Occupational interest assessment

Taking this assessment to let you have a general exploration of your occupational interests.

Instruction

of Occupational Interest Assessment

  1. Please download and open the file.
  2. If the statements in the file describe your interests, tick the box of that statement. Consider whether you like it or not. Don’t think about your ability to do it. There are no right or wrong answers.
  3. In the table named “Scores of Interest Types” at the end of the file, the top 3 types will be considered as your interest codes.
After taking the assessment, please read your result below.
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Result

of Occupational Interest Assessment

REALISTIC

Realistic people like working independently and making things; prefer to work with objects, machines, tools, plants or animals, and enjoy outdoors. Prefer to work with machinery, electronics, civil engineering, agriculture, etc.

INVESTIGATIVE

Investigative people like to observe, learn, investigate, analyse and evaluate, and prefer to solve problems according to their own pace. They bring up new ideas and strategies at work, and do not like to be restricted by too many rules and time pressure. Prefer to work with biology, chemistry, medicine, mathematics, astronomy, etc.

ARTISTIC

Artistic people have artistic, innovating or intuitional abilities and like to work in unstructured situations using their imagination and creativity. They use
characters, voices and colours to express their feelings of creativity and aesthetics. Prefer to work with music, writing, drama, drawing, design, dancing, etc.

SOCIAL

Social people like to work with people to enlighten, care, help, train, or cure them. They like to work with people without competitions. Prefer to work with teaching, counselling, social work, medical care, etc.

ENTERPRISING

Enterprising people like to work with people, influencing, persuading, performing, leading or managing for organisational goals or economic gain. They implement once after they have a plan, and don’t like to spend too much time on investigating. Prefer to work with management, sales, judiciary, politics, etc.

CONVENTIONAL

Conventional people like to work with data, have clerical or numerical ability, carry out tasks in details or follow through on others’ instructions. They are effective, accurate, detail-oriented and reliable. Prefer to work with banking, finance, accounting, secretarial support, etc.

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