[08/06/2024] O*NET Research reports

See Rounds Putka Lewis for Holland RIASEC descriptions and the new SETPOINT/CABIN model

See Rounds Smith Hubert for RIASEC Rating instructions 5.3.1 Page 14

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Rounds Putka Lewis Updating Vocational Interests Information for the ONET Content Model .pdf

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Updating Vocational Interests Information for the O*NET Content Model

• Introduction

  • The occupational information collected is guided by the ONET Content Model, the conceptual foundation of ONET (Mumford & Peterson, 1999)

    • https://www.onetcenter.org/content.html

  • The O*NET Content Model provides a framework that identifies the most important types of information about work and integrates them into a theoretically and empirically sound system.

  • The present report describes updating and enhancing the RIASEC descriptions, and development of 41 basic interest descriptions based on the Comprehensive Assessment of Basic Interests (CABIN; Su et al., 2019) for inclusion in the O*NET Content Model.

• Definition of Vocational Interests

  • general interest scales and basic interest scales.

    • General occupational interest scales assess broad themes of preferences (broad interest dimensions) that include a heterogeneous set of work activities or settings. The most familiar general interest scales are the Realistic-Investigative-Artistic-Social-Enterprising-Conventional theoretical model (acronym RIASEC, Holland, 1997).

    • Basic occupational interest scales are specific, homogeneous facets of interests that group together work activities that share similar properties and represent the same abstract object, such as engineering, medical science, music, or accounting. An important characteristic of basic interests is that they rely on everyday language and definitions and therefore, they are easy to communicate to a variety of individuals (e.g., students, adults).

• Updating the RIASEC Interest Descriptions for the O*NET Content Model

  • The current RIASEC descriptions within the ONET Content Model (heretofore called, the “ONET RIASEC descriptions”) were initially developed at the onset of the ONET Content Model and then refined during the development of the ONET Interest Profiler Long Form (Lewis & Rivkin, 1999; Rounds et al.,1999a; Rounds et al., 1999c). Given their age, the ONET RIASEC descriptions may be dated due to changes in industry and occupations and foremost, changes in required work tasks. To ensure these descriptions reflect the current world of work, we used a variety of information to update them for the ONET Content Model.

  • The updated RIASEC descriptions we developed broadly model Holland’s (1997) RIASEC definitions. However, a major exception is that our updated ONET RIASEC descriptions, conceptualize Holland’s model as a vocational interest model of six multidimensional traits, with each of these RIASEC traits related to multiple basic interests. To update the ONET RIASEC descriptions, we used basic interests drawn from comprehensive assessment of basic interests (CABIN; Su et al., 2019). CABIN consists of 41 basic interests and their corresponding scales. Each basic interest scale is content-specific and unidimensional. Items are representative of the occupations and work tasks covered by each scale. To ensure that, at the item level, the basic interest assessment covered the full range of the world of work, Su et al. (2019) extracted information about work tasks for all the occupations in the ONET system to develop the items. Another difference between Holland’s RIASEC definitions and the updated ONET RIASEC descriptions is that the latter do not include Holland’s surplus meaning drawn from correlates (e.g., abilities, competencies, values, and personality traits). In general, the updated O*NET RIASEC descriptions follow closely the idea that vocational interests are grounded in work activities and these activities have two elements: an action and a target object or context (Rounds & Su, 2014). For example, the activity, “study the effects of a new medicine”, has the action of “study” and an object of “new medicine”. Another example, “teach a pre-school class”, has the action of “teach” and the object and context of “pre-school class”.

• Writing Updated O*NET RIASEC Descriptions

  • For each RIASEC interest, we developed:

    • a written definition,

    • lists of illustrative work activities,

    • lists of illustrative occupations (drawn from the O*NET-SOC 2019 taxonomy),

    • lists of keywords.

  • Process and Results

    • To convey the meaning of the 41 basic interests to prospective users of the ONET Content Model, we developed:

      • written definitions,

      • lists of illustrative work activities,

      • lists of illustrative occupations (drawn from the ONET-SOC 2019 taxonomy) for each basic interest,

      • linkages from each basic interest to the RIASEC themes.

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Rounds Smith Hubert 1999 Development of Occupational Interest Profiles for ONET.pdf

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