Investigative
Understanding it properly
You are pulled by the question of why. You are comfortable with problems that have no ready answer, willing to go deep, and reluctant to accept an explanation because someone senior offered it. You do your best work when given enough time to get it right.
Where you are strong
- Sharp analysis and good questions
- Comfortable with complex, unresolved problems
- Honest about the limits of what you know
- You teach yourself well
Worth watching
- You can dig further than the decision in front of you requires
- Hard to commit while the data is incomplete, even when a decision is due
- Easy to lose patience with repetitive work
Putting it to use
Fields worth investigating: research, data analysis, science, medicine and pharmacy, software engineering, quantitative finance, market research, policy. The environment that suits you treats questions as seriously as answers.
Under pressure
Under deadline pressure you tend to research more rather than decide. A useful rule: settle in advance what you need to know in order to decide, then stop when you have it.
And you?
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Take the test to find your ownThe other results
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.