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The instrument:
An original RECATOOLS 24-item set over John Holland's public six-theme RIASEC vocational-interest framework — four enjoyment statements per theme, scored 4–20 and ranked; the three-letter code is the top-three initials with disclosed alphabetical tie-breaks.
The RIASEC framework is mainstream vocational science; our items are an
original composition documented with an authorship attestation in this
tool's provenance record.
Your Holland code's letters are meant to be read as a blend, and adjacent letters on Holland's hexagon (R–I, A–S, E–C…) blend more naturally than opposite ones — a code like RIA is more internally consistent than RAE, and both are normal.
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