Transcript Week 3-Part I-Your Personality and Your Major Pages 15-19 Part 1-Your Personality and Your Major • Activity-Write five criteria that you think makes up.

Week 3-Part I-Your Personality
and Your Major
Pages 15-19
Part 1-Your Personality and Your Major
• Activity-Write five criteria that you think makes
up your personality- 5 pts
• Is it?
• Sense of humor
• Ambition
• Being pessimistic
• Being optimistic
• Being an irritable person
• Being emotional
Why is Personality so Useful for
Choosing a Major?
• Same personality tend to associate together in
social setting, work and classroom
• Personality predicts how well your skills will
match the work demands
• Personality predicts how well you will fit in
• Personality predicts your job satisfaction
• Personality predicts how productive you will be
Aspects of Personality that are Important when
Choosing Education and Career
• Very important to compare your personality to
the major that fits
• Fortunately there are 6 personality types that we
will use
• They are RIASEC
• Very important to go over each one and start
thinking about the one that best describes your
personality
• This is key to deciding your personality
Holland’s Codes of Personality
RIASEC Personality Types
R=Realistic-Pages 16-17
• People are usually assertive and competitive,
and are interested in activities requiring motor
coordination, skill and strength. People with a
realistic orientation usually prefer to work a
problem through by doing something, rather than
talking about it, or sitting and thinking about it.
They like concrete approaches to problem solving,
rather than abstract theory. They tend to be
interested in scientific or mechanical rather
than cultural and aesthetic areas. They like to
work with THINGS.
Investigative
• Investigative people like to think and
observe rather than act, to organize and
understand information rather than to
persuade. They tend to prefer individual rather
than people oriented activities. They like to work
with DATA.
Artistic
• Artistic people are usually creative, open,
inventive, original, perceptive, sensitive,
independent and emotional . They do not
like structure and rules, like tasks involving
people or physical skills, and are more likely to
express their emotions than others. They like to
think, organize and understand artistic and
cultural areas. They like to work with IDEAS and
THINGS.
Social
• Social people seem to satisfy their needs in
teaching or helping situations. They are different
than R and I Types because they are drawn more
to seek close relationships with other
people and are less apt to want to be
really intellectual or physical. They like to
work with PEOPLE.
Enterprising
• Enterprising people are good talkers, and use
this skill to lead or persuade others. They also
value reputation, power, money and
status, and will usually go after it. They like to
work with PEOPLE and DATA .
• The E type usually has leadership and
speaking abilities, is interested in
economics and politics and likes to be
influential. The E type likes to work with people
and ideas more than things.
Holland’s Code
• We are one dominant type
but may have aspects of one or two
more adjacent personality
types
• Personality types directly
opposite each other have very
little in common
• Many people with “R” or “C” do not attend college-technical degrees
or physical labor
• College is more suited with “I, A, S, E” personality types
• Of the 57 majors listed only ONE has “R” as its’ first personality type
• “I” personality types more geared to graduate school
• Many jobs have R and C as their second personality type and these
are jobs that require a college degree
Holland’s Code Cont.
• Many jobs have 2 or 3 personality types
• When this occurs you must look at the work tasks
and skills required to see if that job is a good fit for
you
• Activity-Do www.mynextmove.org
• Linking personalities to majors is not 100%
• Do NOT use an assessment as your final word on
choosing a major
• Use other avenues like shadowing, information
interviews, talking to alumni, volunteer, internships,
etc.
Conventional
• Conventional people like rules and regulations
and emphasize self-control. They like
structure and order, and dislike unstructured
or unclear work and interpersonal situations.
They place value on reputation, power, or
status. They like to work with DATA.