Kids Career Test & Codes System

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Overview

The Kid Career Test System is VISUAL learning techniques and career test for kids that use colors to represent Holland Codes and color codes.

The Kid Career Test System clarifies thoughts, integrates new knowledge, and promotes critical thinking. New concepts are more thoroughly and easily understood.

The Child Career Test System organizes and analyzes information. Children, youth, and adults -

• See how Holland Codes are connected to careers
• Realize how careers can be grouped and organized

The Kid Career Test System also improves –

• Attention Span and Concentration: holds audience's attention and helps people absorb information
• Memory Skills and Understanding: improves ability to absorb information
• Speed of Learning: reduces the time it takes to complete career tests.

Use the Kid Career Test System at -

• Schools
• Boys and Girls Clubs
• YMCA/ YWCA Programs
• Afterschool Programs
• Kids Go To Work Days
• Career Days
• Summer School Programs

The Child Career Test System is an excellent career test for ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTS and for other people -

• Who are In ESL/GED programs
• Who have limited reading ability
• Who have limited knowledge of English
• Who are developmentally delayed
• Who are learning disabled
• Who have special needs
• Who have limited access to education
• Who are chronically unemployed

The Kid Career Test System has the following items -

• Kids Career Test (Printed Version)
• Colors to Careers Posters
• Color Key
• Starter Kit
• Career Resource Guide
• Guide to Unlock Your Potential
• Unlock Your Treasure Chest Guide to Career Exploration
• Training Manual
• Flash Cards and Bingo Cards
• CD ROM Collection

Read about Kid Career Test System -

• Overview
• Purpose and Rationale for the Paint Career With Colors System
• Description of the Child Career Test System
• Components
• Primary Markets
• Market Competition and Special Features
• Literature Review

In career awareness programs, students do not make premature career choices. Elementary school career education is not career exploration or career preparation. Elementary students remain open to new career ideas and possibilities. Elementary students build awareness of -

• Self
• Personal interactions
• School
• Workforce

Career awareness programs use age appropriate materials that match the developmental levels of the students. Age appropriate activities expose students to a variety of -

• Different jobs
• Career information sources
• The reasons why people work

Programs also incorporate academic career pathways into classroom activities.

After completing an elementary school career awareness program, students have -

• Higher grades
• Higher academic achievement
• Improved school involvement, as well as
• An increase in career awareness exploration, personal, and interpersonal skills

In addition, the students complete more complex courses and have a higher graduation rate from high school.

In summary, in elementary school career programs, students:

• Learn and apply the academic material
• Know and value self
• Build self-esteem and confidence
• Identify interests and build relationships between the school environment and the work force
• Build academic, communication, problem solving, and social skills
• Increase awareness of the need for future jobs skills
• See the connections between learning in school, academic skills, job related skills, and careers
• See career possibilities
• See themselves as a future contributor to the job force
• Receive empowerment
• Build self-determination (2,7,9)

Purpose and Rationale for the
Kid Career Test System

1. What does the Kid Career Test System measure?

The Child Career Test System measures -

• Interests
• Abilities
• Skills

2. What are the concepts or theories underlying the development of this Kid Career Test System?

Dr. John L. Holland (1985) created Holland Code Career Model, Holland Hexagon Model or Holland Codes.

The Holland Code Career Model matches jobs into -

• Job codes
• Interest clusters
• Work personality environments
• Personality types

The Occupational Codes are -

• Realistic
• Investigative
• Artistic
• Social
• Enterprising
• Conventional

Holland Codes assessments provide -

• Career cluster information
• College major information
• Lists of careers
• Job finder resources

Description of the Paint Career With Colors System

1. What is the structure of the instrument?

The Kid Career Test System is VISUAL learning techniques and career test for kids that use colors to represent Holland Codes.

The Kids Career Test clarifies thoughts, integrates new knowledge, and promotes critical thinking. New concepts are more thoroughly and easily understood.

The Kids Job Test organizes and analyzes information. Children, youth, and adults –

• See how Holland Codes are connected to careers
• Realize how careers can be grouped and organized

2. How many parts are there in career test?

The Kid Career test has six sections.

3. What does each section measures?

Each section measures the one of the six RIASEC or Holland Codes.

