Career Exploration Kit

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Career and College Planning package!

The RIASEC Online inventory

• Takes only 10-15 minutes to complete
• Uses Holland’s RIASEC coding system and latest O*NET national occupational database job titles
• Scores into six interest areas: Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional

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.

Support materials include –

• RIASEC Administrative Guide
• RIASEC Occupations List

With your purchase, you will receive access to additional videos that cover –

• Registering RIASEC Inventory
• Administering RIASEC Inventory
• Exploring careers
• Generating RIASEC Inventory Report

The Planning for College and Career Powerpoint and Handout cover the following information –

• Awareness of interests, skills, values and personality style (Step 1)

• Explore potential careers (Step 2)

  • Match interests to potential careers

  • Research potential careers

• Discover the right degree or training program (Step 3)

  • Identify degree/ training programs linked to careers

• Select the right college, university, or apprenticeship (Step 4)

  • Use web search resources to find college/universities that meet your requirements

  • Visit college/universities web sites to get detailed admission information

  • Plan a trip to the college or university

• Find resources to pay for college

  • Learn about the FAFSA web site

  • Look for scholarships

  • Receive tips to write a scholarship essay

• Protect your digital footprint.

Cost: $5

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2 Great Career Planning Tools for Parents and Educators

RIASEC Inventory

A Quick and Easy Assessment

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

The RIASEC Online inventory

• Takes only 10-15 minutes to complete
• Uses Holland’s RIASEC coding system and latest O*NET national occupational database job titles
• Scores into six interest areas: Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional

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.

Support materials include –

• RIASEC Administrative Guide
• RIASEC Occupations List

With your purchase, you will receive access to additional videos that cover –

• Registering RIASEC Inventory
• Administering RIASEC Inventory
• Exploring careers
• Generating RIASEC Inventory Report

Career Planning Powerpoint

The Career Planning Powerpoint covers –

• Aware of interests, skills, values and personality style (Step 1)
• Explore potential careers (Step 2)
• Match interests to potential careers
• Research potential careers
• Discover the right degree or training program (Step 3)
• Identify degree/ training programs linked to careers
• Select the right college, university, or apprenticeship (Step 4)
• Use web search resources to find college/universities that meet your requirements
• Visit college/universities web sites to get detailed admission information
• Plan a trip to the college or university
• Find resources to pay for college
• Learn about the FAFSA web site
• Look for scholarships
• Receive tips to write a scholarship essay
• Protect your digital footprint

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Need help selecting a career test? Get answers!

Here is a quick overview of our career test features.

	Explore Careers & College Major Syatem	iStart Strong’s Interest Inventory	MBTI	Picture Interest Career Survey	My Rainbow Career Finder	Self Directed Search	Strong’s Interest Inventory
Format	On-Line	On-Line	On-Line	On-Line	On-Line	On-Line	On-Line
Reading Level	Youth/ Adult	Youth/ Adult	Youth/ Adult	Children/ Reading impaired	Children/ Reading impaired	Youth/ Adult	Youth/ Adult
Holland Codes	X	X		X	X	X	X
Personality Styles	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
Interests	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
Abilities	X	X	X				X
Skills	X	X	X				X
Values	X	X	X				X
Occupations	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
College Majors	X						X
Search Database	X

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Apprenticeship Tools and Tips

What is Apprenticeship?

An Apprenticeship is an industry-driven, high-quality career pathway where employers can develop and prepare their future workforce, and individuals can obtain paid work experience, classroom instruction, and a portable, nationally-recognized credential.

Why Become an Apprentice?

Through an apprenticeship program, you can obtain paid, relevant workplace experience while acquiring the skills and credentials that employer’s value. 93% of apprentices who complete an apprenticeship retain employment, with an average annual salary of $77,000. Learn more about the benefits of apprenticeship for career seekers and prospective apprentices.

How to Become an Apprentice?

Apprenticeship opportunities are offered through an employer or the program sponsor.

Order our Apprenticeship Exploration package. 

Get the following items –

• RIASEC Inventory
• Approved Occupations for Registered Apprenticeships spreadsheet download
• Career and apprenticeship exploration course

Apprenticeship spreadsheet has the following information – 

• Apprenticeship occupation listing
• ONET Title
• ONET Code
• Alternative Occupations Titles
• Approved Occupations Titles
• Work Activities
• Education
• Related Programs
• Links to Apprenticeship Occupations Videos

Read more at https://www.hollandcodes.com/apprenticeship-search.html

4 Best Career Test Winners!!!

Results of Our Career Test Survey!!!! Career Test Survey Results!!!! Here are the results: Destiny Decisions Making Tools – Immediate access, Easy to use, detailed results. The career tests fit with other career exploratory assessments and frameworks. Explore Careers and College Majors – Easy to use, detailed results, supplemental resources RIASEC Inventory – Low cost, easy to use Self Directed Search – Easy to use, detailed results Destiny Decision Making Made Simple  Immediate Access!! The Destiny Decision Making Made Simple helps you tap into your hidden potential. You receive inspiration and motivation to explore your interests. You have access to tools to identify potential careers and training options – Discover who you really are and understand your likes, dislikes, and interests. Match your likes, interests to careers. Find training programs that are matches to the careers that you are interested. Succeed in planning a career. This course will motivate you as you explore careers and training options. Destiny Decision Making is immediate access and can be is used in conjunction with any Holland Codes career tests! Read more !!!! Explore Careers and College Majors Explore Careers and College Majors is an online career guidance system with detail step-by-step tutorial, databases & videos. Format: On-Line Reading Level: Youth/ Adult Subject Area: Holland Codes, Interests, Abilities/Skills, Values Databases: Occupations and Colleges/ Universities From A.W. – This was HUGELY instrumental in helping my daughter find her college and career path. We are excited for what it may do for my son as well. Read more !!!! RIASEC Inventory The RIASEC Inventory gives you a fast and informative way to explore occupations based on your interests. The inventory is a valid way to explore different career options. Online RIASEC version – Takes only 10-15 minutes to complete Uses Holland’s RIASEC coding system and latest O*NET national occupational database job titles Scores into six interest areas: Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional Using the RIASEC system developed by John Holland–the most widely used occupational interest coding system available. Only $5!!! Read more !!!! Self Directed Search The Self-Directed Search INTERNET VERSION is – Easy to use – Complete the career assessment in 30 minutes. Tested, proven, and dependable – Used by over 22 million people worldwide. With each purchase, the user receives by e-mail an identification number and password to generate a confidential, eight-to-twelve page interpretive report. Read more !!!!

iStart Strong: Excellent Career Test!

