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Aptitude Exercises for Spring 2017
Now go to “What Career is Right for Me” https://www.whatcareerisrightforme.com/ and take the short test. It is self explanatory and will not take much of your time. Print out the results.
From Rasmussen College, please take their free aptitude test. I’m not sure how strong this is, but it is fast, and it should provoke some thought about yourself. Please list the first 4 or so occupations it says you might be tempermentally suited for. http://www.rasmussen.edu/resources/aptitude-test/
DICTIONARY OF OCCUPATIONAL TITLES, FIRST THREE DIGITS
The federal government has given just about every job in America a unique nine digit number. You are going to be doing two exercises to help determine which occupations might be of interest to you. Here is the first exercise.
Below are nine major categories of occupations from the D.O.T., the Dictionary of Occupation Titles, the book which the federal government prints that lists all the nine digit codes for just about every job in America. It is also available to you free of charge on line. Please look at all nine and write down on eet which one the nine is the most interesting to you. Mine was 0/1 Professional, Technical, and Managerial Occupations. 0/1 is now my first number in the DOT’s nine digit code. Two get the next two numbers I click on that link and look at all the choices in 0/1 Professional, Technical, and Managerial Occupations and the two that stand out to me immediately is 05 Occupations in Social Sciences and 09 Occupations in Education. So my first three numbers will be 0/1 0 5 and I will also check out 01/ 0 9. Instructions on getting the next three digits is found under “DOT Worker Functions”