4. How many items does the Paint Career With Colors System contain?

The Kid Career Test has 54 items.

5. What type(s) of scores are generated?

2 – letter Holland Code

6. What is the format of the System?

The Kid Career Test is a printed test. Group or individual administration? Kid Career Test can be administered to groups and individuals.

7. What are the required response modes of the System?

Paper-and-pencil

8. What is the total estimated time required for administration?

Total estimated time is 30 minutes.

9. What is the proposed scoring procedure?

The Kid Career Test is self – scoring. How long will it take to score the Paint Career With Colors System? Total scoring time is 5 minutes.

Components

1. What nonconsumable (i.e., reusable) components do you anticipate will be required for administering, scoring, and interpreting the Paint Career With Colors System? (e.g., System manuals, scoring keys, System plates, booklets, manipulatives)?

Kid Career Test System contains –

• Career Model
• Table of Contents
• Starter Kit
• Facilitator's Manual
• Overview and Introduction to Teachers, Counselors, and Parents
• Occupational Posters with Colorful Graphics
• Poster Instruction Sheets
• Color Chart
• Web Site and Book Resource Guide

2. Describe each of these components in terms of the anticipated production characteristics: page size, number of pages, color(s) of ink, special forms (e.g., multi-forms, self-carboning), extraordinary use of graphical images, line drawings, or other illustrations, etc.

The Kid Career Test System is VISUAL career exploration System for children that use colors to represent Holland Codes.

Career Models

There are two models –

• RIASEC Version
• Kid Version

The RIASEC Version is for Middle School students. For Middle School students, the RIASEC Version should be used with the Self-Directed Search Career Explorer. The Kid Version uses easier – to – read terms for elementary school students.

Starter Kit

The Starter Kit helps teachers, counselors, and parents prepare for a Kid Career Test System. The Starter Kit has the following items –

• News Release
• Flyers for children
• Flyers for teachers, counselors, and parents
• Tent Cards
• Name Tags
• Stickers for Tent Cards and Name Tags

Facilitator's Manual

The Facilitator's Manual provides detailed step-by-step instructions to administer and implement the different aspects of the Kid Career Test Program.

Overview and Introduction to Teachers, Counselors, and Parents

The Overview and Introduction to Teachers, Counselors, and Parents gives a description of the different parts of the Kid Career Test System.

Career Test Guide

The System Guide provides teachers and counselors with step – by – step instructions for teachers and counselors.

Occupational Posters with Poster Instruction Sheets

Over three hundred (300) Colors to Careers Posters feature--

• Graphics
• Holland Codes
• Kid Career Test Codes.

The Kid Career Test Posters are Easy Scoring. You sort the posters quickly according to likes and dislikes. At the end of the poster sorting exercise, you will have your Holland Code and Kid Career Test Code. The posters are an excellent way to explore careers. The poster shows you’re the relationship between Holland Codes, Career Codes, and careers.

Kid Color Chart

The Kid Color Chart shows all of the information listed on the posters –

• Job Titles
• Career Color Codes
• 3 letter Holland Codes
• Colors to Careers Poster Numbers

Web Site and Book Resource Guide

The Web Site and Book Resource Guide provides additional information about web site and books for children.

Primary Markets

1. What is the target population for the Kid Career Test System (i.e., demographic characteristics such as age, gender, etc.)

The target population for the Paint Career With Colors System is elementary or middle school students.

Other individuals who use the Kid Career Test System include people –

• Who are In ESL/GED programs
• Who have limited reading ability
• Who have limited knowledge of English
• Who are developmentally delayed
• Who are learning disabled
• Who have special needs
• Who have limited access to education

2. What professional discipline(s) would be the potential purchasers and users of this System?

Professional disciplines include –

• Universities and college – Elementary school education and counseling professors
• Teaching – Teachers, tutors, and home educators
• Counseling – School counselors, career development facilitators, life coaches, and career coaches
• Child Development – After – School Instructors, Career Day Facilitators, and Community Agency Staff
• Social Services – Social workers, crisis counselors, and At – Risk Children Program Staff

3. Which settings would be appropriate for use of this System (e.g., schools, private clinics, hospitals, private practice, etc.)?<

Settings for the Kid Career Test With Colors include –

• Schools
• Boys and Girls Clubs, YMCA/ YWCA Programs, and other community organizations
• Afterschool Programs
• Kids Go To Work Days
• Career Days
• Summer School Programs

Market Competition and Special Features

What other Systems are currently available that serve a similar function?

