Week 1 Assignment

These are the results from the IIP RIASEC Markers. Your scores for each of the 6 basic interest areas are below.

Realistic	13
Investigative	10
Artistic	8
Social	22
Enterprising	16
Conventional	24

Scores range from 0 to 32. This distribution of scores are below. This graph shows what percent of people received a specific score, for each of the six scales.

You can see that the people who have taken this test are somewhat biased towards S, and away from R and C.

Type

Your highest score was for the Conventional occupational interest.

See the descriptions for all of the types  here .

Suitable careers

A persons top three interests areas are sometimes called their "Holland Code". This would make your code CSE. The United States Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration maintains a database of occupations sorted by Holland Code. The list of occupations for the CSE can be found at  http://www.onetonline.org/explore/interests/Conventional/Social/Enterprising/

Conventional

· CONVENTIONAL occupational personality types are oriented to completing tasks initiated by others. They pay attention to detail, and prefer to work with data, particularly in the numerical, statistical, and record-keeping realm. They have a high sense of responsibility, follow the rules, and want to know precisely what is expected of them.

· Characteristics: Conscientious, efficient, concern for rules and regulation, orderly

· Problem Solving: Prefers clearly defined, practical problems. Prefers to solve problems by applying rules.

Social

· The SOCIAL occupational personality type is concerned with people and their welfare. Social types make friends easily and tend to have well developed communication skills. They enjoy working with groups or individuals, using empathy and an ability to identify and solve problems, and tend to be high achievers and good leaders.

· Characteristics: Humanistic, verbal, interpersonal, responsible

· Problem Solving: Deals with problems through feelings. Flexible approach to problems.

Enterprising

· ENTERPRISING occupational personality types are goal-oriented and want to see results. They work with and through people, providing leadership and delegating responsibilities for organizational and/or financial gain. These people tend to function with a high degree of energy. They prefer business settings, and often want social events to have a purpose beyond socializing.

· Characteristics: Persuasive, confident, demonstrate leadership, interest in power/status

· Problem Solving: Attacks problems with leadership skills. Decision Maker.