People with Conventional interests like work activities that follow set procedures and routines. They prefer working with data and detail more than with ideas. They prefer work in which there are precise standards rather than work in which you have to judge things by yourself. These people like working where the lines of authority are clear.

The conventional occupations listed below are organized into groups that require about the same amount of education, training, and experience. Click on the education level that fits your current needs or future level of training and exprience, then click on the title to see further information on each occupation.

• Little or no preparation needed
• Some preparation
• Medium preparation
• Considerable preparation
• Extensive preparation

Little or no preparation needed

• Billing, Posting, and Calculating Machine Operators
• Cashiers
• Central Office Operators
• Counter and Rental Clerks
• Credit Authorizers
• Credit Checkers
• Directory Assistance Operators
• Duplicating Machine Operators
• File Clerks
• Interviewers, Except Eligibility and Loan
• Library Assistants, Clerical
• Mail Clerks, Except Mail Machine Operators and Postal Service
• Marking Clerks
• Meter Readers, Utilities
• Office Clerks, General
• Parking Enforcement Workers
• Postal Service Mail Carriers
• Procurement Clerks
• Receptionists and Information Clerks
• Shipping, Receiving, and Traffic Clerks
• Switchboard Operators, Including Answering Service
• Weighers, Measurers, Checkers, and Samplers, Recordkeeping

** The occupation was assigned to the group based on its second highest interest area.
*** The occupation was assigned to the group based on its third highest interest area.

Some preparation

• Adjustment Clerks
• Bill and Account Collectors
• Billing, Cost, and Rate Clerks
• Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks
• Brokerage Clerks
• Cargo and Freight Agents
• Claims Takers, Unemployment Benefits
• Correspondence Clerks
• Customer Service Representatives, Utilities
• Data Entry Keyers
• Dispatchers, Except Police, Fire, and Ambulance
• Fire Inspectors
• Freight Inspectors
• Hotel, Motel, and Resort Desk Clerks
• Human Resources Assistants, Except Payroll and Timekeeping
• Insurance Claims Clerks
• Insurance Policy Processing Clerks
• Library Technicians
• License Clerks
• Loan Interviewers and Clerks
• Municipal Clerks
• New Accounts Clerks
• Order Clerks
• Order Fillers, Wholesale and Retail Sales
• Payroll and Timekeeping Clerks
• Pharmacy Technicians
• Postal Service Clerks
• Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks
• Proofreaders and Copy Markers
• Reservation and Transportation Ticket Agents
• Secretaries, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive
• Statement Clerks
• Statistical Assistants
• Stock Clerks- Stockroom, Warehouse, or Storage Yard
• Tax Preparers
• Tellers
• Title Searchers
• Travel Clerks
• Word Processors and Typists

** The occupation was assigned to the group based on its second highest interest area.
*** The occupation was assigned to the group based on its third highest interest area.

Medium preparation

• Automatic Teller Machine Servicers**
• Bench Workers, Jewelry**
• City Planning Aides
• Compensation, Benefits, and Job Analysis Specialists**
• Computer Operators
• Construction and Building Inspectors
• Court Clerks
• Electrical and Electronic Inspectors and Testers**
• Electronic Drafters**
• Environmental Compliance Inspectors**
• First-Line Supervisors/Managers of Helpers, Laborers, and Material Movers, Hand**
• First- Line Supervisors/Managers of Retail Sales Workers**
• First- Line Supervisors/Managers of Non-Retail Sales Workers**
• Gaming Managers**
• Gaming Supervisors**
• Immigration and Customs Inspectors
• Legal Secretaries
• Licensing Examiners and Inspectors
• Mapping Technicians
• Materials Inspectors**
• Medical Records and Health Information Technicians
• Medical Secretaries
• Numerical Tool and Process Control Programmers**
• Police Identification and Records Officers
• Title Examiners and Abstractors
• Wholesale and Retail Buyers, Except Farm Products**

** The occupation was assigned to the group based on its second highest interest area.
*** The occupation was assigned to the group based on its third highest interest area.

Considerable preparation

• Accountants
• Administrative Services Managers**
• Air Traffic Controllers
• Assessors
• Audio and Video Equipment Technicians
• Audio-Visual Collections Specialists
• Auditors
• Budget Analysts
• Cartographers and Photogrammetrists
• Claims Examiners, Property and Casualty Insurance
• Cost Estimators
• Credit Analysts
• Electrical Drafters
• Executive Secretaries and Administrative Assistants
• Industrial Production Managers**
• Insurance Appraisers, Auto Damage
• Insurance Underwriters
• Management Analysts**
• Pharmacists**
• Property, Real Estate, and Community Association Managers**
• Statisticians**
• Tax Examiners, Collectors, and Revenue Agents
• Transportation Managers**

** The occupation was assigned to the group based on its second highest interest area.
*** The occupation was assigned to the group based on its third highest interest area.

Extensive Preparation

• Actuaries
• Archivists**
• Astronomers***
• Computer and Information Systems Managers**
• Computer Science Teachers, Postsecondary**
• Dot Etchers**
• Economists***
• Education Administrators, Postsecondary***
• Electrotypers and Stereotypers**
• Financial Analysts**
• Graduate Teaching Assistants***
• Job Printers**
• Lawyers**
• Marine Cargo Inspectors
• Mathematical Science Teachers, Postsecondary***
• Mathematicians**
• Offset Lithographic Press Setters and Set-Up Operators**
• Physicists***
• Plate Finishers**
• Private Sector Executives**
• Ship Engineers***
• Treasurers, Controllers, and Chief Financial Officers**

** The occupation was assigned to the group based on its second highest interest area.
*** The occupation was assigned to the group based on its third highest interest area.