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

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

Dashboard

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

There are five sections in the Dashboard –

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

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Hollandcodes.com Master Course Launch

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

You will –

• Receive key factors to determine the right inventory or test that meets the needs of your clients or students
• Learn the three steps in the career planning process
• Gain an understanding of Holland Codes as well as the interrelationship between Holland Codes, careers and college majors
• Have access to the leading Holland Codes inventories or activities
• Receive a supplemental career and college major exploration resources

After completing this course, you will –

• Have a step-by-step guide to explore careers and college majors
• Use the course to help your clients and students pinpoint interests and Holland personality styles.
• Have strategies to help your students and clients discover who they really are with tools to understand their likes, dislikes, and interests
• Know how to help your students and clients match their likes, interests, skills, and personality styles to careers
• Have resources to find training programs that are a match to the careers that they are interested.

This course is the result of 20 years of experience researching Holland Codes assessments, tests, activities, and resources.

Course Activities

 

Here are examples of course activities –

Step 1:  Read the files in the Introduction module.

Step 2:  Read the activities.  Activities come with fact sheets and other resources.

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

Step 3:  Complete the battery of Holland Code Inventories ($200 value)

• Career Interest Inventory
• PIC Career Survey
• RIASEC Interest Inventory
• Self Directed Search
• Strong Interest Inventory

Step 4:  Match Interests to Career activity.

Step 5: Utilize Research a Career Tool.

Step 6: Build list of potential careers.

Step 7:  Perform Search for College Tool.

Step 8:  Make a list of potential college majors.

Step 9:  Complete other Career Planning activities.
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Are you a hands-on personality type?

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People with a Realistic Personality Types like to work with Things or Tools.

• A person with a Realistic Personality are frank, practical, focused, mechanical, determined, or rugged.
• Realistic Abilities include manipulating tools, doing mechanical or manual tasks, or doing athletic activities.
• Examples of Realistic Careers are Craftsman, Fitness Trainer, Optician, Policemen, Fire Fighter, and Physical Education Teacher.
• Possible Realistic College Majors are Justice Studies, Fire Science, Athletic Training, Martial Arts, Corporate Fitness, and Physical Education.

Do you like working with your hands or tools? Do you have a Realistic Personality?

Career Resources for Homeschool Students

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

• Kuder Career Guidance System
• My Career Profile

Kuder Test Survey

As homeschool students, the Kuder Journey helps you:

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

For homeschool students, Kuder Journey has the following items –

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

Kuder Test Survey Career Tests

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

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

Kuder Career Search with Person Match

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

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

Kuder Skills Test

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

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

Super’s Work Values Inventory-Revised

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

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

Career Test Reports

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

Combining Results from Kuder Career Tests

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

Kuder Online Portfolios

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

The System features include:

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

My Career Profile – A Holland Career Self Assessment Test

Product Overview

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

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

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

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

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

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

The My Career Profile Guidance System comes with a –

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

Self-Analysis System

1. My Interests Inventory

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

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

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

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

Research a Career Tool

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

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

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

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

School Tool

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

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

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

2. My Values Inventory

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

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

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

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

3. My Skills Inventory

Know the things that you are good at, for example –

• Communication Skills
• People Skills
• Problem Solving Skills
• Management Skills
• Creative and Artistic Skills
• Scientific Skills

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

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

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Christmas Sale on Job Career Tests

The following career tests are on sale –

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

Career and Life Explorer

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

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

Career and Life Explorer provides the following information:

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

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

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

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

Regular Cost: $7 Sale Cost: $5

Career Exploration Inventory

Hollandcodes.com has information about the Career Exploration Inventory.

