EXPLORING CAREERS - The ASVAB Career Exploration Guide for Participants

Sep 18, 2026

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ASVAB Career Exploration Program (CEP) guide for participants explains how to start career exploration through a validated aptitude test and interest assessment. The program helps students discover strengths and interests, uncover job types, and identify skills required for different occupations. It guides users to explore realistic, investigative, artistic, social, enterprising, and conventional occupations, then plan next steps toward training and education using access code details from ASVAB Summary Results.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryExam

FormatPDF

Pages36

Reading Time1 h 31 min

AccessFree to download

LET’S GET STARTED

ACTION STEPS

SKILLS AND ABILITIES

Your ASVAB Results

The ASVAB Summary Results

PART 1: LEARN ABOUT YOURSELF

Skills and Abilities

Take the FYI (Find Your Interests)

Understanding Your FYI Scores

Interest Areas and Work Values

PART 2: EXPLORE CAREERS

Instructions for Using the OCCU-Find

Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, Conventional Occupations

PART 3: PLAN YOUR FUTURE

Make a Plan

EXPLORING CAREERS The ASVAB Career Exploration Guide for Participants TABLE OF CONTENTS LET’S GET STARTED ....................... 1 PART 1: LEARN ABOUT YOURSELF ............ 2 Skills and Abilities ........................ 2 Take the FYI (Find Your Interests) ............. 4 Understanding Your FYI Scores ............. 5 Interest Area-Realistic .................... 6 Interest Area-Investigative ........... 6 Interest Area-Artistic ................ 6 Interest Area-Social ................ 7 Interest Area-Enterprising ............ 7 Interest Area-Conventional .......... 7 Work Values ............................ 8 Types of Employers ....................... 8 How to Get There ........................ 9 PART 2: EXPLORE CAREERS ............... 10 Instructions for Using the OCCU-Find ...... 11 Realistic Occupations ................... 12 Investigative Occupations ............... 20 Artistic Occupations .................... 23 Social Occupations ..................... 24 Enterprising Occupations ................ 27 Conventional Occupations ............... 30 PART 3: PLAN YOUR FUTURE ............. 33 Make a Plan .......................... 33 PULLOUT (Back of the Book) FYI (Find Your Interests) The ASVAB Career Exploration Program includes a validated aptitude test and interest assessment. The results are used to guide career exploration using our career planning tools. ASVAB CEP is the only career planning resource that allows students to explore multiple paths to success —college, work-based learning, the Military, and the Federal Government —in one place. i Ricky I’m considering serving in the National Guard or pursuing an ROTC scholarship after high school . The ASVAB CEP helped me find out which military path I want togo for and my job interests in the future . LET’S GET STARTED. Dear ASVAB CEP Participant, Maybe you already know exactly what you’d like to do after high school or maybe you have no idea . Either way, the ASVAB Career Exploration Program (CEP) is here to help you navigate the career exploration process . The ASVAB CEP helps you to discover career options you might like and all the different paths you can take to get those jobs . Career planning is a lifelong process, and the good news is you’re at the best part, the beginning . Even better news, you don’t have to have every single step planned out right now, and the first step is simple —Start exploring! And don’t worry, you are not alone . Your parents, teachers, and mentors are available to guide and support you . ACTION STEPS LEARN about yourself —your interests, skills, and values EXPLORE careers —find out what it takes to get the types of jobs you like PLAN your future —outline steps toward getting the skills and qualifications you need WANT MORE? asvabprogram .com The ASVAB CEP is designed to help you: • Discover your strengths and interests • Uncover different types of jobs, some you may have never heard of • Pinpoint skills required for various jobs • Find out about different education and training options • Map out how to get where you want to go • Find your dream job Everything in this guide, and so much more, is available online . Things are organized so you can easily find what’s most important to you . Log in to explore careers that align with your skills and interests, using the access code provided on your ASVAB Summary Results sheet . Find and compare the details about the careers that interest you most so you can decide what you’ll need to do to get the job of your dreams . You can find your access code on your ASVAB Summary Results sheet . 1 SKILLS AND ABILITIES LEARN ABOUT YOURSELF PART 1: Anna I decided to take the ASVAB test mainly because I am a very indecisive person . I wanted to see what kind of options were still available to me . I still do feel like I am still set on a path for more STE

FAQs

What does the ASVAB Career Exploration Program (CEP) include?

It includes a validated aptitude test and an interest assessment. Results guide career exploration using career planning tools.

How do FYI results help with career exploration?

FYI (Find Your Interests) scores help participants understand their interest areas. Those results support matching with career options in the guide’s exploration tools.

How can you use your ASVAB scores when exploring occupations?

ASVAB scores, combined with interests and other test results, help you select appropriate occupations. You can compare your current skills with skill requirements for careers you are interested in.

Sep 18, 2026

Uploaded by Ezra