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VOCATIONAL INTEREST QUESTIONNAIRE (VIQ)

WORK INTERESTS PROFILE

AND SPECIFIC JOB RECOMMENDATIONS

Prepared for

JOHN SAMPLE
Dr Darryl Cross' Clients (2017)
Crossways Consulting

Authored by Dr. Darryl Cross & Mr. Garry Simcock (Crossways Consulting)

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HOW TO USE THIS REPORT

Follow the steps below to understand the information in this report:

1. On page 3 is the PROFILE of your work interests or likings. The work or career area that you liked most is at
the top and the areas that you liked least are at the bottom.

2. On page 4 following your profile, you can read a DESCRIPTION of the work interest areas you liked most
down to those you liked least.

3. Note that the 'Good Careers Guide' is a job dictionary showing a comprehensive, alphabetical list of careers
that gives detailed descriptions of each job, the personal requirements needed, the education and training
necessary, the employment opportunities and where further information can be acquired. The Internet address
for the 'Good Careers Guide' is: [Link]

Alternatively, a hard copy of the 'Good Careers Guide' can be purchased from some selected newsagencies
or from the website [Link]

4. On page 5, the terms "Professional" and "Skilled" are fully explained. These two categories relate to the
educational level required to gain entry into the various jobs. Note too that the next few pages of your report
showing the Job Skills and Tasks as well as the Careers that are outlined for you are divided into both
"Professional" and "Skilled" categories.

5. Going a step further, we can show you how you got the Work Interests Profile that you did. On page 6, we
have captured a list of the JOB SKILLS AND TASKS that have been generated from your highest Interest
areas. In other words, these were the statements in the questionnaire itself that you rated as 'Very Appealing'
or 'Liked' from your highest interest areas. They give you a direct indication of the kinds of job activities that
appeal to you.

6. Going still further, a list of specific JOBS has also been generated that you might like to consider. These jobs
relate to the statements in the questionnaire itself that you rated as 'Very Appealing' or 'Liked'. Of course,
these are only a guide and you should research other kinds of jobs in these Interest areas either from the
'Good Careers Guide' itself or on the Internet.

7. Finally, at the end of this report is the 'CAREER ACTION PLAN'. There are two options:

Fill out the table at the end of your report using pen and paper OR
You can complete it on your computer using Microsoft Word. Download the digital Career Action Plan
document by going to [Link]/actionplan.

Work through the Action Plan and begin to fill in the necessary steps to focus on your possible career path
including your subject choices for later secondary school years or post-secondary, vocational or tertiary
courses and training.

Copyright © 2017 by Darryl Cross. All rights reserved

This report is designed to provide effective and helpful information with regard to the subject matter covered. It is sold with the understanding
that the author is not engaged in rendering medical, legal, accounting or financial advice of any kind. If legal advice or other professional
assistance is required, the services of a competent professional should be sought. If legal advice or other professional assistance is required,
the services of a competent professional should be sought. If more comprehensive careeer assistance is required, it is recommended that a
face-to-face consultation with a career counsellor be sought.

The author denies any liability for the incidental or consequential damages resulting from the use of the information in this report. This report is
designed to assist with the generating and exploring of various career options. It does not make decisions for the individual, but provides a
range of options to be considered. No responsibility is accepted for any liabilities resulting for the actions of any parties involved.

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YOUR INTEREST PROFILE

Listed below are the Vocational Interest Categories.

The areas you liked most are at the top of the page and the areas that you liked least are at the bottom
of the page.

A description of these categories is given on the next page.

Interest Category
Score

Persuading or Service 32 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||

Helping or Advising 20 ||||||||||||||||||||

Organising or Clerical 17 |||||||||||||||||

Creative or Artistic 13 |||||||||||||

Nature or Recreation 5 |||||

Analytic or Scientific 2 ||

Practical or Mechanical 1 |

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INTEREST CATEGORIES DESCRIBED

Presented in order of the areas that you liked most down to those that you liked least.

Persuading or Service
These jobs involve working with people, to sell to, influence, motivate, negotiate with, or serve them. These jobs
might involve discussing issues and perhaps trying to influence people's behaviour or ideas. Activities include
selling, promoting or providing goods or services, bargaining, or presenting a point of view. Typically, people in
these jobs need to have good reasoning and listening skills and present well to people.

Helping or Advising
These jobs involve working with people, to help, inform, teach or treat them. Activities include discussing personal
issues, listening to people's problems, and providing advice, instruction, information or treatment to meet their
needs such as personal, medical, financial. These careers could be in community welfare, education, health care,
medical, research or information services.

