Work your way through each of the assessments described below.
 

Your interests	Your motivators
Your preferred skills	Your personality
Your preferred work values	Your educational aspirations

Your interests

Interests are those things that especially attract you. What is your reality of preferred leisure activities, occupational activities, and the academic subjects you are interested in? Generally, occupational interests fall into these categories.

Begin to identify any themes or trends which reveal information about the SUBJECT MATTER that interests You.

Do you find yourself:

• working with people, individuals or groups or both? (mentoring, negotiating, instructing, supervising, diverting, persuading, speaking-signaling, serving, helping, taking instructions, etc.)
   

• working with things (setting up, precision working, operating-controlling, driving-operating, manipulating, tending, feeding-off bearing, handling, etc.)
   

• working with data (synthesizing, coordinating, analyzing, compiling, computing, copying, comparing, etc.)
   

• working with ideas (creating, designing, innovating, developing, self-expressing, etc.)
   

• working with any combination of the above
   

What CIRCUMSTANCES you thing you can face?

• a problem to solve
   

• a confronting test or challenge
   

• a cause to be served
   

• a crisis
   

• competition
   

• meeting the needs of other