Career Interest Test

CRE: 8 occupations with an interest code starting with CRE

A Holland code is one to three letters in order of strength. Conventional · Realistic · Enterprising — that is what CRE stands for here. Below are the O*NET occupations whose Interest High-Point (IH) code begins with these letters.

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CConventional·RRealistic·EEnterprising
Occupations with this code
8
Occupations shown
All 8; ordered by U.S. employment
Median wage on this page (lowest – highest)
8 of 8 occupations with a published median ($37,330 – $148,080)

The range covers only the occupations shown on this page.

O*NET Database 31.0 (retrieved 2026-09-15); BLS OES May 2025 release (retrieved 2026-09-15).

Occupations with this code

Ordered by U.S. employment, largest first. The order means nothing else: it is not a recommendation, and this page does not know your interests.

  • Stockers and Order Fillers

    O*NET-SOC code
    53-7065.00
    Its Holland code
    CRE
    U.S. median wage
    $37,330
    U.S. employment
    2,833,810
    Typical education
    High school / GED
  • Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory Clerks

    O*NET-SOC code
    43-5071.00
    Its Holland code
    CRE
    U.S. median wage
    $45,260
    U.S. employment
    816,870
    Typical education
    High school / GED
  • Biomass Power Plant Managers

    O*NET-SOC code
    11-3051.04
    Its Holland code
    CRE
    U.S. median wage
    $126,060
    U.S. employment
    246,250
    Typical education
    Bachelor's
  • Commercial Pilots

    O*NET-SOC code
    53-2012.00
    Its Holland code
    CRE
    U.S. median wage
    $123,220
    U.S. employment
    47,630
    Typical education
    Vocational certificate
  • Switchboard Operators, Including Answering Service

    O*NET-SOC code
    43-2011.00
    Its Holland code
    CRE
    U.S. median wage
    $38,630
    U.S. employment
    34,280
    Typical education
    High school / GED
  • Air Traffic Controllers

    O*NET-SOC code
    53-2021.00
    Its Holland code
    CRE
    U.S. median wage
    $148,080
    U.S. employment
    22,510
    Typical education
    High school / GED
  • Airfield Operations Specialists

    O*NET-SOC code
    53-2022.00
    Its Holland code
    CRE
    U.S. median wage
    $56,850
    U.S. employment
    15,190
    Typical education
    Bachelor's
  • Insurance Appraisers, Auto Damage

    O*NET-SOC code
    13-1032.00
    Its Holland code
    CRE
    U.S. median wage
    $78,240
    U.S. employment
    11,560
    Typical education
    Some college, no degree

The table lists all 8 occupations with this code.

Median wage is the employee annual median from BLS OES; it excludes self-employed workers and owners. “Not published” means BLS does not publish a median for that occupation — it is not zero.

“—” means O*NET does not publish a typical education level for that occupation; in O*NET Database 31.0 this field does not cover every occupation, though every row on this page has one. Where a level is given, it is the most common category in O*NET's education data, translated.

Wages and employment come from BLS OES, which publishes them by 6-digit SOC occupation. Several O*NET occupations can sit under one SOC code and share the same estimates — that is why some rows show identical wages and employment.

What these occupations mean

Every O*NET occupation carries an interest profile: six shares, one per RIASEC direction. O*NET turns that profile into the occupation's Interest High-Point (IH) code with the variable high-point rule: take the directions whose share is above .17, highest first, up to three (Rounds et al., 1999; Step 3 of the 2023 O*NET report “Using Machine Learning to Develop Occupational Interest Profiles and High-Point Codes”). That is why a code can have one, two or three letters. This page reports the codes as O*NET published them — the list describes these occupations, not you.

Your own code is generated by this product from your questionnaire scores, with a different rule: the three highest directions, with ties broken in a fixed order. The two sides also measure different things — the questionnaire asks what you like doing, while an occupation profile measures how much of that interest content the work involves. No study equates the two.

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Also published for this prefix: CR

Same length, same first letter

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