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Find Out Your Personality Type

One way of exploring careers All the types have both positive and negative qualities.
is by looking at occupations according to occupational None is better than any others.
interest. John Holland conducted research that divided job
Your Holland Code is a generalization, not likely to be an
seekers into six broad personality type categories: exact fit. However, it might help you discover where you
can find occupational satisfaction. There are a number of
REALISTIC INVESTIGATIVE instruments designed to help you identify your Holland Codes.
This condensed survey is not intended to be as accurate or
ARTISTIC CONVENTIONAL comprehensive as a full instrument. But completing this survey
might help you identify the cluster(s) of occupations in which you
SOCIAL ENTERPRISING would have the most interest and get the most satisfaction, and
it will give you a place to start your career exploration.
Step One: Circle the number of any item in the box below that is appealing to you. Leave the rest blank.
1. Farming 17. Buying clothes for a store 32. Build rocket model
2. Advanced math 18. Working from nine to five 33. Creative writing
3. Being in a play 19. Setting type for a printing job 34. Attending sports events
4. Studying people in other 20. Using a chemistry set 35. Being elected class president
lands 21. Reading art and music 36. Using business machines
5. Talking to people at a party magazines 37. Building things
6. Word processing 22. Helping people solve personal 38. Doing puzzles
7. Auto mechanics problems 39. Fashion design
8. Astronomy 23. Selling life insurance 40. Belonging to a club
9. Draw or paint 24. Type reports 41. Giving speeches
10. Go to church 25. Driving a truck 42. Keeping detailed records
11. Work on a sales campaign 26. Working in a lab 43. Wildlife biology
12. Use a cash register 27. Musicians 44. Being in a science fair
13. Carpentry 28. Making new friends 45. Going to concerts
14. Physics 29. Leaders 46. Working with old people
15. Foreign language 30. Following a budget 47. Sales people
16. Teaching children 31. Fixing electrical appliances 48. File letters and reports

Step Two: On the chart below, again circle the numbers of the items which appealed to you. After you have finished, count
the numbers circled on each line, counting across. In which categories did you score high? Write the two highest categories
on the lines below. These are the clusters in which you have the most interest, and their corresponding labels are your Holland
Code. (For example, if you scored highest in Social, and second highest in Artistic, your Holland Code would be “SA”. You
would want to concentrate your career exploration efforts in those two categories.)

R = REALISTIC 1 7 13 19 25 31 37 43
Holland Codes

I = INVESTIGATIVE 2 8 14 20 26 32 38 44
A = ARTISTIC 3 9 15 21 27 33 39 45
S = SOCIAL 4 10 16 22 28 34 40 46
E = ENTERPRISING 5 11 17 23 29 35 41 47
C = CONVENTIONAL 6 12 18 24 30 36 42 48
I scored highest in_____________________, second highest in _____________.

My Holland Code is _______________________________

On The Web The U. S. Department of Labor developed the O*NET Interest Profiler to help people discover their career
interests as they connect to the Holland types. You can take the on-line version of the Interest Profiler, and see related
13 occupations, by visiting www.careers.utah.gov or www.careeronestop.org
Continue to next task.
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Task: Review the 6 basic personality types and match your Holland Code Personality results.

HOLLAND’S Reflection Questions: Do you feel the code/description was reflective of your personality? Yes No

Recall and/or review the results of your "My Interest/Pathway" code. Did the 2 Personality codes match
your Pathway Code? Yes No

BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES

Next Task: Review/refect on all 6 personaity types & complete summary task located on the bottom of this page.

REALISTIC INVESTIGATIVE ARTISTIC

-Robust, rugged, practical, -Scientific orientation -Like art, music, drama, other
physically strong -Task-oriented, all wrapped up in creative interests
-Uncomfortable in social settings their work -Prefer free, unstructured situations
-Good motor coordination -Introspective and asocial -Impulsive, non-conforming,
-Weak verbal and interpersonal -Think through rather than act out a independent
skills problem -Adverse to rules
-See themselves as mechanically -Strong need to understand the -Deal with problems through self-
and athletically inclined world expression in art
-Stable, natural, persistent -Enjoy ambiguous tasks -Value beauty and aesthetic
-Prefer concrete to abstract -Prefer to work independently qualities
problems -Have unconventional attitudes -Expressive, original, intuitive
-Have conventional political and -See themselves as lacking in -Like to work in free environments
economic goals leadership skills -Like small, intimate groups
-Rarely perform creatively in the -Confident of their intellectual -Willing to take risks to try
arts or science abilities something new
-Like to build things with tools -Analytical, curious, reserved, -Dress in freer styles than other
-Like to work outdoors independent people
-Cool to radical new ideas -Great dislike for repetitive activities -Have need for individualistic
-Like to work with big, powerful -Buy telescopes, calculators, expression
machines electronic equipment -Not assertive about own
-Buy boats, campers, snowmobiles, capabilities
motorcycles ENTERPRISING -Sensitive and emotional
-Spend money on art objects–books,
-Good verbal skills, persuasive
SOCIAL -Strong leaders paintings, DVDs, CDs.
-Sociable, responsible, -Avoid work involving long periods
humanistic, religious of intellectual effort CONVENTIONAL
-Like to work in groups -Strong drive to attain organizational -Prefer well-ordered environments
-Have verbal and interpersonal goals -Like systematic, verbal and
skills -Concerned with power, status, numerical activities
-Avoid both intellectual problem- and leadership -Avoid ambiguous situations and
solving and physical exertion -Aggressive, popular, sociable, problems
-Enjoy healing, developing, training, self-confident -Conscientious, efficient, practical
or enlightening others -High energy level -Identify with power
-Understanding, helpful, idealistic -Adventuresome, ambitious -Value material possessions and
-Dislike working with machines or -Enjoy making things happen status
in highly structured situations -Value money and material -Orderly, persistent, calm
-Like to discuss philosophic possessions -Adverse to free, unsystematic,
questions -Dislike science and systematic exploratory behavior in new
-Concerned with the welfare of thinking areas
others -Buy big cars, nice clothes, -Do not seek outside leadership
-Cooperative, friendly, generous country club memberships -Stable, controlled, dependable
-Attend workshops, other group -Most effective at well-defined tasks
experiences My Holland Code Personality Summary
_____ _____ ______ -Save money, buy conservatively
Summary Task: 1 2 3
3. Identify a 3rd personality type letter/code from the list above that seems to match your personality by best match. 14
Record your selected code by top personality type above (ie: sequenc 1st, 2, 3ed))