Dictionary Of Occupational Titles
0/1 - Professional, Technical, and Managerial Occupations
00/01 OCCUPATIONS IN ARCHITECTURE, ENGINEERING, AND SURVEYING
02 OCCUPATIONS IN MATHEMATICS AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES
03 COMPUTER-RELATED OCCUPATIONS
04 OCCUPATIONS IN LIFE SCIENCES
05 OCCUPATIONS IN SOCIAL SCIENCES
07 OCCUPATIONS IN MEDICINE AND HEALTH
09 OCCUPATIONS IN EDUCATION
10 OCCUPATIONS IN MUSEUM, LIBRARY, AND ARCHIVAL SCIENCES
11 OCCUPATIONS IN LAW AND JURISPRUDENCE
12 OCCUPATIONS IN RELIGION AND THEOLOGY
13 OCCUPATIONS IN WRITING
14 OCCUPATIONS IN ART
15 OCCUPATIONS IN ENTERTAINMENT AND RECREATION
16 OCCUPATIONS IN ADMINISTRATIVE SPECIALIZATIONS
18 MANAGERS AND OFFICIALS, N.E.C.
19 MISCELLANEOUS PROFESSIONAL, TECHNICAL, AND MANAGERIAL OCCUPATIONS
Dictionary Of Occupational Titles
2 - Clerical and Sales Occupations
20 STENOGRAPHY, TYPING, FILING, AND RELATED OCCUPATIONS
21 COMPUTING AND ACCOUNT-RECORDING OCCUPATIONS
22 PRODUCTION AND STOCK CLERKS AND RELATED OCCUPATIONS
23 INFORMATION AND MESSAGE DISTRIBUTION OCCUPATIONS
24 MISCELLANEOUS CLERICAL OCCUPATIONS
25 SALES OCCUPATIONS, SERVICES
26 SALES OCCUPATIONS, CONSUMABLE COMMODITIES
27 SALES OCCUPATIONS, COMMODITIES, N.E.C.
29 MISCELLANEOUS SALES OCCUPATIONS
Dictionary Of Occupational Titles
3 - Service Occupations
30 DOMESTIC SERVICE OCCUPATIONS
31 FOOD AND BEVERAGE PREPARATION AND SERVICE OCCUPATIONS
32 LODGING AND RELATED SERVICE OCCUPATIONS
33 BARBERING, COSMETOLOGY, AND RELATED SERVICE OCCUPATIONS
34 AMUSEMENT AND RECREATION SERVICE OCCUPATIONS
35 MISCELLANEOUS PERSONAL SERVICE OCCUPATIONS
36 APPAREL AND FURNISHINGS SERVICE OCCUPATIONS
37 PROTECTIVE SERVICE OCCUPATIONS
38 BUILDING AND RELATED SERVICE OCCUPATIONS
Dictionary Of Occupational Titles
4 - Agricultural, Fishery, Forestry, and Related Occupations
40 PLANT FARMING OCCUPATIONS
41 ANIMAL FARMING OCCUPATIONS 02461DEFSET6 42 MISCELLANEOUS AGRICULTURAL AND RELATED OCCUPATIONS
42 MISCELLANEOUS AGRICULTURAL AND RELATED OCCUPATIONS
44 FISHERY AND RELATED OCCUPATIONS
45 FORESTRY OCCUPATIONS
46 HUNTING, TRAPPING, AND RELATED OCCUPATIONS
Dictionary Of Occupational Titles
5 - Processing Occupations
50 OCCUPATIONS IN PROCESSING OF METAL
51 ORE REFINING AND FOUNDRY OCCUPATIONS
52 OCCUPATIONS IN PROCESSING OF FOOD, TOBACCO, AND RELATED PRODUCTS
53 OCCUPATIONS IN PROCESSING OF PAPER AND RELATED MATERIALS
54 OCCUPATIONS IN PROCESSING OF PETROLEUM, COAL, NATURAL AND MANUFACTURED GAS, AND RELATED PRODUCTS
55 OCCUPATIONS IN PROCESSING OF CHEMICALS, PLASTICS, SYNTHETICS, RUBBER, PAINT, AND RELATED PRODUCTS
56 OCCUPATIONS IN PROCESSING OF WOOD AND WOOD PRODUCTS
57 OCCUPATIONS IN PROCESSING OF STONE, CLAY, GLASS, AND RELATED PRODUCTS
58 OCCUPATIONS IN PROCESSING OF LEATHER, TEXTILES, AND RELATED PRODUCTS
59 PROCESSING OCCUPATIONS, N.E.C.
Dictionary Of Occupational Titles
6 - Machine Trades Occupations
60 METAL MACHINING OCCUPATIONS
61 METALWORKING OCCUPATIONS, N.E.C.
62/63 MECHANICS AND MACHINERY REPAIRERS
64 PAPERWORKING OCCUPATIONS
65 PRINTING OCCUPATIONS
66 WOOD MACHINING OCCUPATIONS
67 OCCUPATIONS IN MACHINING STONE, CLAY, GLASS, AND RELATED MATERIALS
68 TEXTILE OCCUPATIONS
69 MACHINE TRADES OCCUPATIONS, N.E.C.
Dictionary Of Occupational Titles
7 - Benchwork Occupations
70 OCCUPATIONS IN FABRICATION, ASSEMBLY, AND REPAIR OF METAL PRODUCTS, N.E.C. RELATED PRODUCTS
71 OCCUPATIONS IN FABRICATION AND REPAIR OF SCIENTIFIC, MEDICAL, PHOTOGRAPHIC, OPTICAL, HOROLOGICAL, AND RELATED PRODUCTS
