CAREER_COUNSELLING_EN

The five Factors are named according to the bi-polar name and represent each category of
preference for various activities.

The bi-polar factors of the COII:

Factor I 1. Things versus 6. People

Preference for activities that

involve handling and/or using

things

Preference for activities involving

interaction and/or communication

with people

Factor II 2. Business contacts versus 7. Scientific

Preference for activities involving

direct communication with people

with a view to selling and/or

persuasion

Preference for activities involving

research, using special knowledge

and/or investigation in consensus

with the methodology of scientific

research

Factor III 3. Routine versus 8. Creative

Preference for activities performed

in consensus with certain

instructions and/or repetitive,

systematic, concrete procedures

Preference for activities requiring

artistic approach to things and ideas

and/or formulating and using

concepts

Factor IV 4. Social versus 9. Solitary

Preference for activities involving

people as partners or beneficiaries

of services

Preference for activities performed

individually that involve operating

objects

Factor V 5. Prestige versus 0. Production

Preference for activities that earn

esteem and/or leadership

Preference for activities leading to

getting tangible objects

The two terms of each Factor (e.g. Things – People) are considered “Scales”. Number 1
and 6 in the same example represent the number of the profile.

The COII inventory has 70 items, each grouping three bi-polar activities, selected in such
a way as to represent in a balanced manner all the five Factors. Each of these Factors
consists in a number of 14 items, grouped in four so-called “sectors”. These sectors have
the following objectives:

• work;


• training;


• related activities;


• leisure.

Within each Factor, the preferences expressed for certain activities in these sectors give
an indication about the consistency of the answers to the inventory and offer credibility to
the profile obtained. Five such items are positioned in the sector Work and three in every
other sector: Training, Related Activities, and Leisure.