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www.ohio.edu/careers

Office of Career ServicesDivision of Student Affairs

Creating Community, Cultivating Leaders

Career Exploration

1. Self-Assessment

2. Identify & Research Options

3. Get Experience

4. Develop your Action Plan

Values

Skills Interest

The Elements of Self-Assessment

YOUR IDEAL CAREER

Holland Code

• Set of personality types that argues that choice of career is an expression of personality.

• Six factor typology can be used to describe persons and work environments

Self-Assessment

Personality Types and Types of Work Environments

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

R I A S E C

Holland Party Game

Holland Personality TypesRealistic (R)

Enjoy working with your hands and things, mechanically inclined, physical, tool-oriented, is practical, persistent, adventurous, self-reliant

Investigative (I)Enjoy working with theory and information, is analytical, intellectual, scientific, independent, curious, reserved, rational, non-conforming

Artistic (A)Enjoys beauty,

unstructured activities, variety, sounds, textures, is non-conforming, original,

independent, chaotic, creative

Social (S)Uses feelings, words, and ideas to work with people Motivated to help and empower, is supporting, helping, healing/nurturing,

Enterprising (E)Enjoys competitive

environments, leading, persuading, selling,

dominating, promoting, power and excitement

Conventional Pays perfect attention to detail, is orderly, organizing, and accurate described as practical,conscientious, precise and systematic

Descriptions of “Tables”

Holland Party Game: Table Choice One

• Join the table that matches the letter of your number one choice.

• Share why you chose this personality type. • Discuss possible majors that would match

this personality type and why.

Holland Party Game: Table Choice Two

• Join the table that matches the letter of your number two choice.

• Share why you chose this personality type. • Discuss possible majors that would match

this personality type and why.

FOCUS Self-Assessment Inventory

• The FOCUS follows the same principles as the Holland Codes. Did your focus results yield similar results to this activity?

What does this mean?

• It is important to remember that there is usually no “moment of revelation” regarding the perfect major or the perfect career for you.

• In fact, there is no single major or career which is the best for you—each of us has abilities which can be applied to a wide variety of career fields.

• Most of us will work for approximately 10 different employers during our lifetime, have at least three or four different careers, and spend an average of 3.5 years in each position.

High school geography teacher

MTV program developer

Bond trader on Wall Street

Special prosecutor, DA’s office

Foreign Service Officer

Republican National Committee PR staff

Psychotherapist

Minister, single adult programs

Veterinarian

Latin teacher

Cartoonist

Teaching ESL in Korea

Editor, major publishing house

Government

Religion

Asian American Studies

Art

Classics/Archaeology

Dramatic Arts

English

Government

Economics

French and Spanish

Psychology

Chemistry

Geography

Art

Asian American Studies

Chemistry

Classics/Archaeology

Dramatic Arts

Economics

English

French and Spanish

Geography

Government

Government

Psychology

Religion

Adapted from: Brooks, K. (2009). You majored in what? Mapping your path from chaos to career. New York: Penguin Group Inc.

Major = Career

...IF you gain experience and get involved!

Our Services Major and Career

Advising Job Search Assistance Career Resource

Center Seminars Mock Interviews FOCUS Assessment

OCIS Database Bobcat CareerLink Career Fairs and

Special Events Web site with links and

information Walk-in or scheduled

appointments with a counselor

www.ohio.edu/careers

Career Exploration

1. Self-Exploration

2. Identify & Research Options

3. Get Experience

4. Develop your Action Plan

Tour of Career Resource Center