Organising or Clerical
These jobs involve working with data, numbers, formulae and statistics, to order, process, or retrieve facts and
figures, or to develop or administer policies or procedures. Activities include organising, using or updating
information, such as files or accounts, developing or following procedures or systems, as well as the planning,
budgeting, and staffing of an organisation including the supervision of office activities, company programs and
other workers.

Creative or Artistic
These jobs involve working with ideas, to creatively express, present or perform them. An appreciation of design,
style, form, beauty or related concepts used to develop or interpret an idea are important. Activities can include
writing, painting, singing, dancing, decorating, designing and performing. People who are high in this interest area
may also be creative in a more general way ie., by thinking of different ways to look at or solve a problem. There
may also be a range of jobs closely related to the Arts, in administration, marketing, promotion, and public relations
which require artistic or creative appreciation, but not so much of the hands-on work.

Nature or Recreation
These jobs involve working with things in the natural world, such as construction, handling animals, raising crops or
livestock, or sport. Activities include growing and caring for living things, or an involvement with sport, leisure or the
environment. This may involve working in the open and moving about mainly outdoors, often reporting back to a
central location such as a depot, office or station. Some of the industries offering outdoor work are building and
construction, agriculture, mining, transport, and defense and security.

Analytic or Scientific
These jobs involve working with ideas to investigate or seek solutions to scientific, technical, medical, social or
other issues. Activities include observing, researching, analysing and interpreting results. This work often includes
research and experiments. Often this requires patience and perseverance, particularly for long term or complicated
experiments and observations. The ability to develop theories, apply logic and explore abstract ideas in a specialist
area of knowledge is important.

Practical or Mechanical
These jobs involve working with things, using the hands, or special tools, machines or equipment to design, make,
fix, install or adjust. These jobs could involve working with technical manuals, blueprints, or plans, and increasingly,
computers are used as an aid to design, manufacture or monitor. Activities include doing practical and physical
tasks, and may require an understanding of how equipment or machinery works.

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WHAT DO "PROFESSIONAL" AND "SKILLED" MEAN?

The Vocational Interest report consists of separate interest groups (e.g. Creative or Artistic, Organising or Clerical,
Analytic or Scientific etc.). Each of these interest groups however, has been further sorted into what has been
termed 'Professional' jobs and 'Skilled' jobs which are shown as sub-headings on the next few pages.

'Professional' and 'Skilled' as described below relate to the educational level required to gain entry into the jobs
that seem to suit you best.

'PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS'

PROFESSIONAL
Occupations that require either three years or more full-time study (or the part-time equivalent) following the
successful completion of secondary education usually undertaken at University (e.g. degree) or other
recognised training or work experience. Examples are industrial designers, lawyers, engineers and dentists.

PARA-PROFESSIONAL
Occupations that generally require the successful completion of secondary education, plus two years of
full-time study (or part-time equivalent) of a vocational nature (e.g. associate degree, diploma or advanced
diploma), often undertaken at a vocational college or a registered training organisation such as Technical And
Further Education (TAFE). Examples are interior decorators, library technicians and engineering technicians.

'SKILLED POSITIONS'

SKILLED TRADE
Occupations that usually require the successful completion of at least Year 11 in secondary education, if not
higher, and part-time study or on-the-job training (e.g. Certificate III, IV) rather than more full-time study,
usually through a vocational college or private college or institute. Examples include trade occupations with
apprenticeships or traineeships (e.g. engineering tradeperson-mechanical, cabinet maker, hairdresser and
aquaculture technician) as well as certain clerical jobs (e.g. administrative assistant, cashier, education aide,
hotel/motel front office attendant).

SKILLED Non-TRADE
Occupations that generally require compulsory secondary education or Certificate I or II level for entry and
where practical expertise including on-the-job training may often be more important than academic
achievement. Examples include car rental officer, delivery driver, railway station assistant, builder's labourer,
and fork-lift driver.

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YOUR PREFERRED JOB SKILLS AND TASKS

Examination of your interest profile shows some areas that you are attracted towards and others in which you are
not interested.

Listed below however, are the job activities that you favoured and liked in your highest areas of interest. These
job activities are divided into 'professional' tasks and activities versus 'skilled' tasks and activities (see previous
page for a definition of professional and skilled).

The area with the highest score is: PERSUADING OR SERVICE

Statements in this area that you found VERY APPEALING

PROFESSIONAL

Meet with clients and plan the best way in which to promote their products to people.
Plan, design and write works for publication
Write and edit news reports, articles or documentaries.

SKILLED

None

Statements in this area that you LIKED

PROFESSIONAL

Conduct music and chat programs, read commercials and make community announcements.
Market a product or service and supply goods to customers at the right time and places.
Provide services for staff recruitment, employment and welfare of staff.
Write for publicity promotions and organise a publicity campaign.

