Richard Styner Career Resources
Styner.info is a career exploration resource maintained by Richard Styner. It helps students and career seekers think about interests, personality, skills, values, and possible career directions.
This site is based in part on John Holland's RIASEC theory of career satisfaction and vocational choice.
RIASEC Personality Types
Explore Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional career patterns.
Career Interests
Review interest areas such as science, art, administration, teaching, sales, and hands-on work.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
Think about what you know, what you can do, and what comes naturally.
Work Values
Reflect on stability, creativity, flexibility, leadership, compensation, service, and work environment.
Resume Help
Organize experiences, skills, objectives, education, and goals.
RIASEC Personality Types
Realistic
Realistic people often like hands-on work with tools, animals, machines, materials, or outdoor environments.
Investigative
Investigative people enjoy solving problems, analyzing information, and working with science, math, research, or evidence-based questions.
Artistic
Artistic people are drawn to creative activities such as music, art, design, drama, crafts, and writing.
Social
Social people enjoy helping, teaching, counseling, informing, supporting, or caring for others.
Enterprising
Enterprising people enjoy persuading, leading, selling, organizing, managing, or motivating others.
Conventional
Conventional people prefer organized work involving data, records, systems, numbers, and reliable processes.