The O*NET Computerized Interest Profiler (CIP) is a career exploration tool that enables individuals discover the type of work activities and occupations that suit their temperament and interest. O*Net CIP was developed by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration (DOL-ETA) through O*NET, the technical group commissioned to develop career exploration tools and maintain a database on occupations.

The instrument is available in two versions – the paper-based O*Net Interest Profiler (IP) and the O*Net Computerized Interest Profiler (CIP). TESDA has been granted a Program Developer status by O*NET authorizing it to use the O*Net CIP for career profiling under TESDA’s career guidance program.

O*Net CIP is an instrument consisting of 180 items describing work activities that represent a wide variety of occupations as well as a broad range of training levels. It measures six types of occupational interests: Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional.

REALISTIC: People with Realistic interests like work activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions. They enjoy dealing with plants, animals, and real-world materials like wood, tools, and machinery. They enjoy outside work. Often people with Realistic Interests do not like occupations that mainly involve doing paperwork of working closely with others.

INVESTIGATIVE: People with Investigative interests like work activities that have to do with ideas and thinking, rather than with physical activity. They like to search for facts and figure out problems mentally, rather than to persuade or lead people.

ARTISTIC: People with Artistic interests like work activities that deal with artistic side of things, such as forms, designs, and patterns. They like self-expression in their work. They prefer settings where work can be done without following a clear set of rules.

SOCIAL: People with Social interests like work activities that assist others and promote learning and personal development. They prefer to communicate more than to work with objects, machines, or data. They like to teach, to give advice, to help or otherwise be of service to people.

ENTERPRISING: 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 and making decisions. They like taking risks for profit. These people prefer action, rather than thinking.

CONVENTIONAL: People with Conventional interests like work activities that follow a set of procedures and routines. They prefer working with data and detail, rather than with ideas. They prefer work in which there are precise standards, rather than work in which you have to judge things by yourself. These people like working where the lines of authority are clear.

The O*Net CIP report provides a score for each of the six types of interest. The O*Net CIP scoring report is simple enough to show that an individual’s highest score is his Primary Interest Area and the second highest score, his Secondary Interest Area. As a pure career exploration guide, this scoring report is all the individual needs to know and he can proceed to further career exploration on his own by looking at the Job Zones for the appropriate occupations matching his score.

To determine if one’s profile is appropriate for TVET, the following guideline is to be followed:

Step One:

1. The Realistic score should figure in the top three scores
2. The Conventional must figure at least in the top four scores.
3. Both Realistic and Conventional scoring requirements must be satisfied. The applicant shall then be deemed TVET-fit.

Step Two: The evaluation shall now proceed to looking at the zones 2 and 3 for the list of occupations appropriate for TVET. Each interest area has its own list of zones 2-3.

Zone 2 lists occupations that require some preparation which ranges from a high school diploma to vocational training or job-related course work.

Zone 3 lists occupations that require medium preparation which ranges from vocational training and job-related course work to an associate’s degree.

Step Three: The final evaluation for scholarship is based on the top ten list of occupations in any of the above zones that contain any occupation that matches available programs.

You will have to visit the e-TESDA Website and open the e-Career Profiling page – the page where you are on right now – and click on the O*Net CIP executable (on the lower left corner of this page). When it opens, you will be ready to use the O*Net CIP which has a scoring program integrated so you can print the results immediately after you have finished the test.

In the O*Net CIP executable you will enter an interactive set-up where you will be guided through a step-by-step process. But before proceeding with the assessment, be aware of the following:

1. Make sure you have a printer ready.
2. Once you are finished, print immediately the report on your assessment since the O*Net CIP will not save your result after you have closed the file.
3. Keep the report and preferably make an extra copy.

 

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