Welcome to the Automated Advisor!
The Automated Advisor connects your results from many career exploration tests to related occupations, programs, and schools.
Career exploration tests may be grouped according to the type of score they produce: Holland/RIASEC codes, Work Value Preferences, or 16 Federal Cluster Interests.
- The Personal Globe Inventory (PGI), the Inventory of Children's Activities (ICA), and the O*Net Interest Profiler (OIP) all produce Holland or RIASEC codes (i.e., work-interest scores), named after John L. Holland, whose research showed that people and careers could be described and connected by six factors: Realistic, Investigate, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional.
- The O*NET Work Importance Profiler (WIP) matches people and careers on six general work values: Achievement, Recognition, Independence, Relationships, Support, and Working Conditions.
- The Career Clusters Interest Survey (CCIS) measures occupational interests according to 16 Federal clusters that link to curriculum requirements in public education (such as Health Sciences or Finance).
Currently, scores from all of these tests may be automatically stored in the Automated Advisor; results from other tests must be entered manually. The Automated Advisor's merged databases from the United States Departments of Labor and Education are very large, containing nearly 1,000 occupations and 7,000 schools. Not every school uses the same names to identify academic programs. Although the Automated Advisor contains dozens of program areas subdivided into hundreds of more specific academic programs, the names of programs may vary from campus to campus.
Clicking on "My Advisor" opens a menu that permits you to create an account, take a variety of career exploration tests, and save information on relevant occupations, programs, and schools. Or you may simply browse the occupations, programs, and schools currently in the Automated Advisor database.