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Understanding Your ASVAB Results

Understanding Your ASVAB Results. Classroom Presentation By: Susan Wales. Why Take the ASVAB?. Learn about your interests Learn about your skills Learn about your work values Explore careers that suit your needs. Step 1: Take the FYI (Find Your Interests).

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Understanding Your ASVAB Results

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  1. Understanding Your ASVAB Results Classroom Presentation By: Susan Wales

  2. Why Take the ASVAB? • Learn about your interests • Learn about your skills • Learn about your work values • Explore careers that suit your needs

  3. Step 1: Take the FYI (Find Your Interests)

  4. Steps 2 and 3: Calculate rows, then columns

  5. Steps 4, 5, 6: Raw scores, Percentile, Top Interest Codes

  6. 6 Interest Areas • Realistic • Investigative • Artistic • Social • Enterprising • Conventional

  7. Realistic • Practical, hands-on • Like to design, build or repair • Enjoy working outside with plants, animals or tools and machinery • Prefer working with things rather than people

  8. Investigative • Prefer analytical or intellectual activities • Like to study, investigate, evaluate, problem-solve • Prefer to work with ideas rather than people or things • Usually like math and science

  9. Artistic • Enjoy expressing oneself in original activities • Do not like to follow a clear set of rules • Work with ideas rather than things • Need artistic ability and a good imagination

  10. Social • Like activities that involve personal interaction • Often in “helping” professions • Like to work with people rather than objects or data • Need good communication skills

  11. Enterprising • Like work that involves influencing or directing others • Often like economics and politics • Like work that is fast-paced, requires responsibility, decision-making and risk

  12. Conventional • Like work with orderly and accurate records, procedures and routines • Like working with data, things or machines • Like detail • Need clerical, organizational and mathematical ability

  13. Gender and Interest Codes

  14. ASVAB Summary Results • Verbal Skills • Math Skills • Science and Technical Skills

  15. Work Values • What is important to you? • Challenge • Income • Variety • Helping Others • Security • Public Contact • Independence

  16. Putting It Together: Occu-Find

  17. Check Occu-Find for Careers That Match Your Needs: • Look at your Top Interest and Find Those Careers • Check your 2nd Interest • Check your Skills • Mark the ones you would like to explore further

  18. Websites: • www.asvabprogram.com • www.bls.gov – Occupational Outlook Handbook • www.mynextmove.org • www.mappingyourfuture.org • www.fafsa.ed.gov • www.alstudentaid.com • Individual college websites to check programs of study

  19. Conclusion: • Use your ASVAB results to research careers that suit your needs (interests, skills, work values). • Research the education and training you will need. • Work hard in high school to make sure you will meet the prerequisites for your next step.

  20. Final Thoughts: • I have enjoyed working with you on this project. • Feel free to come and see me on an individual basis if you need help with college or career information. • Thanks, Mrs. Wales

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