Part I _________________________________________________________________________________(some of which have Artistic as a secondary personality type), when you scan that list you
may want to concentrate on the higher-ranked choices. On the other hand, to create the list
of the “50 Best Realistic Jobs,” we sorted a pool of 285 jobs, so the best 50 truly represent
the upper crust of that large group.! ese diff erences simply refl ect the nature of the United
States workforce.No theory can perfectly describe the infi nite variety of personalities to be found in our
culture and the messy distribution of jobs that a free economy produces. You should note
that the RIASEC scheme for describing personality types is not the only one that is used in
career decision-making. However, it is the most popular and most thoroughly researched one,
so it is the most appropriate one to use in this book.Other Assessments with RIASEC
Output
Apart from the assessment in Part II of this book, you may want to use any of these free
assessments to explore your personality type in RIASEC terms:!! e O*NET Computerized Interest Profi ler (for Windows), which you can download at
http://www.onetcenter.org/CIP.html (the assessment in Part II is based on it)
!! e University of Missouri’s Career Center Career Interests Game at http://
career.missouri.edu/students/explore/thecareerinterestsgame.php
!! e Work Interest Quiz at http://www.myfuture.com/toolbox/workinterest.html
!! e University of New Orleans’s “What Is Your RIASEC?” checklist at
http://www.career.uno.edu/pdfs/Career%20Interest%20Game.pdf
You also have a number of options if you are willing to pay a fee. For example, you can access
John Holland’s own Self-Directed Search at http://www.self-directed-search.com/.
Keep in mind that although all of these assessments produce outputs with RIASEC codes
and some of them also link these codes to occupations, they will not necessarily produce
the exact same output. Assessment of personality is not as exact a science as, say, chemistry.
Neither is the task of linking personalities to occupations.You should not regard the output of any personality assessment as the fi nal word on what
career will suit you best. Use a variety of approaches to decide what kind of person you are
and narrow down the kinds of work you enjoy. Actual work experience is probably the best
way to test a tentative choice.