Predicting your Future John Holland and the Self Directed Search.

Predicting your Future

John Holland and the Self Directed Search

TESTS/INVENTORIES

• Aptitude

• Achievement

• Predictive????

• Personality Tests vs.

• Personality Styles

• Interests

Dr. John Holland 1919-2008

• Director of Research, National Merit Scholarship Corporation

• Vice President for Research and Development, American College Testing Program (fired)

• Author “Making Vocational Choices: A Theory of Vocational Personalities and Work Environments” 1997

Holland’s Goal:

“To provide a theory-ridden, computerless, impersonal system that would provide vocational guidance for

everyone.”

ABILITIES

INTERESTS & LIKES

WORK ENVIRONMENTS

“The SDS became widely used and imitated”

The American Psychologist, American Psychological Association, September 2009

• Strong Campbell Interest Inventory• Career Assessment Inventory• Harrington-O’Shea CDM• www.wois.org

HOLLAND HEXAGON

Realistic

• Outdoors

• Machinery

• Practical, down to earth

• Strong, physically coordinated

HOLLAND HEXAGON

Investigative

• (not necessarily criminal investigation)

• Scientific orientation, intellectual

• Task-oriented

• Needs to understand the world

HOLLAND HEXAGON

Artistic

• Likes art, music, drama etc.

• Impulsive, non-comformist, independent

• Espressive, original

• Sensitive and emotional

HOLLAND HEXAGON

Social

• Socially responsible, humane

• Work in groups

• Verbal and interpersonal skills

• Helping, curing, training others

HOLLAND HEXAGON

Enterprising

• Interpersonal & verbal skills→ selling, persuading, leading

• Likes power, status

• Popular, self-confident, sociable

• Likes money

HOLLAND HEXAGON

Conventional

• Well-ordered environments

• Organizing verbal & numerical info

• Conscientious, efficient, practical

• Orderly, persistent, calm

HOLLAND HEXAGON

HOLLAND HEXAGON

John Hollands Occupations Finder

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Occupations Finder

Code: ASI

Occupation O*NET Code ED

Copy Writer 27-3043.04 4

Dance Therapist 29-1125.00 4

Reporter and

Correspondent 27-3022.00 4

Artist, Exhibit 27-1013.00 3

Code: AIS

Occupation O*NET Code ED

Philologist 19-3099.00 4

Restorer,

Paper and Prints 25-4013.00 3

Code: SAI

Acquisitions Librarian 25-4021.00 5

Librarian 25-4021.00 5

Marriage and Family

Therapist 21-1013.00 5