SKILLED

Advise customers on the services provided in a function centre, theatre, cafe or restaurant.
Consult with clients to plan hotel and travel arrangements.
Liaise in the running of functions, conferences, conventions or special events.
Manage and supervise the leasing of commercial and residential properties on behalf of their owners or
arrange routine maintenance, repair and upkeep of properties.
Meet prospective customers in order to sell houses, land, vehicles or other goods.
Provide tours, promote tourism and provide information on accommodation and places to visit.
Research the sale of goods and organise to purchase replacement or new stock.

The area with the second highest score is: HELPING OR ADVISING

Statements in this area that you found VERY APPEALING

PROFESSIONAL

Care for and tutor children, adolescents or adults in academic, practical, social or physical programs.
Help people and organisations to deal with personal, social, emotional, financial or health problems.

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SKILLED

None

Statements in this area that you LIKED

PROFESSIONAL

Diagnose and treat illness and injuries in people.

SKILLED

Assist in the diet, care, well-being and mobility of sick or injured patients.
Help community groups to work together and solve problems.
Help people to find books, magazines, tapes and CDs in a library.
Provide care and support for people while helping them to live independently.
Work with young children helping them gain skills.

The area with the third highest score is: ORGANISING OR CLERICAL

Statements in this area that you found VERY APPEALING

PROFESSIONAL

None

SKILLED

None

Statements in this area that you LIKED

PROFESSIONAL

Coordinate and manage the business activities and promotions of the arts or sports.
Plan, draw up a schedule and menu and organise a conference or business function or special event.

SKILLED

Arrange reservations of rooms, or seats on flights, or car rentals.

On the following page you will find specific job recommendations for yourself.

These are derived from your preferred Job Skills and Tasks listed above, ie., the Job Skills and Tasks that
you said that you found very appealing or that you liked.

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PERSONAL JOB RECOMMENDATIONS

Examination of your interest profile shows some areas that appeal to you and others for which you have little or no
interest.

Although the following is by no means an exhaustive list of jobs that you should consider, it is certainly an excellent
guide based on your selected interest areas and the job skills and activities that you selected on the previous
pages.

All suggested occupations below are fully described in the 'Good Careers Guide'.

The area with the highest score is: PERSUADING OR SERVICE

Occupations using the Job Skills and Tasks that you found VERY APPEALING

PROFESSIONAL

Advertising Account Executive

Copywriter
Editor
Journalist
Writer

SKILLED

None

Occupations using the Job Skills and Tasks that you LIKED

PROFESSIONAL

Human Resources Officer

Marketing Officer / Manager
Media Presenter
Public Relations Officer / Public Affairs Officer

SKILLED

Airlines Passenger Officer

Bar Attendant
Barista
Car Park Attendant
Events Coordinator
Flight Attendant
Hotel / Motel Front Office Attendant
Property Manager
Real Estate Salesperson
Retail Buyer
Sales Assistant
Sales Representative
Sales Representative (Information Technology)
Ship’s Catering Attendant
Strata Managing Agent
Tour Guide
Tourist Information Officer

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Travel Consultant
Usher
Waiter/Waitress

The area with the second highest score is: HELPING OR ADVISING

Occupations using the Job Skills and Tasks that you found VERY APPEALING

PROFESSIONAL

Career Development Practitioner

Counsellor
Early Childhood Educator
Management Consultant
Psychologist
Rehabilitation Counsellor
Social Worker
Teacher Primary
Teacher Secondary
Teacher Special Education
Training Officer
University Lecturer
VET Lecturer
Welfare Worker
Youth Worker

SKILLED

None

Occupations using the Job Skills and Tasks that you LIKED

PROFESSIONAL

Medical Practitioner
Natural Medicine Practitioner
Paramedic

SKILLED

Aboriginal Affairs Administrator

Aged Care Worker
Community Worker
Dietary Aide
Disability Support Worker
Education Aide
Library Assistant
Library Technician
Nanny
Nurse - Enrolled
Therapy Aide

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The area with the third highest score is: ORGANISING OR CLERICAL

Occupations using the Job Skills and Tasks that you found VERY APPEALING

PROFESSIONAL

None

SKILLED

None

Occupations using the Job Skills and Tasks that you LIKED

PROFESSIONAL

Arts Administrator
Catering Officer
Meeting and Events Manager
Sports Administrator

SKILLED

Airline Passenger Officer

Car Rental Officer
Hotel & Motel Front Office Attendant

Now turn over the page and begin work on your CAREER ACTION PLAN.

