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Interests and Direction
The Career Interests Compass
Reveals the employee's leanings across six activity types and produces a three-letter code summarising their mix.
60 items
12 minutes
6 dimensions
Intermediate and above
What it measures
Matching a role to its holder's leanings, and reading transfer and rotation requests before they become a resignation.
How to read the result
Array
Before administering
Tell the employees: "This instrument has no score and no right answer, and it does not go into your performance review. The question is: do you like doing this? Answer for what you like, not what you think is expected."
Its limits
It measures neither ability nor performance. Leanings shift as the role and the experience change — re-measure after a year.
Its dimensions
- RealisticWhen high: Drawn to hands-on work and to concrete activities with a visible result.
- InvestigativeWhen high: Enjoys analysis, research and getting to the root cause.
- ArtisticWhen high: Thrives when given freedom in how they present their work.
- SocialWhen high: Draws energy from interaction and from helping others.
- EnterprisingWhen high: Seeks influence, responsibility and a quick result.
- ConventionalWhen high: Comfortable with order, defined standards and fine detail.
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