1. Holland Codes/Career Keys
Identify & Summarize Personal Interests/Preferences

2. Your Interests & Preferences
Identifying your Interests/Preferences will bring you closer to a career choice
For many people, the best job is the one that matches their interests.

3. Your Interests & Preferences
Know yourself and what makes you unique. What do you have to offer a business, organization, agency, or society?
Ask yourself:
• What do you like to do?
• What skills do you have or wish to develop?
• What is important for you to accomplish in your
career and lifetime?

4. People, Data, Things and Ideas
Broad categories of Career Interests
One method of classifying occupations is to look at whether workers deal primarily with people, data, things, or ideas.
Holland Codes are base on the assumption that people can be grouped into 6 personality types using these categories.

5. People Working for the betterment of others and/or society.
This includes teachers, social workers, child-care workers, and law enforcement agents.

6. Data
Working with numbers, information, processing, policies, and procedures.
This includes accountants, computer scientists, and customer service representatives.

7. Things Working with tools, equipment, and machines.
This includes chefs, hair stylists, carpenters, and heavy equipment operators.

8. Ideas Working with concepts, themes, or inventions.
This includes musicians, writers, composers, artists, photographers,
and other artistic careers.

9. Holland Codes

10. Realistic (R) (Do-ers)
Like to work with their hands with machines to build things
practical, love nature, and are good problem solvers
Occupations such as civil engineer, broadcast technician, landscape worker, or barber.
Things

11. Investigative (I) (Thinkers)
Like to explore ideas
Analyze data
Skilled in math & science
Inquisitive, Precise, Abstract thinkers
Occupational fields such as medicine, computer programming, and science technologies.
data & ideas

12. Artistic (A) (Creators)
Like to create, sing, dance, write, self-expression
value aesthetic qualities prefer an unstructured work environment
skilled in music, art, and/or communication
Occupations such as technical writer, musician, interior designer, or architect.
ideas

13. Social (S) (Helpers) Get along with others
skilled in teaching, counseling
sensitive to others’ needs enjoy helping others and the community
cheerful, scholarly, and verbally oriented
Occupations such as teacher, home health aide, or security guard.
People

14. Enterprising (E) (Persuaders)
Like to persuade & influence others in areas of business politics
Self-confident & social
Skilled leaders
Occupations such as compensation and benefits specialist, interpreter/translator, judge, or attorney.
People & Data

15. Conventional (C) (Organizers)
Organized, detail oriented and Practical
Skilled in finance, mathematics, keyboarding
Occupations such as accountant, bank teller, computer support specialist, or administrative assistant.
Data
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