the holland code

I don't know about you but once in a while, I like to take one of those free career assessments online and see what it thinks I should be doing. There are a ton of free ones out there and once a week I am going to take a different one and report on the results. I mean, I am basically typing "free career assessments" into a Google search bar and clicking on random results on the first page.

This week I played the Career Interest Game from the University of Missouri Career Center. The instructions on the site are convoluted. Basically, go to the site, click on each piece of the color pie and identify the three of those pieces that most closely describe you. Then, order those by importance/similarity to your personality. You get a 3 letter Holland Code that maps to a set of careers that you would be suited for.

According to the site: "This exercise is based on Dr. John Holland's theory that people and work environments can be loosely classified into six different groups. Different peoples' personalities may find different environments more to their liking. While you may have some interests in and similarities to several of the six groups, you may be attracted primarily to two or three of the areas. These two or three letters are your Holland Code."
My Holland Code was: EIS (Enterprising, Investigative, Social)

Accordingly to this assessment, I should be a: Human Resources, Training, and Labor Relations Managers and Specialists.

It is actually an interesting result. I think I would be good as an HR person because I would treat the employees like they were my clients and I am very used to providing good client service. I guess this role could evolve into a cool recruiting position - matchmaking the unemployed with the perfect job?

I have to say, this assessment provided a fairly realistic result based on my personality traits. I would recommend trying it out. It is free and it takes like 3 minutes.

If you take the test, comment with your Holland Code.