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

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

The Career Exploration Inventory:

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

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

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

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

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

Regular Cost: $7 Sale Cost: $5

Career Personality Inventory Based on the MBTI personality types

The Career Personality Inventory is –

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Regular Cost: $7 Sale Cost: $5

Career Values Inventory

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Regular Cost: $7 Sale Cost: $5

PICS Career Survey

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

• Explore their career interests
• Find a job that fits

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

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

The PICS Interest Test –

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

To finish the Career Survey (PICS), you –

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

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

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

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

Paint Careers With Colors Kids Career Test & Color Key

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

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

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

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

Regular Cost: $15 Sale Cost: $7.50

RIASEC Version

Transferable Skills (TS) Survey

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

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

The benefits of the TS Survey are –

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

The TS Survey has 5 sections –

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

Regular Cost: $7 Sale Cost: $5

Guide for Occupational Exploration Interest Inventory (GOEII)

Guide for Occupational Exploration Interest Inventory –

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

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

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

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

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

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

Regular Cost: $7 Sale Cost: $5

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TEST DRIVE YOUR CAREER TEST! YOU HAVE THE KEYS!

RIASEC Personalities

Career Exploration Steps Two and Three

Step One: Self Awareness

Keys to Successful Career Planning

Tips from a University Career Advisor

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

Key One: Career Assessment and Awareness

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

• Computerized
• Online
• Printed

Sometimes, we need assistance deciding which test is best!

Are we decided or undecided?

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

Holland Code Career Tests

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

Holland Career Model

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

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

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

These Holland Career Model areas are matched to Holland Codes –

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

Holland Code career tests link vocational interests to job families.

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

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

Examples of Holland Code career tests are –

Comprehensive, Validated, Reliable Tests –

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

Low Cost, Informal Tests –

• Strong Interest Explorer
• RIASEC Inventory
• Career Interests Inventory

Children, Limited Reading Ability, or Special Needs Tests –

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

Key Two: Educational and Occupational Exploration

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

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

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

Key Three: Problem solving

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

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

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

Key Four: Goal Setting and Decision Making

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

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

In executing decision-making processes, we –

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

Key Five: Implementation

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

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

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

Middle School Career Tests

for Teachers, Counselors, and Parents

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

Middle school career education tools should improve –

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Self Directed Search Career Explorer Assessment and Finder

The Self Directed Search is –

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

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

The SDS Career Explorer has kids activities.

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

PICS Interest Career Survey

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

• Explore their career interests
• Find a job that fits

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

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

The Picture Interest Test –

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

To finish the PICS Career Survey, you –

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

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

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

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

Paint Careers With Colors Kid Career Test

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

• RIASEC Version
• Children’s Version

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

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

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

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

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

In summary, in middle school career programs, students:

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

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Kid Career Test Sale!

Get a Kid Career Test that has VISUAL learning techniques and colors to represent Holland Codes and Colors Codes.

Our Kid Career Test –

Clarifies thoughts, integrates new knowledge, and promotes critical thinking. New concepts are more thoroughly and easily understood.

Organizes and analyzes information. Children, youth, and adults –

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

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 our Kid Career Test at –

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

The Kid Career Test has a 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

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.  Flash Cards

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

2.  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

Cost: $60.00/ 1 User

After purchasing a Single User Copy of the Kid Career Test, qualify to make copies for the other teachers and students at your school by participating in the School Research Program.

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Conventional Personality Types, Careers, and College Majors

Conventional is one of the Holland Personality Types. Conventional Personality Types prefer to deal with Data and Things.

• A person with a Conventional Personality tends to be Careful, Conforming, Conservative, Conscientious, Self-controlled, and Structured.
• Examples of Conventional Abilities include ordering activities paying attention to details.
• Examples of Conventional Careers include Accountant, Banker, Editor, Office Manager, Librarian, and Reporter.
• Possible Conventional College Majors are Business, Accounting, and Management.

Do you have a Conventional Personality?

Discover your Holland Code Personality Type…

Enterprising Personality Types, Careers, and College Majors

Enterprising is one of the Holland Personality Types. Enterprising Personality Types prefer to deal with Data and People.

• A person with an Enterprising Personality tends to be Characteristics: Persuasive, Energetic, Sociable, Adventurous, Ambitious, and Risk-taking.
• Examples of Enterprising Abilities include leading, managing, and organizing.
• Examples of Enterprising Careers include Manager, Producer, Lawyer, Business/ Marketing, Executive, Entrepreneur, and Principal.
• Possible Enterprising College Majors are Pre-Law, Business Management and Administration, International Business, and Political Science.

Do you have an Enterprising Personality?

