Are you having trouble setting
career goals? In searching for the right career, there are so many options and decisions. Hollandcodes.com has the tools that will
help you to make the right career
decisions.
Overview
There are three steps in career planning cycle that will help you achieve your career goals and search for a career.
Step One: Get a Clear Career
Goal
The first step in search for a job is
setting a career goal.
In order to set a career goal, you have to take inventory of yourself to determine what you can offer an employer.
You need to –
Step Two: Explore Career Options
In order to identify potential careers, you may use
career exploration and social media resources to gather the following occupational
information –
Use online career exploration resources to identify potential careers.
Step Three: Overcome Career
Roadblocks
When you are trying to reach a
career goal, there will always be obstacles. You solve career problems
by completing the following steps –
Problem solving should take into consideration personal interests, skills, values, and financial resources. Big problems are broken down into smaller, more manageable steps. Achievable goals result in the production of new competencies, attitudes, and solutions.
As an individual, you:
Decision-making processes include:
Step Four: Execution
You execute your career plans when you use
different strategies –
Reality Testing
While implementing and, you
translate vocational interests, abilities, and skills into job
opportunities. You do reality testing by implementing the following
strategies –
Social Media and Networking Tools
Networking can help you complete targeted job searches. You can use a variety of social media tools to learn and connect with professional associations and potential employers. Three major networking social media tools are –
Resume Writing and Interviewing Strategies
Resume writing and interview preparation are essential skills needed to land a potential job.
Resumes
Your resume is your sales tool that lets employers know your strengths, interests, experience, and educational background.
The appearance of your resume is
extremely important. Check the appearance of your resume - your font,
spelling, spacing, margins. In a resume, you will highlight your skills
that make you unique and set you apart from others. Common areas
covered in a resume are –
Types of resumes are –
Interviewing
There are steps to prepare for a successful interview -
Interested in more
comprehensive career inventories. Use the
following tools to select the right career assessment. The selection process
includes:
SDS Form R INTERNET Version
The Self-Directed Search is easy to use - Complete the career assessment in 30 minutes.
The NEW fifth edition of the SDS is designed to help clients learn about themselves and their career options. Whether they are college students choosing a major, veterans entering the civilian job market, or adults pursuing a career change, clients can use the SDS to learn more about occupations that match their interests, abilities, and personalities.
Like its predecessors, the SDS 5th Edition is based on John Holland’s theory that both people and work environments can be classified according to six basic types: Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional. These personality types are known collectively as the Holland RIASEC model.
The SDS asks questions about the individual’s aspirations, activities, competencies, and level of interest in different occupations. From the responses, the SDS generates a three-letter Summary Code, which can be used to help the individual find his or her educational and occupational matches.
This easy-to-use, comprehensive career exploration tool asks questions about the individual’s aspirations, activities, competencies, occupations, and other self-estimates. The resulting three-letter Summary Code, which designates the three personality types an individual most closely resembles, can then be used to help the individual find his or her occupational match.
Features and benefits
New Improved Self Directed Search Form R INTERNET Version
For adults and college students
With each purchase, the user receives by e-mail an identification number and password to generate a confidential, eight-to-twelve page interpretive report including information about occupations matched to Holland Codes.
Why the new SDS 5th Edition?
Here are the features for the New SDS 5th Edition -
Regular Price $25, Sale Price: $15.00/ Form R INTERNET Version
Please Note: Customer will receive User ID number and assigned password
by the NEXT BUSINESS DAY.
New Improved Self Directed Search Form R Mobile Version
With each purchase, the user receives by e-mail an identification number and password to generate a confidential, eight-to-twelve page interpretive report including information about occupations matched to Holland Codes.
Why the new SDS 5th Edition?
Here are the features for the New SDS 5th Edition -
Regular Price $25, Sale Price: $15.00/ Form R Mobile Version
Please Note: Customer will receive User ID number and assigned password by the NEXT BUSINESS DAY.
Strong Interest Inventory®
For nearly 80 years, the Strong Interest Inventory® assessment The Strong Interest Inventory® comes as an on-line Holland Code assessment that helps you identify -
The Strong Interest Inventory® assessment is the most respected and widely used career planning instrument in the world.
The results include –
Adult, High School, and College Profile Reports
The Adult, High School, and College Profile Reports have the following information –
DELIVERY INFORMATION:
Strong Interest Inventory® is an ON-LINE, Holland Code career self
assessment test.
Please Note:
Please Note: Customer will receive Strong Interest Inventory instructions by the NEXT BUSINESS DAY.
After completing inventory, customer will receive Strong Interest Inventory Report within 24 hours.
COST for Strong Interest Inventory®:
$80/ Sale Price $70 Order the
Strong Interest Inventory® Report. There are three (3) editions: Standard (Adults),
High School, and College. Please Note: Customer will receive
User ID number and assigned password by the NEXT BUSINESS
DAY.
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