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Understanding Your ASVAB Results. Classroom Presentation By: Susan Wales. Why Take the ASVAB?. Learn about your interests Learn about your skills Learn about your work values Explore careers that suit your needs. Step 1: Take the FYI (Find Your Interests).
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Understanding Your ASVAB Results Classroom Presentation By: Susan Wales
Why Take the ASVAB? • Learn about your interests • Learn about your skills • Learn about your work values • Explore careers that suit your needs
6 Interest Areas • Realistic • Investigative • Artistic • Social • Enterprising • Conventional
Realistic • Practical, hands-on • Like to design, build or repair • Enjoy working outside with plants, animals or tools and machinery • Prefer working with things rather than people
Investigative • Prefer analytical or intellectual activities • Like to study, investigate, evaluate, problem-solve • Prefer to work with ideas rather than people or things • Usually like math and science
Artistic • Enjoy expressing oneself in original activities • Do not like to follow a clear set of rules • Work with ideas rather than things • Need artistic ability and a good imagination
Social • Like activities that involve personal interaction • Often in “helping” professions • Like to work with people rather than objects or data • Need good communication skills
Enterprising • Like work that involves influencing or directing others • Often like economics and politics • Like work that is fast-paced, requires responsibility, decision-making and risk
Conventional • Like work with orderly and accurate records, procedures and routines • Like working with data, things or machines • Like detail • Need clerical, organizational and mathematical ability
ASVAB Summary Results • Verbal Skills • Math Skills • Science and Technical Skills
Work Values • What is important to you? • Challenge • Income • Variety • Helping Others • Security • Public Contact • Independence
Check Occu-Find for Careers That Match Your Needs: • Look at your Top Interest and Find Those Careers • Check your 2nd Interest • Check your Skills • Mark the ones you would like to explore further
Websites: • www.asvabprogram.com • www.bls.gov – Occupational Outlook Handbook • www.mynextmove.org • www.mappingyourfuture.org • www.fafsa.ed.gov • www.alstudentaid.com • Individual college websites to check programs of study
Conclusion: • Use your ASVAB results to research careers that suit your needs (interests, skills, work values). • Research the education and training you will need. • Work hard in high school to make sure you will meet the prerequisites for your next step.
Final Thoughts: • I have enjoyed working with you on this project. • Feel free to come and see me on an individual basis if you need help with college or career information. • Thanks, Mrs. Wales