Online Strong Interest Inventory

The iStartStrong will empower you, your students or clients to identify and pursue a career path that aligns with their interests and personality.

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

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

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

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My Rainbow Career Finder

Professional Version 

For teachers, counselors, coaches, parents and child advocates

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. Upon completion of the report, we will send you a PDF report.

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

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.

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 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

Finder redesigned –

• New and improved!
• New colorful Graphics!
• Instructions simplified!
• Free supplemental career exploration resources!
• Translation in different languages – Surveys in Arabic, Chinese, English, French and Spanish/   Results (Reports) are in English!
• Supplemental resources included – Training manual, Marketing kit, Powerpoints, downloads, videos, games, and scoring/ summary sheets

Read more about the finder!

Explore Careers and College Majors System On Sale!

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

Click on the interactive graphic to learn about the details of the Explore Careers and College Majors System.https://www.thinglink.com/card/996529090703917057

Dashboard

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

There are five sections in the Dashboard –

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

Self Assessment

The Self Assessment section begins with the My Academic Strengths.

The results provide an overview of the following areas –

• Subjects “I do very well”
• Subjects “I do alright”
• Subjects “I don’t do well”
• “I never took this subject”

There are four assessments –

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

There are detailed instructions for each assessment.

Explore the Possibilities

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

Career Exploration

In the Career Exploration section,

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

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

Then, you filter and personalize occupations by the following criteria –

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

After completing Career Exploration, you will –

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

 
Explore and Occupation


The Explore and Occupation section is designed to help you can access college majors or degree programs. 

One method is to click on the Explore any Occupation link. 

Click on any occupation that interests you.   Then, click on Education Requirements.

 Another college major tool is the Explore Any Major Area of Study That Interests You tool.

College Major Exploration

Click on the College Search tool to use excellent college search resources!.

College Search options include –

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

Take Action

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

The areas under the Take Action section are –

• My Education
• My Professional Development

My Education covers –

• My Area of Study: Past, Current and Future
• My Study Abroad: Past, Current and Future
• My Awards, Research, Publications, Presentations
• My Campus Involvement: Teams/Clubs/Leadership

 
My Professional Development entails topics such as –

• My Internships: Past, Current and Future
• My Work Experience: Past, Current and Future
• My Volunteer / Community Service Experience: Past, Current and Future
• My Network of Contacts
• My Social Networking, Professional Memberships
• Resume / Cover Letter / Other Documents

Career and Education Planning Results

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

 Recommended Tools & Websites

Recommended Tools & Websites include –

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

Watch video about the Explore Careers and College Majors System.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/5RAxOdZ8PtA

Cost for 2 users for Explore Careers and College Major System & Online Tutorial Course

Regular Cost $300/ Special Cost $99 (Save $201!)

2 Explore Careers and College Majors for 1 Sale was $300.00

1 user for Explore Careers and College Major System for $50

Here is the link!

Holland Codes or Personality Styles???

We received an excellent question from one of our customers. 

Our children are not sure about the college majors they want to study.

We are trying to decide the best place to start. 

At Hollandcodes.com, we know that you, your family or friends are asking the same question. 

Yet, in order to answer that question, 

You have to decide what is most important to you.

Do you want to learn first about career interests or personality preferences? 

The answer to this question will guide you in picking the right inventory.

Holland Codes vs. Personality Styles 

Career Interests or Holland Codes

A Holland Codes Interest Inventory helps people identify their career interests. Examples of Holland Codes Interest Inventories are the RIASEC Inventory or the Strong Interest Inventory.

Personality preferences or MBTI

Extroversion or Introversion is an important factor in deciding a career. The MBTI is most widely used personality assessment in the world.

Want to know more!  

Learn about Career Interests or Personality Preferences from the Build Career Test. 

Build Career Test!

Build My Career Test helps you choose what is important to you. Career Interests or Personality Preferences! 

Build My Career Test is an online course available 24 hours a day. Build My Career Test is filled with FREE career tests!!! 

Find resources to – 

1. Explore your interests
2. Identify potential careers and training options
3. Understand your likes, dislikes, and interests.
4. Explore careers and training options
5. Match your likes, interests to careers
6. Find training programs that are matches to the careers that you are interested
7. Plan for a future career

RIASEC Inventory

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

MBTI

MBTI is most widely used personality assessment in the world. 

Results from the MBTI® produce the 16 types –

·             ISTJ

·             ISFJ

·             INFJ

·             INTJ

·             ISTP

·             ISFP

·             INFP

·             INTP

·             ESTP

·             ESFP

·             ENFP

·             ENTP

·             ESTJ

·             ESFJ

·             ENFJ

·             ENTJ 

Order Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (“MBTI®”) On Sale! 

Cost: $35!!! 

Does not include Strong Interest Inventory report.

Please allow up to 24 hours to receive report!

Strong Interest Inventory

Strong Interest Inventory® is Online Interest Inventory, the most respected and widely used career planning instrument in the world. 

The Strong Interest Inventory® helps you identify – 

• Interests
• Holland Codes
• Careers

The Strong Interest Inventory comes in the following editions – 

• Adult
• High School
• College

Cost: $70

Ready to order, click on the link.

Career and Social Media Omnichannel

Hollandcodes.com has revised our Career and Social Media Omnichannel.

