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Career Exploration

Career Exploration. Using Discover as a career exploration tool. Learning Outcomes. Understand Holland’s theory Know what the World of Work Map is Understand personal interests, abilities, and values Know how the career areas relate to the World of Work Map

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Career Exploration

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  1. Career Exploration Using Discover as a career exploration tool

  2. Learning Outcomes • Understand Holland’s theory • Know what the World of Work Map is • Understand personal interests, abilities, and values • Know how the career areas relate to the World of Work Map • Understand how to use Discover for career exploration

  3. Theory • John Holland Career Typology • In our culture, persons can be categorized as one of the following: Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising or Conventional. • There are six occupational environments: realistic, investigative, artistic, social, enterprising and conventional. • People search for environments that will let them exercise their skills and abilities, express their attitudes and values, and take on agreeable problems and roles. • Behavior is determined by an interaction between personality and environment.

  4. Themes Similar Realistic Investigative Technical Science & Technology Conventional Artistic Dissimilar Business Operations Arts Enterprising Social Administration & Sales Social Service

  5. Getting Started http://actapps.act.org/eDISCOVER/

  6. The Inventories • Interest Inventory • What activities do you like to do? • Abilities Inventory • What are your technical strengths? • Values Inventory • What are your work values? • Please take this time to complete all 3 inventories

  7. World of Work Map

  8. Work Tasks

  9. Career Clusters

  10. Where do you fit? • What are your suggested Career Areas? • Are they clustered together? • Do they fit with your interests, abilities, and values? • What Career Area interest you most?

  11. Exploration • Search through the different occupations. • Things to consider? • What are the essential tasks? • What kind of degree/training do you need? • What is the outlook and salary? • What is the work environment? • What do workers say they like and dislike?

  12. Next Steps • Talk to professionals • Job shadow • Declare a major • Internship

  13. Where to go for help Academic Advising Center 54 Cartwright Center 608/785-6950 www.uwlax.edu/advising

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