Careers that Fit your Personality, Interests and Talents 9 th /10 th Grade

Today  You will explore different careers that exist which fit your talents, interests and personality.  Therefore you are going to take 3 different surveys (one for your strengths, one for your personality type and one for your interests) that will match you up with different careers based on your responses to the questions in each survey.  This is your opportunity to find about careers that you might have never heard of so take your time to explore such careers and really take advantage of this opportunity to learn more about yourself and what it out there for you.

Survey #1 Instructions  Log into your Naviance account at m/simon m/simon  Click on the tab “About me”  Then click on “Strengths Explorer” which is under the Assessments

Instructions  Please make sure to read the Quick Tips  Once you are ready click on “Ok Lets Get Started”  After you have finished answering all the questions you will be able to view your results

Activity 1  The results with give you 3 themes that fit you. (Write these down on a separate piece of paper that you will turn in.)  Then when you click on “See Related Career Paths” it will give you a list of careers that fit each strength”

Instructions for Activity #1  Now that you have a list of different careers. Go ahead and click on careers that catch your attention to learn more about them.  Choose at least 3 Careers and for each Career on the same piece of paper that you wrote your three themes answer the following questions:  What is the Name of your career?  Provide a brief description of it  What credentials do you need?  What majors fit this career?  Choose 3 of these majors and list at least 4 colleges that offer this major?  Make sure to click on the icon that says “Add this Pathway to my list” so it can add it to your careers on naviance and take some time to view the videos about the career.

Activity #2: Instructions  Now you will take a survey to see what careers fit your personality  Go back to your Home screen on Naviance and again click on the tab “About Me”  Then Click on “Personality Type” Under Assessments  Begin Answering the questions

Activity 2 Instructions  After you have finished answering it will let you know your Personality Type  Write this on a separate piece of paper labeled activity 2 write down your personality type. ( Make sure to take some time to read the description of your personality type)  At the bottom again it will give you a full list of careers that fit your personality and browse around the different careers  Then choose another 3 careers that you find the most interesting (must be different from the other careers) and answer the following questions:  What is the Name of your career?  Provide a brief description of it  What credentials do you need?  What majors fit this career?  Choose 3 of these majors and list at least 4 colleges that offer this major?

Activity 3:  Go back to your Home Screen  Click on the tab “About Me”  Click on Career Interest Profiler  On the next page click on “Begin Profiler”  Answer all the questions based on your first instinct. There are no right or wrong answers.

Activity 3 Instructions  After you have answered all of the questions you will get you results page.  Once you get your results page click on “View Matching Occupation List”  From here choose another 3 careers that interest you (again they must be different careers from the previous ones) and answer the following questions:  What is the Name of your career?  Provide a brief description of it  What credentials do you need?  What majors fit this career?  Choose 3 of these majors and list at least 4 colleges that offer this major?