John Holland Research Paper

Career Instrument Results
What were your scores/results from the O*NET Interest Profiler?
My scores from the O*Net Interest Profiler were as follows:
43-4141.00 - New Accounts Clerks.
19-3031.03 - Counseling Psychologists.
Using your textbook, read about John Holland’s theory of types (pp. 69–80). Describe your top 3 Holland vocational personality types. What are the characteristics of your types? (Do not just list traits, but integrate the traits into a narrative.)
My top three Holland vocational types are social, conventional, and artistic.
Social type people enjoy meeting the needs of others. Educators, medical personal such as doctors and nurses, receptionist, and therapeutic therapist of many ranges describe perfect occupations for characteristic

type. Social personal generally shun the use of non ieternavtive equipment to meet their goals, and usually prefer to problem solve. This type person is at his or her best when serving others. Social people characterisve them selves as trustworthy and approachable.
Indivisals described as conventional people enjoy numbers, record keeping, caculations, and reproduction of materials. This type person generally avoids confusing task and activities that have no structure. Conventional persons value designing business plans and enjoyraving about their plans when deterimined successful. They often time lack imagination and prefer set plans.
The artistic person enjoys engaging in creative activites such as arts, crafts, writing, and performing arts. Typically, this person stears aware from anything that require repition and gravitates toward oppurtunities that allow them to be free. Usually these people are self expressive and enjoy their abilty to be indepdent and original. Artistic people commonly hold positions such as authors, theatric performers, home interior designers, and writters.
Describe/define your important values from the Value Sort.
My top values from the Value Sort are family, intergrity, and honesty. I define family as all decendents of a mutual forefather. Intergrity means having strong life principles, unbroken and upright. Honesty is the act of being truthful.
Provide a detailed discussion of at least your top 2 values, but no more than 5 values.
Family
Often, we never take the time to think of the many values of our family.

In the lives of many, our familes are our first friends, and usually the initial place we learn to develop everlasting bonds. My family has influenced my behavioral characteristics, habits, and contribute to where I am today. Family is important to me because of the countless demonstrations of unwaivering support they offer me whether it’s during happy, sad, or challenging times. Typically, my family is the first to understand my feelings and serve as my greatest support system. My children mean the world to me and any choice I make in life is normally surrounded by them. I have learned the importance of considering how choices in life directly affect those that are closes to you through the relationships I have with my family. My family has taught me the importance of others.
Integrity
Intergrity is important to me beacuase it keeps a person grounded. When you live a life filled with integrity, you develop the habits of great leardership and practice honesty. Integrity keeps people from questioning their choices in life and live with a clear conscious. People value you as a person when you demonstrate the charachteristice of someone with high morals. Those of integrity make great leaders and role models; their work is unquestionable. Intergrity is important to me beause employees, family, and friends see you as authentic, dependable when you act accordingly in a holistic way.
Personal

Reactions
Explore your reactions to and feelings about the results of each instrument.
Ironically, the results of each instrument define who I am as a person. I was not surprised at all, in fact in my life time, I have worked in some form of capacity or currently persuing a job as such.
Does each overall result fit or not fit your self-perception? Why or why not?
Overall, each result fits my self-perception. If we look at the results of the O*NET test, as previously stated, I currently work in both capacities; one being in the junior college arena and my current educational persuit to work in the therapeutic field of counseling. As it relates to the characteristic types, those that I selected line up with my O*NET results as well. As an adjunct in career and technical education I am required to be social. In addition, my work responsibility in human resources ties directly into both social and conventional enviormental interactions. I appreciate the artistic characteristic from the stand point of my hobbies; I enjoy expressing my self through dance, arts, and crafts.
As you review the descriptive words used for the top 3 Holland codes, do any of the descriptors not fit your self-perception. Why or why not?
In reviewing the descriptive words used from Holland, from a general standpoint, I could attest to being just about all of the words described. Although I would beg to differ about my challenge with change. I believe in change because in most cases changes improves the effiency and productivity of situations.
As you review the descriptive words used for the bottom 3 Holland codes, do any of the descriptors fit your self-perception. Why or why not?
Although the job descriptions provided do not fit my idea opurtunity, I would like to consider myself a realist type person. I define myself and genuine, honesty, yet sometimes shy, depending on my audience. I see myself as thrifity as well, I can always find a way to repurpose something, which can also goes hand and hand with the artistic side of me.
External Influences
Describe your feelings and reactions while taking the assessments.
During the test, I became restless and experienced a little bit of anxiety. The feeling of unknown ending results bothers me. I worry often about situations and strive to be a perferctionist however, I often remind myself that I am not perfect, I am human and humans make mistakes! I couldn’t help but to wonder, what I would do if my results were far off from the career path that I currently work in and that of which I am persuing.
Examine whether intrinsic factors such as race, age, gender, or disabling conditions could have influenced your assessment results. If these factors do not seem to apply to you, discuss what led you to that conclusion.
I believe that these intrinsic factors do indirectily play apart to my personal test results. My previous life experiences and rearing plays a major role in molding me into whom I have become, how I values the results of assessments, myself, and what I think my abilities are.
Describe any external factors such as feeling tired, being rushed, technology issues, etc., that could have influenced your the assessment results. If these do not apply to you, describe how your environment was beneficial in the assessment process.
Considering the fact that I know I suffer from test anxiety, I tried to assure that I took the assessment during a time where there were no distractions.

Just as with any other assessment, I tested during a time when I knew few my family would be away from home. At one point I felt cold, so I adjusted the temputure in my home office so that I could switch my focus back to the assessment verse my body tempature!
While taking the assessments, did you think about how your response to a specific statement would affect the final result? Did it cause you to change your response? (Note: This happens and will not be counted against you.)
When taking the assessment, I did not change my responses. There were a couple reasons for this, one being, I didn’t believe that a wrong answer or two could determine my interest. If the the assessment really evaluates the personal as a whole to get the results one or two questionable answers shouldn’t make the findings faulty. My second reason for not changing answers was, overall, I viewed this as an familiarization assignment. I considered this an hands on training of istruments I would use when career counseling students.

Conclusions
Determining a career path is one of the most challenging decisions a person has to do, for this reason, it was very comforting to discover that I have and am heading in the correct direction to serve in an effective capacity. The results of these assessments appear to relate to each other in many way. Although the assessment provided me with two nonrelated field jobs, they both require me to use social, artisitic, and conventional skills. In both settings, I will and have had to effectively communicate information to people in creative ways.. Participating in this assessment has provided me with ideas o f what I value the most. I have discovered what motivates me and why I enjoy certain aspects of my job more than others.