1. Understanding Your ASVAB Results Classroom Presentation By: Susan Wales

2. Why Take the ASVAB?  Learn about your interests  Learn about your skills  Learn about your work values  Explore careers that suit your needs

3. Step 1: Take the FYI (Find Your Interests)

4. Steps 2 and 3: Calculate rows, then columns

5. Steps 4, 5, 6: Raw scores, Percentile, Top Interest Codes

6. 6 Interest Areas  Realistic  Investigative  Artistic  Social  Enterprising  Conventional

7. Realistic  Practical, hands-on  Like to design, build or repair  Enjoy working outside with plants, animals or tools and machinery  Prefer working with things rather than people

8. Investigative  Prefer analytical or intellectual activities  Like to study, investigate, evaluate, problem-solve  Prefer to work with ideas rather than people or things  Usually like math and science

9. Artistic  Enjoy expressing oneself in original activities  Do not like to follow a clear set of rules  Work with ideas rather than things  Need artistic ability and a good imagination

10. Social  Like activities that involve personal interaction  Often in “helping” professions  Like to work with people rather than objects or data  Need good communication skills

11. Enterprising  Like work that involves influencing or directing others  Often like economics and politics  Like work that is fast- paced, requires responsibility, decision-making and risk

12. Conventional  Like work with orderly and accurate records, procedures and routines  Like working with data, things or machines  Like detail  Need clerical, organizational and mathematical ability

13. Gender and Interest Codes

14. ASVAB Summary Results  Verbal Skills  Math Skills  Science and Technical Skills

15. Work Values  What is important to you?  Challenge  Income  Variety  Helping Others  Security  Public Contact  Independence

16. Putting It Together: Occu-Find

17. Check Occu-Find for Careers That Match Your Needs:  Look at your Top Interest and Find Those Careers  Check your 2 nd Interest  Check your Skills  Mark the ones you would like to explore further

18. Websites:  www.asvabprogram.com www.asvabprogram.com  www.bls.gov – Occupational Outlook Handbook www.bls.gov  www.mynextmove.org www.mynextmove.org  www.mappingyourfuture.org www.mappingyourfuture.org  www.fafsa.ed.gov www.fafsa.ed.gov  www.alstudentaid.com www.alstudentaid.com  Individual college websites to check programs of study

19. Conclusion:  Use your ASVAB results to research careers that suit your needs (interests, skills, work values).  Research the education and training you will need.  Work hard in high school to make sure you will meet the prerequisites for your next step.

20. Final Thoughts:  I have enjoyed working with you on this project.  Feel free to come and see me on an individual basis if you need help with college or career information.  Thanks, Mrs. Wales