SAMPLE RESULT. This is an example profile (Investigative, Artistic, Social), not a real person's results. Your own result will show your own answers.
Jobs, Vocation, & Career Interest Inventory
JOVOCA is a conversation starter about work, not a verdict on your future. It brings together what you enjoy doing (your interests), and what matters to you in work (your values).
What you can get from it
How to use it: read it once without judging; pick two or three surprising occupations and find out what people in those jobs do; talk it through with someone you trust; come back when your situation changes.
For parents: read it with your teenager, ask before you tell, and use the questions in each section. Treat every list as an idea to test.
What it can't do: it can't tell you what you'll be good at, what you'll earn, or whether you'll be happy in a job.
Question answered: do you reach first for your head, your heart or your hands? This is the page to start a conversation with. The next pages show the same picture in more detail.
The bars come from all 90 of your interest answers. Each answer was labelled head (ideas), heart (people) or hands (doing and organising), and each bar averages your answers with that label. Most interest themes mix two or three, so a theme like Enterprising draws on both head and heart.
From here: section 2 shows your interests in six themes, section 3 shows what matters to you in work and checks it against your interests, and section 4 links your interests to jobs.
Question answered: which kinds of activity draw you most? Your top three themes make your interest code: ISA
The chart shows the shape of your own interests: which themes stand out for you, not how you compare with other people. The order of your top three matters more than small differences.
Question answered: what do you need from a job, and does it fit what you enjoy doing? Sixteen things work can give you, rated by you, and where they agree with what you enjoy or pull apart from it.
Each bar shows how far a value sits above or below your own average across all sixteen. Bars to the right matter more to you than your average; bars to the left matter less. It is a picture of your priorities, not a comparison with other people.
Your five highest values. Each has a way to test it against a real job.
You are driven to make something that did not exist before. New ideas, new designs and new ways of doing things give your work its point.
The same drive can make routine work, however necessary, feel like a waste of your effort.
Try this: Look for jobs where making something new is part of the day, and ask how much time it gets.
You are driven to understand how things work and why. A hard problem that takes real thought keeps you engaged for a long time.
The same drive can make work with no real problems in it hard to stay with.
Try this: Ask what the hardest problem in the job is, and who is working on it.
You do your best work when the path is yours to choose. Room to decide how, and in what order, keeps you moving.
The same need for room can make close supervision or fixed procedures feel heavy.
Try this: Ask in any interview how much of the work you would decide for yourself, and how closely someone would check it.
You do your best work when it fits what you believe is right. A clear purpose, and a way of working you can stand behind, keep you going when the days are hard.
The same need can make a job feel heavy when its aims or its methods clash with your principles.
Try this: Ask what the organisation stands for, and what it does when doing the right thing costs money.
You want to use your strengths and see what they produce. Finishing something solid, and knowing you did it well, gives your work its point.
The same drive can make work with no clear finish, or no visible result, hard to stay with.
Try this: Ask what a finished piece of work looks like in the job, and how you would know you had done it well.
Interests are what you enjoy doing. Values are what you need from the job around the doing. Where they agree, you have a firm anchor. Where they differ, you have something to talk about. They often differ, because they ask different questions, so a difference is ordinary and not a mistake.
You enjoy working things out, and you want work that keeps you thinking. That is a firm anchor when you compare jobs.
Helping and teaching draw you, yet helping others and working closely with people are not high on what you want from work. You may enjoy teaching a skill or designing a service more than close personal care.
Ask yourself: What kind of help do you like giving: a skill, advice, or looking after someone?
Try this: Picture a full day of helping people and note which parts you would want to keep.
What you enjoy and what you want from work differ a little on making and expressing: your interest is moderate, and what you want from work leans high. The gap is small, so treat it as a question and not a finding. Ask yourself whether making and expressing feels like something you would choose for a whole working day.
Question answered: what kind of activity would you enjoy doing? Bars show how closely your interests match the typical interest profile of each job. Up to 3 jobs per theme are shown here, only where the match is High or above.
No strong job matches in this theme. It pulls you less than your top themes, so it is not the best place to start.
No strong job matches in this theme. It pulls you less than your top themes, so it is not the best place to start.
Occupation information comes from the O*NET 31.0 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA), used under the CC BY 4.0 license. Interest and values matches are derived from O*NET data; USDOL/ETA has not approved, endorsed or tested them. Matches describe the typical job in the US; they do not predict success or satisfaction.