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Occupational Environment and Interest

The document discusses John Holland's Theory of Career Choice, which emphasizes the importance of aligning career choices with personal interests and personality types. It outlines six personality types (Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, Conventional) and provides strategies for personal development to guide adolescents in making informed career decisions. Key strategies include self-assessment, exploring options, and setting goals.

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Occupational Environment and Interest

The document discusses John Holland's Theory of Career Choice, which emphasizes the importance of aligning career choices with personal interests and personality types. It outlines six personality types (Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, Conventional) and provides strategies for personal development to guide adolescents in making informed career decisions. Key strategies include self-assessment, exploring options, and setting goals.

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Occupational

Environment and
Interest
Objectives:
●Know your occupational interest and
personalities types.
●Explain the factors in personal
development that may guide him/her in
making important career decisions as
adolescents.

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Careers are determined by an
interaction between our personality
and the environment - John Holland's
Theory of Career Choice.

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Holland's
theory
John Holland's Theory of Career
Choice ( RIASEC ) maintains that
in choosing a career, people
prefer jobs where they can be
around others who are like
them. They search for
environments that will let them
use their skills and abilities, and
express their attitudes and
values, while taking on
enjoyable problems and roles.
Behaviour is determined by an
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How Holland’s Theory helps you choose the
right career path:
- Holland’s Theory helps you choose a career or
education program that fits your personality and
interests. Research shows that when you do that,
you take a vital step toward career well-being and
success.

- Understanding the theory helps you identify


careers and education programs that fit who you
are and put you on the right path to career well-
being.
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REALISTIC
People who have athletic or
mechanical ability, prefer to
work with objects, machine,
tools, plants or animals or
to be outdoors. Preference
for working with things as
opposed to ideas or people.
Prefer concrete problems
over abstract problems.
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INVESTIGATIVE
People who like to
observe,learn,
investigate,analyze or
solve problems primarily
of scientific or
mathematical nature.
Prefer working with ideas
as opposed to people. Do
not like highly structured
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ARTISTIC
People who have artistic,
innovating or institutional
abilities and like to work in
unstructured situations using
their creativity or
imagination. Prefer working
with self expressive ideas.
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SOCIAL
People who like to work with
people - to inform,
enlightens, help, train, or
cure them, or to help them
live up to their potential.
Prefer solving problems
through discussion. Usually
do not prefer work with
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ENTERPRISING
People who like to work
with people - influencing,
persuading, leading or
managing them for
economic gain or for the
goals of an organization.
Enjoy leaderships position
and dislikes details.
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CONVENTIONAL
People who like to work
with data, have numerical
or clerial ability, carrying
things out in detail or
following through on other's
instructions. Prefer
structured situations over
ambiguous ones. 11
Factors or strategies in Personal
development that may guide you in making
important career decisions:
• Make a self- assessment. Learn more about yourself,
like your interest, your personality type, passions,
attitude, and skills.

• Know your options. Create a shortlist of courses and


narrow them down to which is appropriate for you.

• Identify your goals - Long term or short term. Do


some research, you can write down a strategy that lays
out steps to come down to a decisions.
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