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Interest Area

Investigative

Involves working with ideas and requires an extensive amount of thinking.

Work Values

Social Status	Looked up to by others in their company and their community.
Achievement	Get a feeling of accomplishment.
Creativity	Try out your own ideas.
Security	Have steady employment.
Ability Utilization	Make use of individual abilities.
Working Conditions	Good working conditions.
Activity	Busy all the time.
Autonomy	Plan work with little supervision.
Responsibility	Make decisions on your own.

Skills

Monitoring	Assess how well someone is doing when learning or doing something.
Critical Thinking	Use logic and analysis to identify the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches.
Equipment Selection	Determine the kind of tools and equipment needed to do a job.
Mathematics	Use math to solve problems.
Active Learning	Work with new material or information to grasp its implications.
Judgment and Decision Making	Be able to weigh the relative costs and benefits of a potential action.
Operation Monitoring	Watch gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly.
Operations Analysis	Analyze needs and product requirements to create a design.
Coordination	Adjust actions in relation to others' actions.
Reading Comprehension	Understand written sentences and paragraphs in work-related documents.
Speaking	Talk to others to effectively convey information.
Technology Design	Generate or adapt equipment and technology to serve user needs.
Science	Use scientific methods to solve problems.
Quality Control Analysis	Conduct tests and inspections of products, services, or processes to evaluate quality or performance.
Complex Problem Solving	Solving novel, ill-defined problems in complex, real-world settings.

Abilities

Oral Expression	Able to convey information and ideas through speech in ways that others will understand.
Number Facility	Able to add, subtract, multiply, and divide quickly and correctly.
Visualization	Able to imagine how something will look after it's moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged.
Deductive Reasoning	Able to apply general rules to specific problems to come up with logical answers, including deciding whether an answer makes sense.
Problem Sensitivity	Able to tell when something is wrong or likely to go wrong. This doesn't involve solving the problem, just recognizing that there is a problem.
Written Comprehension	Able to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
Near Vision	Able to see details of objects at a close range (within a few feet of the observer).
Speech Clarity	Able to speak clearly so listeners understand.
Mathematical Reasoning	Able to understand and organize mathematical problems and to know which mathematical methods or formulas to use to solve them.
Information Ordering	Able to correctly follow rules for arranging things or actions in a certain order, including numbers, words, pictures, procedures, and logical operations.
Inductive Reasoning	Able to combine separate pieces of information, or specific answers to problems, to form general rules or conclusions. This includes coming up with a logical explanation for why seemingly unrelated events occur together.
Written Expression	Able to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
Oral Comprehension	Able to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
Fluency of Ideas	Come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity).
Category Flexibility	Generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.
Originality	Come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem.


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