What Career is Right For Me?
Our career test provides the most accurate matching in the industry of your personality to careers. Based on research involving 17,000 people, it matches your personality using:
- your personality type;
- your unique, individual profile.
Finding a job that suits you
When you ask the question "what career is right for me?" there are a number of things to take into account:
Personality
The most important factor is whether there a good match between your personality and chosen career. This can have a significant impact on whether you find your work fulfilling. There are two main aspects to take into account: whether the career matches your personality (that is, how much you work within your preferences) and to what extent you will need, at times, to stretch outside your preferred style. This is examined in detail in our Careers Report.
Other Career Choice factors
Other factors to take into account, when trying to find the right career for you, include:
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Motivation |
Motivation includes your interests, what gives you a "sense of achievement", and unconscious motivation factors. |
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Skills |
Your skills are based on your natural aptitudes and developed through training/education. |
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Values |
You may wish to consider factors such as the type of lifestyle you want, your beliefs, and the ethical nature of company or industry you want to work in. |
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Constraints |
Your choice of career might be constrained by financial or geographical limitations, family responsibilities, physical disability or your qualifications/education |
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Ambitions |
You may want to consider if and when you want to start a family and "settle down", whether you want a single job for the rest of your life or have the option to change career, and potential ambitions for setting up your own business. You should also consider what your retirement strategy will be. |
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Opportunities |
Deciding what you want to do is of no use unless there are opportunities for you to pursue. You can find opportunities through various ways, e.g.: responding to advertisements for jobs or vocational training/sponsorship; making unsolicited approaches to organisations to see if there are any vacancies; networking through people you know to get referrals to potential employers; and creating your own business. |
Develop Your Potential
Our personality questionnaire can help you:
- become much more self-aware;
- develop your leadership, management or influencing skills;
- find a career that matches your personality;
- Improve teamwork and team relationships.
You can either do the personality test yourself, or administer multiple questionnaires for use in team building and leadership development.