My Interest Finder

Micah Germano: Your Results

RIASEC Scores Realistic: 5 Investigative: 14 Artistic: 16 Social: 1 Enterprising: 2 Conventional: 0 Print This Page

Your answers to My Interest Finder show that your highest interests are in Artistic Activities. People with Artistic interests like work activities that deal with the artistic side of things, such as forms, designs, and patterns. They like self-expression in their work and prefer settings where work can be done without following a clear set of rules. Your next highest interests are in Investigative Activities. People with Investigative interests like work activities that have to do with ideas and thinking more than with physical activity. They like to search for facts and figure out problems mentally more than to persuade or lead people. And your third highest interests are in Realistic Activities. People with Realistic interests like work activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions. They enjoy dealing with plants, animals, and tangible materials like wood, tools, and machinery. They enjoy outside work. Often people with Realistic interests do not like occupations that mainly involve doing paperwork or working closely with others. You were not interested in Enterprising Activities. People with Enterprising interests like work activities that have to do with starting up and carrying out projects, especially business ventures. They like persuading and leading people, making decisions, and taking risks for profit. These people prefer action more than thought. You were even less interested in Social Activities. People with Social interests like work activities that assist others and promote learning and personal development. They prefer to communicate more than to think of solutions or work with objects, machines, or data. They like to teach, give advice, help, or otherwise be of service to people. And you were least interested Conventional Activities. People with Conventional interests like work activities that follow set procedures and routines. They prefer working with data and detail more than with ideas. They prefer work in which there are precise standards more than work in which you have to judge things by yourself. These people like working where the lines of authority are clear.

More information on the RIASEC Interest Assessment

The interest questionnaire you completed and these results are based on a theory developed by John Holland who also developed the idea that occupations can be sorted into the same six

categories: "Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional." Notice the first letters of these wordsRIASEC. This "coding" system is used in many interest questionnaires. You may have taken one at another time. If you did, consider how similar or different your results are.

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Technical Writers

Description
Write technical materials, such as equipment manuals, appendices, or operating and maintenance instructions. May assist in layout work.
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Experience
Extensive skill, knowledge, and experience are needed for these occupations. Many require more than five years of experience. For example, surgeons must complete four years of college and an additional five to seven years of specialized medical training to be able to do their job.

Education
A bachelor's degree is the minimum formal education required for these occupations. However, many also require graduate school. For example, they may require a master's degree, and some require a Ph.D., M.D., or J.D. (law degree).

Training
Employees may need some on-the-job training,

but most of these occupations assume that the person will already have the required skills, knowledge, work-related experience, and/or training.

Tasks

Organizes material and completes writing assignment according to set standards regarding order, clarity, conciseness, style, and terminology. Edits, standardizes, or makes changes to material prepared by other writers or establishment personnel. Observes production, developmental, and experimental activities to determine operating procedure and detail. Maintains records and files of work and revisions. Selects photographs, drawings, sketches, diagrams, and charts to illustrate material. Confers with customer representatives, vendors, plant executives, or publisher to establish technical specifications and to determine subject material to be developed for publication. Arranges for typing, duplication, and distribution of material. Draws sketches to illustrate specified materials or assembly sequence. Analyzes developments in specific field to determine need for revisions in previously published materials and development of new material. Reviews manufacturer's and trade catalogs, drawings, and other data relative to operation, maintenance, and service of equipment. Reviews published materials and recommends revisions or changes in scope, format, content, and methods of reproduction and binding. Assists in laying out material for publication. Interviews production and engineering personnel and reads journals and other material to become familiar with product technologies and production methods. Studies drawings, specifications, mockups, and product samples to integrate

and delineate technology, operating procedure, and production sequence and detail.

National Average Salary

$51,650.00/year

Important Abilities
1. Written Expression 2. Written Comprehension 3. Information Ordering 4. Originality 5. Oral Comprehension

General Work Activities

1. Getting Information Needed to Do the Job 2. Communicating With Other Workers 3. Documenting/Recording Information 4. Interpreting Meaning of Information to Others 5. Drafting & Specifying Technical Devices, etc.

Important Skills
1. Writing 2. Reading Comprehension 3. Information Gathering 4. Synthesis/Reorganization 5. Information Organization

Frequent Work Context

1. Importance of Being Exact or Accurate 2. Job-Required Social Interaction 3. Indoors 4. Objective or Subjective Information 5. Provide a Service to Others

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QUICK FACTS

Year established: Type of school: Programs: Religious affiliation: Campus enrollment: Coeducational information: Location description: Application fee:

1955 college, private (nonprofit) 4-year undergraduate no 773 students coeducational institution, founded as coeducational institution in or near a large town (pop. 25,000-75,000) $60

CONTACT INFORMATION
Street address: Harvey Mudd College 301 Platt Boulevard Claremont, CA 91711 Harvey Mudd College 301 Platt Boulevard Claremont, CA 91711 909 621-8000 909 621-8360 (fax)

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CAMPUS LINKS
Main homepage: Athletics homepage: Campus map: www.hmc.edu www.hmc.edu/muddvision/ index.html www.hmc.edu/campusmap/ index.html

QUICK CODES
SAT number: ACT number: 4341 0282

FAFSA number: FICE number: CSS/PROFILE number:

001171 1171 4341

CAMPUS SUMMARY
Harvey Mudd, founded in 1955, is a private college of engineering and science. It is one of the Claremont Colleges, a group of five undergraduate colleges and one graduate school with adjoining campuses and shared facilities and services. Its 18acre campus is located at the base of the San Gabriel Mountains, 35 miles east of Los Angeles.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
HMC is one of the premier math, science and engineering colleges in the nation. Were also unique because we are a liberal arts college. We educate engineers, scientists and mathematicians who become leaders in their fields and have a clear understanding of the impact their work has on society. We operate on an "early in-early out" semester schedule. Classes begin a few days on either side of Labor Day; we have devised a short "fall break" in mid-October, have the traditional days off after Thanksgiving, and usually end classes around the 5th or 10th of December, with a wekk of finals afterwards. Students are away from campus from about the 20th of December until about the 20th of January at which time the spring semester begins. Our spring break occurs in mid-March, classes usually end after the first week of May, and commencement closes the spring semester in mid-May.