Background: Healthcare and social helping occupations require not only technical competence but also interpersonal, creative, and leadership capacities that match the social and organizational complexity of these roles. Aligning personality traits with occupational demands can improve workforce stability, patient care quality, and job satisfaction. The Holland RIASEC model, combined with detailed personality profiling, provides a useful framework for this alignment. To evaluate the suitability of 130 individuals for medical and social helping occupations using the Holland RIASEC model together with the FIKR (Facet, Insight, Knowledge, and Resilience) profiling tool, with emphasis on the Social, Artistic, Enterprising, and Conventional dimensions.
Method: Participants completed a 200 item dichotomous questionnaire that mapped FIKR facets to the six RIASEC dimensions. “High” scores were defined empirically as scores in the top quartile of the observed distribution for each dimension. Because scores are discrete, ties at the cut off can produce proportions greater than 25%. Descriptive statistics were computed, and exploratory chi square tests and correlations were planned to add interpretive depth.
Results: Using the empirical top quartile cut offs, 50 individuals (38.5%) met the social threshold, 45 (34.6%) met the Artistic threshold, 38 (29.2%) met the Enterprising threshold, and 55 (42.3%) met the Conventional threshold. These subsets indicate interpersonal strength, creative potential, leadership inclination, and preference for structure, respectively.
Conclusion: A percentile based classification yields transparent and reproducible identification of high scoring subgroups relevant to healthcare and social helping work. The approach can inform recruitment, role placement, and targeted training for patient facing, creative, administrative, and leadership functions.
Holland RIASEC, FIKR profiling, healthcare workforce, personality assessment, helping professions
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