Social media channels are modes of communication that allow us to access information, to problem solve, and make decisions.  Client engagement with social media channels has evolved through three levels –

• Cross channel
• Multi-Channel
• Omni-Channel

Cross channel is the foundational level for social media channels that you can use to complete the following tasks –

• Go on the internet
• Research a topic
• Make a career decision

Multi-Channel  is next social media channel level that is useful to complete the following activities – 

• Find the optimal channel for each student
• Communicate with students in the best possible way
• Engage the students the way they like to communicate with us 

You are using an Omni Channel when you –

• Communicate on any channel that we want at any time  we want in the way we want. 
• The experience has to be consistent across the channels.

Here is a link to see our interactive omni-channel model.

 Omni-Channel is highest social media level that provides immediate 24/7 access to perform the following career social media tasks –

• Career Exploration
• Job Search
• Resume Writing
• Interviewing

Another example of a career social media omni-channel is out Career & Social Media Resource Center.

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.

Media Technology helps us –

• Create collaborative environments
• Promote critical thinking, innovation, and creativity
• Provide immediate feedback
• Engage and connect with students
• Provide 24/7 access to resources
• Build Personal Learning Networks

Looking for to connecting with you on our omnichannels!

Happy New Year from Hollandcodes.com!

Seasons Greetings From Hollandcodes.com Wishing you health and happiness this Holiday Season and prosperity in the New Year. Thank you for your friendship and support during this past year. I look forward to continuing our relationship in the coming year. Get a Free MBTI** ! ** For past customers who placed an order of $70 or more! The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®) assessment is – Most widely used personality assessment in the world – more than 2 million assessments worldwide each year. Reliable, valid, versatile, and dependable – Used for more than 50 years The results from the MBTI® produces the 16 types – ISTJ ISFJ INFJ INTJ ISTP ISFP INFP INTP ESTP ESFP ENFP ENTP ESTJ ESFJ ENFJ ENTJ MBTI Step I™ (Form M) – Is available in online format, takes approximately 20 minutes to complete Powerful application and problem solving over a broad range of issues, from stress management to communication to innovation Identifies individuals’ 4-letter Myers-Briggs personality type code (e.g. ESTJ) Provides a common language for describing how individuals interact with each other and the world around them Generates a variety of in-depth reports to support applications, including communication, stress management, decision-making, team dynamics and more ——————————————————————————- **For past customers who placed an order of $70 or more, get a free MBTI*– Send your Hollandcodes.com invoice to explorecareers@gmail.com Put in the subject line “FREE MBTI“. ——————————————————————————- All other customers, get a MBTI for $30 (Regular Cost $70) Immediate inventory instruction download! To order, click this Ready to Order link!     All the best to you and your family! Have a great new year, The Askew Family & The Hollandcodes.com Team

 

2 for 1 MBTI, Most Widely Used Personality Assessment Sale!!

 

 

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®) assessment is –

• Most widely used personality assessment in the world – more than 2 million assessments worldwide each year.
• Reliable, valid, versatile, and dependable – Used for more than 50 years

 The results from the MBTI® produces the 16 types –

1. ISTJ
2. ISFJ
3. INFJ
4. INTJ
5. ISTP
6. ISFP
7. INFP
8. INTP
9. ESTP
10. ESFP
11. ENFP
12. ENTP
13. ESTJ
14. ESFJ
15. ENFJ
16. ENTJ

MBTI Step I™ (Form M) –

• Is available in online format, takes approximately 20 minutes to complete
• Powerful application and problem solving over a broad range of issues, from stress management to communication to innovation
• Identifies individuals’ 4-letter Myers-Briggs personality type code (e.g. ESTJ)
• Provides a common language for describing how individuals interact with each other and the world around them
• Generates a variety of in-depth reports to support applications, including communication, stress management, decision-making, team dynamics and more

Regular Cost $140/ Sale Cost $70 for 2 MBTI

Immediate inventory instruction download!

MBTI comes with a FREE Bonus Course!

To order, click ready to order link. 

Faith Based Career Planning Curriculum Testimonial!

We received an awesome testimonial from LL, a Clinical Mental Health Counseling student finishing up a masters degree.  Thank you LL!

 Testimonial

I am so excited to have purchased your Biblical Curriculum book for helping children exploring their careers.

The reason for my excitement is my internship director asked me to come up with a career resource book for the teens that I have been working with as part of my internship … at Life Center … a non-profit that serves at-risk youth within the areas using Biblical principles.

I am elated because your booklet will serve as a great asset to this program as they help students with their career considerations in the future.  I have glanced at the content of the book and it is an amazing resource for anyone looking to help children with their careers using Bible-based principles.

It is worth more than the $2 price tag!

Thank you so much for being a part of helping me complete my master’s degree by sharing your book with the center.

 Read more about the 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?

Regular Price $10 / Special Sale Price: $2.00/ Download

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6 Knowledge, Understanding, and Wisdom Keys

There are 6 keys to grow in wisdom and understanding –

• Knowledge
• Comprehension
• Application
• Analysis
• Evaluation
• Creativity

or

• Remember
• Understand
• Apply
• Analyze
• Evaluate
• Create

Read about 2 models that provide strategies to build knowledge, wisdom and understanding.

 

Free Career Web Course

 

Thank you for your interest in Holland Codes resources.

We have a free tool that will provide information about our resources.

The Career Test Overview has a collection of resources to help you tap into your hidden potential.

You receive inspiration and motivation to explore your interests.  You have access to tools to identify potential careers and training options.·     

• Discover who you really are and understand your likes, dislikes, and interests.
• Access interests, skills, personality types, and values tests.
• Match your likes, interests to careers.
• Find training programs that are matches to the careers that you are interested.
• Succeed in planning a career.

Take our FREE course to learn about our career tests!

Click on the link to register! Get immediate access!

Self Directed Search Gets an A+!