There is not a wide selection of Holland Code, visual, color-coded career systems available for elementary or middle school students.

Literature Review

Different researchers have discussed the need for elementary school career education.

According Ediger (2000), elementary school career education is important. Ediger stated that "the elementary school years are not too early to begin to achieve a vision of what one desires to do in life contributing to the world of work". Without career education, students have unrealistic perceptions of careers due to a lack of knowledge and poor decision making. Students have limited knowledge and exposure to careers. When students look at the different industries e.g. sports, media and entertainment, most students underestimate the skills and time required to have successful careers.

Richard W. Auger, Anne E. Blackhurst, Kay Herting Wahl reported the importance of elementary school career education. There is increasing evidence in the research literature that career development is a lifelong process that begins in childhood (Magnuson & Starr, 2000; Trice, 1991; Trice & McClellan, 1993, 1994). Research also suggested that elementary-aged children may tend to aspire to careers that are out of the reach of all but a select few, such as a career as a professional athlete (Bobo, Hildreth, & Durodoye, 1998; Cook et al., 1996; Helwig, 2001).

Donna E. Palladino Schultheiss, Thomas V. Palma, Alberta J. Manzi cited that research suggests that students who drop out of school at age 16 have psychologically disengaged from school as early as Grade 3 (McWhirter, McWhirter, McWhirter, & McWhirter, 1998). Moreover, sixth-through-ninth-grade children have demonstrated very little understanding of how school relates to the real world and seem to have little to no awareness of the skills and knowledge needed for success in the future (Johnson, 2000).

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Kid Career Test Model

There are two versions – the RIASEC Version and the Children’s Version.

The RIASEC Version is for Middle School students. For Middle School students, the RIASEC Version should be used with the Self-Directed Search Career Explorer.

RIASEC MODEL	Children’s Model
· A = ARTISTIC	· A = ARTS
· E = ENTERPRISING	· B = BUSINESS
· C = CONVENTIONAL	· O = OFFICE
· S = SOCIAL	· P = PEOPLE
· I = INVESTIGATIVE	· S = SCIENCE
· R = REALISTIC	· T = TECHNICAL/ TOOLS

Testimonials

We used all three of your wonderful career training materials Paint with Colors, Picture Inventory Codes, and Holland’s Self Directed Search for children in K-12 settings in mainland China and met with tremendous success! Our company InterLangua was asked to establish Career Guidance with the YuCai Group Education Consortium (Shenzhen). Prior to this, Chinese families in the school would get together and decide what would interest their child. There was little formal exploration and matching of interests and abilities, rather, a seemingly rote list of jobs and titles that were typical and practical.

From Elisabeth Montgomery, Ph.D. – InterLangua, LLC (Shenzhen, P.R. China)

Great materials for training in life skills! The easy to use, visual, job posters, games, and career tests provide a wealth of ideas and discussions for us as career facilitators, and for teachers and parents. We now have a common vocabulary with which to steer children into worlds of discovery despite language and cultural barriers to career exploration. After our training, not only were youngsters able to identify jobs they wanted to do in the future, but middle school kids explored their current interests on deeper levels and talked to their parents about new jobs in emerging fields.

From Sun Wei Hong – Quality Director, InterLangua LLC (Shenzhen, P.R. China)

One of our Chinese students, applying for top 10 colleges in the USA wrote, “Another thing I really liked about the Holland Code test was how it offered a description of what kind of personalities and characteristics were suitable for different jobs. It helped me find my match more easily and led me to think more about what kind of person I really was and whether my ideal job was really a good match for my personality traits.”

From: Wei Xiou Yang - senior student at Shenzhen Foreign Language School.

Using your Holland SDS materials at InterLangua’s Trainings, college youth found more clarity in planning their college goals. One graduate student in finance wrote:“This is extremely useful for those who are planning their career, looking for jobs or thinking about changing jobs. Holland codes SDS helps them identify their potential domain and help them to achieve their goals more quickly therefore happily! It really serves as a compass which guides people to the direction of success.”

