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Worth News  \nLinda Gilliam, Staff Writer  \nAre you a generalist or specialist? An introvert or extrovert? Structuralist or abstractionist?  \nGeneralist-introvert or specialist-extrovert?  \nSCENARIO: A 17-year-old boy is attempting to fill out a college applications during his senior year in high school. He comes to the part about major field and future job plans. He stares at the space blankly, not believing he already has to make a decision. Sure, he’s thought about what he might like to do, but that was mostly dreaming.  \nRemembering the dreams sets off another spate of glittering futures:  \nLifesaving doctor, great criminal lawyer, award-winning architect, Nobel Peace Prizewinning college professor – almost every profession swims before his eyes in surreal procession. Fired with ambition, he hastily scribbles doctor in the blank – after all, it’s a well-known fact they rake in the cash.  \nSCENARIO: A 35-year-old nurse, an intensive care unit supervisor, decides to take a few days off from work. She can’t understand her increasing irritability with the patients, and her peers and herself. After all, she’s helping sick people and fulfilling a lifetime dream at the same time. But reading temperatures and blood pressure levels isn’t exactly the same as curing cancer and seeking soloutions to crib death and other medical mysteries. She’s come as far as she can in a nursing career, and still satisfaction eludes her.  \nThe two hypothetical situations illustrate how important appropriate job choices are to lifetime success, fulfillment and happiness.  \nIn both cases, in-depth evaluation of individual aptitudes and proclivities could have steered them into happier job situations.  \nWith his fantasies, the high school student could perhaps be a better writer thana doctor, and not have gotten three ulcers in the process of painfully learning all the math and science necessary for medical school acceptance.  \nAnd perhaps the nurse got carried away with helping the sick in choosing that profession. Research might have been abetter job choice.  \nBut most often people do not know themselves or their abilities well enough to make a wise choice. And that’s why the Aptitude Inventory Measurement Service (AIMS) is here.  \nAIMS is a non-profit educational / research foundation in Dallas dedicated to helping people unhappy with present occupations or high school and college students faced with difficult career choices. AIMS was established in 1976 by Irvin C. Shambaugh, chief scientist and director of research for AIMS, and John W. Gaston, director. Brenda Smith joined AIMS as senior administrator.  \nAIMS, through a series of aptitude tests generally completed in three half-day sessions, seeks to discover the inherent, natural abilities of an individual, and uses the information to determine what vocations one should follow for satisfaction, what occupational pitfalls to avoid, what college majors to study, what sort of schools to attend, or what hobbies or avocations to be considered.  \nMrs. Smith and the foundation tests about 75 to 100 people a month.“About half of our clients are high school or college students, and the others are people unhappy  \n[www.aimstesting.org](www.aimstesting.org)  \nAptitude Inventory Measurement Service Phone 972.234.8378  \nwith their jobs and are seeking ways to alter their career or job.  \nFollowing the testing sessions and a conference with the client to investigate alternatives and direction, clients are followed up over a long period of time for research purposes and to gauge the effectiveness of the testing.  \nThe tests consist of about 20 different aptitudes (instrument dexterity, color perception, perceptual speed, timbre discrimination, design preference, etc.) General knowledge and interest tests are also given. The knowledge test includes vocabulary skills (from which A","cbCaip9FGbAirHRo","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaip9FGbAirHRo","pdf",55657,"English","# Aptitude measurement and career happiness\n## Two scenarios: wrong fit and missed satisfaction\n## AIMS mission and testing process\n## Aptitudes, knowledge tests, and follow-up\n## Why results matter for students and adults","[{\"question\":\"What does AIMS aim to help people accomplish?\",\"answer\":\"AIMS helps people unhappy with current occupations and students facing career decisions by discovering inherent abilities and using that information to guide career choices.\"},{\"question\":\"How are the aptitude tests conducted?\",\"answer\":\"Clients generally complete a series of aptitude tests in three half-day sessions, followed by a conference to investigate alternatives and direction, and then long-term follow-up for research and effectiveness.\"},{\"question\":\"What kinds of aptitudes and knowledge are tested?\",\"answer\":\"The tests cover about 20 different aptitudes such as instrument dexterity, color perception, perceptual speed, and design preference, along with general knowledge and interest tests including vocabulary skills.\"}]","Aptitude Measurement May Lead to Happier Career Choice, Change | PDF",1789749242]