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PA CAREER ZONE Interest Profiler

Web-based Resource

PA CAREER ZONE Interest Profiler

Grade Levels

10th Grade, 11th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade

Course, Subject

Career Education and Work, Career Awareness & Preparation
Related Academic Standards
13.1.5.A 13.1.5.A
Describe the impact of individual interests and abilities on career choices.
13.1.5.B 13.1.5.B
Describe the impact of personal interest and abilities on career choices.
13.1.5.H 13.1.5.H
Connect personal interests and abilities and academic strengths to personal career options.
13.1.8.A 13.1.8.A
Relate careers to individual interests, abilities, and aptitudes.
13.1.8.B 13.1.8.B
Relate careers to personal interests, abilities and aptitudes.
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  • Big Ideas
    Career choice and preparation are lifelong processes based on many influences and using many strategies.
    Change impacts career options and choices.
    Comprehensive planning leads to effective career decisions.
    Interests, aptitudes, and abilities are unique for each individual and play a key role in career choice.
    There is a definitive relationship between education and career planning and choice.
    Understanding and demonstrating workplace skills and knowledge is paramount in the career acquisition process.
  • Concepts
    Components of a career plan.
    Differences between short and long term academic goals.
    Economic factors impact employment opportunities.
    Effect of school subjects, extracurricular activities and community experiences on career preparation.
    Factors that impact career choices.
    Factors that impact personal career choices.
    Factors that support career selection.
    Influence of personal interests and aptitudes on career choice.
    Relationship between educational achievement and career success.
    Relationship of changing roles in the workplace to new career opportunities.
    Relationship of personal interests, abilities, and aptitudes to career goals.
    Sources of information required in a career portfolio including personal components, academic history and self-assessment activities.
    The relationship of career interests to career choice.
    Traditional and non-traditional careers.
    Varied sources of career information.
  • Competencies
    Complete and organize the results of a career exploration activity.
    Describe the influences that impact personal career choices.
    Develop and collect a list of achievements, awards, recognitions and community service involvements.
    Establish a list of short and long range academic goals for the future and share this in a group.
    Identify personal interests, aptitudes and abilities that influence career choice.
    Interview an adult and determine what factors influenced their career choices and how they influenced them.
    Match some personal interests and abilities to given career choices.
    Select some career options that are based on your personal interests, abilities, aptitudes, achievements and goals.

Description

The PA CAREER ZONE has a free interest profiler under the menu "Explore" and the Subtitle "Assess Yourself."  The interest profiler has a series of questions about work activiities that people do on their jobs.  The assessment is web-based and students just have to go through and answer 180 questions with Like, Dislike or Unsure.  

The results will produce a summary of the student interests that represents how much they might enjoy each activity.  The results wll provide the top three interest areas where a student might enjoy the activities of a job.  Students can use these areas of interest when looking for specific job possibilities.  The program also recommends three other possible areas of interest.  

Finally, students can click on jobs that are specific jobs that are related to their area of interest, and see potential salary scales and videos that further describe that job.  Students can also click on a screen that will identify college majrs that are needed to pursue that career, and potential job openings.

The assessment follows the theories of Holland and the students will finish with a score of RIASEC, focusing on the top three and then the next three most popular.

Rationale

This interest inventory is a good place to start in helping students identify what occupation they might like when they get older.  School counselors can use the results to assist students with developing a potential career plan, and help them look at continuing education.

URL or Resource

http://www.pacareerzone.org/ip/

Content Provider or Additional Information

Students can have the opportunity to "log in" and save the results of their interest profile, or print them out and save the results in a "hard copy" portfolio.

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