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7 community interest elements, and 8 work style interest elements were identified as being
sufficient to represent the 79 entry-level Navy enlisted Ratings. These interest elements and
Ratings were transformed to a taxonomic grid, in spreadsheet format (see Figure 3), commonly
referred to as the “Rating DNA.”
JOB GROUP
RATING
aviation
COMMUNITY PROCESS-CONTENT WORK STYLE
healthcare
special programs
submarine
surface
analyze-comms
analyze-data
analyze-docs
direct-aircraft
direct-emerg resp
maintain-docs
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work indep
outdoor
Aviation Mechanical ABE 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0
Aviation Mechanical AD 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0
Health Care DT 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1
Submarine Personnel ST 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1
Applicant 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0
Figure 2. An abbreviated and simplified example of the “Rating DNA” and a single applicant’s
collection of responses.
Phase III: Linking Pictures to Job Interest Elements
Digital images from a variety of sources were collected to represent job interest elements.
Using a series of iterative workshops with the same population of SME’s as used in Phase I & II
described above, 9 images were identified which represented each PC interest element, 3 images
for each community interest element, and 3 images for each work style element. Each multiple
image collection was selected for a variety of aesthetic qualities (e.g. image clarity), but also to
include a distribution of demographic makeup and task representations.
Phase IV: Instantiation in JOIN
PC pairs were presented 3 times, so that psychometric properties of items could be tested. Figure
3 illustrates the framework and design of the JOIN software. Responses from each of the job
interest element areas, Process-Content, Community and Work Style, were collected, and used to
develop an interest profile for the individual. The pattern of responses can be interpreted through
relationships between rating structure and responses using Figure 3. Each applicant’s response
pattern is represented as a single row matrix (see Figure 2), with job interest elements reflected
as a continuous variable between 0 and 1 (user actually responds 0-100% using JOIN interface).
This methodology and organization for the collection of data lends itself to a variety of potential
indexing and retrieval schemes and procedures, allowing us to explore a variety of approaches to
match Ratings to patterns of responses.
Phase V: System Test
indoor
industrial
office
physical
mental