John Holland's Six Personality Theories

HOLLAND’S OCCUPATIONAL SIX PERSONALITY TYPES THEORY
According to John Holland, Ph.D., a psychologist who devoted his entire professional life to researching issues related to career choice and also a professor emeritus at Johns Hopkins University, if you can match your job personality type and your work environment; you can improve your success and satisfaction. To put it in a simple word from a job personality standpoint is just like the idea of “birds of the same feather, flock together,” we just need to replace the variable “bird” with “people;” and that people with the same personality type tend to enjoy working with each other. For example, sociable person enjoys working with other sociable people. Same personality type tends to create

Realistic (R) -Realistic individuals are active and stable and enjoy hands-on or manual activities, such as building, mechanics, machinery operation and athletics. They prefer to work with things rather than ideas and people. Typical realistic careers include electrician, engineer, veterinarian and the military.
2. Investigative (I) - Investigative individuals are analytical, intellectual and observant and enjoy research, mathematical or scientific activities. They are drawn to ambiguous challenges and may be stifled in highly structured environments. People who fall into this category enjoy using logic and solving highly complex, abstract problems. Typical investigative careers include medical technologist, biologist, chemist and systems analyst.
3. Artistic (A) - Artistic individuals are original, intuitive and imaginative and enjoy creative activities, such as composing or playing music, writing, drawing or painting and acting in or directing stage productions. They seek opportunities for self expression through artistic creation. Typical artistic careers include musician, reporter and interior

It considers that people learn from one another, including such concepts as observational learning, imitation, and modeling. There are three key components to Bandura’s social learning theory (Abbott, n.d.) observational learning, imitation, and behavior modeling (Bruner, 1990; Wood, Bruner, & Ross, 1976). Bandura’s social learning theory is based on the idea that observational learning involves the fact that humans often cannot learn for themselves. The learner has the power to influence their own learning in new situations by controlling the environment around them — whether that environment is imposed, selected or constructed (Bandura 1999). (Hathaway,Muse, & Althoff, 2007, p.