Career Interest Questionnaire
Rate each activity from 1 to 5 stars, with 1 star representing not interesting at all and 5 representing very interesting. Don’t focus on whether you can or cannot do these activities or if it sounds like something more or less lucrative; just focus on whether the activity sounds like something interesting to do, learn, and master.
Putting out forest fires
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1
2
3
4
5
Studying astronomy
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1
2
3
4
5
Creating special effects for movies
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1
2
3
4
5
Volunteering for a non-profit
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1
2
3
4
5
Leading group activities
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1
2
3
4
5
Writing code or entering data
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1
2
3
4
5
Operating machines that create products
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1
2
3
4
5
Flying a plane
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1
2
3
4
5
Helping put on a play
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1
2
3
4
5
Belonging to a club
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1
2
3
4
5
Working on a sales campaign
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1
2
3
4
5
Keeping detailed records
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1
2
3
4
5
Raising fish in a hatchery
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1
2
3
4
5
Working in a lab
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1
2
3
4
5
Learning languages
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1
2
3
4
5
Teaching or coaching children
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1
2
3
4
5
Managing stocks and bonds
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1
2
3
4
5
Organizing paperwork and files
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1
2
3
4
5
Fixing household items
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1
2
3
4
5
Creating a project for a science fair
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1
2
3
4
5
Drawing or painting
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1
2
3
4
5
Giving career guidance to people
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1
2
3
4
5
Starting your own business
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1
2
3
4
5
Working with a budget
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1
2
3
4
5
Assembling electronic parts
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1
2
3
4
5
Studying ways to reduce water pollution
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1
2
3
4
5
Writing stories or poetry
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1
2
3
4
5
Helping people solve emotional problems
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1
2
3
4
5
Convincing people to support ideas
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1
2
3
4
5
Proofreading and preparing reports
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1
2
3
4
5
Growing and harvesting vegetables
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1
2
3
4
5
Developing a new medicine
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1
2
3
4
5
Playing music
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1
2
3
4
5
Teaching sign language
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1
2
3
4
5
Negotiating contracts
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1
2
3
4
5
Coordinating a team effort
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1
2
3
4
5
Realistic Score
People with athletic or mechanical ability, who prefer to work with objects, tools, machines, plants or animals, or to be outdoors.
Idealistic Score
People who like to observe, learn, analyze, investigate, evaluate or solve problems.
Artistic Score
People who have artistic, innovating or intuitional abilities and like to work in unstructured situations using their imagination and creativity.
Social Score
People who like to work with people to enlighten, inform, help, train or cure them, or are skilled with words.
Enterprising Score
People who like to influence, persuade, perform, lead, or managing for organizational goals or economic gains.
Organizing Score
People who like to work with data, have clerical or numerical ability, carry out tasks in detail or follow others’ instructions.
Based on Holland’s Theory of Vocational Types, from “Overview of Career Development Theories,” Pennsylvania Department of Education; US Department of Labor;
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