From Cao Xiao Zhou “Ben” – graduate student, Paris High-Technology Poly-technic.

I just reviewed the Kid Career Test System and really liked it. I look forward to using it in the 2007-08 school year here at Kealakehe Elementary in Kona As I mentioned, I will be teaching a state-wide distance learning course called Establishing an Elementary Career/Guidance Program for elementary school counselors to earn professional development credit. I will offer your website as a resource for them to participate in the preview program as well. Congratulations on developing a very user-friendly program for children!

From: M. Bernier, School Counselor, Kealakehe Elementary School

...I think the Paint with Colors is a great tool for career exploration with children. My students enjoyed using it, and I plan to use it in when I teach the Career Counseling course again next summer. Thank you for making it available...

From: Dr. R. B. Palmer, Ph.D., Counseling Psychology Department, Eastern University

The children's version is simpler to understand and use than other interest inventories I have reviewed… The pictures are clear, informative and stimulate career exploration and conversation.

From: A. Eubanks, Vocational Services Program Manager, Stanford Home for Children

Kids Career Test

The Kids Job Test uses self-by-step activities, career games for Kids, and kids activities for career choices to highlight Holland Codes or Colors to Careers Codes. On each page, you choose the careers that you like or are interested in.

At the end of the job test for kids, you summarize your results. The Summary Sheet identifies your Holland Codes or Colors to Careers Codes.

The Kids Career Test comes with a Colors to Careers Career Model, Colors to Careers Code or Holland Code Descriptions, and Color Key. The Child Career Test is an excellent tool to introduce you to career exploration, Holland Codes, and Colors to Careers Codes. The graphics hold your attention as you identify your career interests.

Colors to Careers Posters

Over three hundred (300) Colors to Careers Posters feature graphics, Holland Codes, and Colors to Careers Codes. The Colors to Careers Posters are Easy Scoring. You sort the posters quickly according to likes and dislikes. At the end of the poster sorting exercise, you will have your Holland Code and Colors to Careers Code. The posters are an excellent way to explore careers. The poster shows you’re the relationship between Holland Codes, Color-to Careers Codes, and careers.

Career Posters comes with -

• Children Version
• Leaders Version
• RIASEC Version
• Photo Posters
• Poster Card Instruction Sheet – Photo Version
• Poster Card Instruction Sheet – RIASEC Version
• Poster Card Instruction Sheet – Children Version

Colors to Careers Key

The Colors to Careers Color Chart shows information listed on the career tests and posters –

• Job Titles
• Colors Codes
• 3 letter Holland Codes
• Poster Numbers

Color Key Charts are available in the following versions -

• Color Key-RIASEC Version
• Color Key-RIASEC Alphabetized Version
• Color Key-Children Version
• Color Key-Children2-Alphabetized Version
• Color Key-Photo Version
• Color Key-Photo-Alphabetized Version

The Career Test, Color Key, and Posters are sold in the following versions -

• Career Test, Color Key, and Posters (Family Version): $60
• Career Test, Color Key, and Posters (School Version): $100

Promotional Starter Kit

Use the Starter Kit to promote the Kid Career Test System.

The Starter Kit helps teachers, counselors, and parents prepare for a Kid Career Test System. The Starter Kit has the following items –

• News Release
• Flyers for children
• Flyers for teachers, counselors, and parents
• Tent Cards
• Name Tags
• Stickers for Tent Cards and Name Tags

The flyers and News Release help to advertise the Program.

The News Release advertises the beginning of the Kids Career Test System. Send out the News Release prior to starting the system.

The Children’s and Adult’s Flyers provide information about the Kids Career Test System.

Use Name Tags and Tent Cards to identify children, students, teachers, counselors, or parents.

Individuals place stickers on Name Tags and Tent Cards. The Stickers lists the 6 Holland Codes or 6 Colors to Careers Codes. When the children or students have completed the Career Test, they will be instructed to place the correct labels on their Name Tags and Tent Cards. The Stickers identify each individual’s Holland Codes or Colors to Careers Codes.

