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VOCATIONAL PERSONALITY TYPES


                  YOUR VOCATIONAL PERSONALITY

               Let’s see how your results on the O*NET Interest Profiler compare with your answers to the
               earlier activities in this lesson

               On pages 3 and 4, the six Self-Assessment questions and the six Personality Expressions relate
               to the vocational personality types   On both pages, put the letter for the personality type next
               to each number:

                                            1:  R          2:  I          3:  A          4:  S          5:  E          6:  C

               Do your Interest Profiler results match up with your answers?

               On pages 4 and 5, the three Ranking Tasks also relate to the six types:

                      Vocational
                   Personality Type          Ranking Task 1          Ranking Task 2           Ranking Task 3

                Realistic (R)            assemble                build                   a factory
                Investigative (I)        study                   research                a science laboratory

                Artistic (A)             create                  design                  a TV or movie studio
                Social (S)               teach                   counsel                 a school

                Enterprising (E)         manage                  sell                    a telephone sales center

                Conventional (C)         calculate               keep records of         an accounting department

               Do your Interest Profiler results match up with your answers?

               Test Your Vocational Personality Knowledge

               Choose the correct answer

                 1.  Alonso likes working in a nursing home.  He      3.  Paul enjoys his work in a public health clinic’s
                   enjoys taking care of the senior citizens who        medical records department.  He’s responsible for
                   live there and talking with the family members       making sure all patient records are filed correctly
                   who visit them.  His vocational personality type     and that information is available quickly when
                   is    .                                              needed.  His vocational personality type is   .
                   A.  conventional                                     A.  conventional
                   B.  social                                           B.  investigative
                   C.  investigative                                    C.  social
                   D.  artistic                                         D.  artistic

                 2.  After working as a chef in a restaurant for several     4.  Rita really didn’t like sitting at a desk all day at her
                   years, Bianca saved up enough money to start         previous office job.  She’s a dancer who loves to
                   her own food truck business.  It was risky, but      move around, so she’s enjoying her new day job
                   her food truck is now the most popular one in        as a landscaper while she performs with a dance
                   town.  Her vocational personality type is   .        company on most weekends.  Her vocational
                   A.  realistic                                        personality types are   .
                   B.  conventional                                     A.  conventional and social
                   C.  social                                           B.  enterprising and investigative
                   D.  enterprising                                     C.  realistic and artistic
                                                                        D.  investigative and artistic


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