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National Career Guidance and Counselling Center

The Career Key

Measure your interests and learn which job fits you best. Choosing an occupation is a matching process.

You

Your needs values, abilities, skills, interests and aspirations.

Occupation

The job’s demands and potential for satisfying your needs.

The Career Key unlocks the mystery of this matching process. It will show you how to identify the jobs most likely to satisfy you.

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By Lawrence K.Jones, Ph.D, NCC.
Arranged by Dr. Keerthi Premadasa & Mr. Ajith Jayawardhane from Career Guidance Unit of University of Colombo.

How You See Yourself

Read each statement below and decides how much it describes you. Please select the answers from the drop down menu:

Realistic

I like to work with tools, machines and animals.

Compared to others my age, I have good skills in working with tools, mechanical drawings,machines or animals.

I value practical things you can see or touch and use like plants you can grow and animals, or things you can build or make better.

I am realistic and like practical and machinery things.

Investigative

I like to study and solve mathematics and scientific queries.

I am good at understanding and solving science and math problems, compared to others my age.

I value science.

I am a precise, scientific, and intellectual.

Artistic

I like to do creative things like art, drama, crafts, dance, music or creative writing.

Compared to others my age, I have good artistic abilities in writing, drama, crafts, music, or art.

I value the creative arts like drama, music and art, or the works of creative writers.

I am artistic, imaginative, original, and independent.

Enterprising

I like to lead and persuade people, and to sell things or ideas.

Compared to persons my age, I am good at leading people and selling things or ideas.

I value success in politics, leadership or business.

I am energetic, ambitions and sociable.

Conventional

I like to work with numbers, records, or machines in a set, orderly way.

Compared to persons my age, I am good at working with written records and numbers in a systematic, orderly way.

I value success in business.

I am orderly, and good at following set plan.

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Appealing Occupations

Please select the answer from the drop down menu. For the jobs listed below, select “Mostly True” to those that definitely interest or attract you in some way. Select “Very True” for those that might be interested to you. Select “Doesn't Apply” for any job that you are undecided about, do not sound interesting, or that you would dislike.

R Bus Driver

R Truck Mechanic

R Carpenter

S Physical Therapist

S Counsellor

S Social Worker

R Fish & Farm Warden

R Airplane Pilot

R Mechanical Engineer

S Librarian

S Speech Therapist

S Teacher

R Farmer

C Bank Examiner

C Tax Expert

S Nurse

A Actor/Actress

A Novelist

C Insurance Clerk

C Bookkeeper

C Business Teacher

A Clothes Designer

A Artist

A Singer

C Court Stenographer

E Sales Manager

E Salesperson

A Dancer

I Chemist

I Electrical Engineer

C Bank Teller

E Apartment Manager

E Restaurant Manager

A Musician

I Astronomer

I Chemical Technician

I Biologist

E Radio /TV Announcer

E Insurance Sales Agent

E Lawyer

I Laboratory Technician

I Research Scientist

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Your Career Key

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Career Key Results

According to John Holland there are 6 types of people.

Realistic	Investigative	Artistic	Social	Enterprising	Conventional

Career Key Chart

Career Counselling Notes

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