PREMIUM CAREER FIT TEST™ REPORT

Prepared for John Smith

5-10-2022

Introduction

Most people spend more time planning their vacations than they spend planning their career and life.  This is a major reason that in the United States 65% of people are not engaged in their work.  They are simply putting in their time as they are dissatisfied in their work and lack a sense of meaning and purpose.  By having completed the Career Fit Test™ your Premium Report will provide you with the knowledge of your strengths and the careers that fit your skills, interests and personality.  These results will help you in making wise career and life decisions and in taking the next important steps to obtain rewarding, fulfilling work.

What’s Included in Your Premium Career Fit Test™ Report?

–Your top Holland types (Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising and Conventional) which are calculated based on your interests, personality, and top skills. You will see how understanding your Holland types will help you to achieve satisfaction in your work.

–Your summary Holland Career Code, which is based on the results of your assessment and will allow you to see which careers, from more than 900 occupations, fit your Holland Career Code.

–Your top career options and the best career exploration tools. You will learn about new careers (including skills needed, educational requirements, salary, job outlook, working environment and much more.

–The tools for “reality testing” career options and making career decisions that lead to satisfying work.

–Your CFT Skills Map™, which displays your most enjoyed transferable, personal and content skills, providing you with the details needed for successful career planning and job search.

–Educational resources, plans and goals that fit your personality, interests and skills.

–And the Bonus CTF Career Mastery Program, which will enable you to use your assessment results to direct your own exploration, decision making, career planning, and successful job search work at various stages in your life.

There is no other assessment tool that offers you all of these benefits for obtaining work you love – work that is a calling and not just a job.

My Top Holland Interest/Personality Types

Your answers to the Career Fit Test™ have been calculated to produce a Holland interest/personality type code that will help you to find work that fits who you are, work that you love.

Your Career Fit Test™ results are based on the most researched career development theory in the world. John Holland’s theory found that most people’s career interests and personality are described within three of six types – Realistic (R), Investigative (I), Artistic (A), Social (S), Enterprising (E) and Conventional (C). He also found that any given career or job is made up of three of these types.

The hexagon diagram above shows how the six types (RIASEC) relate to each other. Types that are next to each other have more in common than types that are opposite each other. This means, for example, that the Investigative and Artistic types that are next to each other on the hexagon, have more in common than the Investigative and Enterprising types that are opposite each other on the hexagon.

Research shows that you will be more satisfied and engaged in your work when your career choice fits with your most enjoyed skills, interests and personality traits. Your Premium Complete Career Fit Test™ will help you make better career choices and provides the strategies to find rewarding, purposeful work that you love.

Together your Premium Complete Career Fit Test™ results and the CFT Career Mastery Program will provide you with:

-Your personalized top strengths organized into your transferable skills, personal skills and content skills;

-Your top three Holland types linked to your best career options from more than 900 careers (as well as scores for your lower three Holland types); and

-The specific steps to take in all areas of career planning: assessment, exploration, decision making, and planning for finding work you love.

My Holland Summary Code

My Top Interest/Personality Types are Social, Artistic Investigative (My Holland Career Code is SAI)

For your top two or three Holland interest/personality types below, we suggest underlining or highlighting any of the descriptions that you feel are accurate of you. The Holland types provide descriptions about how your types typically functions at work and in life. The types are descriptive not prescriptive. In other words, the types described below are descriptive of your type in general and doesn’t prescribe how you will function at work or in life. One of the great benefits of the Career Fit Test™ Premium Report is that you will read descriptions that feel very accurate but you could have never described yourself in that way before. Your Holland types help you to verbalize answers to the question, “Who are you?” or the interview question “Can you tell me a little bit about yourself?”

My Top Interest/Personality Type Descriptions

Strengths Overview: The Realistic (R) type typically enjoys and is skilled with their hands in making and fixing things, assembling items and/or operating equipment. They often have athletic and/or mechanical abilities and may enjoy physical adventures. They usually enjoy working outdoors and find satisfaction in a career in which they perform varying types of manual labor. They are often described by others as practical, hands-on, structured, athletic, reserved and hardworking.

