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This is a tool to help you search for careers that fit your career type, based on the RIASEC model created by Dr. John Holland. If you don't know your career type, take the career quiz to figure it out!
You can use this tool to find careers that match your top interest areas, while filtering out careers in areas that you have little or no interest in.
You can click on any of the table headers (for example, Average Earnings) to sort your results by that value.
| Title | Holland Code | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Training or Development Manager | Helping, Persuading |
Training and development managers plan, coordinate, and direct skills- and knowledge-enhancement programs for an organization’s staff. |
| Training or Development Specialist | Helping, Persuading |
Training and development specialists plan and administer programs that train employees and improve their skills and knowledge. |
| Travel Agent | Persuading, Organizing |
Travel agents sell transportation, lodging, and admission to entertainment activities to individuals and groups planning trips. They offer advice on destinations, plan trip itineraries, and make travel arrangements for clients. |
| Umpire, Referee, or Other Sports Official | Building, Persuading, Organizing |
Umpires, referees, and other sports officials preside over competitive athletic or sporting events to help maintain standards of play. They detect infractions and decide penalties according to the rules of the game. |
| Urban or Regional Planner | Thinking, Creating, Persuading |
Urban and regional planners develop land use plans and programs that help create communities, accommodate population growth, and revitalize physical facilities in towns, cities, counties, and metropolitan areas. |
| Veterinarian | Building, Thinking |
Veterinarians care for the health of animals and work to protect public health. They diagnose, treat, and research medical conditions and diseases of pets, livestock, and other animals. |
| Veterinary Assistant or Laboratory Animal Caretaker | Building, Thinking, Helping |
Veterinary assistants and laboratory animal caretakers handle routine animal care and help scientists, veterinarians, and veterinary technologists and technicians with their daily tasks. |
| Veterinary Technologist or Technician | Building, Thinking |
Veterinary technologists and technicians, supervised by licensed veterinarians, do medical tests that help diagnose animals’ injuries and illnesses. |
| Waiter or Waitress | Helping, Persuading, Organizing |
Waiters and waitresses take orders and serve food and beverages to customers in dining establishments. |
| Water and Wastewater Treatment Plant System Operator | Building, Organizing |
Water and wastewater treatment plant and system operators manage a system of machines, often through the use of control boards, to transfer or treat water or wastewater. |
| Water Transportation Worker | Building, Persuading, Organizing |
Water transportation workers operate and maintain vessels that take cargo and people over water. The vessels travel to and from foreign ports across the ocean and to domestic ports along the coasts, across the Great Lakes, and along the country’s many inland waterways. |
| Web Developers and Digital Designers | Building, Thinking, Organizing |
Web developers create and maintain websites. They are also responsible for the site’s technical aspects, such as its performance and capacity, which are measures of a website’s speed and how much traffic the site can handle. In addition, web developers may create content for the site. Digital designers develop, create, and test website or interface layout, functions, and navigation for usability. They are responsible for the look and functionality of the website or interface. |
| Welder, Cutter, Solderer, or Brazer | Building, Organizing |
Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers use hand-held or remotely controlled equipment to join or cut metal parts. They also fill holes, indentations, or seams in metal products. |
| Wholesale and Manufacturing Sales Representatives | Persuading, Organizing |
Wholesale and manufacturing sales representatives sell goods for wholesalers or manufacturers to businesses, government agencies, and other organizations. They contact customers, explain the features of the products they are selling, negotiate prices, and answer any questions that their customers may have about the products. |
| Wind Turbine Technician | Building, Organizing |
Wind turbine service technicians, also known as windtechs, maintain and repair wind turbines. |
| Woodworker | Building, Organizing |
Woodworkers manufacture a variety of products, such as cabinets and furniture, using wood, veneers, and laminates. They often combine and incorporate different materials into wood. |
| Writer or Author | Creating |
Writers and authors develop content for various types of media, including advertisements; blogs; books; magazines; and movie, play, and television scripts. |
| Zoologist or Wildlife Biologist | Building, Thinking |
Zoologists and wildlife biologists study animals and other wildlife and how they interact with their ecosystems. They study the physical characteristics of animals, animal behaviors, and the impacts humans have on wildlife and natural habitats. |