1. How might your results help you choose a
Self Knowledge & Career Exploration Understanding Career Interest Profiler
How might your results help you choose a
college or career?
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2. Agenda for Today
What do your Career Interest Profiler results mean? How might your interests, talents and skills affect your choices of a career or college?
What does the term “viable job market” mean? What are some trends affecting job markets and how might you research those trends?
What might a “best fit” career look like? 2

3. (that pays you to solve a problem or offer a service)
Best Fit Venn Diagram
What is your best fit career?
Can you combine:
1) What you do well (school subjects, skills)
2) What you like to do (personality interests and values - Career Interest Profiler)
3) Viable industry that needs your skills/talents to solve a problem or offer a service?
Those 3 elements combined =
your best fit career
Viable Industry
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4. Career Interest Profiler
Based on the Holland Code. It sorts personality preferences into six categories and offers examples of careers and industries in each of those six categories.
Your results evolve over your lifetime as values and interests change.
Statistically, you are likely to have three to five careers in your lifetime. Dept. of Labor Statistics
Your test results may help you make a more strategic choice for college or your first career. 3

5. Career Interest Profiler results in Naviance?
You tube video explaining 6 sectors Career Exploration Tacoses100
What were your
Career Interest Profiler results in Naviance? 4

6. What were your Career Interest Profiler results in Naviance?4

7. Holland Code Personality Types Explained
Realistic Careers :
Often work with animals, plants, materials, tools, electronic equipment.
Many careers under this category are: Aquaculture, Agriculture and Crop production, Criminal Justice, Architecture, Engineering Technology, Robotics Technology, Materials Engineering, Natural Resource Management.
Practical, mechanical, realistic. See the world in simple, traditional concrete and direct ways.
Investigative Careers:
Often involve systematic observation , understanding and solving science and math problems, develop scientific, analytical and mathematical skills and competencies.
Many careers under this category are: Meteorology, Chemistry, Animal Sciences, Veterinary Medicine, Biotechnology, Ecology, Dentistry, Pharmacy.
Precise, scientific, intellectual, mathematical, analytic. See the world in abstract, and original ways.
Artistic Careers:
Often are expressive careers that have independent, flexible, and unconventional ways of doing things. Art, drama, crafts, dance, music, or creative writing all fall into this category.
Many careers under this category are: Applied Linguistics, American Literature, Philosophy, Creative Writing, Architecture, Graphic Design, Fine Arts, Dance, Acting, Music, Conducting, Journalism.
Expressive, original and independent. See the world in complex, independent, unconventional and flexible ways. 5

8. Social Careers: Often involve training, teaching, developing, curing, or counseling people or groups. Careers in this category include counseling, psychology, child development, social work, deaf studies, clinical nutrition, physician assistants, nursing, dance therapy, library sciences, teaching. Agreeable, Cooperative, Friendly, Helpful, Responsible, Empathetic, tactful. Like to help and understand others in this world.
Enterprising Careers: Often involve selling and persuading and leading others Many careers under this category are: Auctioneer, Real Estate, Hair Styling, Law/Legal Studies, Dispute Resolution, Music, Management, Business Administration, Labor Studies, E- Commerce, Accounting, Public Policy Analysis, Public Administration, Advertising Assertive, popular, self confident, sociable, adventurous, enthusiastic, extroverted, optimistic and forceful. They relate well to the world of money, power, status and attitudes.
Conventional Careers: Often involve activities like recording and organizing data, or records according to a set plan Operating business and data processing equipment.Many careers in this category are: Taxation, Accounting, Technology, Air Traffic Controller, Agricultural Business Technology, Retailing and Retailing operations, Banking, and Financial support services.Conforming, orderly, careful, conscientious, obedient, thrifty, practical, persistent. Usually have conventional values and attitudes about the world. 6

9. Youtube video http://youtu
Youtube video Career Exploration: Published on Feb 24, Tacoses100 7:13 min video which introduces career exploration and the holland code theory

10. TRENDS impacting job creation
Environmental changes—global warming, for example.
Globalization—the impact of world wide commerce -how technology is opening these doors, broadening relationships, social and cultural, affects on education, research, and business.
Rapid changes in Science, Technology, Engineering, Math (STEM)
Healthcare--advances in research and technology, cost, delivery systems, data management.
Baby boomers - this enormous aging population and the products and services that will address them. 8

11. Research www.careerinfonet.org
What are the 50 fastest growing occupations?
What trends discussed are influencing these growing occupations? 13

12. Another Venn Diagram Interests & Passions & Values Viable Industry
SKILLS 12

13. (that pays you to solve a problem or offer a service)
Best Fit VennDiagram
What is your best fit career?
Can you combine:
1) What you do well (school subjects, skills)
2) What you like to do (personality interests and values - Career Interest Profiler)
3) Viable industry that needs your skills/talents to solve a problem or offer a service?
Those 3 elements combined =
your best fit career
Viable Industry
(that pays you to solve a problem or offer a service) 11

14. Exploring a Career of Interest...
Exploring a career title of interest
Find advanced search in green type
Drag down & click on interests
Enter your top two or three categories--social, investigative and artistic, for example.
What career titles appear? What are the job descriptions, education and skills/experience required? Are these careers in a growth cycle? How do you know?
Fill in your results in the suggested career worksheet 7

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16. Concluding Self-Knowledge
Knowing what you like to do takes deep introspection.
If you’re still not sure, then try writing about experiences when you lost track of time. What exactly were you doing? Are there common themes that pop up? Or conversely, think about times when you were completely disengaged! What was going on? This should tell you what activities to avoid in a career.
Another way to understand yourself and your interests better is to get some outside real world world experience through informational interviews and job shadows. We will learn these skills in the next class.
Ask trusted friends, teachers, parents, etc. what they think are your best qualities, skills, and talents which you may or may not see in yourself. These are the things you do so naturally well you might take them for granted. 14

17. Next Class
Learn helpful career tools and personal branding concepts. Networking, Informational interviews/job shadows & 30-second marketing pitches.
You will learn helpful tools to network with industry professionals and market yourself consistently, articulately, and confidently.
Personal branding is a marketing campaign; the brand is you. The better you can articulate you, the easier it will be to find a job. 15