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What are my INTERESTS?

KEY QUESTIONS FOR TODAY

What is your interest profile (John Holland)?

What jobs fit your personality type?

Do these jobs match your initial interest(s)?

What colleges/schools can prepare you for this career?

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What are the 3 elements of career satisfaction?

Interests Values Skills/ability

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What do each mean? Provide examples.

Interests Values Skills/ability

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For each, how do you match to a career? Ideas?

Interests Values Skills/ability

CAREER CONNECTIONSInterests per John Holland

John Holland Identified the following interest types:

Realistic – people prefer activities that require motor coordination, skill, and physical strength, prefer situations involving "action solutions"

Investigative - people prefer to think rather than to act, to organize and understand rather than to persuade

Artistic – people dislike structure, prefer tasks involving personal or physical skills, are prone to expression of emotion than others, and are interested in the cultural-aesthetic

Social - perceive themselves as liking to help others, understanding others, and having teaching abilities

Enterprising - people are verbally skilled and use this skill in persuasion rather than support of others

Conventional - prefer structure and order to ambiguity

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How do you know your Interest Type?

Use www.guidancedirect.com career connections Interest Profiler.

Follow instructions on the handout: “Student Access to Career Connections” to log on or to create a new account.

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Interest Type….Interest Profiler. Answer 180 questions (can stop after 90 but better with all)

The more accurately you answer the questions the better the results

Will give you your personality code

Based on Holland’s Theory of Personality

Not 100% valid assessment

Connects your 3 letter code to careers, college majors and colleges

WATCH MY VIDEOGD_Interest_Profiler.swf

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Think and Write a short answer to the following questions:

1.What have you learned about your interests?

2.Does the interest profile make sense to you?

3.Does the interest profile match the ones done previously? If not why do you think?

Share your thoughts!

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SUMMARY Personality type Occupations that fit your personality

type Colleges/schools can prepare you for

this career

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