My Nephew has just taken the AFQT. How do I convert the categories into Air Force categories?

MSgt Robert Pellam there seems to be a couple of things going on here. First, the recruiter is going for a hard sell. He's trying to leverage the desire to know the score into a hasty decision and commitment (bad recruiter - no doughnut for you). However, there is a kernel of truth to the job availability /MEPS claim. The AF recruiter doesn't have access to the currently available jobs. That is the role and purview of the MEPS Job Counselor, and they hold them close to the vest. So, in order to know what job is available, it is true that he would have to enter the lions den at MEPS. However, any 1st year recruiter should be able to take the ASVAB scores and show the test score required to qualify for each job. That will allow the applicant to see what he/she has opened up test wise. It is very important to remember that scores are only one part of the puzzle. There is also the medical qualification (MEPS Physical resulting in a PULHES) that must be met for each AFSC as well. A quick interweb search reveals many pages that show the test score needed for AFSCs ... I recommend About.Careers. Rod Powers does an amazing job compiling and moderating that area. You can find a breakdown of the PULHES codes there as well.

If your nephew took the ASVAB at his high school, I am sure the scores are available to the Air Force recruiter responsible for that school. Unless things have changed since my days as an enlisted recruiter, he/she is responsible for contacting all qualified testers. To contact the recruiter, simply visit this website and enter the zip code of the school and for education level choose high school student or graduate. The name, address and phone number and email for the assigned recruiter will pop up on the screen.
Just to let you know. Talking about jobs and being qualified for those jobs are two different things. This is the main reason recruiters want to process people so the applicant(that is ready to join) can see exactly what they are qualified for according to their mental and physical evaluations. Air Force availability of jobs also differs on a week to week basis. This is a fact most people are clueless about. As a recruiter, we are taught to fill the needs of the Air Force with qualified applicants that are READY TO JOIN the Air Force. If a particular job is available prior to attending Basic Training that can be guaranteed to them, that is icing on the cake, otherwise the Mechanical, General and Electronic aptitude areas might be the only options to guaranteed jobs.
Your recruiter should be able to tell you more as well as keep you apprised of any new changes in procedure, qualifications, etc.

Good Luck and Aim High, Air Force!

Original scores should have been in his MEPS packet, and the same test is used for all services. They just use different formulations for the line scores in order to determine eligibility for certain MOSs. He might have it in his personnel jacket. If not, they can be looked up in RCMS.
Any recruiter would have access to look them up as well.
Not sure why this guy is giving the run-around. Methinks he is lazy.
I'd try a different office.

The recruiter is playing games with the kid, and he does not have to sign up to see what jobs apply to his scores, but there is always a high level of push to force the new recruit into makign hasty choices once they get to MEPS, and the recruiters trying to fill slots are not interested in the kids future, just in filling slots. If the potential recruit has a strong understanding of that they wish to do in the military, and they have alternate jobs then they have a stronger and deeper positiion when it comes time for the military to make them a job offer.

In my case, I was a computer programmer before I enlisted, and I specialized in writing programs in machine language or Assembler, and it was somethign I could have made a career on along. But, I have an intense desire to serve my country in the military, AND I wished to learn mainframe computers and networks down to the component level, and I had studied what computers the USAF had, what they were doing with them, what systems were highly specialized, where they were located, and so on. I also researched the ASVAB scores needed for those slots, and then I did the same research on 3 additional fields in the USAF, all of which woudl plunge me deep nto component level repair on highly sophisticated systems.

I also started the recruitment cycle shortly after my 16th birthday, where I went to the recruiters of all four of the military services, and spent a years asking questions, and prying answers out of them, and went to the city residency rolls, and located veterans in the city, and went and sat down with them, and talked to veterans in our church, and teachers at our school.

I also learned about the Delayed Entry Program, which I recruiter tried to hide from me, and I selected that I wished to go into the USAF, into Computer and Switching Systems Maintenance, as the USAF previous had Computer Maintenance as one field, and had Switching Systems as a different field, and I wished to be trained on both. I decided to enlisted, but for a specific position on either the 407L or the 465L and knew that I could get a slot as a 30534, but due to the rarity of the positions opening up I would have to enlist, and then wait. So when I went to MEPS I went there as an Air Force recruit with the primary position I was interested in, along with the ASVAB scores needed, then I have researched alternates as Electronic Cryptologic Systems, then Navigational Aids as my third choice, and as a fourth Airborne Signals Intelligence.At MEPS I took the ASVAB, scored high on the portions needed for any of the positions I sought, so when it came time to sit down to pick the job, it was a short consultation, and I got my first choice, but I also have to wait 9 months for the slot to open up, and there was one hell of a push to sign-me-up and ship-me-off that very day into alternate positions, but I stood by my original goal, signed off on all of it, took the oath, and went back to work for 9 months, look a leave of absence, went on activity duty, and so on.

the book of afsc;s (careers) is roughly 8x10x 6 inches thick... what would you like 'them' to do for you? Keep one thing in mind.... the military places people in jobs that they have an immediate need to fill and those needs change from time to time. Even when I enlisted, i was offered a job in Missle Maintenance...... I asked to be able to 'sleep on it', so the next day I accepted the assignment..... gues what? Someone who knew what they wanted took the job and it was closed out. The category 'breakdowns' are available on a civilian job correlation sheet but I do not know if it is available to civilians in an over the counter format
This link may help you to review career choices https://www.airforce.com/careers/browse-careers and this following link nay be able to help you relate the AFSC to a civilian job http://www.military.com/veteran-jobs/skills-translator/
One thing to keep in mind is this.... the longer the training time, probably the more detailed the job and the education.
I hope this helps

Sounds bogus to me. When I wanted to join in 1985 scores were a large part of fitting you to a job. Maybe contact this recruiters chain of command. Then if it's true you can tell them right away what jerks they are.

He does not have to join to get the results. The Recruiter is able to see the results, but may not want to "waste" his/her time. When in fact, the recruiter is wasting your nephew's time. Maybe, have your nephew give you his information and you can track down the results for him.

Are you talking about AFOQT (Air Force Officer Qualification Test) or ASVAB (Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery)? They are two different animals all together.

When it comes to the other branches that's what I have been lead to believe. I went up to MEPS with a bunch of Navy enlistees and they didn't know what they were going to be doing until they tested there. All the Army guys like myself already took the ASVAB and selected our job prior to MEPS. So from what I've seen that seems to be the case, but don't quote me.

I did MEPS in Sept 2015.

He should be able to see what he qualifies for before joining and be able to pick a job before hand. Unless he's in a rush to join and joins under open general which means he goes to Boot camp and fills the Air Force needs. I would suggest not joining until he's 100 percent sure.