Where each part of the Career Map comes from

The interest profiles, preparation levels and abilities of the occupations come from the O*NET® 31.0 database, used under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0). IQNorth modified this information: it chose the occupations, translated the names, wrote the descriptions and computes the match with your profile.

The work values of each occupation come from version 30.2 of the O*NET® database, the latest that includes that file, also under CC BY 4.0. IQNorth also modified this information: it selected and translated the values and uses them to break ties and explain the match.

The 48 activity statements come from the Oregon Vocational Interest Scales (ORVIS) of the International Personality Item Pool (ipip.ori.org), which is in the public domain for any use, commercial included (Pozzebon et al., 2010). They are the 8 highest-loading items on each core scale: Production (R), Analysis (I), Creativity (A), Altruism (S), Leadership (E) and Organization (C). The Portuguese and Spanish translations are by IQNorth.

We don’t use the RIASEC Markers or the Basic Interest Markers (Armstrong, Allison & Rounds, 2008): the authors’ page says they are copyrighted and free to use for non-commercial purposes only.

The work values and confidence statements, the descriptions of the types and occupations, the matching rule and the 30-day plan were written by IQNorth. © 2026 IQNorth.

O*NET® is a registered trademark of USDOL/ETA and appears here only to cite the source. IQNorth has no affiliation with the U.S. Department of Labor, and no government agency has approved, endorsed or tested the Career Map.

• The O*NET® Interest Profiler: the license to translate and adapt it requires a validation study before launch, which is planned for a later version.
• Publisher instruments or instruments meant for psychologists, such as the Strong Interest Inventory and the SDS, nor any Brazilian career counseling instrument, which is a psychologist’s activity.