Abstract

The role of the vocational personality to determine an individual's full success in his or her career is so long recognized. It has significant effect to job satisfaction of people's careers. Becase of that, helping the student to understand his or her vocational personality pattern is an important part of the career counseling and guidance service in the schools. This study has investigated Vocational Personality Profile Based on Where Students Live and School Popularity using Holland's categories: Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional (RIASEC). The results of the study were indicating that in general students' vocational personality patterns are: Artistic type (25%)—Social (23.4%)—Enterprising (14%)—Investigative (13.5%)—Conventional (12.4%)— Realistic (11.7%). In detail, students' personality profiles vary according to their residential grouping and the popularity of their school. Further discussion of the research findings are presented in this article.

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