibrant colors, animated graphics, and VISUAL learning techniques to help children build an career awareness
  • Clarifies thoughts, integrates new knowledge, and promotes critical thinking. New concepts are more thoroughly and easily understood.
  • Organizes and analyzes information.
  • 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.
red careers

Children, youth, and adults -

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

Use the career book at -

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

The career book is an career activities 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 See Rainbow Careers is an app listed on the iTunes Store. The See Rainbow Careers book is compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.

Order the See Rainbow Careers iTunes App at the iTunes store.

Unit Plan, Instruction Sheets, and Question and Answer Sheets
Reference Materials include Unit Plan, Instruction Sheets, and Question and Answer Sheets.

The Unit Plan covers -

  • Standards
  • Performance Goals
  • Academic Content Area(s)
  • Unit Assessment
  • Brief Summary
  • References

The Instruction Sheets provide the step-by-step for using -

The Question and Answer Sheets is an excellent review for the information covered in the See Rainbow Careers book. Summarize key information concurrently, or use the sheets as a review.

Activity Sheets

Activity Sheet

The printed activity sheets have -

  • Six sections
  • 72 items

The printed activity sheets can be administered to groups and individuals.

For the activity sheets, you use paper-and-pencil.

The estimated time to complete the activity sheets is 30 minutes, and activity sheets are self–scoring.

Color Chart

Colorkey

The Color Chart provides information about forty-four careers:

  • Job Titles
  • Color Career Group

Posters

kid career test

Over three hundred (300) posters feature graphics, interest areas, and careers. The 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. The posters are an excellent way to explore careers. The poster shows you’re the relationship between Holland Codes and careers.

Bingo Cards Sets

The purpose of the 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.

The Bingo Cards have -

  • Bingo Card Set
  • Bingo Master
  • Bingo Master Cutouts
  • Bingo Instruction Sheet

Rainbow Career Awareness System

Entire Career Awareness System contains -

  • Unit Plan
  • Instruction Sheet
  • Question and Answer Sheets
  • Activity Sheets
  • Bingo Cards
  • Color/ Career Chart
  • Posters

Book (iPhone/ iPad App) sold separately at the iTunes store.

Unlock Your Treasure Chest

New Unlock Your Treasure Chest

Find the right career!
Now is the time to pinpoint your interests, abilities, skills, talents, and values!

Unlock your potential!

Discover who you really are and KNOW your likes, dislikes, and interests.

Match your likes, interests, skills, and personality styles to careers.

Find the right training programs matches your interests.

Succeed in planning a career.

unlock treasure chest

The Unlock the Treasure Chest. You Have the Keys! Guide to Career Planning is a step-by-step guide to explore careers and college majors. Use the guidebook to pinpoint your interests, abilities, skills, talents, and values.

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

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

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

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

The Unlock the Treasure Chest has 4 sections –

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

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

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

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

career planning map

The topics included in the Guide are -

  • Career Planning Map
  • Self-Analysis, Self Awareness, or Self Assessment
  • Self Awareness
  • Tools to Awareness
    • Interests Inventory
    • Values Inventory
    • Skills Inventory
    • Personality Styles Inventory
    • Career Match Making Using Interests, Values, Skills, and Personality Styles
  • Career Exploration
    • Database of 1200+ careers
    • Research A Career Tool
    • Career Profile
    • Research career information

Each career profile has the following information –

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

The College Major Exploration section has -

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

Each school profile lists the following information –

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

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

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

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

Get the keys from our download library.

Green Careers and Holland Codes Tips!

Green earth

Green careerscan be any occupation that is affected by activities such as conserving energy, developing alternative energy, reducing pollution, or recycling.

Green occupations fall into three groups:

  • Higher Demand Green Occupations
  • Changing Skills Green Occupations
  • New Green Occupations

Find more than green occupations in following Holland Codes resources -

  • 150 Best Jobs for a Better World
  • Stem Careers Inventory

 150 best green jobs

150 Best Jobs for a Better World

Improve the world through your work while enjoying many rewards, including good pay. This special book covers jobs that let you do good for others or society and yourself.

Through 100 best jobs lists and 150 job descriptions, you explore careers in -

  • Health
  • Education
  • Fine arts
  • Public safety
  • Social service
  • Natural resources, and more.

The careers are ranked by pay, growth, and openings, so that you can do well while doing good.

Best jobs lists are organized by -

  • 6 world-saving criteria
  • 3 economic factors
  • 11 education and training levels
  • 15 interest clusters
  • 6 personality types, and more

The job descriptions reveal -

  • Salary
  • Growth through 2014
  • Annual openings
  • Percentages of part-time and self-employed workers
  • Tasks
  • Skills needed
  • Education and training programs
  • Related knowledge and courses
  • Work environment

Stem Careers Inventory

Stem Career Inventory

STEM and green occupationspromise growth and opportunity, and are key to U.S. competitiveness in the global marketplace.

But how do you know which STEM occupations suit you best?

In just five steps, this easy-to-use assessment helps students and young people discover their personality type and then match it to STEM and green careers.

Users respond to 72 brief items, total their scores, and identify their Holland RIASEC personality type.

Next they identify appealing jobs that align with their top personality types.

Green job titles are in a green typeface for quick and easy recognition.

Another step features a worksheet for researching careers of interest and lists career exploration resources.

In the final step, students match their personality to education-related career clusters and career academies.

All job titles in the STEM Careers Inventory are from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Information Network (O*NET) database.

Read more …

Kid Career Test Software

The kid career test software is a visual learning technique and career test for kid that uses colors to represent Holland Codes and careers.