Realistic types generally enjoy working with tools, machines, objects, mechanical drawings, plants and animals. They likely value tangible things they can see and touch, and see themselves as being practical and mechanically-oriented. They typically work best alone or with others who are also “doing” oriented.

Enjoyable Activities: Realistic types generally enjoy activities such as helping with business or residential landscaping; outdoor settings that include activities in nature or with animals; activities that include farming, ranching, or animal husbandry; training animals for service activities; working with plants (including food-producing plants, flowers, trees, shrubs, lawns, etc.) or animals (breeding, tending, training, etc.); maintaining and repairing buildings and machines of organizations; new construction or remodeling; driving a van or bus; teaching hands-on skills (carpentry, electrical, plumbing, etc.) to others; running film and/or audiovisual equipment; directing traffic and crowd control at large events; sports and outdoor activities at a camp; providing emergency medical care in disaster settings; using tool and machinery; providing security and building things.

Careers of Interest: Career areas Realistic types find of interest include: landscaping, gardening, horticulture, botany, farming, forestry, zoology, veterinary medicine, animal training. Skilled trades such as electronics, carpentry, equipment operation, and construction may also be of interest. Other areas include law enforcement, firefighting, security, emergency response, and sports/athletics. Realistic types often enjoy using their hands to make, build or fix something. There are more Realistic type jobs than any other Holland type. Realistic jobs include Carpenters, Engineers, Military Officers, Firefighters, Electricians, Foresters, and Computer Network Administrators.

Educational Preferences: Realistic types generally prefer to learn on the job or through short-term, hands-on, vocationally-based education. Given this preference, Realistic types may spend less time in formal education and more time working than any other type. As a “Doer”, most Realistic types prefer learning by doing rather than traditional classroom education. The training for many Realistic jobs can be on-the-job

Problem-Solving Preference: Realistic types typically like to solve problems that have practical solutions, are concrete, and not ambiguous.

Potential Weaknesses: Realistic types usually have strong opinions about what is right and wrong, and they therefore can be stubborn about changing their mind. They can be viewed as inflexible because of their strongly held views. They may also dismiss ideas that are not proven as being unrealistic. While Realistic types are good at fixing things and problem solving, they may not be not good at demonstrating or teaching this process to others. As their keyword, “Doer” , implies, they have a preference to do work rather than talk about it. This may lead to under-developed verbal and written communication skills. Realistic types who are introverted may also appear to be hard to get to know and self-focused even though this is typically not the case.

Work Values:  At work, the values of Realistic types likely include Practicality, Tradition, Practicality, Productivity, Action, Structure, Common Sense, and Independence

Ideal Working Environment: Realistic types tend to like working environments that are product-driven, organized, stable, outdoors and have well-defined lines of authority. They prefer work environments that are stable and predictable with minimal change.

Strengths Overview: The Social(S) type is concerned with people and their welfare. They typically enjoy and are skilled at making friends easily and tend to have well-developed communication skills. Social types are motivated to work with groups or individuals, using empathy and an ability to identify and solve problems. The Social type knows that no one can reach their potential alone and are motivated to help, teach and heal others. Social types may also be high achievers and gifted leaders. Others may describe them as being warm, friendly, loyal and accepting.

Enjoyable Activities: Social types generally enjoy people-related activities such as: caring for people; providing a listening ear and giving advice from those who ask for help; teaching classes for children, teens and/or adults; training employees; coaching and mentoring; counseling; hosting a neighborhood book club; serving on a nonprofit board; volunteering time for a suicide hotline; and facilitating small group or social activities. In general, Social types enjoy activities that allow them to inform, train, develop, encourage, cure, educate or in some other way help people in a direct way.

Careers of Interest: Career areas Social types find of interest include: education, training employees, ministry, human resources, social welfare, coaching, counseling, and customer service. Jobs of interest for the Social type include Teacher, Social Worker, Pastor, School Counselor, Nurse, Occupational Therapist, Athletic Trainer and Community Health Worker. Overall, the Social type is focused on being of service, and is motivated by caring, nurturing, curing, educating, training, mediating and supporting others.

