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Best majors associated with 6 personality types based on education, training or experience for entry level jobs-page 58 Best majors related to jobs that require long-term training- page 59 Best majors related to jobs that require a bachelor’s degree- page 60 Best majors related to jobs that require a bachelor’s degree- page 61 Best majors related to jobs that require a master’s degree- page 62 Best majors related to jobs that require a doctoral degree- page 63 Best majors related to jobs that require a first professional degree- page 63
Can look at “intended” major and scores on verbal and math standardized tests People tend to enroll in majors that are consistent with their standardized test scores Another way to look at your major is to look at the required academic courses and determine how well you would do A third way to look at major selection and skills is the jobs the major prepares you for-how well would you like or do at that job Lists addressing these questions come from data from O*Net and the BLS
Best majors related to jobs that require high level of verbal skills- page Best majors related to jobs that require low level of verbal skills- page 70 (typically people in business and healthcare do not desire high levels of verbal skills) Best majors related to jobs that require high level of math skills- page (only 1 artistic and 1 social made the lists) Best majors related to jobs that require low level of math skills- page 76 Activity-select 2 majors within your personality from the high math and verbal skills lists –page 65-75