Picture based Interest tool

A possible Leonardo-project!

The Association of Vocational Rehabilitation, Norway Paal Haavorsen: paal.haavorsen@nhoservice.no

Vocational Psychologist Arne Svendsrud: arne.svendsrud@nhoservice.no

The purpose of using interest tools in vocational rehabilitation

• The purpose of Jobpics is to work with vocational interests in a systematic way to avoid wrong career choices and to obtain optimal career choices in the rehabilitation process

• Securing the quality of the vocational rehabilitation process

• Reduce the chance of making a wrong choice

• Broaden the scope of possible vocational options

The RIASEC Theory• The most widely used career guidance theory in

the world• Vocational Psychologist John L. Holland• 6 Personality types• 6 Environmental types• The goal is congruence between the personality

type and the environmental type

The six RIASEC types• R Realistic (Machines, tools, practical)• I Investigative (Theory, Analyse, Research)• A Artistic (Creative, Produce, Perform)• S Social (People, Helping, Teaching)• E Enterprising (Business,Sales, Service)• C Conventional (office, routine work)

Content• Constructed by Vocational Psychologist Arne

Svendsrud / AVRE Norway

• Pictures of 183 different vocations• 2 different pictures from the same vocations on the

flip side• 10 related vocations on the flip side• Printed on 13 x 18 Polypropylene cards• User manual• 5 processs cards• 6 Interest category cards

Jobpics target group

• A general interest tool but with special advantages for:

• A majority of the users in vocational rehabilitation:

– Persons with a visual learning style– Persons with low level of mastering from School– Multiculturals– Dyslexia and other language problems

– ADHD – etc.

Jobpics properties

• Broad selection of the population: (age, sex , education, looks)

• Unequal distribution on the different interest categories

• Unequal distribution on the different levels of education

• Showing people in vocational activities

Jobpics frontside

Jobpics reverse side

Jobpics - combinations of codes

R I A S E C

R R IR AR SR ER CR

I RI I AI SI EI CI

A RA IA A SA EA CA

S RS IS AS S ES CS

E RE IE AE SE E CE

C RC IC AC SC EC C

Jobpics – levels of education

Level 1: Limited formal education or training needed.

Level 2: College level

Level 3: University level

Distribution of vocations on interest categories and level of education

R I A S E C

Sum 77 12 14 26 35 20 184

Level 1

35 6 24 10 75

Level 2

38 9 11 9 6 73

Level 3

4 12 5 9 2 4 36

Administrating Jobpics 1

• Sort the cards

• Put out the process cards

• Read the instruction

• The person put out the cards

Processcards

Administrating Jobpics 2

- Put out the 6 interest category cards

- Distribute the pictures on each of the interestcategory cards to get a overview

- Sort the cards on:- Slightly interested and interested, - Two digit code- Level of education

Interestcategorycards

Guidance principle 1 – Focusing the search

- Use the RIASEC code

- Limit the search to the vocations consisting of the relevant codes.

- Look in RIASEC based occupational finders

Guidance principle 2 – explore the meaning

• Explore the pictures ranked as 1 or 2:

– What made you pick exactly that picture?– What do you like of the content in the

picture?– What catched your interest?

Guidance principle 3 – explore the missing parts

- Picture based interest tools are incomplete ways of “measuring” interest.

- The well recogniced textbased interest tools often use the following categories of questions: - Titlequestions- Activityquestions- Competence/skills questions

- Compensate missing part of picture based interest tools by using particular activity questions in the guidance process.