Your Career Interest Profile
This section shows your top career interest areas. There are 6 total interest areas,
each with its own set of typical work tasks, roles, and values. Some of these
interest areas will appeal to you, while others will be less attractive. Choosing a
career which is a good match for your interest profile ensures that you enjoy your
daily work and get satisfaction out of your accomplishments.
The Six Interest Areas
Each of the six interest areas describes a cluster of related work tasks and
activities. People who are drawn to each of these interest areas tend to have certain
characteristics, preferences, and personality traits in common.
Building
Building jobs involve the use of tools, machines, or physical skill. Builders like
working with their hands and bodies, working with plants and animals, and
working outdoors.
Thinking
Thinking jobs involve theory, research, and intellectual inquiry. Thinkers like
working with ideas and concepts, and enjoy science, technology, and academia.
Creating
Creating jobs involve art, design, language, and self-expression. Creators like
working in unstructured environments and producing something unique.
Helping
Helping jobs involve assisting, teaching, coaching, and serving other people.
Helpers like working in cooperative environments to improve the lives of others.
Persuading
Persuading jobs involve leading, motivating, and influencing others. Persuaders
like working in positions of power to make decisions and carry out projects.
Organizing
Organizing jobs involve managing data, information, and processes. Organizers
like to work in structured environments to complete tasks with precision and
accuracy.
Your Top Interests
Your primary interest area is also called your career type. Your career type
describes the kind of job tasks and activities you enjoy doing, as well as what
motivates and satisfies you at work. Certain personality traits and characteristics
are associated with each career type.
Your secondary interest area shows what sorts of interests you may have, beyond
your primary interest area. You can use your secondary interest area to get
additional ideas and information about the career that may fit you.
Your primary interest area is Creating
As a Creator, your primary drive is to use your creative talents and express
yourself artistically through your work. You have a strong aesthetic sense and seek
work that allows you to connect with experiences that stimulate the senses. You
enjoy art, music, drama, dance, architecture, and literature, and seek work that
exposes you to various art forms and allows you to communicate your own vision
among them.
Top Job Tasks
• Creating Art
• Writing
• Interpreting
• Designing
• Expressing Ideas
Your Core Values
• Individuality
• Creativity
• Originality
• Freedom
• Flexibility
Key Personality Traits
• Independent
• Intuitive
• Sensitive
• Imaginative
• Spontaneous
Because you are a Creator, you will seek a career that allows you a great deal of
freedom to express yourself. You want to imagine, envision, experiment, and
create. You want to develop your own unique point of view and see it manifest in
your chosen field.
Creators tend to be idealistic, artistic people who are drawn to cultural experiences.
They often have many artistic interests and seek out novel forms of expression,
from modern art museums to experimental dance. They tend to be unconventional
and interested in the offbeat and unusual.
Creators like their work best when they can be free of rules and regulations, and
follow their inspiration to create something original. As a Creator, your primary
career goal will be to decide on the best outlet for your artistic talent and creative
expression, and then to create a plan for channeling your inspiration into a
profitable career.
Sample Jobs for Creators
• Fashion Designer
• Art Director
• Graphic Designer
• Writer
• Musician or Singer
• Interior Designer
• Landscape Architect
• Photographer
• Reporter
Career Fields for Creators
• Fine Arts
• Craft Arts
• Performing Arts
• Design
• Architecture
• Writing and Communications
• Film and Media
• Public Relations
• Arts Education
Areas of Study for Creators
• Fine Arts
• Drama
• Music
• Dance
• Graphic Design
• Industrial Design
• English
• Foreign Language
• Creative Writing
Your secondary interest is Helping
Because you have a secondary interest in Helping, you are interested in serving,
caring for, and inspiring others. You are attuned to the needs of the people around
you and gain satisfaction from attending to those needs. You are driven by values
in your work, and want to be involved in activities that make the world a better
place.
To satisfy your interest in Helping, seek out a job that allows you to regularly
connect with other people. You want to work in cooperation with others and feel
that you have been of service to them. You will be most satisfied when you can see
the positive impact of your work on others.
Careers to Explore
