Solutions for for Potential Licensees
Would you like to offer The Career Key at your website? Or, to use it to power the websites of your customers or partners?
To have the freedom to fully customize it to fit your needs?
We provide the content and you program it. It’s that simple.
Only Career Key offers you,
- A respected, popular, and valid career test (invalid measures can be harmful) of John Holland’s personality types (interests);
- Career information, and career advice articles based on the best practices and science of career development;
- An interface that enables students (youth through adults) to match their interests to career pathways, college majors, and training programs (read about our ground breaking research in NCDA’s Career Convergence), a match that predicts
GPA and persistence;
- Career Key in several languages; and
- Our expertise to implement.
Perhaps you do not want to program it to your website. We are flexible. Let’s discuss other possibilities.
We invite you to download and print the PDF, Licensing The Career Key. For more information, email Vice President Juliet Jones.
Here is a sample of Career Key’s content:
- The Career Key personality test to promote career exploration and good decision-making. Individuals taking the Career Key test assess their six Holland personality types, identify occupations that match, get full and accurate information about each one, and download a 4-page interpretive booklet. Research shows that a good personality-career match is a predictor of job satisfaction and success (if you use a valid career test).
Transparency is important and we offer the Career Key manual online so users can review its construction, validity, reliability, and other features. There is also a comprehensive e-book version of the manual. Counselors have used our website with confidence since 1997.
Simplicity, practicality, and validity are Career Key’s strengths. It takes about 15 minutes; results are immediate; and there are no complicated tables or abstract concepts to explain. It also provides a gateway to services unique to Career Key -- see the following recommendations.
- Choosing a College Major or Training Program that fits client’s personality. In this online article clients learn how to do this match using a 4-step decision-making process. A close personality-major match is vital. It is one of the predictors of academic success and satisfaction -- GPA and graduation. The companion e-book, The Education Key, links the Holland personality types to all 1300+ college majors and training programs. It is the first to do this (more on our ground breaking research).
Are your customers students (middle, high school, or community college) who need to choose a career cluster, field, or pathway? If so, Career Key provides a unique matching system for this. See our “Solutions for Parents of High School Students”, for example.
Self-Employment helps the client who is considering this option.
- Identifying and strengthening clients’ job skills. As working adults know, job skills are what count in the workplace. Period. The Foundation Skills: Job Skills All Workers Need article describes those that experts consider essential.
The Free Agent Outlook on Work describes six basic principles that guide the “free agent” worker – an essential primer for today’s workplace, where marketable skills are the key to success. Identify Your Skills and Make Them Work for You follows up with sound advice and practical steps.
- Making good decisions. High Quality Decisions describes the essential steps in making a good decision. The ACIP method is practical and based on many research studies. The evidence clearly shows that the more you use these steps, the less likely you will regret your decision later.
Our popular e-book, The 2010 What Job is Best for Me?, walks the person through these steps. It embodies the essential concepts of our website.
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Learning about Holland’s Theory of Career Choice. This article is one of our most popular. Career development professionals and their clients praise its clarity and practical applications. And, literally hundreds of studies show that the theory has a solid scientific foundation. Our e-book, What Color are Your Feathers?, describes his theory and expands on how to apply it to career choice.
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Using our articles and e-books written for returning adults. Articles
include Career Change, Job Satisfaction, Military to a Civilian Career, and Self-
Employment. Popular e-books: Choosing Your College Major, The 2010
What Job is Best for You?, and What Color are Your Feathers? Holland’s
Theory and Your Career.
Lawrence K. Jones, Ph.D., NCC
President, Career Key.