Learning about yourself: Career=Job=Work Interest

Vocabulary for the Career Interest Quiz
To prepare for the questionnaire, you should know the meanings of these words.

Words you probably already know:
arrange, bicycle, blind, cards, check, clerk, engine, fence, greeting, improve, instrument, invent, manage, photograph, program, radio, repair, replace, risks, theatrical, track, weights

Academic vocabulary:
adults, analyzed, area, assemble, community, compute, computer, conduct, construct, conventional, corporation, create, data, design, energy, equipment, estate, file, filing, finances, identify, invest, investigative, job, jobs, participate, project, research, restore, structure, sum, team

Rare or difficult vocabulary:
abused, ace, alcohol, audit, automotive, career, childcare, counsel, counseling, disabled, drug, enterprising, handsaw, interview, jet, lab, mural, payroll, prism, processor, quiz, quizzes, satellites, script, seminar, switch


The Work Interest Quiz
http://www.myfuture.com/toolbox/workinterest.html
Answer the 60 questions by clicking the ones that sound interesting to you.
Click submit.

This will give you a list of types of jobs you may like, such as
Realistic, Social, Investigative, Conventional, Enterprising, and Artistic.

If you click that word, you will see a list of jobs. Some of these will have links to more information.

What jobs were suggested for you by this questionnaire? Do you think they would be good jobs for you? Are the results of this questionnaire different from what you expected? How? Write a blog post about the results. Try to write 100 words or so.

Do you want to try another? How about this:
Career Clickers Expanded
http://www.learnmoreindiana.org/careers/exploring/Pages/IndepthCareerInterestInventory.aspx

Were the results similar or different?

Vocabulary list for Career Interest Inventory (expanded)

Words you may already know:
arrange, brick, calculate, cleaning, compose, dance, deliver, disease, diseases, information, kitchen, medicine, packages, performing, phone, radio, responsible, sick, taxi, threatening, treat, treating, treatment, weather

Academic words:
assemble, assist, bonds, chemical, compute, computer, conduct_[4] create, data, design, edit, enforce, filing, identify, maintenance, medical, predict, procedure, psychological, research, statistical, tasks, transfer, volunteer

Rare or difficult words:
announce, artwork, audition, biological, bookkeeping, broadway, cab, cabinets, choir, counsel, crew, criminals, database, diagnose, electronic, infection, laboratory, magazines, movie, movies, non, orchestra, patients, profiles, routines, senior, software, spreadsheet, symphony, truck, walkway

Do you know of any other career/job/work interest survey/questionnaire/quiz on the internet? Try it and see what kind of results you get.

Career Clickers Express
All you do is click the things that sound like fun.

LearnMoreIndiana has career interest surveys of different kinds and different levels of difficulty.

Lots of links. Try One!
http://www.washington.edu/doit/Lessons/Career/prep.html

For people interested in health careers, there is the Virginia Health Careers Manual
http://www.pubinfo.vcu.edu/ahec/careerinterestchecklist.asp

When you have finished, please make a blog post about your results. Please write 100-150 words. Which survey did you do? Did you do both? Were the results the same or different? Were the results what you expected? Have you ever taken this kind of test before? What results did you get then? Are the new results different? What kind of jobs did the test indicate might be good for you? Do you agree? Do these jobs sound interesting to you? Are there many of your type of job available now?