Understanding Your ASVAB Results
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Understanding Your ASVAB Understanding Your ASVAB ResultsResults
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By: Susan WalesBy: Susan Wales
Why Take the ASVAB?Why Take the ASVAB?
Learn about your Learn about your interestsinterests
Learn about your skillsLearn about your skills Learn about your work Learn about your work
valuesvalues Explore careers that Explore careers that
suit your needssuit your needs
Step 1: Take the FYI (Find Your Step 1: Take the FYI (Find Your Interests)Interests)
Steps 2 and 3: Calculate rows, Steps 2 and 3: Calculate rows, then columnsthen columns
Steps 4, 5, 6: Raw scores, Steps 4, 5, 6: Raw scores, Percentile, Top Interest Codes Percentile, Top Interest Codes
6 Interest Areas6 Interest Areas
RealisticRealistic InvestigativeInvestigative ArtisticArtistic SocialSocial EnterprisingEnterprising ConventionalConventional
RealisticRealistic
Practical, hands-onPractical, hands-on Like to design, build or Like to design, build or
repairrepair Enjoy working outside Enjoy working outside
with plants, animals or with plants, animals or tools and machinerytools and machinery
Prefer working with Prefer working with things rather than things rather than peoplepeople
InvestigativeInvestigative
Prefer analytical or Prefer analytical or intellectual activitiesintellectual activities
Like to study, Like to study, investigate, evaluate, investigate, evaluate, problem-solveproblem-solve
Prefer to work with Prefer to work with ideas rather than ideas rather than people or thingspeople or things
Usually like math and Usually like math and sciencescience
ArtisticArtistic
Enjoy expressing Enjoy expressing oneself in original oneself in original activitiesactivities
Do not like to follow a Do not like to follow a clear set of rulesclear set of rules
Work with ideas rather Work with ideas rather than thingsthan things
Need artistic ability and Need artistic ability and a good imaginationa good imagination
SocialSocial
Like activities that Like activities that involve personal involve personal interactioninteraction
Often in “helping” Often in “helping” professionsprofessions
Like to work with Like to work with people rather than people rather than objects or dataobjects or data
Need good Need good communication skillscommunication skills
EnterprisingEnterprising
Like work that involves Like work that involves influencing or directing influencing or directing othersothers
Often like economics Often like economics and politicsand politics
Like work that is fast-Like work that is fast-paced, requires paced, requires responsibility, responsibility, decision-making and decision-making and riskrisk
ConventionalConventional
Like work with orderly Like work with orderly and accurate records, and accurate records, procedures and procedures and routinesroutines
Like working with data, Like working with data, things or machinesthings or machines
Like detailLike detail Need clerical, Need clerical,
organizational and organizational and mathematical abilitymathematical ability
Gender and Interest CodesGender and Interest Codes
ASVAB Summary ResultsASVAB Summary Results
Verbal Skills Verbal Skills Math SkillsMath Skills Science and Technical Science and Technical
SkillsSkills
Work ValuesWork Values
What is important to What is important to you?you?
ChallengeChallenge IncomeIncome VarietyVariety Helping OthersHelping Others SecuritySecurity Public ContactPublic Contact IndependenceIndependence
Putting It Together: Occu-FindPutting It Together: Occu-Find
Check Occu-Find for Careers Check Occu-Find for Careers That Match Your Needs:That Match Your Needs:
Look at your Top Look at your Top Interest and Find Interest and Find Those CareersThose Careers
Check your 2Check your 2ndnd Interest Interest Check your SkillsCheck your Skills Mark the ones you Mark the ones you
would like to explore would like to explore furtherfurther
Websites:Websites: www.asvabprogram.comwww.asvabprogram.com www.bls.gov – Occupational Outlook Handbookwww.bls.gov – Occupational Outlook Handbook www.mynextmove.orgwww.mynextmove.org www.mappingyourfuture.orgwww.mappingyourfuture.org www.fafsa.ed.govwww.fafsa.ed.gov www.alstudentaid.comwww.alstudentaid.com Individual college websites to check programs of Individual college websites to check programs of
studystudy
Conclusion:Conclusion:
Use your ASVAB results to research Use your ASVAB results to research careers that suit your needs (interests, careers that suit your needs (interests, skills, work values).skills, work values).
Research the education and training you will Research the education and training you will need.need.
Work hard in high school to make sure you Work hard in high school to make sure you will meet the prerequisites for your next will meet the prerequisites for your next step.step.
Final Thoughts:Final Thoughts:
I have enjoyed working with you on this I have enjoyed working with you on this project.project.
Feel free to come and see me on an Feel free to come and see me on an individual basis if you need help with college individual basis if you need help with college or career information.or career information.
Thanks, Mrs. WalesThanks, Mrs. Wales