What kind of work fits you
47 O*NET interest dimensions
O*NET describes the kind of work a person is drawn to with the six Holland (RIASEC) interest types and 41 specific interest areas beneath them. Every occupation is scored on each, on a 0–7 scale. This page renders each interest: how common it is across the economy and the occupations that fit it most strongly. It describes the work — not which job is better, harder, or higher-paid.
The six Holland (RIASEC) types
Artistic Creative, expressive, original — design, performance, writing. 923 occupations · avg 1.94/7 Conventional Organizing, detail, structure — data, records, procedure. 923 occupations · avg 4.53/7 Enterprising Leading, persuading, selling — starting and running things. 923 occupations · avg 2.83/7 Investigative Ideas, analysis, research — figuring out how and why. 923 occupations · avg 3.36/7 Realistic Hands-on, practical, physical — tools, machines, the outdoors. 923 occupations · avg 4.57/7 Social Helping, teaching, serving — working with and for people. 923 occupations · avg 2.94/7
Artistic
- Applied Arts and Design · 891 jobs · avg 1.43/7
- Creative Writing · 891 jobs · avg 1.24/7
- Culinary Art · 891 jobs · avg 1.15/7
- Marketing/Advertising · 891 jobs · avg 1.40/7
- Media · 891 jobs · avg 1.41/7
- Music · 891 jobs · avg 1.11/7
- Performing Arts · 891 jobs · avg 1.18/7
- Visual Arts · 891 jobs · avg 1.34/7
Conventional
- Accounting · 891 jobs · avg 1.74/7
- Information Technology · 891 jobs · avg 1.92/7
- Office Work · 891 jobs · avg 2.07/7
Enterprising
- Business Initiatives · 891 jobs · avg 1.55/7
- Finance · 891 jobs · avg 1.46/7
- Law · 891 jobs · avg 1.49/7
- Management/Administration · 891 jobs · avg 2.34/7
- Politics · 891 jobs · avg 1.28/7
- Public Speaking · 891 jobs · avg 2.08/7
- Sales · 891 jobs · avg 1.50/7
Investigative
- Health Care Service · 891 jobs · avg 1.94/7
- Humanities · 891 jobs · avg 1.41/7
- Life Science · 891 jobs · avg 1.68/7
- Mathematics/Statistics · 891 jobs · avg 2.10/7
- Medical Science · 891 jobs · avg 1.68/7
- Physical Science · 891 jobs · avg 1.66/7
- Social Science · 891 jobs · avg 1.74/7
Realistic
- Agriculture · 891 jobs · avg 1.20/7
- Animal Service · 891 jobs · avg 1.10/7
- Athletics · 891 jobs · avg 1.17/7
- Construction/Woodwork · 891 jobs · avg 1.41/7
- Engineering · 891 jobs · avg 2.27/7
- Mechanics/Electronics · 891 jobs · avg 2.36/7
- Nature/Outdoors · 891 jobs · avg 1.34/7
- Physical/Manual Labor · 891 jobs · avg 2.60/7
- Protective Service · 891 jobs · avg 1.44/7
- Transportation/Machine Operation · 891 jobs · avg 1.75/7
Social
- Human Resources · 891 jobs · avg 1.68/7
- Personal Service · 891 jobs · avg 1.90/7
- Professional Advising · 891 jobs · avg 1.80/7
- Religious Activities · 891 jobs · avg 1.05/7
- Social Service · 891 jobs · avg 1.89/7
- Teaching/Education · 891 jobs · avg 2.12/7