interaction and helping, and such a person can be described as well-
meaning, comforting, understanding, charitable, supportive and
cooperative. People who score high here must have in mind occupations
where they can be directly involved in helping, serving or teaching others.
Conventional A high score reflects a preference for a well-determined role in the field of
business or in large organizations. Such persons will enjoy day-to-day
business activities, e.g. working in an office, sales, making decisions or
supervising others. Preference will be shown for working in a calm
organization to one full of variables and overloaded with new tasks; such
persons will prosper in exact works, and will prefer not to have to be highly
creative, nor to fulfil tasks which involve mechanical skills, discomfort or
physical risks.
Enterprising A high score reflects a preference for activities involving conversation, in
order to influence or persuade. Such persons are highly self-confident,
rarely in difficulty, dominant and strong; are as a rule more interested in
marketing or management, in the details of the daily operations or
particular aspects. They are motivated by the conventional symbols of
social status (money, influence, and prestige), rather than by other forms of
recognition. Besides business, high scores may also be registered in legal
activities, administration, public relations, diplomacy and related.
Communicative A high score reflects an interest in ideas and their communication. Such
persons enjoy the formal expressions of thinking (reading, attending
conferences, study or intellectual exchanges). They will take pleasure in
phrasing and expressing concepts rather than in simply exchanging words
with others. High scores describe an intellectual person, well connected to
reality, well informed, with a large range of interests. Professional writers
score high here. However, since communication is important in many
occupations, many other scores will be high elsewhere.
Higher or lower scores actually represent the frequency of choosing answers to certain
statements in the sphere of professional interests.
The answer sheet – for the Basic Interests Scales – is available in two formats, depending
on whether the scoring is manual or computer-assisted.
The Administrative Indices contains scores which show the degree of confidence that
can be placed on the results obtained; the scales are useful in the process of interpretation
the clients’ profile, by signalling the situations where there is doubt or certainty. These
scales are: Unscorable Responses, Response Consistency Index, Infrequency Index and
their values must be within certain limits (patterns) considered normal.
The score for Academic Satisfaction (AS) reflects the level of similarity between one’s
personal profile and the average in universities, with students involved in traditional
and/or scientific academic courses, studies or activities The AS score is not a measure of
the person’s ability for higher education, neither can it foresee the success in the field.
Instead, this score can offer a clue to the enjoyment of academic activities, study, reading,
research and other intellectual tasks.