Special thanks to MW, an experienced Licensed Professional Counselor for a product review on the Self Directed Search –

Rating of the product: *        5

Was the product easy to use? *      Yes

Did you like the product? *        Yes

Why did you like or dislike the product? *

It’s easy to understand and provides a solid foundation for informed and realistic career planning.

As a Licensed Professional Counselor, I used the SDS for over 30 years for career exploration with college students in higher ed settings and with experienced professionals dealing with career transition challenges in the corporate sector.

I retired four years ago and recently started to work with high school juniors and seniors beginning to explore colleges, majors, and occupational options.

I was pleased to see the SDS still offers the same benefits to its users and at a very reasonable cost.

Read more about the Self Directed Search…

Aspire to an Attitude of Accountability.

Aspire to an Attitude of Accountability. Convene critical conversations. Teach by everything you do. Invite others to join in. Organize with Optimism and Open Minds & Hearts. Never give up on what matters most. http://ow.ly/VCbH30msbRD

New Beginning!

 

Watch our short video to get inspire to move forward towards reaching your dreams, goals, and potential!

Learn more about how to identify your interests, explore different careers and locate the right college or training program!

Looking forward to a great future!

 

All in 1 Career Resource!

The Career Social Media Resource Center is an All in 1 Resource that is open to anyone who

wants to identify their interests, discover their purpose and gather information about careers, colleges, motivation, inspiration, and social media

topics.

Member

Benefits

Members get access to –

1. Blog

2. Expanded Free Download Library

• Free Career Assessments, e.g. Know Your Holland Code
• Free Career Guides
• Free Presentations
• Resume Writing Resources
• Interviewing Tips

3. Low Cost Downloads

4. Member Web Pages

5. Store (Product Discounts)

6. Social Media Resources –

• Resource One: Blogs – Blogger and WordPress
• Resource Two: Facebook
• Resource Three: Linkedin
• Resource Four: Pinterest
• Resource Five: Twitter
• Resource Six: Slideshare – document, PDF, video and webinar
• Resource Seven: Infographics – highly visual presentation tool
• Resource Eight: Word cloud generator software
• Resource Nine: Powerpoint
• Resource Nine: Powtoon

8. Videos

• 10 Top Tips
• Test Drive Your Career

9.Digital Course – Build My Career Test

Take a look…

Sign up here!

Making Decisions about Education

Today’s high school students and parents are practical consumers who pick higher education paths after looking at the school costs, financial obligations and career options.

Generation Z students are independent and self-reliant making early decisions about careers and taking responsibility for their education choices.

Students are becoming the major decision makers in deciding –

• The career path they want to follow
• The school where they will attend

Generation Z are looking at institutions that offer education and skills training as well as degree programs for future employment. The students are open to all educational alternatives – public/ private university, community college, vocational/career programs or apprenticeships.

Generation Z  are ready to make sacrifice to achieve their educational goals –

• Students are saving for college and their futures.
• They plan to minimize costs by living at home.
• They plan to work while in school.

Education planning is a family matter –

• Students talk with parents about college plans as well as strategies to pay for college.
• Families evaluate the long term values and costs of higher education in order to decide which school to attend.
• As a family unit, students and parents are involved in discussions to finance college.  Students are looking for ways to pay for at least part of their higher education costs.

Together, students and parents create career and financial plans will impact the students’ educational choices.

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Green careers can 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:

• Occupations with Enhanced Skills
• Increased Demand Occupations
• New and Emerging Occupations

Career Clusters –
Keys to Unlock Your Career Pathway

A career cluster is a group of jobs and industries that are related by skills or products.

Use the Explore Careers and College Majors System to discover the career pathway that matches your interests in conservation and green careers.  The system uses interest areas (Holland Codes) and Career Clusters.

Career Clusters is a system that divides Green Careers into 16 Career Clusters®.

Some of the Career Clusters are –

• Agriculture Food and Natural Resources
• Agriculture and Construction
• Arts, A/V Technology and Communication
• Business Management and Administration
• Education and Training
• Finance
• Government and Public Administration
• Health Science
• Human Services
• Information Technology
• and more

Our green careers, career clusters and Holland Codes connection tools give you an overview :

• What are Career Clusters?
• What are the matching Career Pathways for each Career Cluster?
• How do your interests (Holland Codes) link to Career Clusters and corresponding Career Pathways?

Other tools include a personalized, online, interactive, self-guided career planning and college planning system that identifies your interests and matches the results to potential green careers.

The personalized tool comes with –

• Four Assessments –

1. Work Interest Assessment
2. Personality Assessment
3. Values Assessment
4. Skills Assessment

 

• Career Exploration, the College Major Exploration and the College Search sections

In the Career Exploration section,

• You perform personalized career research.
• You identify potential careers.
• You begin narrowing career options.
• You can locate Green Careers.

Use the following factors to find the right college or university –

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

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

Dashboard

 

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

There are five sections in the Dashboard –

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

Self Assessment

There are four other assessments –

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

Explore the Possibilities

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

Career Exploration

In the Career Exploration section,

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

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

Then, you filter occupations by the following criteria –

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

After completing Career Exploration, you will –

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

Explore any Occupation

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

 

College Search options include –

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

Take Action

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

The areas under the Take Action section are –

• My Education
• My Professional Development

Career and Education Planning Results

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

Recommended Tools and Websites

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10 Top Career Exploration Tips 2018

for Selecting the Right Career Assessment or Test

Tip 1:  Decide the type of career test that you are interested in!

Are you interested in just a printed or online career test?

and

After taking the career test will you be satisfied with just a career list, or are you looking for more?

Tip 2: Look at a Career Test Rating Chart!

The Test Rating System is –

UU= somewhat useful    UUU = very useful    UUUU = extremely useful

Tip 3: Complete Career Test Checklist.

Instructions: Use the Career Test Checklist to gather the information about career tests.

Format: (Place an “X” to the right of the format of the test.)

Format answers the question how do you take the career test?

