Strong Interest Inventory Presentation

RIASEC Activity

The Strong Interest Inventory®

Strong Profile—Page 2

Theme Descriptions

Your Strong Results

Prioritized Themes

The Strong Scales

Your Themes are rank ordered compared to your gender.

Scores compare you to both males and females.

Themes that look out of order:

Your interests are compared to . . .

People in general

Workers in various occupations

Highest scales represent your RIASEC code.

Strong Profile—Page 1

How Your Results are Organized

Note that Themes are rank ordered by interpretive comment. Very High-High-Moderate, etc. compare him with other men.

Basic Interest Scales--Like the City in which you live

(Athens, GA)

Occupational Scales--Like your address (Russell Hall)

Personal Style Scales--The Way you

decorate your living space

Strong Profile—Page 3

The Basic Interest Scales

Strong Profile—Page 4

The Occupational Scales

Conventional—The “Organizers”

The Basic Interest Scales narrow the Themes into very specific interest areas.

General Occupational Themes--

Like the State in which you live

(GEORGIA)

• Conventional people like:
• Organizing information
• Writing reports
• Operating computers
• Managing data
• Making charts & graphs
• Conventional environments are:
• Structured
• Organized
• Practical
• Hierarchical

Realistic—The “Doers”

The RIASEC Categories

Career Motivator: organizing

• Realistic people like:
• Fixing/repairing
• Using tools Heavy equipment
• The outdoors Building things
• Realistic environments are:
• Physical
• Product-driven
• Manufacturing/industrial
• Clear in lines of authority

REALISTIC

INVESTIGATIVE

ARTISTIC

SOCIAL

ENTERPRISING

CONVENTIONAL

The “Doers”

The “Thinkers”

The “Creators”

The “Helpers”

The “Persuaders”

The “Organizers”

Career Motivator: using physical Skill

Strong Profile—Pages 5-7

The Occupational Scales

Rank ordered by your Themes.

The longer the bar, the greater your similarity to workers in the occupation.

Occupational Scale Scores

Assumptions Underlying the Strong Interest Inventory

Interpreting the Occupational Scales

Don’t pay too much attention to specific job titles.

Find the Themes with the most scores 40 and higher.

You would probably like working in environments that are coded the way these occupations are.

• Measures interests, NOT abilities
• Does NOT tell you what you should be
• Intended to expand your options
• Interests are only one factor in career exploration
• Most jobs are NOT listed on the Strong
• There are places for all six RIASEC codes in every organization
• No RIASEC code is better than any other

Strong Profile—Page 8

The Personal Style Scales

Scores >54 usually identify with descriptors on the right.

Scores <46 usually identify with descriptors on the left.

Strong Profile—Page 9

Profile Summary

Artistic—The “Creators”

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Response Summary

Enterprising—The “Persuaders”

• Artistic people like:
• Conceptualizing
• Expressing their individuality
• Writing/composing/performing Designing
• Working independently
• Artistic environments are:
• Self-expressive
• Flexible
• Aesthetic
• Idealistic
• Unstructured

• Enterprising people like:
• Debating ideas
• Selling
• Managing people & projects
• Taking risks
• Discussing business
• Enterprising environments are:
• Competitive
• Fast-paced
• Entrepreneurial
• Profit-oriented

Career Motivator: persuading and influencing

Career Motivator: expressing creativity

Next Steps

http://www.career.uga.edu/STUDENTS/careeradviceadditionalresources.html

O*Net http://online.onetcenter.org

Click Find Occupations.

Occupational Outlook Handbook

http://www.bls.gov/oco

Check out the Career Center Library.

Conduct informational interviews, investigate internship/externships, volunteer, or get involved.

Consider work activities, skills needed, education required, and outlook/salary!

An Assessment of Personalities and Work Environments

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