Discover your Holland Code Personality Type…

Social Personality Types, Careers, and College Majors

Social is one of the Holland Personality Types. Social Personality Types prefer to deal with People.

• A person with a Social Personality tends to be Helping, Informing, Teaching, Inspiring, Counseling, and Serving.
• Examples of Social Abilities include interacting with people and concerned with the welfare of people.
• Examples of Social Careers include Teacher, Clergy, Coach, Therapist, Nurse, Counselor, and Sociologist.
• Possible Social College Majors are Nursing, Christian Education, Counseling, Biblical Studies, Social Science, and Education.

Do you have an Social Personality?

Discover your Holland Code Personality Type.

Artistic Personality Types, Careers, and College Majors

Artistic is one of the Holland Personality Types. Artistic Personality Types prefer to deal with Ideas and People.

• A person with an Artistic Personality tends to be Complicated, Original, Impulsive, Independent, Expressive, and Creative.
• Examples of Artistic Abilities include using imagination and feelings in creative expression .
• Examples of Artistic Careers include Artist, Musician, Actor/ Actress, Designer, Writer, and Photographer.
• Possible Artistic College Majors are Art, Theater, Graphic Design, Music, Journalism, and Communication.

Do you have an Artistic Personality?

Discover your Holland Code Personality Type…

Realistic Personality Styles, Careers, and College Majors

Realistic is one of the Holland Personality Types. Realistic Personality Types prefer to deal with Things.

• A person with a Realistic Personality tends to be frank, practical, focused, mechanical, determined, or rugged.
• Examples of Realistic Abilities include manipulating tools, doing mechanical or manual tasks, or doing athletic activities.
• Examples of Realistic Careers include Craftsman, Fitness Trainer, Optician, Policemen, Fire Fighter, and Physical Education Teacher.
• Possible Realistic College Majors are Justice Studies, Fire Science, Athletic Training, Martial Arts, Corporate Fitness, and Physical Education.

Do you have a Realistic Personality?

Discover your Holland Code Personality Type…

Holland Code Career Tests

A Holland Code job career test helps you find career job opportunities, career job descriptions, and career search sites. With a job career test, you test your own job aptitude.

To select the right career assessment, look at the –

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

Holland career self assessment tests use Holland Codes to link vocational interests to job families. Holland assessments use a two or three-letter RIASEC or Holland Occupational Codes. Different Holland Code job career questionnaire tests provide information on the relationship between job personalities and key characteristics, college majors, hobbies, abilities, and related careers.

The Holland Code career self assessment tests are:

Comprehensive, Validated, Reliable Tests:

• My Career Profile
  
• Kuder Career Planning System
• Myers Briggs Type Indicator
  
• Self Directed Search – PRINTED Form R (English) , Form R (Spanish), Form R (English Canadian), Form E, Form CE, & Form CP or INTERNET Versions
• Strong Interest Inventory

Low Cost, Informal Tests:

• NEW! RIASEC Inventory
  
• Career Interests Inventory
• Transferable Skills Scale
  

Children, Limited Reading Ability, or Special Needs Tests:

• Paint Careers With Colors System
  
• Picture Interest Career Survey

Latest Holland Codes Reference Books

Holland Code Reference Books are sources of information about:

• Occupational information
• Occupational careers
• Occupational jobs

The major Holland Code career reference books for Holland Codes and occupations are:

• 10 Best College Majors for Your Personality
• 50 Best Jobs for Your Personality
• Dictionary of Holland Occupational Codes
• Enhanced Occupational Outlook Handbook
• SDS Practitioner’s Guide, Professional Users Guide, or Technical Manual
• Making Vocational Choices

Gotomeeting – Key to Finding the Right Career Test

Hollandcodes.com uses Gotomeeting to demonstrate the Paint Careers With Colors System. The results were awesome!!!!!

Gotomeeting is a Web conferencing tool that allows you to meet online rather than in a conference room.

1. Choose between VoIP and phone conferencing or allow both options for audio.

2. Use your computer to watch overview of different career tests.

3. To schedule a Teleconference, complete the form below.

4. We will send you an e-mail giving you a list of teleconference times.

To schedule a teleconference, go to http://www.hollandcodes.com/questions.html

Check out our first Youtube video!!!