Career Resource Guide

The Career Resource Guide (Internet Resources for Teachers, Counselors, Parents, Adults, and Teens) includes additional information from the following areas –

• Holland Code Career Assessment Activities
• Awareness, Assessment, and Knowledge Resources
• Career Exploration Sites

The Career Resource Guide (Internet Resources for Teachers, Counselors, Parents, Adults, and Teens) covers -

1. Look at Exploring Careers Web Sites

• CURRICULUM
• CAREER INFORMATION
• SCIENCE CAREER GROUP
• SPECIFIC CAREERS — SCIENCE

2. Look at Exploring Careers Books

Guide to Unlock Your Potential Curriculum 2009

This Guide to Unlock Your Potential Curriculum provides strategies –

• To motivate students to expand their knowledge of themselves and the world of work
• To empower students with the skills, knowledge, and support they need to enhance their career and personal development
• To encourage the discovery and refinement of students’ work values, interests and skills, as well as their academic and career planning

The contents of the Guide to Unlock Your Potential Curriculum are -

1. Outline
2. Introduction
3. Career Exploration

• THREE STEPS WITHIN THE CAREER PLANNING AND EXPLORATION PROCESS
• STEP ONE: AWARENESS, KNOWLEDGE, AND ASSESSMENT
• Types of Career Planning Resources
• Examples of Holland Codes Resources
• Four Personal Styles
• Holland Code Assessment
• STEP TWO: EDUCATIONAL AND OCCUPATIONAL EXPLORATION
• Internet Career Exploration Resources
• Career Book Resources
• STEP THREE: CAREER PLANNING
• Holland Codes and College Majors
• Resume Writing
• Resume Writing Web Sites
• Preparing for an Interview

4. Bibliography
5. Appendix

• Career Exploration and Planning
• Areas Influencing Career Planning and Exploration
• Expanded List of Areas Influencing Career Planning and Exploration
• Career and Vocational Knowledge
• Different Occupational Areas
• Career Exploration Exercise Results
• Additional Career Websites

Unlock Your Treasure – Children

The Children’s version of the Unlock Your Treasure Chest Guide to Career Exploration is used in conjunction with the Self Directed Search Career Explorer and the Kids Career Test System (Children's and RIASEC Version).

The Unlock Your Treasure Chest Guide to Career Exploration has 3 sections:

• Guide to Exploring Careers
• Internet Resources for Teachers, Counselors, Parents, Adults, Kids and Children
• Visual Aids or Screenshots from the Unlock the Treasure Chest Guidebook

The Unlock Your Treasure Chest Guide to Career Exploration is for kids and children who need a manual that will guide them through the steps of exploring careers.

The topics included in the Unlock Your Treasure Chest Guide to Career Exploration are:

• Learning about Yourself
• Find the Secret Code
• Understand the Secret Code – The Holland Code
• Find Your Career Group
• Identify Careers Using Kids Career Test System
• Identify Careers Using the Self Directed Search Career Explorer
• Explore Careers Using Career Web Sites
• Explore Career Using Career Books

Training Manual

The Training Manual provides detailed step-by-step instructions to administer and implement the different aspects of the Kid Career Test System. The Training Manual covers the following areas –

1. Introduction (For Parents, Teachers, & Counselors)
2. Kids Career Test System –

• Model
• Career Test
• Posters
• Color Key

3. Awareness & Assessment: Teacher, Counselor, & Parent Guide

• 3 Ways To Choose a Right Career Test For Your Child or Student
• Holland Career Self Assessment Tests
• Features Of Career Self Assessments Tests

4. Guide To Exploring Careers – For Children

• Learning About Yourself
• Day One: Meet Your Guides and Get Your Map
• Day Two: Meet John Holland, a Great Explorer
• Day Three: Find The Secret Code
• Day Four: Understand The Secret Code – The Color Code
• Day Five: Find Your Career Group
• Day Six: Get Your Holland Code.
• Day Seven: Get Your Career List
• Day Eight: Look at Exploring Careers Web Sites
• Day Nine: Look at Exploring Careers Books

5. Career Posters – Keys To Explore Holland Codes, Color Codes, and Careers
6. Day Ten: Look at Career Posters
7. Career Posters

• Preparation For Career Poster Activity
• Sorting By Likes And Dislikes
• Summary Sheet
• Final Review
• Highest Code Letters

8. Starter Kit
9. Visual Aids Or Screenshots For Teachers, Counselors, Or Parents
10. Flash Cards

Flash Cards and Bingo Cards Sets

The purpose of the Flash Cards and Bingo Cards is to help the students:

• Discover their interests, abilities, and skills.
• Find out what makes their personality tick.
• Explore careers with middle school students, children, and kids.
• Link careers to interests, abilities and skills.

