2. Career Development Center KUC 328 | 898-2500 | mtsu.edu/career Joe Tucibat Career Advisor

3. Interest Types & Career Clusters Picking Majors, Choosing Careers

4. Holland Types R ealistic I nvestigative A rtistic S ocial E nterprising C onventional

5. Realistic Likes fixing things Likes fixing things Interested in using tools Interested in using tools Doesn’t like theories Doesn’t like theories Likes “hands-on” work Likes “hands-on” work

6. Investigative Likes scientific theory Likes scientific theory Might even like math! Might even like math! Independent and intellectual Independent and intellectual

7. Artistic Likes creativity (Music, Art, Writing, Speaking) Likes creativity (Music, Art, Writing, Speaking) Deep thinker Deep thinker Lots of imagination Lots of imagination

8. Social Really, really likes to be around people Really, really likes to be around people Wants to help, heal or educate Wants to help, heal or educate Others might come to them for help with problems/situations Others might come to them for help with problems/situations

9. Enterprising Likes to be leader Likes to be leader Good at persuasion Good at persuasion Ambitious Ambitious

10. Conventional Likes to stay organized, might keep records and inventories Likes to stay organized, might keep records and inventories Likes working with numbers, or might like spreadsheets Likes working with numbers, or might like spreadsheets Prefers structure and structured tasks Prefers structure and structured tasks

11. Realistic Majors ~~At MTSU~~ Computer Information Systems Agriculture/Agribusiness/Pre-Forestry Animal Science ~~At Vocational/Tech Schools~~ Building Trades and Construction Transportation Operations Investigative Majors Anything in natural sciences Animal Science and Ag Aerospace-- Technology Pre-Med and Nursing Pre-Pharmacy and other pre-pro Medical Technology Computer Science Psychology & other social sciences

12. Artistic Majors Social Sciences (Sociology, Anthropology, Psychology) Journalism Recording Industry Philosophy Art English Speech/Theatre, ORCO Political Science Foreign Languages Public Relations Social Majors Social Work Education Psychology (Counseling) Education Nursing

13. Enterprising Majors Accounting Marketing Economics Finance Management Entrepreneurship Aerospace– Administration Industrial/Organizational Psychology ORCO Public Relations Recording Industry Conventional Majors Aerospace– Flight Dispatch Accounting (Not CPA) Business Admin

14. Which Career Clusters relate to your interest type? 1. Write down your two top interest types. 2. Under each of your top interest types, write one, two or three names of Career Clusters that relate to that type. 3. Write the names of two Career Clusters that are the most interesting to you. 4 and 5: Write down the names of majors that will help you learn skills you would use in each of those two clusters. What majors relate to those Career Clusters?

15. For more info and assistance Interest Inventories Information about your “type” Information about the careers related to your “type ” Job Openings Resumes and Interviewing Skills Interest Exploration: Joe Tucibat KUC 328 | 898-2500 | mtsu.edu/career