O*NET® Career Exploration Tools — WIL and WIP Reports

Development of the O*NET Computerized Work Importance Profiler (1999)

The purpose of this report is to describe and document the development and evaluation of the computerized work values measure. As a part of the O*NET Content Model, work values consist of features of employment that may be personally important to the individual.

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Development of the O*NET Computerized Work Importance Profiler (PDF - 464 KB)

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Development of the O*NET Paper-and-Pencil Work Importance Locator (1999)

The O*NET Work Importance Locator (WIL-P&P) was designed to be available as a stand-alone measure of work values. This report describes the development and evaluation process for the O*NET Work Importance Locator, a paper-and- pencil measure of work values.

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Development of the O*NET Paper-and-Pencil Work Importance Locator (PDF - 4.9 MB)

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Linking Client Assessment Profiles to O*NET Occupational Profiles (1999)

This report describes the procedures used to compare and match a client's assessment profiles obtained from one or more of the O*NET Career Exploration Tools to O*NET-SOC occupation profiles. The report describes the corresponding algorithms developed for clients using a single O*NET tool and for clients using multiple tools.

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Linking Client Assessment Profiles to O*NET Occupational Profiles (PDF - 289 KB)

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Determining the Occupational Reinforcer Patterns for O*NET Occupational Units (July 1999)

This report focuses on the effort to generate work-related values information included in the Worker Characteristics domain of the O*NET Content Model (i.e., identifying features of employment which O*NET users may value or view as personally important).

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Volume I: Report: Determining the Occupational Reinforcer Patterns for O*NET Occupational Units (PDF - 185 KB)
Volume II: Appendix (PDF - 289 KB)

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