Self-Directed Search

The Self-Directed Search has been widely used by over 22 million people worldwide. The SDS has been translated into 25 different languages and has been supported by 500 research studies. There are three versions of the Self-Directed Search –

• Form R
• Form E,
• Form Career Explorer

Form R

Form R Assessment

• The Form R Assessment Booklet consists of several sections: Ranking Activities, Competencies, Occupations, Self-Estimates, How To Organize Your Answers, What Your Summary Code Means, Some Next Steps, and Some Useful Books. After answering the questions, individuals derive a 3-letter Summary Code.
• The 198-item Assessment Booklet is written at a 9th-grade reading level.
• The Self-Directed Search Assessment Form R has four sections –
  • Activities
  • Competencies
  • Occupations
  • Self-Estimates
• The results from the four sections are placed on a Counting Sheet.  The Holland Code scores are counted.  The three highest scores are placed in the Summary Code Boxes.

Form R Occupational Finder

• The Occupational Finder lists over 1,309 occupations, including some requiring postsecondary training.
• From the SDS Assessment, clients search the Occupational Finder for occupations with matching or similar codes–jobs that will be most satisfying to them.
• Clients write the job that appeal to them on the What Your Summary Code Means page on the SDS Assessment

Form E

Form E Assessment

• The Form E Assessment Booklet includes uncomplicated questions about individuals’ likes and dislikes, their competencies, the jobs they find interesting, and their personal abilities. After answering the questions, individuals derive a 2-letter Summary Code (instead of the usual 3-letter code) using a simplified scoring system.
• The 198-item Assessment Booklet is written at a 6th-grade reading level.
• The directions are written at a 4th-grade reading level in larger print for easier reading.
• The Self-Directed Search Assessment Form E has four sections –
  • Activities
  • Skills
  • Jobs
  • Rating Your Abilities
  • The results from the four sections are placed on a Counting Sheet.  The Holland Code scores are counted.  The two highest scores are placed in the Summary Code Boxes.

Form E Job Finder

• The Jobs Finder lists over 860 jobs, including some requiring postsecondary training.
• From the SDS Assessment, clients search the Jobs Finder for jobs with matching or similar codes–jobs that will be most satisfying to them.
• Clients write the job that appeal to them on the What Your Summary Code Means page on the SDS Assessment

Form Career Explorer

Form Career Explorer Exploring Your Future Booklet

The Form Career Explorer Exploring Your Future Booklet

• Explains the Holland Career Model’s.
• Explains 6 Holland or RIASEC personality types how to use the Summary codes and scores.
• Explains how to use the Summary codes and scores.
• Provides additional resources and activities

Form Career Explorer Assessment

• The Form Career Explorer Assessment Booklet consists of several sections: Careers I Have Thought About, Activities, Skills, Careers, Rating Your Abilities, Counting Your Answers, What Your Holland Code Means, Duplicate Summary Page. After answering the questions, individuals derive a 2-letter Summary Code.
• The 198-item Assessment Booklet is written at a 3^rdgrade reading level.
• The Self-Directed Search Assessment Form Career Explorer has four sections –

• Activities
• Skills
• Careers
• Rating Your Abilities

• The results from the four sections are placed on a Counting Your Answers Sheet.  The Holland Code scores are counted.  The two highest scores are placed in the Summary Code Boxes.

Form Career Explorer Career Booklet

• The Career Booklet lists over 400 careers, including some requiring postsecondary training.
• From the SDS Assessment, clients search the Career Booklet for occupations with matching or similar codes–careers that will be most satisfying to them.
• Clients write the job that appeal to them on the What Your Summary Code Means page on the SDS Assessment

Get more information about Self-Directed Search.

Welcome to the Holland Codes Blog

This is the first edition of the Holland Codes Blog. This Blog is open to anyone who wants to share information about Holland Code resources.

The purpose of the Holland Codes Blog is to –

• Provide a forum for the discussion of Holland Code resources,
• Post questions concerning Holland Career Model and Holland Code resources,
• List some of the benefits of Holland Code resources, and
• Report information on newly published Holland Code resources.

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