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Physical Therapist &

Dietitian

Rob Escalona

• Social: people who like to work with people to enlighten, inform, help, train, or cure them, or are skilled with words.

• Artistic: people who have artistic, innovating or intuition abilities and like to work in unconstructed situations using their imagination and creativity.

• Investigative: people who like to observe, learn, investigate, analyze, evaluate or solve problems.

Jobs that the Holland Code gave me were…• Physical Therapists• Architects• Dietitians

These jobs reflect my personality because they are all under the different sections of my Holland Code.

Physical therapy represents the social part of my Holland Code.

Architects represent the artistic part.

Dietitians represent the investigative part.

• Assess, plan, organize, and participate in rehabilitative programs that improve mobility, relieve pain, increase strength, and decrease or prevent deformity of patients suffering from disease or injury.

• The skills needed are active listening, speaking, social perceptiveness, critical thinking, reading comprehension, and complex problem solving.

• The knowledge needed is medicine, therapy, english language, psychology, anatomy, and biology.

• Starting salary is $55,070 annually

• Experienced workers get $82,670 annually

• Employment is expected to grow much faster than average careers.

• Employment is expected to grow 30% from 2008 to 2018

• Plan and conduct food service or nutritional programs to assist in the promotion of health and control of disease. May supervise activities of a department providing quantity food services, counsel individuals, or conduct nutritional research.

• The skills needed are active listening, reading comprehension, instructing, speaking, writing, time management critical thinking.

• The knowledge needed is mathematics, therapy and counseling, psychology, medicine, english language, and customer and personal service.

• Starting salary is $43,110 annually

• Experienced workers get $62,930 annually

• Employment is expected to increase approximately 9% from 2008 to 2018

Smithtown High School West• 100 Central Road• Smithtown, NY 11787

Kare Therapeutics• 732 Smithtown Bypass• Smithtown, NY 11787

Costa Physical Therapy• 269 East Main Street• Smithtown, NY 11787

My shadowing experience was interesting because I got to see what a physical therapists has to do during the course of their day. This experience helped me decide on what I wanted to do in college.