Social interests

What this kind of work looks like

O*NET® OnLine describes work with a lot of Social interest like this:

• Teaching and training people
• Advising and guiding people
• Helping people through social services
• Caring for people in health care
• Serving people directly in personal services
• Supporting people through religious work

Jobs where this comes first

The O*NET® database scores every job on all six interest areas. Social comes first for 129 of the 923 jobs it scores. These are the ones where it scores highest. Each link opens the job on O*NET OnLine.

• Teaching Assistants, Special Education
• Tutors
• Child, Family, and School Social Workers
• Rehabilitation Counselors
• Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education
• Special Education Teachers, Kindergarten
• Special Education Teachers, Secondary School
• Career/Technical Education Teachers, Middle School
• Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education
• Adult Basic Education, Adult Secondary Education, and English as a Second Language Instructors
• Substitute Teachers, Short-Term
• Career/Technical Education Teachers, Secondary School

In tech

Among the tech roles in the O*NET® data, none has Social as one of its two strongest areas.

Most people have more than one

These six areas describe kinds of work you might enjoy, not kinds of people. Your results are a mix of all six, so look at your top two or three together rather than at one letter. If Social is one of them, the jobs above are a place to start, not a verdict.

The other five areas

• Realistic: hands-on work with tools, machines or things
• Investigative: research, analysis and solving problems
• Artistic: creating, designing and writing
• Enterprising: leading, persuading and selling
• Conventional: organizing data, records and processes

Occupation data from O*NET® 31.0, USDOL/ETA.