•    Printed:
•    On-line:
•    Download, Other (Please specify:     )

Tip 4: Understand the three career planning steps.

•    Discover who you really are and understand your likes, dislikes, and interests.
•    Match your likes, interests, skills, and personality styles to careers.

Tip 5: Focus on identifying your strengths.

You become aware of, know, and identify your –

•    Holland Vocational interests
•    Abilities
•    Skills
•    Values
•    Occupations
•    College Majors

Tip 6: Build awareness of your Holland Personality Types/Codes.

The Holland Interest Areas or Codes are –

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

Tip 7: Research potential careers!

During Step 2 Educational and Occupational Exploration,

•    Perform career research.
•    Identify potential careers.
•    Begin narrowing career options.

Tip 8: Gather information about training programs and colleges!

 

In Step 3 College Major Exploration –

•    Discover possible college majors or training programs
•    Create strategies to put plans into action

Tip 9: Learn about our best, comprehensive, validated, reliable printed or online tests and tools!

The catalog has information about –

•    Printed career tests
•    Online career tests
•    Other career resources
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Make Different Career Choices for 2018

 

Are you looking for solutions for 2018 to answer the question “How do I make the right career choices”?

Use our three career discovery steps to make right career choices.

Step One: Get a Clear Career Goal

The first step in making career choices is setting a career goal.

In order to set a career goal, you have to take inventory of yourself to determine what you can offer an employer.

You need to –

• Build awareness, knowledge and understanding of our strengths, interests, abilities, and skills
• List your ambitions, values, education, and experiences
• Determine your job preferences –job duties, salary, geographic location, and work conditions

Step Two: Explore Career Options

In order to make a career choice, you will need to career exploration resources to gather the following occupational information –

• Labor market
• Work industries
• Companies, organizations, or agencies
• Specific careers

Use online career exploration resources to identify potential careers.

Step Three: Overcome Career Roadblocks

When you are trying to reach your goal, there may be obstacles.  You solve career problems by completing the following steps –

• Identify educational and career planning obstacles
• Create solutions or courses of action
• Set achievable goals
• Resolve conflicts
• Commit to reach our goals

Problem solving should take into consideration personal interests, skills, values, and financial resources. Big problems are broken down into smaller, more manageable steps. Achievable goals result in the production of new competencies, attitudes, and solutions.

As an individual, you:

• Set, formulate, prioritize, and rank goals
• Clearly state our vocational interests, abilities, and values
• Derive plans or strategies to implement the solutions
• Make a commitment to complete the plans
• Understand decision-making processes
• Evaluate the primary choice
• Consider a secondary occupational choice, if necessary

Decision-making processes include:

• Develop a career plan
• Identify potential occupations
• Selecting appropriate educational programs
• Figuring the costs of educational training
• Considering the impact of career decisions.

Step Four: Execution
You execute your career plans when you use different strategies –

• Reality testing
• Social Media
• Job Search Strategies – Resume Writing and Interview Preparation

Reality Testing
While implementing and, you translate vocational interests, abilities, and skills into job opportunities. You do reality testing by implementing the following strategies –

• Informational interviewing
• Networking
• Job shadowing
• Internships
• Part-time employment
• Full-time employment
• Volunteer work

Social Media and Networking Tools
Networking can help you validate your career choices.  You can use a variety of social media tools to learn and connect with professional associations and potential employers. Major networking social media tools are –

• Instagram
• Twitter
• Linkedin
• Facebook

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A Look at Holland Codes and Career Clusters – Two Sides of a Coin

Two Sides of a Coin – There are two popular ways to build self awareness and explore careers.

Career Clusters and Holland Codes 

 

Holland Codes is a tool that matches interests to careers.  A Career Cluster
is a group of jobs and industries that are related by skills or
products.

Holland Codes

The Holland Codes identify interest areas, personalities, work environments and careers. The Holland Code Work Interest Areas are:

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

The 16 Career Clusters® & 79 Career Pathways

After 50 years of research, there are research has reported the following 16 Career Clusters® & 79 Career Pathways –

Agriculture, Food & Natural Resources

• Agribusiness Systems
• Animal Systems
• Environmental Service Systems
• Food Products & Processing Systems
• Natural Resources Systems
• Plant Systems
• Power, Structural & Technical Systems

Architecture & Construction

• Construction
• Design/ Pre-Construction
• Maintenance/ Operations

Arts, A/V Technology, & Communications

• A/V Technology & Film
• Journalism & Broadcasting
• Performing Arts
• Printing Technology
• Telecommunications
• Visual Arts

Business Management & Administration

• Administrative Support
• Business Information Management
• General Management
• Human Resources Management
• Operations Management

Education & Training

• Administration & Administrative Support
• Professional Support Services
• Teaching/ Training

Finance

• Accounting
• Banking Services
• Business Finance
• Insurance
• Securities & Investments

Government & Public Administration

• Foreign Service
• Governance
• National Security
• Planning
• Public Management & Administration
• Regulation
• Revenue & Taxation

Health Science

• Biotechnology Research & Development
• Diagnostic Services
• Healthy Information
• Support Services
• Therapeutic Services

Hospitality & Tourism

• Lodging
• Recreation, Amusements & Attractions
• Restaurants & Food/ Beverage Services
• Travel & Tourism

Human Services

• Consumer Services
• Counseling & Mental Health Services
• Early Childhood Development & Services
• Family & Community Services
• Personal Care Services

Information Technology 

• Information Support & Services
• Network Systems
• Programming & Software Development
• Web & Digital Communications

Law, Public Safety, Corrections & Security

• Correction Services
• Emergency & Fire Management Services
• Law Enforcement Services
• Legal Services
• Security & Protective Services

Manufacturing

• Healthy, Safety & Environmental Assurance
• Logistics & Inventory Control
• Maintenance, Installation & Repair
• Manufacturing Production Process Development
• Production
• Quality Assurance

Marketing 

• Marketing Communications
• Marketing Management
• Marketing Research
• Merchandising
• Professional Sales

Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics

• Engineering & Technology
• Science & Mathematics

Transportation, Distribution & Logistics ​

• Facility & Mobile Equipment Maintenance
• Health, Safety & Environmental Management
• Logistics Planning & Management Services
• Sales & Service
• Transportation Operations
• Transportation Systems/ Infrastructure Planning, Management & Regulation
• Warehousing & Distribution Center Operations

HollandCodes.com has developed resources that show the relationship
between the Career Clusters, Green Careers and Holland Codes –

• Career Clusters and Holland Codes Cross-Reference Table
• Green Careers, Career Clusters and Holland Codes Reference Guide

Career Clusters and Holland Codes Cross-Reference Table

Here is an example of the Career Clusters and Holland Codes Cross-Reference Table.

