Career Card Sorts
A Textual and tactile psychometric instrument designed to help you consider and process your career interest preferencesDiscover Your Career Interests With Our Unique Career Card Sorts
A visual and interactive way to explore occupations, clarify preferences, and uncover your career interests.Blu Ripples (Katherine) has developed and implemented an innovative Career Card Sorts deck designed to help individuals identify and categorise their career interest preferences. These card sorts combine visual and textual learning style methodologies, making it easier for you to understand and explore a wide range of career options.
Our Career Card Sort Deck features 192 occupations ranging from traditional roles to contemporary fields, fields not typically included in standard occupational card sort decks. Whether you’re interested in becoming an app developer, astrophysicist, cargo specialist, carpenter, geomorphologist, pyrotechnic artist, teacher, or exploring any other occupation, our card sorts can help you discover your career interests.
Bonus: With visual cues alongside concise occupational descriptions, our card sorts support different learning preferences and abilities, making career exploration more accessible and engaging for a wide range of individuals.
The Benefits of Using Blu Ripples Career Card Sorts
Engage, Explore, and Gain Clarity on Your Career Exploration JourneyBlu Ripples Career Card Sorts provide a hands-on, interactive way to explore your career interests and clarify your professional direction. The benefits include: –
Start a Career Conversation
The tactile nature of the card sorters allows you to physically touch, view, shuffle, and sort the deck. This hands-on approach creates an engaging and interactive experience, making it easier to start a conversation about your career goals and aspirations.
Clarify Career Confusion
If you’re feeling uncertain or confused about your career path, our card sorters can help bring clarity. By exploring different occupations and their descriptions, you can gain a better understanding of your career interests and preferences based on your choices.
Identify New Career Interests
Our card sorters are designed to help you discover new career interests, options, or pathways that you may not have considered before. By exposing you to a wide range of occupations, we aim to broaden your career horizons and spark new ideas.
Process Your Thoughts and Feelings
Exploring career interests and disinterests can sometimes be an emotional journey. Our card sorters provide a platform for you to reflect and process your thoughts and feelings, helping you gain insights into your true occupational passions and motivations.
Pinpoint Occupational Themes
Through the career card sorting process, you will begin to notice patterns and themes among different occupations. This can help you identify occupational categories that resonate with you, providing a starting point for further exploration.
Understanding Job Roles
Each occupation in the card sort deck comes with a snapshot position description. This allows you to gain a basic understanding of the role and responsibilities associated with each job. It’s a great way to familiarize yourself with different career paths.
Narrow Your Vocational Selection
With 192 occupations to choose from, it’s natural to feel overwhelmed. Our card sorters can help you narrow down your options by highlighting the careers that align most closely with your interests and goals. This can save you time and effort in your career research.
Stimulate Your Senses and Mind
Our card sorters use a combination of words, images, and colour to create a multi-sensory experience. This approach engages both your mind and senses while catering to different learning styles, making career exploration more interactive, accessible, and enjoyable.
How To Access Our Career Card Sorts
Explore Your Career Options and Preferences via Career Counselling Sessions or Detailed ReportsUsing our Career Card Sorters is simple, flexible, and designed to provide clear insights into your career options, preferences, and vocational interests. You have three convenient ways to get started:-
Career Counselling
Career Development Report
Career Interest Foundation Report
Ethical Considerations
Supporting Your Safety and WellbeingYour safety and wellbeing are our top priority when using our assessments. Before administering any psychometric tool, we make sure you meet the age and reading requirements, and that the assessment is suitable for your current circumstances. We operate within our expertise and follow strict duty of care, ethical guidelines, and supplier requirements.
If there’s any uncertainty, we will request medical clearance from your GP or a qualified mental health professional. This ensures we can provide any necessary accommodations, minimise potential triggers, determine if it’s appropriate to proceed, and most importantly, support your wellbeing throughout the process.
