It’s a simple truth: people tend to seek occupations with characteristics that match their personal preferences. Integrating this assessment helps optimize production, control costs, and uphold safety standards. The Fit assessment gauges an individual’s interests and values, aligning them with suitable occupations, enhancing job satisfaction and commitment. 

Assessment Overview: The Fit assessment measures an individual’s interests and values and matches them to the work environment, providing information that can help determine how well a person aligns with occupations in an organization. The assessment consists of two parts: 

ACT Interest Inventory 

• Introduced in 1977 and updated periodically, this inventory assesses six basic interests—Administration and Sales, Business Operations, Technical, Science and Technology, Arts, and Social Services—covering the spectrum of basic work tasks. It is a component of the ACT EPAS® program and is completed by over 4 million people each year. 

Work Values Inventory 

• Developed specifically for the Fit assessment, this inventory consists of 18 values commonly found in values inventories, including Public Contact, Autonomy, Influencing Others, Order, Intellectual Stimulation, Precision, and Creativity. 

Number of items: 102 

Method of delivery: Online 

Test length: 20 minutes 

What it Measures: 

ACT Interest Inventory: 

• Administration and Sales: Persuading, influencing, directing, or motivating others through activities such as sales, supervision, and aspects of business management. 

• Business Operations: Developing and/or maintaining accurate and orderly files, records, accounts, etc.; designing and/or following systematic procedures for performing business activities. 

• Technical: Working with tools, instruments, and mechanical or electrical equipment. Activities include designing, building, repairing machinery, and raising crops/animals. 

• Science and Technology: Investigating and attempting to understand phenomena in the natural sciences through reading and research. 

• Arts: Expressing oneself through activities such as painting, designing, singing, dancing, and writing; artistic appreciation of such activities. 

• Social Service: Helping, enlightening, or serving others through activities such as teaching, counseling, working in service-oriented organizations, and engaging in social/political studies. 

Work Values Inventory: 

• Public Contact: Interacting with external customers or the public in general. 

• Autonomy: Making one’s own plans and decisions at work. 

• Influencing Others: Convincing or advising people to do things, even in non-supervisory roles. 

• Order: Putting things in order for others; using a system or rules to arrange things. 

• Intellectual Stimulation: Thinking about difficult concepts and working to solve complex problems. 

• Precision: Being exact or very accurate in one’s work. 

• Creativity: Creating something new or finding new ways of doing things; original thinking. 

Questions on how to integrate our assessments within your organization? 

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