Research-grounded
Work style
What kind of work suits you?
This does not tell you what you are good at — it tells you what kind of work holds your interest. Those are different things, and the second is what decides whether you last in a job. Plenty of people leave a career not because they could not do it, but because the daily work was of a kind they did not care about.
24 questions · 5 min
What this measures
Six career interest types from Holland's model: realistic, investigative, artistic, social, enterprising and conventional. The result is the order they come in for you — careers advisers usually work with your top two or three rather than the first alone.
Worth saying plainly
The Holland model is widely used in careers guidance and has a reasonably solid research base for that purpose. Understand its limits, though: it measures interest, not ability, and it does not predict how well you will do. A result suggests directions to look into, not a list of jobs you should or should not take.
The structure follows a widely used research framework, though the questions themselves are ours.
The other results
Common questions
- Does this tell me what job to take?
- Not quite. It tells you which kinds of activity engage you, and from that suggests fields worth investigating. Whether a specific job fits also depends on ability, circumstances, the job market and luck — none of which a quiz can measure.
- Why look at the top two or three rather than one?
- Because almost nobody is a pure single type, and most real jobs call on more than one. Someone with a Social–Enterprising combination suits quite different work from someone Social–Artistic, even though both lead on Social.
- What if my current job does not match the result?
- Very common, and not automatically a sign you chose wrong. Many people find the part that fits inside their existing job — taking on the work that does interest them, moving role within the same organisation. That is usually cheaper and less risky than changing career.
And you?
Take the test to see your own result.