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holland assessment
Directions: Check the items that best describe you. Total each box and record your three
highest personality lifestyles. Look to the next page for your results. Most people are a
combination of these six types.
realistic
Participate in athletic activities
artistic
Designing things
Work outdoors or enjoy spending time outdoors
Play or listen to music
Like things (tools and machines) more than people
Participate in a play or attend a play (theater)
Like to build or repair things
Like to be original
Take care of animals
Write a creative story
Like to create things with hands
Express emotions easily
Like activities involving coordination and skill
Solve problems using creativity instead of logic
Enjoy structure
Enjoy cooking
social
Show concern for others
Enjoy teaching or helping other people
Get along well with and want to work with people
Able to express yourself
Sociable
Like attention
Popular and outgoing
Like to be a leader
Patient
Friendly
Participate in community service activities
enterprising
Like to plan things (parties or social activities)
investigative
Like to solve mathematical problems and games
Like to take things apart to see how they work
Like science
Try to understand complex concepts and problems
Solve problems by thinking
Enjoy reading about and studying school subjects
Enjoy libraries and online research
conventional
Dislike work requiring physical skills
Dependable
Works well with words
Work in an office environment
Likes to persuade others to your viewpoints
Like to know what is expected of me
Energetic and enthusiastic
Conservative
Manage people to complete a task
Good self-control
Like material wealth
Don’t mind rules and regulations
Enjoy leadership roles
Know what is right and wrong
Work in an upscale environment
Doesn’t seek leadership roles
Sells products or services
Like well-defined tasks and structure
Discussing law and/or politics
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Enjoy working with computers
Enjoys public speaking
Like working with numbers