Social
The helpers: teaching, caring, guiding and treating
Social interests are for work whose point is other people's learning, health or wellbeing: teaching, nursing, care, counselling, coaching. People high on this type like working with others towards something that matters to them, and tend to find a day of pure analysis or pure selling flat. It is the type most women score highest on, and it covers the largest share of UK jobs.
The activities it describes
- Teaching and training
- Caring for and treating people
- Counselling, guiding and advising
- Working with children and young people
- Coaching and supporting
- Organising people around a shared purpose
Twenty UK jobs
Each links to its National Careers Service profile, with pay, hours and routes in.
| UK job title | Mapped from the O*NET occupation |
|---|---|
| Primary school teacher | Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education |
| Secondary school teacher | Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education |
| Social worker | Child, Family, and School Social Workers |
| Counsellor | Counselors, All Other |
| Physiotherapist | Physical Therapists |
| Occupational therapist | Occupational Therapists |
| Careers adviser | Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors and Advisors |
| Teaching assistant | Teaching Assistants, Except Postsecondary |
| Youth worker | Social and Human Service Assistants |
| Care worker | Home Health and Personal Care Aides |
| Childminder | Childcare Workers |
| Nursery worker | Childcare Workers |
| Early years teacher | Preschool Teachers, Except Special Education |
| Personal trainer | Exercise Trainers and Group Fitness Instructors |
| Speech and language therapist | Speech-Language Pathologists |
| Paramedic | Paramedics |
| Midwife | Nurse Midwives |
| Sports coach | Coaches and Scouts |
| Dietitian | Dietitians and Nutritionists |
| British Sign Language interpreter | Interpreters and Translators |
Types that combine with it
- Investigative (SI): helping through knowledge, such as the health professions.
- Artistic (SA): helping through expression, such as drama and music teaching.
- Enterprising (SE): helping by organising and leading, such as headship and charity management.
Your three highest areas make your code; twenty Holland codes and UK jobs lists the commonest codes with jobs for each.
Sources and licence
Interest types from Holland's RIASEC model as used by the O*NET Interest Profiler; UK job titles mapped by hand from O*NET occupations with this type as the first letter of their interest code, and linked to the National Careers Service (Department for Education) job profiles.
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