Career Interests Game // Career Center

Welcome to the Career Interests Game! This is a game designed to help you match your interests and skills with similar careers. It can help you begin thinking about how your personality will fit in with specific work environments and careers. Come play along and see what happens! For more information about the Career Interests Game, careers, majors, and self-assessments (like Focus 2), call or come by the MU Career Center.

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.

Imagine walking into a room in which the six groups of people below are already interacting. Read the descriptions of each group and list the group you would be drawn to first, then your second choice, and finally your third choice.

For example, if you choose R then E and then S you would most resemble the Realistic type, somewhat less resemble the Enterprising type, and resemble the Social type even less. The types that are not in your code are the types you resemble least of all. Most people, and most jobs, are some combination of two or three of the Holland interest areas.

Now hover your mouse over the color hexagon above. Click on your first, then second and then third choices of the Holland categories to find out more information on areas of study at MU, career possibilities, co-curricular activities and hobbies that correspond to your strongest interest areas. This will give you additional ways of exploring career-related interests and getting involved in your career planning.

Holland Codes
Artistic	Conventional
Enterprising	Investigative
Realistic	Social

Artistic

People who have artistic, innovating or intuitional abilities and like to work in unstructured situations using their imagination and creativity.

Scroll below and click on each section to learn more information about possible career paths and experiences for ARTISTIC people.

Conventional

People who like to work with data, have clerical or numerical ability, carry out tasks in detail or follow through on others’ instructions.

Scroll below and click on each section to learn more information about possible career paths and experiences for CONVENTIONAL people.

Enterprising

People who like to work with people, influencing, persuading, performing, leading or managing for organizational goals or economic gain.

Scroll below and click on each section to learn more information about possible career paths and experiences for ENTERPRISING people.

Investigative

People who like to observe, learn, investigate, analyze, evaluate or solve problems.

Scroll below and click on each section to learn more information about possible career paths and experiences for INVESTIGATIVE people.

Realistic

People who have athletic or mechanical ability, prefer to work with objects, machines, tools, plants or animals, or to be outdoors.

Scroll below and click on each section to learn more information about possible career paths and experiences for REALISTIC people.

Social

People who like to work with people to enlighten, inform, help, train, or cure them, or are skilled with words.

Scroll below and click on each section to learn more information about possible career paths and experiences for SOCIAL people.

Are You?

Creative
Independent
Courageous
Intuitive
Expressive
Open
Imaginative
Original
Complicated
Innovative
Introspective
Idealistic
Unconventional
Impulsive
Nonconforming
Emotional
Sensitive

Can You?

Sketch, Draw, Paint
Play a musical instrument
Write stories, Poetry, Music
Sing, Act, Dance
Design fashions or interiors

Like To?

Attend concerts, theatres, art exhibits
Read fiction, plays, and poetry
Work on crafts
Take photographs
Express yourself creatively
Deal with ambiguous ideas

Hobbies

Photography
Taking dance lessons
Instrument
Performing
Visiting art museums
Homemade crafts
Writing stories, poems, etc.
Designing sets for plays
Painting
Desktop publishing
Travel
Speaking foreign languages
Sewing
Playing a musical

Career Possibilities

MU Departments

Explore Mizzou’s 300 degree programs and learn more about your interest areas at majors.missouri.edu.

College of Arts and Science

Art (ARE)
Ancient Mediterranean Studies (AIS)
Digital Storytelling (ASE)
English (ASE)
Film Studies (AES)
German (AIE)
Interdisciplinary (IAR)
Interdisciplinary: Peace Studies (IAE)
International Studies: Peace Studies (IAE)
Linguistics (IAS)
Philosophy (AIE)
Psychology (ISE)
Religious Studies (SAE)
Romance Languages (AIE)
Russian (AIE)
Theatre (AES)

College of Business

Business Administration: Economics (IAS)

College of Education

Elementary Education (SEA)
Secondary Education (SEA)

College of Human Environmental Sciences

Architectural Studies (IAE)
Architectural Studies, Interior Design (AES)
Textile & Apparel Management (ESA)

School of Journalism

Journalism (EAS)

School of Music

Music (AES)