Picture based Interest tool

1. Picture based Interest tool A possible Leonardo-project! The Association of Vocational Rehabilitation, Norway Paal Haavorsen: paal.haavorsen@nhoservice.no Vocational Psychologist Arne Svendsrud: arne.svendsrud@nhoservice.no

2. The purpose of using interest tools in vocational rehabilitation • The purpose of Jobpics is to work with vocational interests in a systematic way to avoid wrong career choices and to obtain optimal career choices in the rehabilitation process • Securing the quality of the vocational rehabilitation process • Reduce the chance of making a wrong choice • Broaden the scope of possible vocational options

3. The RIASEC Theory • The most widely used career guidance theory in the world • Vocational Psychologist John L. Holland • 6 Personality types • 6 Environmental types • The goal is congruence between the personality type and the environmental type

4. The six RIASEC types • R Realistic (Machines, tools, practical) • I Investigative (Theory, Analyse, Research) • A Artistic (Creative, Produce, Perform) • S Social (People, Helping, Teaching) • E Enterprising (Business,Sales, Service) • C Conventional (office, routine work)

5. Content • Constructed by Vocational Psychologist Arne Svendsrud / AVRE Norway • Pictures of 183 different vocations • 2 different pictures from the same vocations on the flip side • 10 related vocations on the flip side • Printed on 13 x 18 Polypropylene cards • User manual • 5 processs cards • 6 Interest category cards

6. Jobpics target group • A general interest tool but with special advantages for: • A majority of the users in vocational rehabilitation: • Persons with a visual learning style • Persons with low level of mastering from School • Multiculturals • Dyslexia and other language problems • ADHD • etc.

7. Jobpics properties • Broad selection of the population: (age, sex , education, looks) • Unequal distribution on the different interest categories • Unequal distribution on the different levels of education • Showing people in vocational activities

9. Jobpics frontside

10. Jobpics reverse side

11. Jobpics - combinations of codes

12. Jobpics – levels of education

13. Distribution of vocations on interest categories and level of education

14. Administrating Jobpics 1 • Sort the cards • Put out the process cards • Read the instruction • The person put out the cards

15. Processcards

16. Administrating Jobpics 2 - Put out the 6 interest category cards • Distribute the pictures on each of the interestcategory cards to get a overview • Sort the cards on: • Slightly interested and interested, • Two digit code • Level of education

17. Interestcategorycards

18. Guidance principle 1 – Focusing the search - Use the RIASEC code • Limit the search to the vocations consisting of the relevant codes. • Look in RIASEC based occupational finders

19. Guidance principle 2 – explore the meaning • Explore the pictures ranked as 1 or 2: • What made you pick exactly that picture? • What do you like of the content in the picture? • What catched your interest?

20. Guidance principle 3 – explore the missing parts • Picture based interest tools are incomplete ways of “measuring” interest. • The well recogniced textbased interest tools often use the following categories of questions: • Titlequestions • Activityquestions • Competence/skills questions • Compensate missing part of picture based interest tools by using particular activity questions in the guidance process.