Jobs and Occupational Interest in the Navy

Job Opportunities in the Navy (JOIN) is a pictorial and textual interest measurement instrument. Originally conceived to work in conjunction with a newly designed job qualification engine (Rating Identification Engine [RIDE]), these two new measurement instruments provide the Navy with both a qualification algorithm and an interest inventory. Quantitative measures of individual cognitive ability and medical, moral, and legal qualification (i.e., RIDE) will be linked with measurable vocational interests to produce job classification assignments individuals ' both qualify for and have demonstrated vocational interest in. JOIN is a computerized interest inventory designed to assess recruits ' vocational interests with respect to four domains of Navy jobs (community area, work style, work environment, and work activity). By using a hierarchical model of work development (Schippmann, 1999), analyses among job families (e.g., aviation, construction, intelligence, etc.), work styles (e.g., mental, physical, etc.), work environments (e.g., indoor, outdoor, etc.), and work activities (e.g., analyze communications, direct aircraft, maintain documents, etc.) were conducted to guide the development of instrument items. The overarching goal was to construct a tool that is capable of discriminating individual interests across all entry-level ratings, thereby increasing individuals' person-job (P-J) fit. Additionally, JOIN serves as a tool to inform potential recruits of the Navy’s world-of-work, providing a more precise person-organization (P-O) and person-environment (P-E) fit