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Career & Technical Education - Wasatch Front Consortium



8 Utah Career Fields and Pathways  
Student career interests are most commonly descibed by six career personality types defined by John Holland in his theory of occupational choice. Known as "Holland Codes", these six types are at the base of a common organizational structure around which CTE program areas, national career clusters, and other career information cacn be arranged. An individual will typically be compatible with us to three of the following personality types:

Technical
Realistic (Doers) have good coordination, motor skills and mechanical aptitude, enjoy using tools, and prefer hands-on work tasks.

Scientific
Investigative (Thinkers) enjoy science and math, are analytical thinkers, like working with ideas, and generally like to work alone.

Arts and Recreation
Artistic (Creators) are imaginative, creative, favor unstructured work environments, and enjoy art, music, literatuer, and poetry.

Social Humanitarian
Social (Helpers) like helping others, have good communications skills, and enjoy social situations.

Marketing and Adminstration
Enterprising (Persuaders) like leadership and responsibility, are good at persuading others, and have good verbal abilities.

Business Operations
Conventional (Organizers) like working with numbers and other data, pay close attention to detail, and like structure and rules.

Career Technical Education
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