People with interests that match their career tend to be happier at work, more self-confident and have the "staying power" to obtain the jewels of their chosen profession. This assessment is based on people's patterns of interest across different careers. Your scores indicate how your interests in various work activities compare to the interests of other people. Your Basic Interest Profile Your Basic Interest Scores presented below measure your level of interest in 15 different areas. The first 12 scores measure your occupational interests. The next 3 scores are "work styles" that measure your attitudes towards certain common aspects of work. Click on the score names to see the definitions. Each Basic Interest score is displayed as a percentile. For example, a score of 80% means you scored higher in this Basic Interest than 80 percent of people (more info).

Occupational Interests Percentile Profile Scale Percentile Administration 63 Art 25 Clerical 25 Food Service 16 Health Service 55 Industrial Art 14 Outdoors 43 Personal Service 98 Sales 54 Science 44 Teaching / Social Service 95 Writing 27

Work Styles   Percentile scores on the following three work styles show your interest in being assertive, persuasive, and systematic (being organized and completing things step-by-step). These three styles are required across many different occupations. Your scores on them can lead you to consider a whole range of occupations and identify many that you should avoid.

Percentile Profile Scale Percentile Assertive 72 Persuasive 91 Systematic 32

Next we will examine your highest and lowest scores more thoroughly. This will enable you to start developing some thoughts about your current or future occupation.