GENERAL OCCUPATIONAL RESEARCH SURVEY

       GENERAL OCCUPATIONAL                

    RESEARCH PERSONAL PROFILE

Determining the career field best suited to your interests and aptitudes.

DIRECTIONS:  Answer each of the questions below, circling ONLY ONE answer from each group given.  On some questions, you may not particularly like any of the possible responses, but you MUST ANSWER with the least objectionable choice.

 

It is a beautiful day in late spring.  You would most likely enjoy:

1. going on a picnic
2. weeding the garden
3. feeding the birds
4. beating a cat

It is a rainy day in the fall; the skies are gray and dismal and it is pouring.  You would most likely enjoy:

1. talking to a friend on the phone
2. going on a picnic
3. watching a horror film
4. reading the phone book

You are hunting in the woods with a rifle; ahead you see an animal that you want to shoot.  You would most likely enjoy shooting a(n):

1. armadillo
2. squirrel
3. bat
4. black bear

Regardless of your natural skin color, you are being given the opportunity to change it. You would most likely enjoy changing your skin color to:

1. blue
2. green
3. clear
4. plaid

If you could talk to anyone in history for an evening, of the following choices, you would most likely enjoy talking to:

1. Adolf Hitler
2. Attila the Hun
3. Arnold Springer
4. Dagwood Bumstead

You have nothing to do this weekend, so the choice is yours; you would most likely enjoy:

1. stretching a cat
2. swimming across The English Channel
3. watching episodes of Three’s Company
4. listening to Barry Manilow

You have a chance to go back in time and add ONE subject that you wished you could have studied in elementary school; you would most likely enjoy:

1. organic chemistry
2. environmental marketing
3. understanding sphincters
4. the internal humidity of dogs

You are in a fancy French restaurant with a very important “other” person who asks you to order for him/her; You would most likely enjoy ordering:

1. escargot
2. Merde d’Mar
3. fish and chips
4. a fine vintage bottle of Thunderbird

Your employer gives you a choice of attending one of several conferences; you would most likely enjoy attending the one on:

1. The Environmental Impact of Electric Can Openers on the Ozone Layer
2. Economic and Political Planning for Death
3. The Psychology of Division of Motor Vehicles Employees
4. Planning and Implementing Pothole Replacement

Two friends are having a heated argument over the BEST coating for Southern fried chicken and have asked you to choose; you would most likely choose:

1. graham crackers
2. 10W-30 Havoline
3. recycled chewing tobacco
4. bird seed

For a possible occupation, you have to decide what to do with your hands; you would most likely enjoy:

1. getting your hands dirty and greasy
2. getting hard calluses on your fingers
3. typing form letters to blind old people
4. keeping your hands clean by using your feet

For the environment for your daily work, you would most likely enjoy:

1. working outdoors with others
2. working indoors with others
3. working outdoors with wild animals
4. working indoors with pets

For the PHYSICAL environment for your daily work, you would most likely enjoy:

1. working outdoors in a wilderness area
2. working inside in a small closet
3. having a corner office with lots of windows that look out over Central Park and a high-powered telescope with which you can look into other offices and apartments
4. a hot-air balloon with a phone

Of the possible adjectives that BEST describe your interactions with peers, you would most likely choose:

1. friendly, hostile, lugubrious
2. timid, resounding, tenacious
3. odorous, odoriferous, odious
4. damp, scented, parked

Of all the possible characteristics in someone you work WITH, you would most likely admire and respect:

1. respectable
2. gullible
3. ludicrous
4. wet

During your breaks during the workday, you would most likely enjoy:

1. reading the obituaries
2. talking like a parrot
3. drinking from the bottle of Jack Daniels in your desk
4. writing funny things about your supervisor on the bathroom walls

You are planning a gala party for friends to celebrate your entry into the Publisher’s Clearinghouse Sweepstakes; for the foods to serve, you would most likely enjoy serving your friends:

1. peanut butter on a Ritz
2. potted meat finger sandwiches
3. sliced wild boar with skunk cabbage vinaigrette
4. pigs in parkas

You are walking along a dark, deserted road in the country at midnight; you hear a strange series of noises in the woods along the road.  You would most likely NOT want the sounds to be caused by:

1. a saber-toothed tiger
2. a chicken molester
3. a 1988 Oldsmobile
4. the entire USC Marching Band

Please circle the issue that is MOST important to you in terms of your occupation:

1. money
2. salary
3. income
4. pay

Given all the choices one has to make about one’s life, the topic that you would most likely find MOST important is:

1. marriage to someone of the opposite sex
2. where to spend my summer vacation
3. whether to send Christmas cards next year
4. the price of beer

If you were given a chance to spend next week somewhere different, of the following choices, you would most likely enjoy:

1. going to a dude ranch
2. swimming with sharks off the coast of Somalia
3. rock climbing in Nebraska
4. taking a bath

If you were asked what your closest friends were saying about you right now, you would most likely say that they are saying:

1. “He’s/she’s a wonderful sailor.”
2. “He/She would give you the shirt off my back.”
3. “He/She once told me a dirty joke about a nun and a Great Dane.”
4. “He/She flosses.”

Given the choice of desserts, of the following, you would most likely enjoy:

1. Asparagus Jubilee
2. Vienna sausages and syrup
3. chocolate anything
4. tapioca smothered in whipped buttermilk

Of the following famous personages, which one do you LEAST admire?

1. Sylvester Stallone
2. Pontius Pilate
3. Brittany Spears
4. Charles Manson

If you could be a fruit, you would most likely enjoy being:

1. a banana
2. a prune
3. Rock Hudson
4. a pork chop

You are swimming in the ocean; you would most likely be afraid of:

1. jellyfish
2. sharks
3. fat women
4. I have no fear

You are still swimming in the ocean and you have decided that you DO have fears; you would most likely fear:

1.  jellyfish

     2.  sharks
     3.  fat women
    4.  the subway

The fairy tale that MOST RESEMBLES your life so far is:

1. “Hansel and Gretel”
2. “The Night the Horny Otter Got Grandma”
3. “Smokey the Bear and the Three Coeds”
4. “Cinderella”

Of the following famous personages, the one that you MOST admire is:

1. Ethel Merman
2. Josef Stalin
3. Marcia Brady
4. Herb Moskowitz

If you could replace the nation’s capital, you would most likely choose:

1. Passaic, NJ
2. Bumpass, VA
3. Truth or Consequences, NM
4. Paris, France

You are running a mile-long race and you finally see the finish line in the distance.  There is only one runner ahead of you.  You would most likely:

1. try to run faster
2. find something to hit him/her with
3. give it all you have left
4. shoot him/her with the small-caliber pistol you had hidden in your shorts

Your house or apartment catches on fire and you have only enough time to save ONE valued possession; you would most likely choose to grab your:

1. money
2. birth-control materials
3. important papers
4. refrigerator

The title that comes closest to summarizing your attitude toward others is:

1. Twenty-thousand Leagues Under the Sea
2. Wuthering Heights
3. Of Mice and Men
4. King Kong

You have won a contest that gives you the choice of visiting ONE famous site, anywhere in the world; you would most likely choose:

1. The Great Pyramids
2. Stonehenge
3. Graceland
4. Bob’s house

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SCORING:

Step 1. Add all the numbers of your answers to get a total.

Step 2.  Wait for the results.

 

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