The poster analyzer clarifies thoughts, integrates new knowledge, and promotes critical thinking. New concepts are more thoroughly and easily understood.

The My Rainbow Career Finder organizes and analyzes information.

Children -

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

The kid career test software 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 My rainbow career analyzer at -

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

The kid career tests are excellent career tests 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

 My Rainbow Career Finder

 

The My Rainbow Career Finder program is an alternative to the paper and pencil RIASEC kid career test. The program is an automated poster scoring system that automatically produces the three letter Holland code based on the selection that the children provide.

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 about the My Rainbow Career Finder.  See other kid career test finders .

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!

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!

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

Read more about Multi-Media Career Tests…

Elementary School Career Education iTunes App!

Children’s Guide to Career Exploration

Coming Soon on the iTunes App Store! Get Free Download!
 
See Rainbow Careers is a fun way to introduce children to careersCareers are like rainbows.
The world is filled with 1000′s of careersOpen your child’s eyes to the wonderful world of careers.
Discover your child’s career interests.
The Elementary School Career Exploration Kit contains the following items -
  • Book (Itunes App)
  • Career Activity Sheets
  • Color/ Career Chart
See Rainbow Careers! Itunes App
The See Rainbow Careers book -
  • Has six sections and 40 colorful pages
  • Provides information about –
    • Career Group characteristics
    • Careers
  • Uses vibrant colors, animated graphics, and VISUAL learning techniques to help children build an career awareness
 Children, youth, and adults -
  • See how colors are connected to careers
  • Realize how careers can be grouped and organized
Rainbow Careers Activity Sheets
The printed activity sheets have -
  • Six sections
  • 72 items
The printed activity sheets can be administered to groups and individuals.
For the activity sheets, you use paper-and-pencil.
The estimated time to complete the activity sheets is 30 minutes, and activity sheets are self–scoring.
Color Chart
The Color Chart provides information about forty-four careers:
  • Job Titles
  • Color Career Group
The See Rainbow Careers is an app listed on the iTunes App Store. The See Rainbow Careers book is compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Get a Free Download
To get free download –
1.      Click “Like” on the My Rainbow Career Facebook page – http://www.facebook.com/pages/My-Rainbow-Careers/186545768066257?sk=wall
2.      Visit See Rainbow Career web page (http://www.hollandcodes.com/rainbow-careers.html) and complete Get Download Form.
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iStartStrong -

Middle School Online Strong Interest Inventory

iStartStrong

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.

Read more …

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 Assessment

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

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 inventory

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

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.

Kuder Composite Scores

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.

MCP Main Menu
The My Career Profile Guidance System comes with a -

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

Self-Analysis System

MCP Interest Inventory
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.

Job search
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

college search
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.

values inventory
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.

skills inventory
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 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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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 -

Read about Paint Careers With Colors System -

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 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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    MCP Career Test, Manual, & Powerpoint

    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

    Prepare for the Test Drive

    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

    RIASEC Personalities

    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

    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

    Low Cost, Informal Tests

      Children, Limited Reading Ability, or Special Needs Tests

      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
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      • Career changers
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      • 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?
      • What is the differences between Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional Holland Codes?
      • What are Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional careers?
      • What are Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional degree programs?
      • How do I match my Holland Codes to different careers, college  programs, and training opportunities?
      • I have taken a career test. What do I do next?

      We are here to help you make the right choice!

      We can provide specific answers about the prices and features of the Hollandcodes.com career tests.

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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 GuidelinesHollandcodes.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

      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.

      Picture Interest Survey


      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



      Paint Careers With Colors Model

      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.

      kid career test

      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.

      kid career test

      kid career test

      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

      Read more

      Paint Careers With Colors Offers Site Licenses

      The School Buildings and School Districts in the USA can purchase a single Paint Careers With Colors 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.

      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!!!


      Printable Worksheets

      for Elementary/ Middle School Career Awareness and Career Exploration

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      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 -

      Read about Paint Careers With Colors System

      -

      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

      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.

      kid career test

      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

      .

      kid career test kid career test

      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

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      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

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      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

      Guide  to  Unlock Your Potential Curriculum

      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

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      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 -

      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

      .

      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!!

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      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.

      kid career test

      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.

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      kid career test

      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:

      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:

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

      Elementary School Teachers, Counselors, & Career Education Tools

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      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 -

      Paint Careers With Colors Model


      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.

      kid career test

      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.

      kid career test
      kid career test


      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

      kid career test

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

      Colors to Careers Poster Color Key

      kid career test

      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.

      Guide to  Unlock Your Potential Curriculum


      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.


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      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


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      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


      Middle School Teachers, Counselors, & Career Education Tools

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      As middle school teachers and counselors, you know that the middle school years are important. During the middle 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, middle school is a time to build career awareness.

      Middle school teachers are looking for products that clarify thoughts, integrate new knowledge, and promote critical thinking. Teachers 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 a 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.

      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

      Overview of Middle 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 Middle 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 -

      Paint Careers With Colors Model


      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.

      kid career test

      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.

      kid career test
      kid career test


      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 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

      kid career test

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

      Colors to Careers Poster Color Key

      kid career test

      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.


      Guide to  Unlock Your Potential Curriculum


      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.


      bingo cards


      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


      analyzer


      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 Middle School Career Education Program


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      • 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 Middle 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.


      Middle School Career Education Program Contents


      After joining the Middle 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

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      Purpose of Program

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      • 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

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      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.

      kid career test 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.

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      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

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

      Colors to Careers Poster Color Key

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      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.

      Guide to  Unlock Your Potential Curriculum

      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.

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      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


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      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