This article offers a new mapping procedure-used in conjunction wlth Holland's ( 1985) hexagon-to help clients identify and explore occupational alternatives. Holland's (1973Holland's ( ,1985) ) theory ofvocational choice has survived nearly 25 years of empirical scrutiny and remains the premier theory in the vocational literature (Camp & Chartrand, 1992). Indeed, Holland's model has become the standard: most major instruments that measure vocational interest, for example, provide scores on the personality types in his model (Borgen, 1986: Tracey & Rounds, 1995).
Holland (1973, 1985) proposed that, relatively speaking, there exist in our culture six personality types: realistic (R), investigative (I), artistic (A), social (S), enterprising (E), and conventional (C); hereinafter collectively referred to as RIASEC. According to Holland, a threeletter code represents a client's overall personality. For example, a three-letter code of SAE suggests that a person is most similar to the social type, and secondarily to the artistic and enterprising types.
Furthermore, Holland graphically illustrated the degree of similarities and differences among the six types (RIASEC) using a hexagon. Extensive support has been provided for the relative validity of the hexagonal arrangement of these types (e.g., Cole & Hanson, 1971; Prediger, 1982: Rounds & Tracey. 1994). Introduced more than 25 years ago (cf. Holland, Whitney, Cole, & Richards, 1969), Holland's hexagon has essentially remained in the skeletal form over the years: more recently, however, the "bare-bones hexagon" has formed the core of the World-of-Work map shown in Figure 1 (American College Testing [ACT], 1988; Prediger, Swaney, & Mau, 1993).
Career counselors can help clients locate themselves on the ACT World-of-Work map by Arst obtaining a client's three-letter code from any instrument assessing Holland types, such as the Self-Directed