72 OCCUPATIONS IN ASSEMBLY AND REPAIR OF ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT
73 OCCUPATIONS IN FABRICATION AND REPAIR OF PRODUCTS MADE FROM ASSORTED MATERIALS
74 PAINTING, DECORATING, AND RELATED OCCUPATIONS
75 OCCUPATIONS IN FABRICATION AND REPAIR OF PLASTICS, SYNTHETICS, RUBBER, AND RELATED PRODUCTS
76 OCCUPATIONS IN FABRICATION AND REPAIR OF WOOD PRODUCTS
77 OCCUPATIONS IN FABRICATION AND REPAIR OF SAND, STONE, CLAY, AND GLASS PRODUCTS
78 OCCUPATIONS IN FABRICATION AND REPAIR OF TEXTILE, LEATHER, AND RELATED PRODUCTS
79 BENCHWORK OCCUPATIONS, N.E.C.
Dictionary Of Occupational Titles
8 - Structural Work Occupations
80 OCCUPATIONS IN METAL FABRICATING, N.E.C.
81 WELDERS, CUTTERS, AND RELATED OCCUPATIONS
82 ELECTRICAL ASSEMBLING, INSTALLING, AND REPAIRING OCCUPATIONS
84 PAINTING, PLASTERING, WATERPROOFING, CEMENTING, AND RELATED OCCUPATIONS
85 EXCAVATING, GRADING, PAVING, AND RELATED OCCUPATIONS
86 CONSTRUCTION OCCUPATIONS, N.E.C.
89 STRUCTURAL WORK OCCUPATIONS, N.E.C.
Dictionary Of Occupational Titles
9 - Miscellaneous Occupations
90 MOTOR FREIGHT OCCUPATIONS
91 TRANSPORTATION OCCUPATIONS, N.E.C.
92 PACKAGING AND MATERIALS HANDLING OCCUPATIONS
93 OCCUPATIONS IN EXTRACTION OF MINERALS
95 OCCUPATIONS IN PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION OF UTILITIES
96 AMUSEMENT, RECREATION, MOTION PICTURE, RADIO AND TELEVISION OCCUPATIONS, N.E.C.
97 OCCUPATIONS IN GRAPHIC ART WORK
DOT WORKER FUNCTIONS
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EXPLANATION OF DATA, PEOPLE, AND THINGS
Every job requires skills dealing with data, people and things. These relationships are identified
and explained below. They appear in the form of three listings arranged
in each instance from the relatively simple to the complex in such a
manner that each successive relationship includes those that are simpler
and excludes the more complex. (As each of the relationships to People
represents a wide range of complexity, resulting in considerable overlap
among occupations, their arrangement is somewhat arbitrary and can be
considered a hierarchy only in the most general sense.)
The identifications attached to these relationships are referred to as
Worker Functions, and provide standard terminology for use in
summarizing how a worker functions on the job.
YOUR JOB IS TO LOOK AT THE THREE LISTS BELOW AND WRITE DOWN THE SMALLEST NUMBER IN EACH LIST THAT YOU CAN DO OR THINK YOU CAN DO WHEN YOU ARE FINISHED WITH YOUR EDUCATION AND TRAINING. [Mine was 0 for Data, 2 or 3 for People and 3 for things.] WRITE THOSE THREE DIGITS ON YOUR APTITUDE EXERCISE SHEET. [SO MY NUMBER WOULD BE 023 OR 033]
DATA (4th Digit) PEOPLE (5th Digit) THINGS (6th Digit)
0 Synthesizing 0 Mentoring 0 Setting Up
1 Coordinating 1 Negotiating 1 Precision Working
2 Analyzing 2 Instructing 2 Operating-Controlling
3 Compiling 3 Supervising 3 Driving-Operating
4 Computing 4 Diverting 4 Manipulating
5 Copying 5 Persuading 5 Tending
6 Comparing 6 Speaking-Signalling 6 Feeding-Offbearing
7 Serving 7 Handling
8 Taking Instructions-Helping
Definitions of Worker Functions
DATA: Information, knowledge, and conceptions, related to data, people,
or things, obtained by observation, investigation, interpretation,
visualization, and mental creation. Data are intangible and include
numbers, words, symbols, ideas, concepts, and oral verbalization.
0 Synthesizing: Integrating analyses of data to discover facts and/or
develop knowledge concepts or interpretations.
1 Coordinating: Determining time, place, and sequence of operations or
action to be taken on the basis of analysis of data; executing
determinations and/or reporting on events.
2 Analyzing: Examining and evaluating data. Presenting alternative
actions in relation to the evaluation is frequently involved.
3 Compiling: Gathering, collating, or classifying information about
data, people, or things. Reporting and/or carrying out a prescribed
action in relation to the information is frequently involved.
4 Computing: Performing arithmetic operations and reporting on and/or
carrying out a prescribed action in relation to them. Does not
include counting.
5 Copying: Transcribing, entering, or posting data.
6 Comparing: Judging the readily observable functional, structural, or
compositional characteristics (whether similar to or divergent
from obvious standards) of data, people, or things.
PEOPLE: Human beings; also animals dealt with on an individual basis as
if they were human.
0 Mentoring: Dealing with individuals in terms of their total
personality in order to advise, counsel, and/or guide them with regard
to problems that may be resolved by legal, scientific, clinical,
spiritual,
and/or other professional principles.
1 Negotiating: Exchanging ideas, information, and opinions with others
to formulate policies and programs and/or arrive jointly at
decisions, conclusions, or solutions.
