I’ve been writing about the 6 categories of the Strong Interest Inventory: Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising and Conventional. If you decided to take the Strong Interest Inventory, the assessment would measure how you match up on these 6 categories and this is useful to get you to narrow down the careers for you to search.  

The assessment also helps you to identify your personal style. This is more detail about the work environment and can help you to narrow down what jobs to research. 

Work style: do you prefer to work alone or to work with others? Would you rather concentrate on dealing with data, ideas and things or with helping others? Of course, its not an either or but are you pulled more one way or the other? 

Team orientation:  do you like working as part of a team, collaborating with others or would you really prefer to do more things independently. It’s not to say you don’t get on with people but you do like solving problems on your own.  

Leadership: Do you want to be in charge, do you get a buzz out of motivating others and telling people what to do or would you prefer to get on with doing a good job, and rather lead by example than telling people what to do.   Risk taking: Some career options are going to involve more of a risk. Will you be prepared to take chances and make quick decisions or do you feel better when you can play it safe? 

By answering these questions you have a better understanding of the working environment that suits you so you can then look at the jobs that match with your interests and narrow down, this making job search simpler.  

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