Educational Preferences: Some Social type jobs such as Childcare Worker, Nanny and Home Health Aide require little education. Social type jobs like Physical Therapist Assistant, Dental Hygienist and Massage Therapist involve completing an associate s degree or a vocational school certificate. Many Social type jobs, however, require a bachelors, masters or doctoral degree including Critical Care Nurse, Recreational Therapist, Licensed Professional Counselor, Athletic Trainer, Physical Therapist and Genetic Counselor.

Problem-Solving Preference: You like solving people-related problems. Many Social types are adept at dealing with problems through understanding individuals feelings and the use of empathy. Social types also tend to like a flexible approach to solving problems that can adapt to the individuals involved.

Potential Weaknesses: Given that Social types are energized by being with people, they may let others distract them and get off track at work. Confronting others may be difficult as Social types don t want to hurt others feelings. Social types may find themselves overcommitted as it is difficult to say no to an opportunity to help in some way. The Social type dislikes disharmony with others, and can get their feelings hurt when receiving negative feedback

Work Values: At work, the values of Social types likely include Cooperation, Authenticity, Integrity, Service, Altruism, Connection, and Empathy

Ideal Working Environment: Social types like working environments that are supportive, collaborative, flexible and helping-oriented

Strengths Overview: The Artistic (A) type is the most creative of all the types, and may enjoy and be skilled at self-expression through one or more various forms or mediums such as using images, materials, music, words, or movement which can result in creating artistic works, systems and programs. Artistic types are able to see possibilities in various settings and are not afraid to experiment with their ideas. They like variety and tend to feel cramped in structured situations. For Artistic types, using their creativity is their way to express themselves and how they relate to the world; it is what gives them joy. They are typically imaginative, expressive, original and independent.

Enjoyable Activities: Artistic types enjoy creative activities in areas such as drama, music, writing, arts and crafts, photography, and film to inspire, educate, influence and/or entertain people; examples of these creative pursuits include writing books, blogs, website content, press releases, marketing materials, curriculum, and screenplays; using one s creative skills in painting, drawing, website design, calligraphy, sewing, sculpture, pottery, jewelry making, woodworking, and glassblowing; composing, writing and/or performing music; decorating a home or office; performing magic; and, acting or entertaining in film, on the stage, and/or in other venues.

Careers of Interest: Career areas Artistic types find of interest include: Actor, Entertainer, Painter, Poet, Playwright, Architects, Film-maker, Communication Director, Interior Designer, Writer, Journalist, Musician, Composer, Graphic Designer, Dancer, Designer, Photographer, Jeweler and Editor.

Educational Preferences: While it is not necessary to have a formal education for many artistic jobs, and an individual’s talent is often the greatest determinate of success in Artistic jobs, there are many colleges and universities that offer majors in cinematography, art, writing, music, drama, dance, film, video, commercial art, and other Artistic majors. While completing a bachelor’s or even a master’s degree in one of these areas doesn’t guarantee securing an Artistic job, formal education can give a jumpstart in developing one’s craft and learning how to break into an industry

Problem-Solving Preference: You like to solve problems independently that require using your intuition and creative-thinking abilities

Potential Weaknesses: Artistic types are interested in possibilities and the future, and therefore may ignore or avoid things that require routine attention or maintenance. Given their interest in the new and novel, they may leave projects unfinished once their initial interest wanes. They can have difficulty focusing on the details of a project because of their preference to pay attention to possibilities and the big picture. They may also dislike eliminating options and possibilities which can lead to indecisiveness and procrastination in committing to one specific goal or plan of action.

Work Values: At work, the values of Artistic types likely include Originality, Creativity, Freedom, Independence, Autonomy, and Flexibility.

Ideal Working Environment: Artistic types tend to like working environments that are unstructured, flexible, visually attractive, oriented toward creativity and that encourage self-expression.

