DISCOVER Career Exploration - Holland Code
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DISCOVER is based on John Holland’s six occupational themes(Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional - RIASEC).
DISCOVER also organizes occupations by two bisecting coordinates based on work tasks:
- Horizontal - people (interpersonal tasks) versus things (equipment, machinery, tools, non-personal tasks)
- Vertical - data (impersonal tasks that expedite goods/services) versus ideas (intrapersonal tasks such as creating, discovering, interpreting, and synthesizing abstractions.)
These two schemes can be superimposed on top of each other, like so:
- Realistic - things
- Investigative - things and ideas
- Artistic - people and ideas
- Social - people
- Enterprising - people and data
- Conventional - data and things
DISCOVER divides these six themes into 12 regions beginning on the people line and moving clockwise around to the people line again.
Picture a clock with people being at 9:00, data at 12:00, things at 3:00 and ideas at 6:00. These regions are then divided again into 23 job families. While the exact location of each occupation in the family differs, a point plotted on the map shows the center of each family. For an image of the New World-of-Work Map click here. DISCOVER makes use of the Holland Code to match up personality types to potential careers.
Check out the Career Key website to assess your personality based on John Holland's theory of personalities. Click on "Your Personality" and then "Take the Career Key Test."
