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Interest Area

Social

Involves working and communicating with, helping, and teaching people.

Work Values

Social Status	Looked up to by others in their company and their community.
Achievement	Get a feeling of accomplishment.
Social Service	Do things for other people.
Creativity	Try out your own ideas.
Security	Have steady employment.
Ability Utilization	Make use of individual abilities.
Working Conditions	Good working conditions.
Co-workers	Have co-workers who are easy to get along with.
Autonomy	Plan work with little supervision.
Authority	Give directions and instructions to others.
Responsibility	Make decisions on your own.

Skills

Social Perceptiveness	Be aware of others' reactions and understand why they react the way they do.
Learning Strategies	Use multiple approaches when learning or teaching new things.
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.
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.
Service Orientation	Actively look for ways to help people.
Time Management	Manage one's own time and the time of others.
Active Learning	Work with new material or information to grasp its implications.
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.

Abilities

Oral Expression	Able to convey information and ideas through speech in ways that others will understand.
Speech Recognition	Identify and understand the speech of another person
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.
Originality	Come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem.
Written Comprehension	Able to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
Selective Attention	Concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted.
Near Vision	Able to see details of objects at a close range (within a few feet of the observer).
Speech Clarity	Able to speak clearly so listeners understand.
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.
Oral Comprehension	Able to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
Auditory Attention	The ability to focus on a single source of auditory (hearing) information in the presence of other distracting sounds
Hearing Sensitivity	The ability to detect or tell the difference between sounds that vary over broad ranges of pitch and loudness.


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