Work You’d Love
The O*NET® Interest Profiler Short Form, all 60 activities, unchanged.
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What it measures
The psychologist John Holland sorted work interests into six broad types: Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising and Conventional, often shortened to RIASEC. Most people have a mix. The three types you like most make a short code, such as SAI or RCE, that can be matched against jobs.
The test asks how you would feel about doing 60 specific activities, from laying brick to writing scripts for television. It never asks whether you could do them. Skills can be learned on the job; whether you enjoy the work is the part that tends to stay put, and it is what this test measures.
Holland's six types are among the most studied ideas in career research. The activities here are the US Department of Labor's own short form, built and tested for career counseling, and the job titles in your report come from the career lists that go with it.
Three of the questions
- Build kitchen cabinets
- Study the movement of planets
- Start your own business
What you get
- Your scores on all six interest areas, each with a note written for where you landed
- Your three-letter interest code, and what the order of the letters means
- Job titles for each of your top areas, from work you could start soon to work that takes years of training
- What the result cannot tell you, said plainly
Where it comes from
The 60 activities and the five answer choices come from the O*NET® Interest Profiler Short Form, sponsored by the US Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration and developed by the National Center for O*NET Development. We use them word for word under the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 (CC BY-ND 4.0) license. Scoring follows the standard method: your answers for each area are added up, and your three highest areas, in order, form your code.
Who owns the original
The six interest types are John Holland's RIASEC model, from his work on vocational choice. The activities belong to the O*NET® Interest Profiler, a career exploration tool from the US Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA, which has not endorsed this site. We are not affiliated with USDOL/ETA or the National Center for O*NET Development.