Descriptions Of All Six Holland  Types

Here your will find all six Holland types described. By reviewing your three lower Holland types you can better confirm that your top three Holland types are accurate. If you feel that one or more of the reported Holland types are not accurate, you will have the opportunity to change that type in the “Career Fit Test™ search tool.” (Please note that the interest/personality types are often referred to by their first letter as shown here (for example R for Realistic.)

• Realistic (R)
• Investigative (I)
• Artistic (A)
• Social (S)
• Enterprising (E)
• Conventional (C)

Frequently Asked Questions About Your Top Holland Types

What if one or more of my Holland types don’t feel accurate?

I don’t like the kind of jobs described in one or more of my types?

Careers That Match My Holland Code

Most people have “tunnel vision” when it comes to knowing about career choices. They are aware of jobs they have observed or read about, but they are not award of all the options that could potentially fit who they are. And, of course, you can only choose from careers that you are aware of.

Your Holland Career Code has been produced through the Career Fit Test™. Your code has been matched against more than 900 occupations to provide you with the careers that fit your top skills, interests and personality. By exploring these careers, you will be able to expand your vision and gain insights related to descriptions of the jobs, skills used, education needed, values emphasized, salary, job outlook and much more. If you see job titles in the list below that you know very little about, we encourage you to click on them and read a short opening description to see if you want to research it further.

Career Fit Test™ Search Tool

If you would like to explore other careers, you can use the Career Fit Test™ search tool to view other jobs that use variations of your Holland type code. For example, if your top Holland type is Social, you can view all of the Social jobs by listing Social as your first type and choosing “none selected” for the 2nd and 3rd code position

You can also look at more jobs by using your secondary type.  So for example, if your 2nd type is Artistic you can list it in the 1st position with “none selected” for the 2nd and 3rd code position.

You can also list your top two types to receive a longer list of openings. Here is an example of the Social and Artistic types.

Other tools and strategies for exploring and “reality testing” the careers that best fit your skills, personality and interests can be found in the CFT Career Mastery Program.

My Transferable, Personal and Content Skills

A skill is defined as the ability to do something well coming from one’s aptitude, personality, special training, knowledge, and/or practice. It is estimated that less than 10% of those interviewing for a job can name their top ten skills needed for the position.

Any skill that is named can be placed into one of three categories: transferable, personal and content skills. Your results for these three skill groups are defined and displayed below. Knowing this information about your skills will help you to explore the right jobs, make wise decisions, develop and work a plan to obtain your dream job, and successful interview by being able to describe your skills that are needed for the job.

Transferable Skills

Transferable Skills are skills that can transfer from one job to another. They will help you obtain a first job and for making job changes. They are the skills that are emphasized as you describe the work you have done in your resume. Examples include – creating, teaching, coaching, and organizing.

My top ten transferable skills are:

• Improve/Modify (A) – Change or adapt something in order to make it better in some way.
• Synthesize (A)
• Coach/Mentor (S)
• Solve problems/Troubleshoot (I)
• Take photos/videos (A)
• Coach/Mentor (S)
• Teach/Train (S)
• Influence/Persuade/Convince (E)
• Initiate/Launch/Pioneer (E)
• Speak (S)

Personal Skills

Personal Skills are aspects of your personality. They tend to be inborn skills and too often are taken for granted. They are skills such as being warm, friendly, and analytical. At job interviews employers are more interested in your personal skills than any other skills. Once they know from your resume and/or application your transferable and content skills, they then want to know what kind of person you are which includes hearing about your personal skills and observing them.

My top five personal skills are:

• Kind (S) Demonstrates thoughtfulness and consideration towards others
• Creative (A) Originates and develops unique ideas and things
• Analytical (I) Demonstrates thinking and reasoning abilities
• Organized (C) Uses an orderly and planned approach to completing tasks
• Persuasive (E) Communicates in a way that motivates others

Content Skills

Content skills are knowledges that are needed for doing certain jobs.  For example, a nurse needs to have knowledges related to patient care, the human body and medications.  Content skills identify where ideally you would like to use your transferable skills and personal skills.

