Career Wiring

What work fits how you are wired?

Not a personality label. A short interest inventory scored against 923 occupations rated by the US Department of Labor.

Start — 188 activities, about four minutes

Why interests rather than a personality type

Commercial personality instruments are trademarked products with no public data behind them. O*NET is a federal dataset: every occupation here carries published ratings on six interest dimensions, so a match can be shown rather than asserted.

The six dimensions

Realistic
hands-on, physical, practical work with tools, machines, plants or animals
Investigative
figuring things out — research, analysis, diagnosis, theory
Artistic
creating, designing, performing, working without a fixed procedure
Social
teaching, caring for, advising and helping people directly
Enterprising
persuading, leading, selling, starting and running things
Conventional
order and accuracy — records, systems, standards, detail held reliably