A Brief Description of the Holland Environmental Typology
Attribute | Realistic | Investigative | Artistic | Social | Enterprising | Conventional |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Requires |
Manual and mechanical competencies interaction with tools, machines and objects |
Analytical, technical, scientific, and verbal competencies |
Innovation or creative ability, emotionally expressive interaction with others |
Interpersonal competencies, skill in mentoring, treating healing or teaching |
Skills in persuasion and manipulation of others |
Clerical skills, skills in meeting precise standards for performance |
Demands and rewards the display of |
Conforming behavior, practical accomplishment |
Skepticism and persistence in problem solving, documentation of new knowledge, understanding or solution of problems |
Imagination in literary, artistic or musical accomplishment |
Empathy, humanitarianism, sociability, friendliness |
Initiative in the pursuit of financial or material accomplishment; |
Organizational ability, conformity, dependability |
Values or personal styles allowed expression |
Practical, productive and concrete values; robust, risky adventurous styles |
Acquisition of knowledge through scholarship or investigation |
Unconventional ideas or manners, aesthetic values |
Concern for the welfare of others |
Acquisitive or power-oriented styles |
Conventional outlook and concern for orderliness and routines |
Occupations or other environments involve |
Concrete, practical activity; use of machines, tools, materials |
Analytical or intellectual activity aimed at trouble-shooting or creation and use of knowledge |
Creative work in music, writing, performance, sculpture or unstructured intellectual endeavors |
Working with others in a helpful or facilitating way |
Selling, leading, manipulating others to attain personal or organizational goals |
Working with things, numbers, or machines to meet predictable organizational demands or specified standards |
Sample occupations |
Carpenter, truck operator |
Psychologist, microbiologist |
Musician, interior design |
Counselor, clergy member |
Lawyer, retail store manager |
Production editor, bookkeeper |
A Brief Description of the Holland Personality Typology
Attribute | Realistic | Investigative | Artistic | Social | Enterprising | Conventional |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Preferences for activities and occupations |
Manipulation of machines tools and things |
Exploration, understanding, and prediction or control of natural and social phenomena |
Literary, musical or artistic activities |
Helping, teaching, treating, counseling or serving others through personal interaction |
Persuading, manipulating or directing others |
Establishing or maintaining orderly routines, application of standards |
Values |
Material rewards for tangible accomplishments |
Development or acquisition of knowledge |
Creative expression of ideas, emotions, or sentiments |
Fostering the welfare of others, social service |
Material accomplishment and social status |
Material or financial accomplishment and power in social, political or business arenas |
Sees self as |
Practical, conservative, and having manual and manipulative skills – lacking interpersonal skills |
Analytical, intelligent, skeptical, and having academic talent – lacking interpersonal skills |
Open to experience, innovative, intellectual – lacking clerical or office skills |
Empathic, patient, and having interpersonal skills – lacking mechanical ability |
Having sales and persuasive ability – lacking scientific ability |
Having technical skills in business or production- lacking artistic competencies |
Others see as |
Normal, frank |
Asocial, intellectual |
Unconventional, disorderly, creative |
Nurturing, agreeable, extroverted |
Energetic, gregarious |
Careful, conforming |
Avoids |
Interaction with people |
Persuasion or sales activities |
Routines and conformity to established rules |
Mechanical and technical activity |
Scientific, intellectual or abstruse topics |
Ambiguous or unstructured undertakings |