Choose your most satisfying skills to enter into the computer. Students may use a card sort instead of the worksheet. Advance reservation required.
Individuals answer questions about aspirations, activities, competencies, and occupations.
After adding up their scores, they discover occupations that match their answers in the Occupation Finder booklet, in the Dictionary of Holland Occupational Codes, and in the LINK portion of the Oregon Career Information System. This inventory can be done at your leisure at home or in the Career Information Center. The Strong Interest Inventory asks about our interests and preferences in work, school subjects, types of activities and people. When scored, it reports patterns in your interests, which suggest potential occupations that you might like. The strongest feature is that it has scales comparing your interests to the interests of people who are already in over 100 occupations and who are happy with their work.