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5. Take an interest inventory to find the jobs that might be a good match for you based on your
interests, aptitudes, and working preferences. Go online and take a free assessment called the
Careerlink Inventory at http://www.mpcfaculty.net/CL/cl.htm. This will take about 20 minutes
to do online. You will get the most out of the test if you answer the questions honestly. At the
end of the inventory you will see a list of careers that match your results. Print a copy to use in
the next exercise where you’ll be researching careers.

6. Look through the list and choose your top four choices for careers. Click on the Cluster Title for
more detailed information about each job. Print each page and fill out a form for each job. Click
on Display Response Summary on your top job to see how your responses matched up to this
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career. Use this to fill out the Favorite Job form.

Example:
For Evaluation Only

Career Area: Arts & Humanities
Cluster Title: Decorating & Display
Percent Match: 90% My top job area as Arts and

Display being the top Cluster
Arranging objects or materials to produce artistic or Humanities, with Decorating &
decorative effects for apparel, interiors, advertising Title. My favorite job in that
layouts, motion picture sets and the like. Communicate
with clients, purchasing, supervision of staff area was Interior Decorator.

Worker Requirements
Aesthetic appreciation; creative imagination; the
ability to communicate ideas and influence others; a
feeling for spatial relationships and color combinations;
and supervisory capabilities.

Like/ Don't Like - Why?
I like arranging displays, home decorating, I like
working with fabrics and interacting with people

Aptitudes Interests
Dealing with people and ideas,
Verbal, spatial, form perception, color
discrimination, general learning, business contact with people, abstract
coordination and creative nature
Favorite Job
Temperment Interior Designer Physical Capacity /
Directing, controlling, planning entire Working Conditions
activities, dealing with people, making Sitting, walking, expressing ideas through
decision based on perception, sounds, observing visual characteristics of
interpreting feelings from personal view objects, 75% of time inside

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