Holland Code	Holland Codes Personality Type (1)	Holland Codes Personality Type (2)	GOE Interest Areas
RI	Realistic	Investigative	Agriculture, Food, & Natural Resources
R	Realistic		Architecture & Construction
R	Realistic		Manufacturing
R	Realistic		Transportation, Distribution & Logistics

Green Careers, Career Clusters and Holland Codes Reference Guide

The Green Careers, Career Clusters and Holland Codes Reference Guide provides detailed descriptions of more than 150
occupations, covering topics such as:

• O*NET-SOC Codes
• Job titles
• Green occupational
  categories
• Interest areas/ Holland Codes
• Career clusters/ career
  cluster pathways
• Daily tasks (what workers do on the job).

The O*NET-SOC Codes is useful to find out additional
information about the working conditions, the training and education
needed, earnings, and expected job prospects.

This guide is an excellent reference for many different tasks –

• Career exploration
• Lesson planning
• College majors
• Career planning
• Occupational research

The Green Careers, Career Clusters and Holland Codes resources are part of the extensive library of resources found in the Hollandcodes.com Master Course for Professionals.

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RIASEC Inventory

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Explore Careers and College Majors System

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

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

Master Course for Professionals

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

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

 

 

 Self Directed Search

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

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

Strong Interest Inventory®

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

For nearly 80 years, the Strong Interest Inventory® assessment has guided thousands of individuals in exploring careers and college majors. The Strong Interest Inventory® assessment is the most respected and widely used career planning instrument in the world.

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Dashboard

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

There are five sections in the Dashboard –

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

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

Dashboard

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

There are five sections in the Dashboard –

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

Self Assessment

There are four other assessments –

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

 

Explore the Possibilities

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

Career Exploration

In the Career Exploration section,

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

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

Then, you filter occupations by the following criteria –

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

After completing Career Exploration, you will –

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

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

College Search options include –

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

Take Action

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

The areas under the Take Action section are –

• My Education
• My Professional Development

 

Career and Education Planning Results

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

Recommended Tools and Websites

Recommended Tools and Websites include –

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

 

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• Receive a supplemental career and college major exploration resources

After completing this course, you will –

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• Know how to help your students and clients match their likes, interests, skills, and personality styles to careers
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This course is the result of 20 years of experience researching Holland Codes assessments, tests, activities, and resources.

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• Build Self Awareness
• Understand Career Interest Groups – What do the scores mean?
• Know RIASEC Personalities
• Selecting the Right Training Program
• Career Planning – Putting the Pieces Together

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• Self Directed Search
• Strong Interest Inventory

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Holland Codes matches personality types to jobs and college majors.

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Databases: Occupations and Colleges/ Universities

New!!!! Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)

Format: On-Line

Reading Level: Youth/ Adult

Subject Area: 16 MBTI types

Databases: Occupations and Colleges/ Universities

RIASEC Inventory

Format: Printed/On-Line

Reading Level: Youth/ Adult

Subject Area: Holland Codes, Interests,Abilities/Skills, Values

Databases: Occupations and Colleges/ Universities

Self Directed Search (Form R, Form E, Form Career Explorer)

Format:  Printed/On-Line

Reading Level: Youth/ Adult/ Children

Subject Area: Holland Codes, Interests, Occupations

Strong Interest Inventory®

Format: On-Line

Reading Level: Youth/ Adult

Subject Area: Holland Codes, Interests, Occupations

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Overview

There are three steps in career planning cycle that will help you achieve your career goals and search for a career.

Step One: Get a Clear Career Goal

The first step in search for a job is setting a career goal.

In order to set a career goal, you have to take inventory of yourself to determine what you can offer an employer.

You need to –

• Build awareness, knowledge and understanding of our strengths, interests, abilities, and skills
• List your ambitions, values, education, and experiences
• Determine your job preferences –job duties, salary, geographic location, and work conditions

Step Two: Explore Career Options

In order to identify potential careers, you may use career exploration and
social media resources to gather the following occupational information –

• Labor market
• Work industries
• Companies, organizations, or agencies
• Specific careers

Use online career exploration resources to identify potential careers.

Step Three: Overcome Career Roadblocks

When you are trying to reach a career goal, there will always be
obstacles. You solve career problems by completing the following steps –

• Identify educational and career planning obstacles
• Create solutions or courses of action
• Set achievable goals
• Resolve conflicts
• Commit to reach our goals

Problem solving should take into consideration personal interests, skills, values, and financial resources. Big problems are broken down into smaller, more
manageable steps. Achievable goals result in the production of new
competencies, attitudes, and solutions.

