OCCUPATIONAL INTEREST PROFILE

Purpose	Assess vocational interests and work needs
For	Young people over 15 and adults
Qualification	Level A
Duration	15 minutes + administration time

Designed to provide a comprehensive and fully integrated psychometric assessment for career guidance and development. This test battery consists of an occupational interest questionnaire and a measure of "personal work needs" which can be fully integrated with a choice of general or specific aptitude measures. Developed following extensive initial trialling on a large sample of 16 to 18 year olds it has been designed so that only a basic level of education is required to complete it. Since its development in 1991 it has subsequently been applied to professional groups with impressive results and now boasts a norm group of several thousands of working adults in a variety of occupational areas.

What the OIP measures

The OIP provides a comprehensive assessment of vocational interest and personal work needs. The vocational interests refer to work areas which an individual would enjoy, (e.g. administrative, computational, persuasive, practical). Whereas the work needs are related to the individual's personal needs within a chosen area of work (e.g. variety, structure, people, control).

OIP Reports

These have been designed to fully integrate the results of the different elements of the battery (i.e. the aptitude tests, the occupational interests and work needs questionnaires) into one report which focuses upon a successful career choice. Written in the second person the report has been compiled so that it can form the basis of a discussion with a careers adviser or counsellor and then be given to the respondent to take away for further reference. In addition, the report produces a detailed list of career suggestions based on the person's profile over the range of tests taking into account the respondent's aptitudes where available.

Advantages

Quick to administer, yet producing a comprehensive and detailed career orientated assessment, this battery provides a psychometrically sound solution for all those who are engaged in vocational guidance and counselling. It can be administered in either traditional or computer-based format but in either case the GeneSys software will integrate the results from the component parts of the battery thereby saving considerable manual computational and report-writing commitment. With the option to administer graduate reasoning tests, as opposed to the default general level reasoning test, this battery may also be used for graduate careers assessment and counselling as well as managerial out-placement. occupational interest profile.