Official scoring anchors (0–4)
The runner shows the five verbal labels. The numbers below are their transparent scoring values, used only to form six theme sums from 0 to 20.
- 0Strongly Dislike
- 1Dislike
- 2Unsure
- 3Like
- 4Strongly Like
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Rate 30 published work activities and review six separate RIASEC theme sums, exact ties, cautious interpretation, small real-world experiments, and your complete item-and-answer record.
Age guidance: the official administration manual recommends this instrument from approximately age 14. Younger users should treat it only as career education with support from an adult or career counsellor.
This product uses O*NET® Career Exploration Tools content under the O*NET Tools Developer License. Ikigain keeps the published activities and score sums, while adding its own interface, tie handling, explanations, cautions, and reflection prompts. USDOL/ETA has not approved, endorsed, or tested those Ikigain additions.
Modifications, license, and disclaimersWhat your result preserves
Independent RIASEC evidence
Every official 0–20 sum remains visible. No total interest, employability, ability, or occupation-match score is created.
Exact ties stay exact
Ties are shown at every affected rank and code boundary. List order never becomes evidence.
Complete response review
All 30 prompts and visible answer labels remain inspectable in the unchanged published order.
Administration and scoring
The unchanged English 30-item O*NET Mini Interest Profiler in its published item order and with its five published response anchors. Each response is scored 0–4 and the five items belonging to each theme are summed, producing six independent integer theme sums from 0 to 20.
The runner shows the five verbal labels. The numbers below are their transparent scoring values, used only to form six theme sums from 0 to 20.
Ikigain adds transparent tie handling, within-result display order, pair narratives, differentiation, response-pattern cautions, and small evidence-gathering experiments. These additions are not official O*NET scores, norms, occupation matches, or endorsements.
Ikigain flags a low-variation response pattern when one response option is used for at least 80% of the 30 activities. This is an editorial data-quality prompt, not an O*NET validity scale or proof that answers are invalid.
The response-pattern flag cannot determine honesty, effort, comprehension, or whether a result is valid. It only invites review.
Six activity-interest themes
No theme is universally better. A lower sum means the listed activities drew less interest in this response set; it does not mean lower competence, potential, or value.
Interest in practical, physical and hands-on activity with tangible systems, materials, equipment or environments.
Activity family: Building, repairing, operating, producing and solving concrete physical problems.
Interest in examining questions, evidence and systems to understand causes, patterns and possible explanations.
Activity family: Researching, analyzing evidence, testing ideas and solving unfamiliar conceptual problems.
Interest in original expression, design and open-ended creation where more than one good answer may exist.
Activity family: Writing, visual design, performance, media, storytelling and shaping the feel of an experience.
Interest in helping, teaching, supporting and developing people through direct human interaction.
Activity family: Teaching, coaching, listening, care, facilitation and making information accessible.
Interest in influencing, leading and mobilizing people or resources toward a goal, decision or opportunity.
Activity family: Leading initiatives, negotiating, presenting, selling and taking responsibility for direction.
Interest in organizing information, maintaining accuracy and creating dependable procedures or operational order.
Activity family: Records, schedules, quality checks, classification, reconciliation and process coordination.
The six sums are not percentiles, population categories, probabilities, labour-market forecasts, skill scores, or claims about likely success.
Do not use this result for hiring, employment, promotion, applicant screening, training admission, or any other selection decision affecting another person.
Do not auto-translate this version. A translated or otherwise modified form needs the appropriate O*NET license route, a new immutable instrument version, native adaptation, comprehension testing, key verification, locale-specific evidence, and an independent publication review.
Rights and primary source trail
Rights owner: U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). License route for this extended implementation: O*NET Tools Developer License. The official activities and 0–20 theme sums remain distinct from Ikigain's interface, tie presentation, response-pattern caution, narratives, and evidence-gathering prompts. Those additions are not official O*NET outputs, norms, occupation matches, or endorsements.
This page includes information from the O*NET Career Exploration Tools by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). Used under the O*NET Tools Developer License. O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. Ikigain has modified all or some of this information. USDOL/ETA has not approved, endorsed, or tested these modifications.
Before you begin
No. An interest score describes how appealing these activities felt to you. It does not show whether you can perform them, enjoy the surrounding work conditions, meet a role's qualifications, access the opportunity, or thrive in a specific workplace. Skills and fit require separate real-world evidence.
RIASEC names six broad vocational-interest themes: Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional. They organize kinds of activity that may attract attention; they are not six levels of ability or worth.
The unchanged English Mini Interest Profiler uses five anchors in this order: Strongly Dislike, Dislike, Unsure, Like, and Strongly Like. They are stored as 0–4 only so the five items in each theme can be summed.
No. Each number is the direct sum of five 0–4 activity ratings. There is no comparison sample, population rank, rarity claim, low/average/high norm band, or probability attached to it.
Every exact raw-score tie remains visible. The display never promotes a theme because it happened to appear earlier in RIASEC order. If a tie prevents a defensible three-letter summary, no code is generated.
No. Interest in an activity is different from skill, qualifications, values, opportunity, health, circumstances, working conditions, and labour-market reality. Use the result to choose small investigations, not to accept a job verdict.
It offers a shorter, mobile-friendly exploration form. The official 60-item O*NET Interest Profiler Short Form should be preferred when time allows and greater score precision matters.
The official administration manual recommends an approximate lower age of 14. Younger people may not yet know enough about the world of work to interpret every activity, and interests can change through adolescence. Treat any result as a current exploration snapshot, not a permanent identity.
No. This implementation is for personal exploration and must not make hiring, promotion, applicant-screening, training-admission, or other high-impact selection decisions.
No. A translated or otherwise modified form needs the appropriate O*NET license route, a new immutable version, native adaptation, comprehension testing, scoring-key verification, locale-specific evidence, and an independent release decision.
A separate evidence step
The career library is a reference collection, not a list ranked from your answers. Use it to investigate tasks, requirements, and working conditions after you have reviewed the full six-theme profile alongside skills, values, constraints, and real-world experience.
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