My top five content skills are:

• Animals (R) – Training, Animal care, Veterinary Care
• Plants (R) – Agriculture, Farming
• Education & Teaching (S) – Teacher Training, Learning Styles
• Politics & Government (E) – US politics, International Relations
• Christianity (S, E) – Missions, Discipleships, Faith at Work

This document organizes your transferable, personal and content skills into a single document. We encourage you to print this for use in the Bonus CFT Career Mastery Program that you will find later in your report.

Example of “Skills Map”

–Your CFT Skills Map™ will be a vital tool in your career planning and job search. For example, it will help you to explore jobs that fit your top skills, interests and personality. Your prioritized skills will give you the information needed in making career decisions. You will be able to use your identified skills to develop a mission statement as well as career goals. And, your CFT Skills Map™ reduces your job search time by using your top skills in writing a resume and other marking materials, answering interview questions more successfully and even negotiate a better salary.

My Transferable Skills Matrix

Transferable skills are useful in many careers and industries. For example, many employers are seeking those candidates who have strong verbal and written communication skills. If you have transferable skills in speaking, teaching, or coaching for example, you are probably able to communicate effectively with customers, clients and/or coworkers.
Your Transferable Skills Matrix allows you to easily see your top motivated transferable skills, your development skills, your marketable skills and your “killer” skills. As you will see the transferable skills are color coded by Holland type. They will help you in exploring the right jobs, making career decisions, writing a successful resume and interviewing.

Here are links for better understanding your skill matrix:

Your “Killer Skills”

Your Most Marketable and Developmental Skills

Frequently Asked Questions About The Matrix

College Majors and Educational Programs

If you are open to careers requiring more education, here you can explore the majors that relate to your Holland type code.

Most people are confused as they enter into and complete a college degree. Research shows that:

• 75% of all students entering college are actually undecided about their academic and career plans, and at least half of all students with declared majors are “prematurely decided” majors—who will eventually change their minds.
• Studies also show that only 34% of those with a bachelor’s degree use their college major in the work that they do.

Education can be expensive and time consuming. A lot of wasted time and money occurs when people approach education in a backwards manner. This means choosing a major without spending time exploring and “reality testing” careers that will use that major. Often, students in their senior year start thinking about the jobs they could get with their major. This is backwards! It is much more effective to instead complete the action steps in the CFT Career Mastery Program, listed below, to discover work that is a good fit for you. Doing this in combination with exploring educational programs will help you to choose a career that fits you well.

As you have read, jobs in each of the six Holland types require differing amounts of education and training. Some jobs require very little education that can be on the job training. Other jobs will require training such as an AA degree or certificate. Still other jobs will require a university or college degree.

College Majors / Programs of Study for My Top Holland Type

• Psychology, General – SIE
• Nursing / Registered Nurse (RN, ASN, BSN, MSN) – SIA
• Elementary Education and Teaching – SAC
• History, General – SEI
• Social Work – SEC
• Health and Physical Education, General – SRE
• Early Childhood Education and Teaching – SAC
• Physical Education Teaching and Coaching – SRA
• Social Sciences, General – SIE
• Secondary Education and Teaching – SAE/ASE
• Special Education and Teaching, General – SEC
• Human Development and Family Studies, General – SAE
• Religion / Religious Studies – SEA
• Bible / Biblical Studies – SAE
• Education, General – SAE
• Athletic Training / Trainer – SRE
• Junior High / Intermediate / Middle School Education and Teaching – SAE
• Humanities / Humanistic Studies -SAI
• Communication Disorders, General – SIE
• Foods, Nutrition, and Wellness Studies, General – SEI
• Social Sciences, Other – SIE
• Kindergarten / Preschool Education and Teaching – SAC
• Social Studies Teacher Education – SIA
• Mathematics Teacher Education – SIA
• Community Organization and Advocacy – SEC
• Nursing, Other – SIC
• Women’s Studies – SEI
• American / United States Studies / Civilization – SEI
• Health Teacher Education – SAE
• Dental Hygiene / Hygienist – SAI
• Art Teacher Education – SAE
• Hospital and Health Care Facilities Administration / Management – SER
• Theology / Theological Studies – SAE
• Child Development – SAC
• Public Health Education and Promotion – SEA
• Exercise Physiology – SIR
• Trade and Industrial Teacher Education – SR
• Teacher Education, Multiple Levels – SAI
• Health and Physical Education / Fitness, Other – SER
• Speech-Language Pathology / Pathologist – SIA

You can also explore majors and programs of study for your top two or three Holland types or any other Holland types that are of interest:

Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional.

