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Holland Code Career Test Guide

The document describes a personality test called the Holland Code Test. It lists various activities and asks the test taker to rate how much they would enjoy each one on a scale of 1 to 5. After completing the ratings, the test taker adds up their scores for each column. The column with the highest total score corresponds to one of six personality types: Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, or Conventional. This provides an indication of a person's personality and may help with understanding careers that suit their personality type.

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Topics covered

  • career choices,
  • job market,
  • interest categories,
  • career guidance,
  • Artistic,
  • personality types,
  • interest-driven choices,
  • job fulfillment,
  • Investigative,
  • vocational interests
2K views5 pages

Holland Code Career Test Guide

The document describes a personality test called the Holland Code Test. It lists various activities and asks the test taker to rate how much they would enjoy each one on a scale of 1 to 5. After completing the ratings, the test taker adds up their scores for each column. The column with the highest total score corresponds to one of six personality types: Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, or Conventional. This provides an indication of a person's personality and may help with understanding careers that suit their personality type.

Uploaded by

Ionelia Pașa
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd

Topics covered

  • career choices,
  • job market,
  • interest categories,
  • career guidance,
  • Artistic,
  • personality types,
  • interest-driven choices,
  • job fulfillment,
  • Investigative,
  • vocational interests
  • Holland Code Test Cover: This page serves as the cover of the Holland Code Test, indicating the purpose and origin of the test.
  • Introduction and Instructions: Provides an introduction to the personality test with instructions on how to rate various activities.
  • List of Activities: Includes a list of activities to rate for the personality test, spread across two pages.
  • Scoring Instructions: Explains how to calculate scores based on the activity ratings to determine the personality type.

Holland Code Test

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Introduction
The following is a personality test designed to help you understand yourself, with a particular focus on
careers.

Instructions
On the following two pages is a list of various activities that could be preformed. For each one indicate
on the empty space to the right how much you would enjoy that activity with the scale

1 – strongly dislike
2 – dislike
3 – neither like not dislike
4 – like
5 – strongly like

The scoring instructions will be on the page after that.


Test the quality of parts before shipment X X X X X
Study the structure of the human body X X X X X
Conduct a musical choir X X X X X
Give career guidance to people X X X X X
Sell restaurant franchises to individuals X X X X X
Generate the monthly payroll checks for an office X X X X X
Lay brick or tile X X X X X
Study animal behavior X X X X X
Direct a play X X X X X
Do volunteer work at a non-profit organization X X X X X
Sell merchandise at a department store X X X X X
Inventory supplies using a hand-held computer X X X X X
Work on an offshore oil-drilling rig X X X X X
Do research on plants or animals X X X X X
Design artwork for magazines X X X X X
Help people who have problems with drugs or alcohol X X X X X
Manage the operations of a hotel X X X X X
Use a computer program to generate customer bills X X X X X
Assemble electronic parts X X X X X
Develop a new medical treatment or procedure X X X X X
Write a song X X X X X
Teach an individual an exercise routine X X X X X
Operate a beauty salon or barber shop X X X X X
Maintain employee records X X X X X
Operate a grinding machine in a factory X X X X X
Conduct biological research X X X X X
Write books or plays X X X X X
Help people with family-related problems X X X X X
Manage a department within a large company X X X X X
Compute and record statistical and other numerical data X X X X X
Fix a broken faucet X X X X X
Study whales and other types of marine life X X X X X
Play a musical instrument X X X X X
Supervise the activities of children at a camp X X X X X
Manage a clothing store X X X X X
Operate a calculator X X X X X
Assemble products in a factory X X X X X
Work in a biology lab X X X X X
Perform stunts for a movie or television show X X X X X
Teach children how to read X X X X X
Sell houses X X X X X
Handle customers' bank transactions X X X X X
Install flooring in houses X X X X X
Make a map of the bottom of an ocean X X X X X
Design sets for plays X X X X X
Help elderly people with their daily activities X X X X X
Run a toy store X X X X X
Keep shipping and receiving records X X X X X
To score the test add up each column (numbered 1-6 from left to right) and put the sums in the grid
below.

COULUMN SUM NAME / VALUE


1 Realistic
2 Investigative
3 Artistic
4 Social
5 Enterprising
6 Conventional

Now take the category that you scored the highest in and that is your personality type.

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