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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.
Moral Values	Never pressured to do things that go against their sense of right and wrong.
Creativity	Try out your own ideas.
Independence	Work alone.
Security	Have steady employment.
Ability Utilization	Make use of individual abilities.
Working Conditions	Good working conditions.
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.
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.
Mathematics	Use math to solve problems.
Complex Problem Solving	Solving novel, ill-defined problems in complex, real-world settings.
Reading Comprehension	Understand written sentences and paragraphs in work-related documents.
Science	Use scientific methods to solve problems.

Abilities

Memorization	Remember information such as words, numbers, pictures, and procedures.
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.
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.
Flexibility of Closure	Identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material.
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.


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