Here is a quick overview of our career test features.
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It's easy to understand and provides a solid foundation for informed and realistic career planning.
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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 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 –
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 –
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 –
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:
Decision-making processes include:
Step Four: Execution
You execute your career plans when you use different strategies –
Reality Testing
While implementing and, you translate vocational interests, abilities, and skills into job opportunities. You do reality testing by implementing the following strategies –
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 –
Here are some of the topics from 10 Top Tips Booklet –
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Hollandcodes.com has developed the Holland & Color Codes Model. This model is used with a variety of career assessments. Holland Codes assessments are career assessment tests. Different assessments provide career cluster information, college major information, lists of careers, and job finder resources.
There are print and internet resources.
The Models match jobs into job codes, interest clusters, work personality environments, or personality types. The Occupational Codes are -
Realistic is one of the Holland Codes. Realistic 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.
Investigative is one of the Holland Codes. Investigative types prefer to deal with Things and Ideas.
A person with an Investigative Personality tends to be analytical, intellectual, reserved, independent, and scholarly.
Examples of Investigative Abilities include working with abstract ideas and intellectual problems.
Artistic is one of the Holland Code Career Types. Artistic types prefer to deal with Ideas and People.
A person with a Artistic Personality tends to be complicated, original, impulsive, independent, expressive, and creative.
Examples of Artistic Abilities include using imagination and feelings in creative expression.
Social is one of the Holland Occupational Codes. Social 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.
Enterprising is one of the Holland Occupational Codes. Enterprising types prefer to deal with Data and People.
A person with an Enterprising Personality tends to be: persuasive, energetic, sociable, adventurous, ambitious, and risk-taking.
Examples of Enterprising Abilities include leading, managing, and organizing.
Conventional is one of the Holland Occupational Codes. Conventional 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.
Career tests -
Build awareness, knowledge and understanding of our strengths and interests
Help you set goals for future careers or degree programs
Take inventory of the abilities and skills that you can offer to an employer
There are two types of career tests -
The best printed career tests are -
The best online career tests are -
The My Career Profile is a career guidance system because it has career tests, occupational research database, and a college search database.
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