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Major & Career Exploration - Careers
By Interest
Birds of a feather flock together or people with similar interest tend to go into similar occupations.
1.
Read and decide which of the below career interest groups sounds
most like you.
2.
Click on the Heading to find out typical characteristics of people
in this interest group and see a
list of the types of occupations in which they work (this is not a
complete list of
occupations, but a list to help you begin to explore and brainstorm career options).
3. Click on occupations of interest to get a job descriptions, qualifications, education needed, etc…
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People who have athletic or mechanical ability, prefer to work with objects, machines, tools, plants, or animals, or to be outdoors. |
People
who like to observe, learn, investigate, analyze, evaluate or solve
problems. |
People
who have artistic, innovating or intuitional abilities and like to
work in unstructured situations using their imagination and
creativity.
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People
who like to work with people to enlighten, inform, help, train, or
cure them, or are skilled with words. |
People
who like to work with people, influencing, persuading, performing,
leading or managing for organizational goals or economic gain. |
People
who like to work with data, have clerical or numerical ability,
carry out tasks in detail or follow through on others’
instruction. |
”Reproduced by special permission of the Publisher, Psychological
Assessment Resources, Inc., 16204 North Florida Avenue, Lutz, Florida
33549, from Making Vocational Choices, Third Edition, copyright 1973, 1985, 1992, 1997 by Psychological Assessment
Resources, Inc. All rights
reserved.”
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