Career Portfolio

The Importance of Career Planning When in School


Career portfolios focus on the importance of career planning in school. What are career interest portfolios?

A career interest portfolio is -

  • Snap shot of the interests, abilities, and skills
  • Diary that lists your goals, dreams, and visions
  • Log book for career exploration and planning
  • Guidebook to future career planning
  • Storybook of your lifetime journey

Career interest portfolios are self awareness or occupational exploration portfolios. These portfolios provide guidance in completing the three steps of the career planning process –

  • Self-Knowledge
  • Educational and Occupational Exploration
  • Career Planning

Self-knowledge deals with our self-concept, interpersonal skills, growth, and development.

Educational and occupational exploration reveals the relationships between learning, work, career information skills, job seeking, skill development, and the labor market.

Career planning includes self-assessment, career exploration, decision making, life role formation, goal setting, and the implementation of career choices.

A Career interest portfolio lists -

  • Career test results
  • Career interests -What you like to do
  • Skills - Activities that you do well
  • Values - Beliefs that are important to you
  • Favorite subjects
  • Favorite activities and hobbies
  • Career experiences: Field trips, interviews with people at work, and interactions with mentors or key resource people
  • Future job possibilities

A career interest portfolio helps you -

  • Highlight your interests, abilities, and skills
  • Recognize your strengths
  • See the relationships between extracurricular activities and career goals
  • Learn about world of work
  • Open your eyes to new job opportunities
  • Identify workplace skills
  • List your career exploration objectives
  • Focus on achieving the right career objectives
  • Set realistic achievable goals
  • Make educational and career plans

The career interest portfolio is an excellent aid for students. Education, learning, and training serve as the bridge between school and world of work. School is a time of transition. A career interest portfolio serves as a journal to record special activities and events.

The career interest portfolio helps students -

  • Increase self awareness
  • Expand knowledge of careers
  • Improve career exploration and planning skills
  • Develop motivation and self confidence

Career interest portfolios provide students with awesome opportunities to gain self awareness as well as to explore and understand the world of work.

Use the career interest portfolios with the Paint Careers With Colors Career Tests.



Paint Careers With Colors

for Middle School Students


Paint Careers With Colors Model

The Paint Careers With Colors System is a kid career test and career portfolio that introduce you to interests, Holland Codes, and careers. There are two versions of the kid career test and career portfolio –

  • RIASEC Version
  • Children’s Version

The RIASEC Version is for Middle School students. For Middle School students, the RIASEC Version should be used with the Self-Directed Search Career Explorer.


RIASEC MODEL

Children’s Model

· A = ARTISTIC

· A = ARTS

· E = ENTERPRISING

· B = BUSINESS

· C = CONVENTIONAL

· O = OFFICE

· S = SOCIAL

· P = PEOPLE

· I = INVESTIGATIVE

· S = SCIENCE

· R = REALISTIC

· T = TECHNICAL/ TOOLS


The Paint Careers With Colors Kids Job Test uses self-by-step activities, career games for Kids, and kids activities for career choices to highlight Holland Codes or Colors to Careers Codes. On each page, you choose the careers that you like or are interested in.

kid career test
At the end of the career test for kids, you summarize your results. The Summary Sheet identifies your Holland Codes or Colors to Careers Codes.

Add your results to the career portfolio.

kid career test

kid career test

The Paint Careers With Colors Kids Career Test comes with a Colors to Careers Career Model and Colors to Careers Code or Holland Code Descriptions. The Paint Careers With Colors Child Career Test is an excellent tool to introduce you to career exploration, Holland Codes, and Colors to Careers Codes. The graphics hold your attention as you identify your career interests.

Career Test Versions are -

  • Children Test
  • Children Test Guide
  • Photo Test
  • Photo Test Guide
  • RIASEC Test
  • RIASEC Test Guide


The Career Tests are printed on heavy-weight glossy, durable paper!


Bonus Item: Career Portfolio

A Career interest portfolio lists -

  • Career test results
  • Career interests - What you like to do
  • Skills - Activities that you do well
  • Values - Beliefs that are important to you
  • Favorite subjects
  • Favorite activities and hobbies
  • Career experiences: Field trips, interviews with people at work, and interactions with mentors or key resource people
  • Future job possibilities


A career interest portfolio provides a snap shot of the interests, abilities, and skills.

Cost: $15/Career Test and Color Key Booklet (Printed Version)

Sale Cost: $5


Use the career portfolio.

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