OCCUPATIONAL INTERESTS CARD SORT 2007 Richard L Knowdell

OCCUPATIONAL INTERESTS CARD SORT © 2007 Richard L. Knowdell. All rights reserved. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher—Career Research & Testing, Inc. www. careernetwork. org. © Copyright 2007 by Richard L. Knowdell, Career Research & Testing, Inc. www. Career. Network. Org

OCCUPATIONAL INTERESTS CARD SORT DEFINITELY PROBABLY DEFINITELY INTERESTED PROBABLY INTERESTED INDIFFERENT NOT INTERESTED Directions • Place the five category cards at the top of your work space. • Sort the deck of 110 occupational names into the five categories according to how attractive they are to you. Do NOT consider how much money you would make or weather or not you have the required talents. • You should sort the cards quickly. Take about seven to ten minutes to sort the entire deck. © Copyright 2007 by Richard L. Knowdell, Career Research & Testing, Inc. www. Career. Network. Org

OCCUPATIONAL INTERESTS CARD SORT DEFINITELY PROBABLY DEFINITELY INTERESTED PROBABLY INTERESTED INDIFFERENT NOT INTERESTED © Copyright 2007 by Richard L. Knowdell, Career Research & Testing, Inc. www. Career. Network. Org NOT INTERESTED

OCCUPATIONAL INTERESTS CARD SORT Directions • Take the 12 to 18 cards with the occupations you find most attractive and group them into “naturally” occurring groups, according some common themes they share. • Give a name to each of the groups that illustrates themes they have in common. • The names of the groups should reveal your broad areas of interest. © Copyright 2007 by Richard L. Knowdell, Career Research & Testing, Inc. www. Career. Network. Org

OCCUPATIONAL INTERESTS CARD SORT Questions • What themes run through the occupations that you find most attractive? • Is your current job, or the way you tend to approach your job, similar to these themes? • If you could not continue in your current job, are any of the jobs that you find attractive appropriate for you? • Which of the options currently available to you is most consistent with the largest number of themes you came up with? © Copyright 2007 by Richard L. Knowdell, Career Research & Testing, Inc. www. Career. Network. Org