Career Key

Self Assessment

MRS. HORWITZ'S &
MRS. RAZZINO'S
WP/CA CLASSES

Dr. John Holland's theory that people and work environments can be loosely classified into six different groups.

Realistic Investigative Artistic Social Enterprising Conventional
People who have athletic or mechanical ability, prefer to work with objects, machines, tools, plants or animals, or to be outdoors. People who like to observe,learn, investigate, analyze, evaluate or solve problems. People who have artistic, innovating or intuitional abilities and like to work in unstructured situations using their imagination and creativity. People who like to work with people to enlighten, inform, help, train, or cure them, or are skilled with words. People who like to work with people, influencing, persuading, performing, leading or managing for organizational goals or economic gain. People who like to work with data, have clerical or numerical ability, carry out tasks in detail or follow through on others' instructions.
http://career.missouri.edu/holland/

ASSSIGNMENT:

Complete the Career Key Assessment at the Career Key Web Site (http://www.careerkey.org/cgi/ck.pl?action=choices&)

  1. Which jobs interest you? (select the careers that interest you)
  2. What do you like to do? (answer the 6 questions)
  3. What are your abilities? (answer the 6 questions)
  4. How do you see yourself? (answer the 6 questions)
  5. What do you value? (answer the 6 questions)
  6. Career Key Test Scores will be displayed. Read the screen then click on next.
  7. Career Key Test Scores (screen 2). Follow the directions that are on the screen.
  8. For the category you scored the highest on, click each job that interests you . Do the same thing for the second highest category. When you are finished, click on Done.
  9. The results of your selections will appear on "Your Personal Job Options List". PRINT OUT THE PERSONAL JOB OPTIONS LIST, AS YOU WILL NEED IT FOR YOUR WRITING ASSIGNMENT.

In a Word Document, type the following:

Save Name of Assignment: Career Key

 

Grading:

 

The teacher will inform the class on how many points off for the following: