Education:
76%
Bachelor's Degree
16%
Associate's Degree (or other 2-year degree)
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Begin The Career Assessment TestDesign, integrate, or improve manufacturing systems or related processes. May work with commercial or industrial designers to refine product designs to increase producibility and decrease costs.
A3 | Your Strengths | Importance |
Characteristics of this Career |
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87% | Attention to Detail  -  Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks. | |
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87% | Integrity  -  Job requires being honest and ethical. | |
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86% | Dependability  -  Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations. | |
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86% | Analytical Thinking  -  Job requires analyzing information and using logic to address work-related issues and problems. | |
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80% | Cooperation  -  Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude. | |
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79% | Initiative  -  Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges. | |
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77% | Persistence  -  Job requires persistence in the face of obstacles. | |
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77% | Adaptability/Flexibility  -  Job requires being open to change (positive or negative) and to considerable variety in the workplace. | |
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76% | Stress Tolerance  -  Job requires accepting criticism and dealing calmly and effectively with high-stress situations. | |
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73% | Innovation  -  Job requires creativity and alternative thinking to develop new ideas for and answers to work-related problems. | |
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71% | Achievement/Effort  -  Job requires establishing and maintaining personally challenging achievement goals and exerting effort toward mastering tasks. | |
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71% | Self-Control  -  Job requires maintaining composure, keeping emotions in check, controlling anger, and avoiding aggressive behavior, even in very difficult situations. | |
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66% | Leadership  -  Job requires a willingness to lead, take charge, and offer opinions and direction. |
A3 | Your Strengths | Importance |
Strengths |
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95% | Realistic  -  Work involves designing, building, or repairing of equipment, materials, or structures, engaging in physical activity, or working outdoors. Realistic occupations are often associated with engineering, mechanics and electronics, construction, woodworking, transportation, machine operation, agriculture, animal services, physical or manual labor, athletics, or protective services. | |
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83% | Investigative  -  Work involves studying and researching non-living objects, living organisms, disease or other forms of impairment, or human behavior. Investigative occupations are often associated with physical, life, medical, or social sciences, and can be found in the fields of humanities, mathematics/statistics, information technology, or health care service. |
A3 | Your Strengths | Importance |
Values of the Work Environment |
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75% | Working Conditions  -  Occupations that satisfy this work value offer job security and good working conditions. Corresponding needs are Activity, Compensation, Independence, Security, Variety and Working Conditions. | |
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72% | Support  -  Occupations that satisfy this work value offer supportive management that stands behind employees. Corresponding needs are Company Policies, Supervision: Human Relations and Supervision: Technical. | |
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67% | Recognition  -  Occupations that satisfy this work value offer advancement, potential for leadership, and are often considered prestigious. Corresponding needs are Advancement, Authority, Recognition and Social Status. | |
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67% | Independence  -  Occupations that satisfy this work value allow employees to work on their own and make decisions. Corresponding needs are Creativity, Responsibility and Autonomy. | |
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61% | Achievement  -  Occupations that satisfy this work value are results oriented and allow employees to use their strongest abilities, giving them a feeling of accomplishment. Corresponding needs are Ability Utilization and Achievement. |
A3 | Your Strengths | Importance |
Abilities | Cognitive, Physical, Personality |
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75% | Near Vision  -  The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer). | |
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75% | Problem Sensitivity  -  The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing that there is a problem. | |
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75% | Deductive Reasoning  -  The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense. | |
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75% | Inductive Reasoning  -  The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events). | |
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75% | Category Flexibility  -  The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways. | |
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75% | Visualization  -  The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged. | |
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75% | Oral Comprehension  -  The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences. | |
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72% | Written Comprehension  -  The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing. | |
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72% | Oral Expression  -  The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand. | |
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72% | Information Ordering  -  The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations). | |
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69% | Mathematical Reasoning  -  The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem. | |
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69% | Number Facility  -  The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly. | |
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66% | Written Expression  -  The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand. | |
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66% | Fluency of Ideas  -  The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity). | |
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66% | Originality  -  The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem. | |
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66% | Flexibility of Closure  -  The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material. |
A3 | Your Strengths | Importance |
Skills | Cognitive, Physical, Personality |
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68% | Reading Comprehension  -  Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work-related documents. | |
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66% | Monitoring  -  Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action. | |
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66% | Judgment and Decision Making  -  Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one. | |
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66% | Systems Analysis  -  Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes. |
A3 | Your Strengths | Importance |
Attributes & Percentage of Time Spent |
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100% | Electronic Mail  -  How often do you use electronic mail in this job? | |
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97% | Face-to-Face Discussions  -  How often do you have to have face-to-face discussions with individuals or teams in this job? | |
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91% | Telephone  -  How often do you have telephone conversations in this job? | |
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85% | Indoors, Environmentally Controlled  -  How often does this job require working indoors in environmentally controlled conditions? | |
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82% | Work With Work Group or Team  -  How important is it to work with others in a group or team in this job? | |
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82% | Wear Common Protective or Safety Equipment such as Safety Shoes, Glasses, Gloves, Hearing Protection, Hard Hats, or Life Jackets  -  How much does this job require wearing common protective or safety equipment such as safety shoes, glasses, gloves, hard hats or life jackets? | |
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81% | Contact With Others  -  How much does this job require the worker to be in contact with others (face-to-face, by telephone, or otherwise) in order to perform it? | |
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80% | Importance of Being Exact or Accurate  -  How important is being very exact or highly accurate in performing this job? | |
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75% | Freedom to Make Decisions  -  How much decision making freedom, without supervision, does the job offer? | |
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74% | Structured versus Unstructured Work  -  To what extent is this job structured for the worker, rather than allowing the worker to determine tasks, priorities, and goals? | |
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72% | Responsible for Others' Health and Safety  -  How much responsibility is there for the health and safety of others in this job? | |
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72% | Coordinate or Lead Others  -  How important is it to coordinate or lead others in accomplishing work activities in this job? | |
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67% | Impact of Decisions on Co-workers or Company Results  -  What results do your decisions usually have on other people or the image or reputation or financial resources of your employer? | |
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66% | Time Pressure  -  How often does this job require the worker to meet strict deadlines? | |
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85% | Duration of Typical Work Week  -  Number of hours typically worked in one week. |
A3 | Your Strengths | Importance |
Tasks & Values |
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88% | Making Decisions and Solving Problems  -  Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems. | |
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84% | Getting Information  -  Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources. | |
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82% | Working with Computers  -  Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information. | |
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81% | Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates  -  Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person. | |
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80% | Analyzing Data or Information  -  Identifying the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts. | |
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80% | Processing Information  -  Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data. | |
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78% | Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events  -  Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events. | |
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77% | Monitoring Processes, Materials, or Surroundings  -  Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems. | |
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76% | Drafting, Laying Out, and Specifying Technical Devices, Parts, and Equipment  -  Providing documentation, detailed instructions, drawings, or specifications to tell others about how devices, parts, equipment, or structures are to be fabricated, constructed, assembled, modified, maintained, or used. | |
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75% | Documenting/Recording Information  -  Entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in written or electronic/magnetic form. | |
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72% | Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships  -  Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time. | |
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72% | Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work  -  Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work. | |
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71% | Thinking Creatively  -  Developing, designing, or creating new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products, including artistic contributions. | |
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68% | Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge  -  Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job. | |
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66% | Estimating the Quantifiable Characteristics of Products, Events, or Information  -  Estimating sizes, distances, and quantities; or determining time, costs, resources, or materials needed to perform a work activity. | |
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66% | Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Materials  -  Inspecting equipment, structures, or materials to identify the cause of errors or other problems or defects. | |
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66% | Judging the Qualities of Objects, Services, or People  -  Assessing the value, importance, or quality of things or people. |