Occupational Interest Inventory

The Test

vocationally significant interest of the individual.

The Occupational Interest Inventory is designed to appraise and analysed the

abilities or skills.

It is an assessment of occupational preferences and is not a test of occupational

as it usually requires from 30 to 40 minutes of administration time

The Inventory is non-timed. It can, however administered during one class period

process greatly enhances the likelihood of success from both client and counselor points of view.

The utilization of interest patterns the educational and vocational guidance

Three groups of scores which are arranged as follows:

I.Fields of Interest Personal- Social Natural Mechanical Business The Arts The Science II.Types of Interests Verbal Manipulative Computational III.Level of Interests Routine tasks Skilled Professional

Fields of Interests

Personal- Social

This is a personal contact or service field.

Examinees scoring high in these area like people have a real desire to improve the lot of others.

The major occupational groups are as folows:

Domestic Service. Personal Service, Social Service, Teaching, Law and Law Enforcement, Health and Medical Service

Natural

Interest and activities of an outdoor nature are reflected in this field.

Examinees receiving a high Natural score can be expected to be interested in agriculture and in the protection of natural resources.

This major Natural job families are:

Farming and Ranching, Raising and Caring for animals Gardening and Greenhouse, Fish, and Game, and Domestic Fowl, Lumbering and Forestry, Marine Work .

Mechanical
The examinee who is interested in taking things apart and putting them together scores high in this field.

Curiosity about motors and machines and what makes them work is a primary factor.

Typical mechanical job families are: Maintenance and Repairing Machine Operation and Tending, Construction work Designing , Bench work and Crafts , Processing

Business
Interest in all activities peculiar to the business world are grouped in this area.

It includes business contact as well as business detail or office pursuits.

The major business job families are:

Clerical Shipping and Distribution Book-keeping and Accounting Selling and Buying, Training and Supervision, Management and control

Arts

Interest in music, drama, literature and art are reflected by the high scores in this field.

The desire to add to the aesthetic qualities of life in everyday activities. Outstanding job families : Art Crafts Painting and Drawing Decorating and Landscaping, Drama and Radio, Literary Activities Musical Performance.

Science

Desire to understand and manipulate the physical environment in which we live is basic in this filed. The six major Science job families : Laboratory work Mineral- Petroleum Production, Applied Chemistry, Chemical Research, Biological Research Scientific Engineering

Types of Interests

Verbal
Items classified as Verbal stress the use of words in a vocational context.

The words may be either written or spoken but they are always use to communicate ideas successfully.

The motives behind the ideas which the words express vary greatly.

Thus words may be used to help others, to describe a thing of beauty, or to convince others to accept an idea or to make a purchase.

Manipulative
Individuals who enjoy working with things will score high in this type.

The activities included may involve creative action or they may involve strictly routine assignments under the direction of a supervisor.

Inherent in all of the activities included, whatever degree of skill may be required is the use of ones hands to manipulate objects.

Computational
Where areas the other two types involve the use of words and things, the computational type consist of items dealing with numerical symbols and concepts.

To work with numbers in financial, scientific, or other pursuits can be extremely dull for some or can, on the other hand , be extremely challenging for others.

Level of interest

Routine tasks

Skilled

Professional

TABLE 1.2 RESULTS OF THE STUDENTS SCORE IN FIELD OF INTEREST

It is seen in the table that 46.15% of the students are inclined towards the personal social , 19.23% are inclined to Mechanical, 15.4% in the arts, 7.7% in the Sciences and in the natural while 0% in the Business field.

It is seen in the table that 53.85% of the students interest lies on the use of verbal skills, 34.62% are inclined towards the use of computation skills, and 23.08% are inclined towards the use of manipulative skills.

It is seen in the table that 11.5 % of the students are inclined towards tasks that are routine, 30.8% are inclined towards skilled tasks, and 73.08 % are more onto professional task.