Other Educational Resources

If you are interested in the careers that you can do with a particular major, MyPlan.com provides a helpful resource –
What Can I Do with a Major In?
Here is a tool for exploring colleges and universities that offer college majors that of interest to you.

Bonus – CFT Career Mastery Program

In the previous parts of your Premium Career Fit Test™ Report, you have been presented with your top transferable, personal and content skills; your CTF Skills Map™; Your Skills Matrix and your Holland interest/personality three letter type code. Your Holland code has matched your skills, interests and personality to occupations from more than 900 careers.

In the CTF Career Mastery Program, you will be able to use your Holland code to continue your exploration process, use resources to make effective decisions, plan your journey, and conduct a successful job search to find work you love. The resource below can be “tool box” in your career planning and job search activities.

Discover My Career Matches: You have used your Holland type code to explore careers that fit your skills, interests, and personality traits. In this action step you will learn about other tools and strategies for “reality testing” occupations and finding the jobs that fit you best.

My Best Career Decisions: Take the guesswork out of making career decisions by using quick strategies that incorporate your Career Fit Test™ results and allows you to more easily see how the skills you enjoy using fit with different career options.

Develop My Career Plan: Create a career mission statement and action plan that will turn your career dreams into your reality. Your career mission statement will allow you to focus your energy to better overcome any obstacles for obtaining meaningful, rewarding work. Your action plans will include small “bite sized” goals that will result in finding work that fits who you are.

My Job Search – Finding Work I Love: Conduct a successful job search by using this step-by-step guide. This is the only career assessment that uses your results to find the right job faster. Here you will learn powerful strategies most job hunters don’t know or use.

Analyze Jobs of Interest
Resume Writing
Cover Letters for Advertised and “Hidden” Jobs
LinkedIn Development
Strength Summary
Find Jobs in the Advertised and “Hidden” Job Market
Organize Your Job Search
Master the Interview to Produce More Job Offers
Salary Negotiation – Make $1000 a Minute
Develop Your Support System

Summary and Resources

The Career Fit Test™ has provided you with the CFT Skills Map™ and jobs that match your Holland Interest/Personality Code. The CFT Career Mastery Program provides you with the information and tools to take next steps in exploring options, making wise decisions, developing your mission statement, writing smart goals and conducting a successful job search. If you get stuck in any of these steps or you are not making the progress that you want, we recommend working with a certified career counselor. Our career counselors are trained in the use of the Career Fit Test™ and the CFT Career Mastery Program and can help you get beyond career “blockers” such as fear, failure, busyness, money, and negative thinking. Often, having the support of a career counselor makes the difference in being able to take steps in finding work that fits who you are – work that is rewarding, fulfilling and purposeful – work that is a calling and not just a job. Here you can learn more about career counseling services.

Faith-Based Resources

A Gallup poll in 2018 found that “one in five Americans does not identify with any religion”, however, “87 percent of the country still expresses belief in God.” If you are interested in integrating your faith with work, you may want to explore the following faith-based websites and resources.

• ChristianCareerCenter.com – Since 1997, the ChristianCareerCenter.com has been the #1 Christian Career Center for Christian men and women on the Internet.
• ChurchJobsOnline.com – Helping Christians find pastor jobs, ministry jobs, and other church staffing roles and employment for more than 20 years.
• ChristianJobFair.com – The online Christian Job Fair allows Christian job seekers to easily search thousands of ministry job openings with Christian organizations.
• LiveYourCalling.com – A pragmatic and inspirational guide, Live Your Calling will help you identify and use your God-given gifts to find significance, direction, and joy in your life. Buy the book – Live Your Calling: A Practical Guide to Finding and Fulfilling Your Mission in Life.

Contact Us

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