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Interest Area

Investigative

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

Work Values

Achievement	Get a feeling of accomplishment.
Independence	Work alone.

Skills

Programming	Write computer programs for various purposes.
Critical Thinking	Use logic and analysis to identify the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches.
Instructing	Teach others how to do something.
Active Listening	Listen to what other people are saying and ask questions as appropriate.
Writing	Communicate effectively with others in writing as indicated by the needs of the audience.
Time Management	Manage one's own time and the time of others.
Mathematics	Use math to solve problems.
Systems Evaluation	Look at many indicators of system performance, taking into account their accuracy.
Active Learning	Work with new material or information to grasp its implications.
Complex Problem Solving	Solving novel, ill-defined problems in complex, real-world settings.
Judgment and Decision Making	Be able to weigh the relative costs and benefits of a potential action.
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.
Science	Use scientific methods to solve problems.

Abilities

Speed of Closure	Make sense of, combine, and organize information into meaningful patterns.
Number Facility	Able to add, subtract, multiply, and divide quickly and correctly.
Category Flexibility	Generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.
Deductive Reasoning	Able to apply general rules to specific problems to come up with logical answers, including deciding whether an answer makes sense.
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).
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.


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