As an individual, you:

• Set, formulate, prioritize, and rank goals
• Clearly state our vocational interests, abilities, and values
• Derive plans or strategies to implement the solutions
• Make a commitment to complete the plans
• Understand decision-making processes
• Evaluate the primary choice
• Consider a secondary occupational choice, if necessary

Decision-making processes include:

• Develop a career plan
• Identify potential occupations
• Select appropriate educational programs
• Figure the costs of educational training
• Consider the impact of career decisions

Step Four: Execution

You execute your career plans when you use different strategies –

• Reality testing
• Social Media
• Job Search Strategies – Resume Writing and Interview Preparation

Reality Testing

While implementing and, you translate vocational interests, abilities, and
skills into job opportunities. You do reality testing by implementing
the following strategies –

• Informational interviewing
• Networking
• Job shadowing
• Internships
• Part-time employment
• Full-time employment
• Volunteer work

We have a variety of different topics that we use different career/ academic advising sessions –

• Selecting Career test
• Different career tests
• Other career topics – social media, resume writing and interviewing

Different Career Tests

We offer assistance with interpreting the following tests –

• RIASEC Inventory
• Self Directed Search
• Strong Interest Inventory
• Online web-based tools

 Get more details about our career and academic coaching…

New Improved MBTI!

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

• Most widely used personality assessment in the world – more than 2 million assessments worldwide each year.
• Reliable, valid, versatile, and dependable – Used for more than 50 years

The results from the MBTI® produces the 16 types –

1. ISTJ
2. ISFJ
3. INFJ
4. INTJ
5. ISTP
6. ISFP
7. INFP
8. INTP
9. ESTP
10. ESFP
11. ENFP
12. ENTP
13. ESTJ
14. ESFJ
15. ENFJ
16. ENTJ

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

(including the 93 Step I  M items)

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

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

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

Features & Benefits

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

 Read more about the MBTI…

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3 Questions You’re Not Asking That Will Guide Your Career Choice.

Brad Minton, MS, LPC, NCC

Career and Academic Counselor, Instructor, Speaker

Reproduced with permission from author

Minton, B. (2016, September 9).3 Questions You’re Not Asking That Will Guide Your Career Choice. Retrieved from https://www.linkedin.com

Working with teenagers and young adults everyday who are coming to college is extremely rewarding, and educational to say the least. Being a career counselor, I have the task of helping students discover their education and career path. The one thing that I have come to discover in the process of helping them is their ideas about career are usually fairly vague.

That in and of itself is not the issue.  Most experts agree that as many as half of all college freshman have not solidified their major and/or career choice, and 75% will end up changing their path as they work towards their degree. Uncertainty is a completely understandable and expected aspect of being a new college student.

However, over time, eventually students will start attempting to gain more clarity on their vision for the future and it is here where the problems arise. Generally the first mistake they make is simply choosing a major or career path too hastily, rather than doing the necessary self-exploration. They feel compelled to simply “choose one”, and unfortunately, it is this rush to decision that leads so many to change their majors two and three times before graduation. They simply didn’t understand what they were getting into.

If they are in fact, taking some valuable time to process their decisions, they still can falter and get off track. How? By simply asking themselves the wrong questions.

Because we tend to associate our work and our careers with time spent (roughly a third of our adult life), one of the first questions students tend to ask is “Will I like what I’m doing?”, or “Will I have an interest in it?”. While interest is absolutely a necessary ingredient to career satisfaction, the question that needs to be asked is “Will this career give me fulfillment?“. You can have interest in a lot of things but they may not fulfill you in a career unless you find the modality which allows you to combine both your interests and your values. Values are the key ingredient which most closely leads to fulfillment because they speak to your soul. They are characteristics of you that cannot be easily negotiated. Interests and values can conflict. If I have a value for autonomy and an interest in computers, I could end up feeling restricted because it may not give me the independence I need depending on the type of work and setting. So again, the deeper question is not what is just going to interest me, but what is going to fulfill me.

A second question students ask themselves often is “What do I want to do?”. The reason this question is often not going to provide as much substance to their career choices is that is focuses more on activities rather than purpose. You can give anyone tasks to complete and they will do it……for a period of time. Eventually, the question will arise of why does it matter? Knowing what to do, works in the short term, but knowing why will ultimately make it last, because the why determines the level of investment by giving the activities a purpose. The key question that students must get to is “Why do I want to do…?”

The third question that tends to come up a lot is “What do I want to get?”. Students are focused in on the perks of working: salary, vacations, retirement, advancement, independence, etc. The main reason why this is of less importance is simply because all of those things will change with time and location. How much money you think you should be earning will change as you advance. Technology will ultimately change how you work. Your level of advancement will change. You’re colleagues will change. Everything in the labor market is moving at a tremendous speed and constantly evolving, thus whatever monetary gain you get from it, is subject to the same. The deeper question you have to ask is not what I want to get, but “What do I want to give?“.

By asking yourself this vital question it ties into your fulfillment AND purpose on the deepest level of all. Giving is the ultimate sacrifice, and when we decide to give, we make the resolution that it is for a higher purpose than ourselves. What you choose to give the world is your way of making your unique mark which builds you up, plus it will provide you with more satisfaction than anything you could get, because you’ve fully committed to the purpose that fulfills you.

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Make Different Career Choices

 

Are you looking for solutions to answer the question “How do I make different career choices”?

Use our three career discovery steps to make right career choices.

Step One: Get a Clear Career Goal

The first step in making career choices is setting a career goal.

In order to set a career goal, you have to take inventory of yourself to determine what you can offer an employer.

You need to –

• Build awareness, knowledge and understanding of our strengths, interests, abilities, and skills
• List your ambitions, values, education, and experiences
• Determine your job preferences –job duties, salary, geographic location, and work conditions

Step Two: Explore Career Options

In order to make a career choice, you will need to career exploration resources to gather the following occupational information –

• Labor market
• Work industries
• Companies, organizations, or agencies
• Specific careers

Use online career exploration resources to identify potential careers.

Step Three: Overcome Career Roadblocks

When you are trying to reach your goal, there may be obstacles.  You solve career problems by completing the following steps –

• Identify educational and career planning obstacles
• Create solutions or courses of action
• Set achievable goals
• Resolve conflicts
• Commit to reach our goals

Problem solving should take into consideration personal interests, skills, values, and financial resources. Big problems are broken down into smaller, more manageable steps. Achievable goals result in the production of new competencies, attitudes, and solutions.

