Work shape
Not which field, but what the doing is made of — long or short, framed or unframed, made or negotiated.
- Questions
- 40
- 6 min
- Four contrasts about the work itself
What this is
There is no published instrument behind this. Holland's interest types sort work by subject matter and the O*NET activity taxonomy sorts tasks by what is done; neither asks whether the doing is long or short, framed or unframed, made or negotiated. Those questions are asked here because they are the ones that decide whether somebody lasts in work that looks correct on paper. Eight scales are asserted, not discovered: nobody has factor-analysed this bank, nobody has retested it, and there is no evidence that matching your shape to your work makes you better at it.
Where it comes from
written down, not impliedFour contrasts about the work itself
There is no published instrument behind this. The contrasts are ordinary distinctions about work — long or short, framed or unframed, made or negotiated — chosen because interest types cannot see them.
Written for this app
- Reliability
- not measured
- Factor structure
- not measured
- Validity
- not measured
Read the result as a structured version of what you said, not as a measurement of you.
Why these questions carry no evidence
Every questionnaire in this app writes its own items, because the framework behind an instrument is usually public while the published questionnaire is copyrighted. That is the honest way to build it and it has a cost worth stating plainly: reliability and validity belong to a specific set of questions given to a specific group of people, not to the name of the idea behind them. These questions have never been given to a sample, have no norms, and have no evidence that they measure what they are named after.