TRY IT · YOUR INTEREST CODE
Which of these would you enjoy?
Pick any that appeal. Each maps to one of John Holland's six interest types; your top two or three letters are your code. The full career aptitude test uses many more items, plus your abilities.
IECyour interest code from 3 picks
RRealistic0
IInvestigative1
AArtistic0
SSocial0
EEnterprising1
CConventional1
A situational judgement item
Rate each response · there's no single "right" answer, only better and worseYou're two days from a client deadline when a colleague tells you the data you've been using has an error that affects the main result.
ATell your manager straight away, with what you know about the size of the error.
BQuietly fix the data yourself and say nothing, since the deadline is close.
CAsk the colleague to double-check the error first, then raise it the same day.
DWarn the client that the results may change.
What predicts doing the job well
VALIDITY FOR JOB PERFORMANCE · SACKETT ET AL., 2022Operational validity estimates; higher means a better predictor of later job performance. Combining methods predicts better than any one alone.
Structured interview.42
Job knowledge test.40
Work sample.33
Cognitive ability test.31
Situational judgement (knowledge).26
Unstructured interview.19
6Interest types in Holland's modelRealistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, Conventional: the RIASEC framework behind most career-interest tools.
.26Situational judgement testsCorrected validity for job performance in McDaniel and colleagues' 2007 meta-analysis.
- Sackett, P. R., Zhang, C., Berry, C. M., & Lievens, F. (2022). Revisiting meta-analytic estimates of validity in personnel selection. Journal of Applied Psychology, 107(11), 2040–2068.
- McDaniel, M. A., Hartman, N. S., Whetzel, D. L., & Grubb, W. L. (2007). Situational judgment tests, response instructions, and validity: A meta-analysis. Personnel Psychology, 60(1), 63–91.
- Holland, J. L. (1997). Making Vocational Choices: A Theory of Vocational Personalities and Work Environments (3rd ed.). Psychological Assessment Resources.