Presented by Tina Margaritis Career Wise Psychologist

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Presented by Tina MargaritisCareer Wise
Psychologist
Welcome to the Careers for Life Presentation
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Tonight we will cover

• Assessment
• Important Life Influences
• The Holland Model
• Results and Interpretation
• Planning and Resources

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1. The Assessment

• The Process
• Australian Interest Measure (AIM)
• 312 Items
• Activities Past times Courses Skills Jobs
  and Careers
• Aptitudes
• Verbal
• Numeric

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1. The Assessment

• The Purpose
• Know and understand yourself better
• Help you get started
• Build confidence around your ideas
• Open up new possibilities
• Provide parents and staff with a wise and
  supportive framework

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2. Important Life Influences

• Personality, values and character strengths
• Lifestyle and leisure activities
• Geographic location
• Financial situation
• Aptitudes
• Interests

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3. The Holland Model

• Realistic
• Investigative
• Artistic
• Social
• Enterprising
• Conventional

REALISTIC (R)
INVESTIGATIVE (I)
CONVENTIONAL (C)
ARTISTIC (A)
SOCIAL (S)
ENTERPRISING (E)
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3. The Holland Model

• Realistic
• Outdoors
• Tools and machinery
• Does not always talk a lot
• Down to earth
• Skilled trades
• Technical occupations
• Some areas of Engineering

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3. The Holland Model

• Investigative
• Maths and Science
• Curious and Analytical
• Independent workers
• Do not always like working to rules
• Laboratory research
• Medical
• Computing

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3. The Holland Model

• Artistic
• Music, drama and sculpting
• Individual expression
• Sensitive and emotional
• Free and unstructured environments
• Artist / Musician
• Journalist / Writer
• Creative designer

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3. The Holland Model

• Social
• Group work
• Talkative
• Non repetitive activities
• Confident, popular and friendly
• Caring and humanistic
• Teaching / Training
• Nursing / Child Care

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3. The Holland Model

• Enterprising
• Dynamic
• Confident
• Money
• Power and Status
• Strong leaders
• Business / Politics
• Sales / Marketing

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3. The Holland Model

• Conventional
• Orderly and systematic
• Persistent and dependable
• Calm
• Conscientious and efficient
• Office work
• Accounting / Banking / Finance
• Business management

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3. The Holland Model
REALISTIC (R)
INVESTIGATIVE (I)
CONVENTIONAL (C)
ARTISTIC (A)
SOCIAL (S)
ENTERPRISING (E)

• Realistic building, working outdoors, mechanical
• Investigative researching, analysing, processing
  data
• Artistic creating/enjoying art, drama,
  literature
• Social helping, instructing, care giving
• Enterprising selling, managing, persuading
• Conventional accounting, organising

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4. Student Results

• Your Interest Profile
• Example 1

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4. Student Results

• Your Interest Profile
• Example 2

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4. Student Results

• Your Interest Profile
• Example 3

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4. Student Results

• Interest Summary
• and
• Vocational Code

ECA
ICA
AES
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4. Student Results

• Contact Style

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4. Student Results

• Learning Style

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4. Student Results

• Aptitudes

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5. Planning and Resources

• Find your interest themes and related Job Guide
  categories
• Use the Job Guide to explore jobs within these
  categories
• www.jobguide.dest.gov.au
• Refer to the Tertiary Entrance Requirements Guide
• Commence working on your Career Planner

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• The journey of a thousand miles must begin with
  a single step
• Lao Tzu, Philosopher

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