NAVIANCE Discovering Your Personality Types and Career Choices Presented by the Guidance Department 8th Grade Computer Literacy Classes January 14th (A day) and January 17th (B day)

RDMS & RDHS NAVIANCE ACTIVITIES 7th Grade: Learning Styles Inventory 8th Grade (TODAY): Career Key Test 9th Grade: Personality Type Inventory and Resume 10th Grade: Career Interest Profiler 11th and 12th Grade: College research and applications

CAREER KEY: YOUR PERSONALITY TYPE (RIASEC) According to John Holland, most people are 1 of 6 personalities types (also called Holland’s codes or RIASEC): Realistic (R): Likes to work with animals, tools, or machines; generally avoids social activities like teaching, healing, and informing others Investigative (I): Likes to study and solve math or science problems; generally avoids leading, selling, or persuading people Artistic (A): Likes to do creative activities like art, drama, crafts, dance, music, or creative writing; generally avoids highly ordered or repetitive activities Social (S): Likes to do things to help people - like, teaching, nursing, or giving first aid, providing information; generally avoids using machines, tools, or animals Enterprising (E): Likes to lead and persuade people, and to sell things and ideas; generally avoids activities that require careful observation and scientific, analytical thinking Conventional (C): Likes to work with numbers, records, or machines in a set, orderly way; generally avoids ambiguous, unstructured activities

CAREER KEY: YOUR WORK ENVIRONMENT CAREER KEY: BASED ON YOUR PERSONALITY TYPE (RIASEC) CAREER KEY: YOUR WORK ENVIRONMENT Holland says that there are 6 basic types of work environments (Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, Conventional) and that people who choose to work in an environment similar to their personality type are more likely to be successful and satisfied For example, Artistic persons are more likely to be successful and satisfied if they choose a job that has an Artistic environment, like choosing to be a dance teacher in a dancing school You + Work Environment = Satisfaction

CAREER KEY: HOW IT WORKS Naviance’s Career Key is based on Holland’s 6 personalities types and his theory of career choice. Career Key's scientific matching system enables you to identify careers and college majors that match your set of interests, traits, skills and abilities.  Now you will take the Career Key to discover which Holland personality types you are most like. You can then match the results with the most promising careers and college majors and learn about each one.

CAREER KEY: HOW TO LOG ON TO NAVIANCE Go to www.connection.naviance.com/rdrms Type in your River Dell email (rossm17@student.riverdell.org) Type in the same password you used last year (at least 6 characters) - case sensitive

Click “Career Key”

Click “Take the Career Key test”

Click the category with the highest score

Click “Favorite Careers & Clusters” on left; then click on 1 favorite career you want to explore

LEARNING MORE ABOUT A CAREER BASED ON YOUR PERSONALITY Based on your results on the Career Key, select 1 career under “Favorite Careers and Clusters” to explore Next screen has 4 tabs about the career Overview Knowledge & Skills Tasks & Activities Wages Write down 5 facts about career; Share with class