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About aptitudes and aptitude patterns

Choosing Your Way With Words describes how one's aptitude pattern might influence natural writing style.

In Software Engineers Have What it Takes, Russell Burke, director of our Washington D. C. office and research consultant, relates some of the findings from a study of software engineers conducted in order to learn more about the aptitudes used in computer-related fields.

Music and Objectivity outlines the many career options available for those who possess auditory aptitudes and score Objective in personality.

Some ideas for how to use auditory aptitudes in careers outside of music are outlined in Auditory Aptitudes:  Not Just For Musicians.

The Foundation has performed a study of physicians; the results are summarized in What Aptitudes Do Doctors Typically Have?, an article which appeared in Bulletin 125.

The above-cited study (among others) suggests that one of the aptitudes physicians possess is Structural Visualization. For those who don't, there are careers closely related to medicine that make less demand of this aptitude. Robert Nagle, a former staff member in our Houston office, explores these in Medical Careers for People Without the Structural Visualization Aptitudes.

Structural Visualization with Low Graphoria considers the special challenges faced by people with this pattern and offers some solutions.

What if all your scores are in the average or low range? Advice for this pattern is given in No High Scores?

High Ideaphoria and Teaching discusses how teaching can be a fulfilling career for those who score high in Ideaphoria.

About careers and schools

Initial Steps for Job Changers discusses strategies for learning about career fields and how to find a job in your chosen career.

Read about how aptitude testing helped a student find a satisfying new college major in From Economics to Film:  One Who Dared To Switch.

Aptitude testing for careere and educational guidance