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Results
This questionnaire is designed to get you thinking about the sort of jobs that might suit your style.
John Holland's model of vocational choice suggests that people with
particular interests and styles tend to favour certain types of jobs.
Holland described six main types of person:
- Realistic
- Conventional
- Social
- Enterprising
- Artistic
- Investigative
Knowing the types you most (and least) fit can help you think about the types of role that may suit you.
Read below to find out what careers you seem to be suited to based on your results in the test:
Artistic
Your results suggest that Artistic type work might suit your interests and preferences.
Artistic
types are interested in creativity and art, preferring freedom and
independence to following rules and procedures. Self-expression is very
important to Artistic types and they may prefer to work alone. Typical
roles for Artistic types include artist, singer, designer,
photographer, musician, writer and actor.
Enterprising
Your results suggest that Enterprising type work might suit your interests and preferences.
Enterprising
types like persuading and influencing people as well as controlling,
managing and selling to them. They like to take a lead and are often
quite motivated and ambitious but may be impatient and can find rules
and detail frustrating. They tend to favour roles such as salesperson,
manager, estate agent, supervisor, lawyer, advertising or marketing
executive and often like positions that have status and prestige.
Social
Your results suggest that Social type work might suit your interests and preferences.
Social
types like roles that focus on helping, teaching or supporting others
and very much prefer working with people to working with things or
ideas. They tend to prefer working in teams and like to feel they are
doing something useful. Typical roles for social types include teacher,
counsellor, nurse, minister of religion, clinical psychologist or
police officer.
Realistic
Your results suggest that Realistic type work is less likely to suit your interests.
Realistic
types generally prefer action to words, they like physical activity and
may prefer working with things to working with people. They tend to
favour jobs where they can work with their hands or produce things, and
often like outdoor work. Typical roles that suit Realistic types are
gardener, mechanic, driver, electrician, farmer, sportsperson, skilled
trades, labourers and some engineering and military roles.
Conventional
Your results suggest that Conventional type work is less likely to suit your interests.
Conventional
types are happy to work within systems and large organisations and tend
to focus on accuracy and efficiency, preferring to know what is
expected of them. They tend to like things to be organised and
predictable and are often involved in roles that involve recording,
sorting, documenting and organising. Typical roles for Conventional
types include the range of administrative and clerical roles (e.g. in
the government and financial sectors) as well as accountancy, banking,
bookkeeping, secretarial work and some inspecting roles.
This brief questionnaire can't tell you exactly what you should do.
It only suggests work areas to think about that may match the way you
like to work but it can't tell you whether you have the skills and
qualifications for these jobs.
To take things further you should consult your local careers service
or your local library. Use the right-hand navigation bars at the top of
this page to find links to other careers sites.