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CAREER ACTION PLAN

To continue your career exploration process, you need a "CAREER ACTION PLAN." There are two options:

Fill out the table below using pen and paper OR

You can complete it on your computer using Microsoft Word. Download the digital Career Action Plan
document by going to [Link]/actionplan

Follow the ten steps below and use references such as the 'Good Careers Guide' either in book form (from your
school, selected newsagencies) or online at [Link] This will enable you to plan
the pathways to reach your career goals including working out your subject choices for the last years of secondary
school and/or postgraduate study or training courses.

Follow these steps

Step 1: Identify your highest interest areas from the VIQ Profile and write them in the spaces under "Interest Area
1", "Interest Area 2" and "Interest Area 3" (feel free to add a fourth if you wish).

Step 2: Turn to the list of your preferred jobs and occupations on the previous pages of this report. For each of
your interest areas, write down the jobs you might like under the column headed "Occupations Being Considered."
Which jobs do you think that you'd really like to do? Which really appeal to you? Write these down.

Step 3: You can also visit the website [Link] for additional jobs in your main interest
areas if you wish. Scroll down and under "Career Search", click on the drop down menu listed under "Type of
Work"; you will see 7 types of work in drop down menu tabs. These are the same interest areas as in your VIQ
Report. Choose your highest interest area. Then choose the "Field of Work" that you would enjoy the most from the
drop down menu. Lastly, choose the level of education you want from "Skill Level". Then do the same for your
second and third highest interest areas. This shows you a broader list of occupations under your areas of interest,
but these of course, are not your 'chosen' careers as reflected in the VIQ report.

Step 4: Read each job description in more detail, including the "Duties and Tasks", the "Working Conditions" and
the "Personal Requirements". Indicate in the last column of the next page whether you are still interested in the job
by placing a tick or a cross next to each job. If you are a student, get your list down to 5 chosen jobs. If you are an
adult, you may wish to restrict your chosen jobs to perhaps 1 or 2, or possibly 3 at the most.

Step 5: On the pages following these instructions, write down your list of chosen occupations. Enter each job
under, "Chosen Occupation 1", "Chosen Occupation 2" etc.

Step 6: Now read all about the job in the "Good Careers Guide" and write down the skills required for each job.
This will help you to rank your top selections.

Step 7: Write down the education and training required for each job.

Step 8: Write down the entry requirements to gain access to courses etc. for that job. If you are an adult, you
need not proceed further. You now know what's required for these careers.

Step 9: If you are a student, work out and list what Year 12/13 secondary education subjects you would
therefore need based on Steps 1 to 8 (and especially Steps 7 & 8).

Step 10: If you are in Year 10, go ahead and work out and list what Year 11 secondary education subjects you
would therefore need based on Step 9.

For further Career Counselling or Career Testing contact:

CROSSWAYS CONSULTING Ph: +61 8 83617722
PO BOX 2000 Fax: +61 8 83120232
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EXAMPLE for Steps 1 - 4

Step 1: Step 2: (and Step 3 if you wish) Step 4:

Interest Area Occupations Being Considered Read Job Summary,
Duties & Tasks, Personal
Requirements Online –
Still interested?
Analytic or Scientific Agricultural Scientist No
Chemical Engineer Yes
Veterinarian No

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Interest Area 1 Occupations Being Considered Interested?

Interest Area 2 Occupations Being Considered Interested?

Interest Area 3 Occupations Being Considered Interested?

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EXAMPLE for Steps 5 - 10

Step 5: Step 6: Step 7:

Chosen Occupation Skills Required Education and Training
Chemical Engineer Able to identify, analyse and solve University of Adelaide
problems
Good communication skills Bachelor of Engineering (Chemical)
Practical and creative
Able to work independently and able 4 years full-time
to accept responsibility
Step 8: Step 9: Step 10:
Entry Requirements Year 12/13 Subjects Year 11 Subjects
Year 12 (SACE Stage 2) Mathematical Studies Maths (3 units)
Pre-requisites: Mathematical Studies, Specialist Maths, Chemistry Physics and Chemistry
Chemistry, and Specialist Maths

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Chosen Occupation 1 Skills Required Education and Training

Entry Requirements Year 12/13 Subjects Year 11 Subjects

Chosen Occupation 2 Skills Required Education and Training

Entry Requirements Year 12/13 Subjects Year 11 Subjects

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Chosen Occupation 3 Skills Required Education and Training

Entry Requirements Year 12/13 Subjects Year 11 Subjects

Chosen Occupation 4 Skills Required Education and Training

Entry Requirements Year 12/13 Subjects Year 11 Subjects

Chosen Occupation 5 Skills Required Education and Training

Entry Requirements Year 12/13 Subjects Year 11 Subjects

Congratulations on working out a career plan! This plan can be adapted and changed as you go along, but
it is a great starting point.

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