| Interest Area |  | | Realistic | Involves working on practical, hands-on problems and solutions, often with real-world materials, tools, and machinery. |
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| Work Values | | | Moral Values | Never pressured to do things that go against their sense of right and wrong. |
| Security | Have steady employment. |
| Activity | Busy all the time. |
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| Skills | | | Critical Thinking | Use logic and analysis to identify the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches. |
| Active Listening | Listen to what other people are saying and ask questions as appropriate. |
| Installation | Install equipment, machines, wiring, or programs to meet specifications. |
| Equipment Selection | Determine the kind of tools and equipment needed to do a job. |
| Troubleshooting | Determine what is causing an operating error and deciding what to do about it. |
| Equipment Maintenance | Perform routine maintenance and determining when and what kind of maintenance is needed. |
| 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. |
| Repairing | Repair machines or systems using the needed tools. |
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| 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. |
| 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). |
| Information Ordering | Able to correctly follow rules for arranging things or actions in a certain order, including numbers, words, pictures, procedures, and logical operations. |
| Oral Comprehension | Able to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences. |
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