Skills
Multiple Intelligences

Picture a professional athlete; a musical prodigy; a mathematical genius; and the neighbor who is friendly to everyone.
What do they have in common? Each is extraordinarily talented in an area that helps define his/her persona and professional/educational pursuit. Yet none are equally capable across all of the skill areas.
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RIASEC - John Holland and Career Interests

John Holland was Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University and is best known as the creator of the career development model, the Holland Occupational Themes (Holland Codes). Holland suggests that all people fit into one or more personality types: realistic, investigative, artistic, social, enterprising and conventional - the RIASEC assessment that is widely used by career counseling professionals. Implicit in the theory is the concept that a person's career needs to reflect a person's personality and preferences in order to have interesting and fulfilling jobs. An "outdoor person" will likely be miserable sitting at a desk on a computer all day.
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