Hobbies and Interests Card Sorts
Helping you explore, plan and develop your career through the investigation of your hobbies, interests and associated skills baseOur Hobbies and Interests Card Sorters, designed by and implemented by Katherine, combine a visual and textual learning style methodology to help you explore, identify and categorize a range of hobbies and interests.
The Blu Ripples Hobbies and Interests Card deck contains 100 past-times, comprising of indoor and outdoor, solo, small group and team activities for you to review, select and categories into areas of varying interest or disinterest.
Past-times included in the deck include: –
- BBQ with Friends and Family
- Building and Renovating
- Cooking
- Dancing
- Genealogy
- Geology
- Listening to Music
- Para-sailing
- Quantum Physics
- Reading Books
- Sports
- Volunteering
Hobbies and Interests Card Sorts – Career Links
Assessing and understanding our hobbies and interests can be highly beneficial in our career exploration, planning and development phase.
How?
Great Question!
Your hobbies and interests can provide valuable insights into your personality, likes, dislikes, Key Transferable Skills, strengths and development areas. This information then can be applied in a multitude of ways, for example, in your -pre-employment documentation (Resumes, Cover Letters and Selection Criteria), in academic submissions for vocational and tertiary admissions, in Career, Learning and Development Plans, as well as assisting us in determining whether or not your criteria and that of a potential employer is in alignment thereby minimising poor occupational and employment choices whilst simultaneously maximising satisfaction.
For a potential employer or recruitment consultant, the inclusion or assessment of hobbies and interests can provide a volume of information about a candidate or members of their workforce. Through the analysis of hobbies and interests, it is possible to ascertain personality characteristics, including risk-taking behaviours vs aversion, introversion vs extroversion, and autonomy vs teamwork.
Alternate Uses for Hobbies and Interest Card Sorts
Whilst our Hobbies and Interest Card Sort cards are predominantly utilised to help individuals in the career exploration, planning and development phase, the card deck can also be used to assist you to
develop Self-Care Plans, helping you explore new leisure activities that may add a unique depth and breadth of pleasure to your life through sporting, personal or community engagement activities.
Ethical Guidelines and Considerations
As outlined in our Psychometric Testing Services page, see ethical considerations – administration of psychometric instruments, there are considerations and codes of conduct that must be adhered to before proceeding.