Campbell interest and skill survey: individual profile
Report for: Billy Bob
Date: October 28, 2002
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Your vocational interests and skills are important components of your personal characteristics. What you like to do and what you are confident that you can do play an important role in your future career satisfaction and success. The CISS profile analyzes your self-reported interests and skills and shows how you compare with people in general and with happily employed people in a variety of occupations.
The purpose of this report is to help you find a career in which you will be happy and productive. For adults, responses to this survey are stable over long time periods, even over many years. For teenagers and young adults, responses can shift somewhat as they gain work experience, although the shifts are seldom extreme. At any point in time, the results are stable enough to help individuals plan their next educational or career choices.
If possible, you should discuss your CISS profile with a skilled career counselor who is specifically trained to help you better understand your results.
The following pages report your scores on three kinds of CISS scales.
Orientation Scales cover seven broad themes of occupational interests and skills
Basic Scales are detailed subscales of the Orientation Scales
Occupational Scales compare your interest and skill patterns with those of workers in a wide range of occupations
For each CISS scale, two scores are calculated, one based on your interests, the other based on your skills. The interest score (I) shows how much you like the specified activities; the skill score (S) shows how confident you feel about performing these activities.
Four patterns of combinations of your interest and skill scores are also reported. Your interest and skill pattern is more important than the numeric value of your score.
Pursue - (I >= 55, S >= 55) When your interest and skill scores are both high, this is an area for you to Pursue. You are attracted to these activities and confident in your ability to perform them well. These Pursue areas should be the major focus of your career planning.
Develop - (I >= 55, S < 55) When your interest score is high and your skill score is lower, this is a possible area for you to Develop. You enjoy these activities but feel uncertain about your ability to perform them. Further education, training, or experience with these skills might lead to better performance and greater confidence. Or you may want to simply enjoy these areas as hobbies.
Explore - (I < 55, S >= 55) When your skill score is high and your interest score is lower, this is a possible area for you to Explore. You are confident of your ability to perform these activities, but you do not enjoy them. With some exploration, you may find a way to use your skills in other areas that interest you more.
Avoid - (I <= 45, S <= 45) When your interest and skill scores are both low, this is an area for you to Avoid. You neither enjoy these activities nor feel confident in your ability to perform them.
No pattern is reported when both of your scores fall into the mid-range or when one score is mid-range and the other is lower. Mid-range scores are less important in career planning because they indicate only an average level of interest and skill.
No pattern is reported when both of your scores fall into the mid-range or when one score is mid-range and the other is lower. Mid-range scores are less important in career planning because they indicate only an average level of interest and skill.
Orientation scales
Your CISS profile is organized into seven Orientation Scales covering important areas of the world of work. Each Orientation is identified by an underlined capital letter.
Influencing — influencing others through leadership, politics, public speaking, sales, and marketing
Organizing — organizing the work of others, managing, and monitoring financial performance
Helping — helping others through teaching, healing, and counseling
Creating — creating artistic, literary, or musical productions and designing products or environments
aNalyzing — analyzing data, using mathematics, and carrying out scientific experiments
Producing — producing products, using hands-on skills in farming, construction, and mechanical crafts
Adventuring — adventuring, competing, and risk taking through athletic, police, and military activities
This profile shows your scores on each of these Orientations. For each of the Orientation Scales shown below, there are two graphical bars. The top blue bar represents your reported level of Interest. The bottom purple bar represents your reported skill level. To the right of the bars is your Interest/Skill Pattern (Pursue, Develop, Explore, or Avoid) for that scale.
These are activities that you enjoy and feel confident about your abilities in performing. Areas for which your interests and skills are both high are prime candidates for your future. Pursue these areas in your career planning.
You can learn about how to use your highest Orientation scores in Activity 1.
Basic scales
The following profile takes you one layer deeper into the basic scales under each Orientation. Basic Scales reflect types of work and activities within each Orientation.
Your interest and skill patterns
The following table organizes the Orientation and Basic Scales according to interest/skill patterns.
Consider this…Activity 2
Occupational scales by orientation
The next section of the report presents the Occupational Scales in each of the seven Orientations. Your scores (represented by the solid blue and purple bars) are compared with those of people who are successful and satisfied in each occupation. The lighter shaded bars reflect the range of scores for the middle 50% of people employed in that occupation. If your interest and/or skill results bars overlap the lighter shaded bars, it means that you have interests and/or skills that are similar to those of people who are happily employed in that occupation.
Activity 3 will help you evaluate the following occupations. You may want to print your report and Career Planner for reference as you look at these occupations. Then check out these additional Career Resources.
Influencing orientation occupational scales
Your Influencing interest and skill scores are both very high. People who have scores as high as yours typically report very strong interest and very substantial confidence in leading, negotiating, marketing, selling, and public speaking.
Pursue some of these Influencing activities in your career.
Organizing orientation occupational scales
Your Organizing interest and skill scores are both very high. People who have scores as high as yours typically report very strong interest and very substantial confidence in planning, scheduling, supervising, budgeting, and monitoring.
Pursue some of these Organizing activities in your career.
Refer to the table of Related Occupations and Fields of Study at the end of your report.
Helping orientation occupational scales
