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Interest Area

Investigative	Involves working with ideas and requires an extensive amount of thinking.
Realistic	Involves working on practical, hands-on problems and solutions, often with real-world materials, tools, and machinery.

Work Values

Achievement	Get a feeling of accomplishment.
Independence	Work alone.
Working Conditions	Good working conditions.

Skills

Critical Thinking	Use logic and analysis to identify the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches.
Quality Control Analysis	Conduct tests and inspections of products, services, or processes to evaluate quality or performance.
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.
Equipment Selection	Determine the kind of tools and equipment needed to do a job.
Time Management	Manage one's own time and the time of others.
Troubleshooting	Determine what is causing an operating error and deciding what to do about it.
Mathematics	Use math to solve problems.
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

Oral Expression	Able to convey information and ideas through speech in ways that others will understand.
Deductive Reasoning	Able to apply general rules to specific problems to come up with logical answers, including deciding whether an answer makes sense.
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.
Oral Comprehension	Able to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.


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