Some discoverers have one or two personality types that clearly stand out with the highest scores, which we call differentiated. If the types are close to one another on the Holland hexagon, we consider them consistent.
We label one or two top types as “Thriving” work or education environments. Here is an example of their assessment results:
Common discoverer characteristics
- Clearer sense of themselves with a stronger self-identity
- May already have a career or program choice in mind
Recommended advice
- A close match is important: Choose a career or program that matches one of your top two personality types. Due to the strength of your personality scores, you’re likely to be unhappy and unsuccessful in an environment that doesn’t match.
- Go one step further: Even if you’re very strong in one type, it’s important to explore your second highest type too. Sometimes there are career or programs that match at almost equal levels of strength both your top type and your second highest type.
- Challenge your assumptions: If you came into CKD with a firm idea of what you wanted to do, take a moment to consider other matching options you might not have thought about before. Explore all of CKD’s groups for that personality type. Now is the time to gather more information, independent of friends and parents.
Resources to suggest
- Decision making process: Download and complete a Decision Balance Sheet.
- Informational interviews: Talk to people working in that career or studying in that program to gather more information before making a decision.
- Higher education institutions: Provide information about the discoverers’ top program choices that includes contact information for students, faculty and administrators who can answer questions.