Holland's Typology of Personality and Congruent Occupations                                                                                                    Type                                 Personality Characteristics           Congruent Occupation Realistic: Prefers physical activities that require skill, strength, and coordination Shy, genuine, persistent, stable, conforming, practical Mechanic, drill press operator, assembly-line worker, farmer Investigative: Prefers activities that involve thinking, organizing, and understanding Analytical, original, curious, independent Biologist, economist, mathematician, news reporter Social: Prefers activities that involve helping and developing others Sociable, friendly, cooperative, understanding Social workers, teacher, counselor, clinical psychologist Conventional: Prefers rule- regulated, orderly, and unambiguous activities Conforming, efficient, practical, unimaginative, inflexible Accountant, corporate manager, bank teller, file clerk Enterprising: Prefers verbal activities in which there are opportunities to influence others and attain power Self-confident, ambitious, energetic, domineering Lawyer, real estate agent, public relations specialist, small business manager Artistic: Prefers ambiguous and unsystematic activities that allow creative expression Imaginative, disorderly, idealistic, emotional, impractical Painter, musician, writer, interior decorator the most incongruent situation possible. The key points of this model are that (1) there do appear to be intrinsic differences in personality among individuals, (2) there are different types of jobs, and (3) people in job environments congru- ent with their personality types should be more satisfied and less likely to volun- tarily resign than should people in incongruent jobs.     Relationships among Occupational Personality Types            Source: Reprinted by special permission of the publisher, Psychological Assessment Resources, Inc., from Making Vocational Choices, Copyright 1973, 1985, 1992 by Psychological Assessment Resources, Inc. All rights reserved.     Home     © Prentice-Hall, Inc. A Pearson Education Company