Flash Card Set has -

• Flash Cards – Adults Version
• Flash Cards - Children Version

The Bingo Cards has -

• Bingo Card Set – Children Version
• Bingo Master - Children Version
• Bingo Master Cutouts – Children Version
• Bingo Instruction Sheet – Children Version
• Bingo Card Set – RIASEC Version
• Bingo Master – RIASEC Version
• Bingo Master Cutouts – RIASEC Version
• Bingo Instruction Sheet – RIASEC Version

Kid Career Test CD ROM Collection

There are four (4) Kid Career Test CD Collection.

• Foundational CD-ROM
• Bonus CD-ROM Number 1 – Training Resources
• Bonus CD-ROM Number 2 – Promotional Starter Kit Materials
• Bonus CD-ROM Number 3 – Holland Codes Toolkit
• Bonus CD-ROM Number 4 – Presentational Materials

Here is a detailed outline of the Kid Career Test CD Collection.

Foundational CD-ROM

1. Career Test - Children & RIASEC – Revising

• Children Test
• Children Test Guide
• Photo Test
• Photo Test Guide
• RIASEC Test
• RIASEC Test Guide

2. Color Key

• Color Key -RIASEC Version
• Color Key –RIASEC Alphabetized Version
• Color Key-Children Version
• Color Key-Children2-Alphabetized Version
• Color Key-Photo . Version
• Color Key-Photo-Alphabetized Version

3. Posters

• Children Version
• Leaders Version
• RIASEC Version
• Photo Posters
• Poster Card Instruction Sheet – Photo Version
• Poster Card Instruction Sheet – RIASEC Version
• Poster Card Instruction Sheet - Children Version

4. Introduction

• Overview
• RIASEC VS Children Table
• Fact Sheets
• Kid Career Test Wheel – Children
• Kid Career Test Wheel – RIASEC
• RIASEC & Children Model Table

Bonus CD-ROM Number 1 – Training Resources

1. Career Resource Guide
2. Curriculum
3. Unlock Your Treasure – Children
4. Training Manual
5. Mini-Posters - Children's Version

• Mini Posters Labels
• Mini Posters Instructions
• Mini Posters Scoring Sheet

6. Career and Holland Game

Bonus CD-ROM Number 2 – Promotional Starter Kit Materials

1. Brochure
2. Labels - Children Codes
3. Labels - RIASEC Codes
4. Flyer – Adults
5. Flyer – Children
6. Name Tags
7. News Release
8. Poster
9. Tent Cards

Bonus CD-ROM Number 3 – Holland Codes Toolkit CD-ROM

1. Analyzer
2. Flash Cards

• Flash Cards – Adults Version
• Flash Cards - Children Version

3. Bingo Cards

• Bingo Card Set – Children Version
• Bingo Master - Children Version
• Bingo Master Cutouts – Children Version
• Bingo Instruction Sheet – Children Version
• Bingo Card Set – RIASEC Version
• Bingo Master – RIASEC Version
• Bingo Master Cutouts – RIASEC Version
• Bingo Instruction Sheet – RIASEC Version

Cost: $375/ for USA Schools, Non-Profit Organizations only

Before ordering -

• Read, print, sign, and date User Agreement
• Return the form by -
• Fax to us at 602-569-9640 or
• Mail to Holland Codes Resource Center, 4133 E. Siesta Lane, Phoenix, AZ 85050 or
• Scan and email to learning4life.az@gmail.com

Regular Prices

School Building License cost: $750 per year/ School

This allows all staff members at a single location to have unlimited access to the Child Career Test CD Collection.

School District Licenses cost: $1500 per year

This allows all staff members within entire school district to have unlimited access to the Kid Career Test CD Collection.