2 Instructing: Teaching subject matter to others, or training others
(including animals) through explanation, demonstration, and supervised
practice; or making recommendations on the basis of technical disciplines.
3 Supervising: Determining or interpreting work procedures for a group
of workers, assigning specific duties to them, maintaining harmonious
relations among them, and promoting efficiency. A variety of
responsibilities is involved in this function.
4 Diverting: Amusing others, usually through the medium of stage,
screen, television, or radio.
5 Persuading: Influencing others in favor of a product, service, or
point of view.
6 Speaking-Signaling: Talking with and/or signaling people to convey
or exchange information. Includes giving assignments and/or
directions to helpers or assistants.
7 Serving: Attending to the needs or requests of people or animals or
the expressed or implicit wishes of people. Immediate response
is involved.
8 Taking Instructions-Helping: Attending to the work assignment
instructions or orders of supervisor. (No immediate response required
unless clarification of instructions or orders is needed.) Helping
applies to ``non-learning'' helpers.
THINGS: Inanimate objects as distinguished from human beings, substances
or materials; and machines, tools, equipment, work aids, and products.
A thing is tangible and has shape, form, and other physical
characteristics.
0 Setting Up: Preparing machines (or equipment) for operation by
planning order of successive machine operations, installing and
adjusting tools and other machine components, adjusting the position
of workpiece or material, setting controls, and verifying accuracy
of machine capabilities, properties of materials, and shop practices.
Uses tools, equipment, and work aids, such as precision gauges and
measuring instruments. Workers who set up one or a number of machines
for other workers or who set up and personally operate a variety
of machines are included here.
1 Precision Working: Using body members and/or tools or work aids to
work, move, guide, or place objects or materials in situations
where ultimate responsibility for the attainment of standards occurs
and selection of appropriate tools, objects, or materials, and the
adjustment of the tool to the task require exercise of considerable
judgment.
2 Operating-Controlling: Starting, stopping, controlling, and adjusting
the progress of machines or equipment. Operating machines involves
setting up and adjusting the machine or material(s) as the work
progresses. Controlling involves observing gauges, dials, etc.,
and turning valves and other devices to regulate factors such as
temperature, pressure, flow of liquids, speed of pumps, and reactions
of materials.
3 Driving-Operating: Starting, stopping, and controlling the actions
of machines or equipment for which a course must be steered or which
must be guided to control the movement of things or people for a variety
of purposes. Involves such activities as observing gauges and dials,
estimating distances and determining speed and direction of other
objects, turning cranks and wheels, and pushing or pulling gear lifts
or levers. Includes such machines as cranes, conveyor systems, tractors,
furnace-charging machines, paving machines, and hoisting machines.
Excludes manually powered machines, such as handtrucks and dollies, and
power-assisted machines, such as electric wheelbarrows and handtrucks.
4 Manipulating: Using body members, tools, or special devices to work,
move, guide, or place objects or materials. Involves some latitude for
judgment with regard to precision attained and selecting appropriate
tool, object, or material, although this is readily manifest.
5 Tending: Starting, stopping, and observing the functioning of
machines and equipment. Involves adjusting materials or controls of
the machine, such as changing guides, adjusting timers and temperature
gauges, turning valves to allow flow of materials, and flipping switches
in response to lights. Little judgment is involved in making these
adjustments.
6 Feeding-Offbearing: Inserting, throwing, dumping, or placing
materials in or removing them from machines or equipment which are
automatic or tended or operated by other workers.
7 Handling: Using body members, handtools, and/or special devices to
work, move, or carry objects or materials. Involves little or no
latitude for judgment with regard to attainment of standards or in
selecting appropriate tool, object, or materials.
APTITUDE REPORT:
Here are the requirements for the aptitude report:
The results print out from the “what career is right for me exercise”
The results print out from the Rasmussen College aptitude test.
The nine digit DOT code from your work on the DOT site and the title of the occupation.
Give me your reaction to these three exercises. Were they totally wrong? Did they get some things right? Were they all pointing in the same direction? It is ok if you liked them or hated them, if you agreed with them or not. Do the results match up with your major or a potential major?
I would think you could do a good job completing this requirement in a paragraph or two.