As an individual, you:

• Set, formulate, prioritize, and rank goals
• Clearly state our vocational interests, abilities, and values
• Derive plans or strategies to implement the solutions
• Make a commitment to complete the plans
• Understand decision-making processes
• Evaluate the primary choice
• Consider a secondary occupational choice, if necessary

Decision-making processes include:

• Develop a career plan
• Identify potential occupations
• Selecting appropriate educational programs
• Figuring the costs of educational training
• Considering the impact of career decisions.

Step Four: Execution
You execute your career plans when you use different strategies –

• Reality testing
• Social Media
• Job Search Strategies – Resume Writing and Interview Preparation

Reality Testing
While implementing and, you translate vocational interests, abilities, and skills into job opportunities. You do reality testing by implementing the following strategies –

• Informational interviewing
• Networking
• Job shadowing
• Internships
• Part-time employment
• Full-time employment
• Volunteer work

Social Media and Networking Tools
Networking can help you validate your career choices.  You can use a variety of social media tools to learn and connect with professional associations and potential employers. Major networking social media tools are –

• Instagram
• Twitter
• Linkedin
• Facebook

We are specialists in career social media.

Ready to assess your interest and skills…

What is your code?

How do your interests relate to potential careers and possible college majors?

Are you an Artist Creator, Conventional Organizer, Enterprising Leader, Investigative Thinker, Realistic Doer and Social Helper?

Artistic Creator

 

Artistic Creators like to – —

• Write stories, poems, or other creative writings
• —Enjoy the arts, theater, and dance
• —Play musical instruments
• —Like to paint or sculpt

Facts about Artistic Creators –

• Characteristics: Complicated, Original, Impulsive, Independent, Expressive, Creative
• Strengths: Uses imagination and feelings in creative expression
• Potential Careers: Artist, Musician, Actor/ Actress, Designer, Writer, Photographer
• Possible College Majors: Art, Theater, Graphic Design, Music, Journalism, Communication

Conventional Organizer

Conventional Organizers like to – —

• Put things in order
• Attend to detail
• Handle things in a systematic manner
• Desire to be efficient

Facts about Conventional Organizers –

• Characteristics: Careful, Conforming, Conservative, Conscientious, Self-controlled, Structured
• Strengths: Orders activities paying attention to details
• Potential Careers: Accountant, Banker, Editor, Office Manager, Librarian, Medical Laboratory Assistant
• Possible College Majors: Business, Accounting, Management

Enterprising Leader

Enterprising Leaders like to –

• Manage people and projects
• Persuade, take action, set goals
• Work well in groups
• Sell products and services

— Facts about Enterprising Leaders –

• Characteristics: Persuasive, Energetic, Sociable, Adventurous, Ambitious, Risk-taking
• Strengths: Leads, manages, and organizes
• Potential Careers: Manager, Producer, Lawyer, Business/ Marketing, Executive, Entrepreneur, Principal
• Possible College Majors: Pre-Law, Business Management and Administration, International Business, Political Science

Investigative Thinkers

Investigative Thinkers like to –

• Like to invent or research
• Solve problems
• Work with ideas
• Use computers
• Love knowledge

Facts about Investigative Thinkers –

• Characteristics: Analytical, Intellectual, Reserved, Independent, Scholarly, Judgmental
• Strengths: Works with abstract ideas and intellectual problems
• Potential Careers: Biologist, Chemist, Historian, Researcher, Doctor, Mathematician
• Possible College Majors: Biology, Chemistry, Nursing, Pre-Medicine, Mathematics, History

Realistic Doers

Realistic Doers like to –

• Like working with tools or machines
• Prefer to work outdoors
• Enjoy playing sports

Facts about Realistic Doers –

• Characteristics: Frank, Practical, Focused, Mechanical, Determined, Rugged
• Strengths: Manipulates tools, Possesses mechanical, manual, or athletic ability
• Potential Careers: Craftsman, Fitness Trainer, Optician, Policemen, Fire Fighter, Physical Education Teacher
•  Possible College Majors: Justice Studies, Fire Science, Athletic Training, Martial Arts, Corporate Fitness, Physical Education

Social Helpers

Social Helpers like to –

• Like to teach and serve
• Are good listeners and communicators
• Work well in groups
• Show empathy

Facts about Social Helpers –

• Characteristics: Helping, Informing, Teaching, Inspiring, Counseling, Serving
• Strengths: Interacts with people, concerned with the welfare of people
• Potential Careers: Teacher, Clergy, Coach, Therapist, Nurse, Counselor, Sociologist
• Possible College Majors: Nursing, Counseling, Social Science, Education

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Time for Positive Change!

Summer is a time for Reflection, Growth and Renewal

 

 Take the time to reevaluate where you are and what you are doing.

 

What are your interests, abilities and skills?

 

Do those interests, abilities and skills match your current job?

 

If not, is it time to make a change? What are your plans to reach your career goals?

 

Trying to make a decision, but there are so many choices.

We are providing you with information about the top 5 career tests .  All of these resources will help –

• Build awareness of the interests, abilities and skills.
• Provide resources to explore careers. Learn about salaries, job duties, job outlook, training requirements, and more.
• Research colleges to find our information about admission requirements, available programs, tuition, learning options (on-camous or online), payment options, scholarships, and more.

MBTI®

• Format: On-Line
• Reading Level: Youth/ Adult/ Children
• Subject Area: Personality Styles, Occupations

My Career Profile

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

 

Self Directed Search

• Format: Printed/On-Line
• Reading Level: Youth/ Adult/ Children
• Subject Area: Holland Codes, Interests, Occupations

 

Strong Interest Inventory®

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

 

Career Decision Making Tool

• Format: On-Line
• Reading Level: High school student, college student, adult
• Subject Area: Holland Codes, Interests, Occupations
• Databases: Occupations and Colleges/ Universities
• Best Buy:  Immediate access, customizable, comparable to more expensive inventories

 

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