O*NET® Work Importance Profiler^TM

Overview

The O*NET Work Importance Profiler (WIP) is a new computerized self-assessment career exploration tool that allows customers to focus on what is important to them in a job. It helps people identify occupations that they may find satisfying, based on the similarity between their work values (such as achievement, autonomy, and conditions of work) and the characteristics of the occupations.

The O*NET Work Importance Profiler is administered by computer. Participants use the WIP to indicate the importance to them of each work need, in two different steps. In Step 1, participants rank order the twenty-one work need statements by comparing them to one another and ordering them according to their relative importance. In Step 2, they rate the work needs by indicating whether or not the need is important independent of the other work need statements. Users receive a profile of their work values that:

1. helps them develop valuable self-knowledge about their work values,
2. fosters career awareness, and
3. provides a window to the entire world of work via the 800+ occupations within O*NET OnLine.

The O*NET Work Importance Profiler is also available in a paper and pencil version. For more information about the paper and pencil version of this instrument, please see O*NET Work Importance Locator.

The O*NET Work Importance Profiler measures six types of work values:

O*NET Work Importance Profiler Strengths

• Based on over 30 years of research by leading vocational psychologists
• Extensive and thorough development effort
  • stakeholder input during all stages
  • construct validity and reliability evidence
• Extensively pilot tested
• Can be self-administered and self-interpreted
• Computer administration via single computer or computer network
• User Guide provided for workforce development professionals
• Can be used alone or with other O*NET Career Exploration Tools or with privately developed instruments
• Results provide a window to over 800 occupations in O*NET OnLine
• Approximately 30 minute completion time

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Software and User's Guide

The files for the Work Importance Profiler software and WIP User's Guide are provided below to enable users to download and use the O*NET Work Importance Profiler software. For questions regarding installation, refer to the installation instructions contained in the O*NET Work Importance Profiler User's Guide. (As a convenience, the Computerized Interest Profiler (CIP) software and demonstration versions for a quick view are also included as a part of this download.)

Download:
WIP — Software (ZIP - 7.3 MB)
WIP — User's Guide (PDF - 3.2 MB)

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