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
