Career Change Test
Exploring How Who You Are Defines What You DoWhat kind of person are you? How does this affect your career motivation? Taking a career change test will help you understand more about your personal style and find the work that will be right for you. Understanding yourself is a vital piece of the jigsaw when exploring your career change. You may already have looked at the skills you have developed, your core values, your interests and passions and your achievements in and out of work. Personality is another important element in the career self assessment process and it is often overlooked. Below I have created a simple career change test that looks at your personality preferences. It is based on the Myers Briggs Type Indicator or MBTI®. This is a well established personality assessment that suggests we all have differing underlying preferences in the way we take in information and make decisions and in how and where we focus our attention. No one preference is ‘better’ than another – they are just different. The preferences fall into 4 categories with two broad options in each. Although we can all adopt any of these approaches in different circumstances, we have a natural preference for one or the other and will feel more at ease using that way of behaving. This also means you will feel more at ease in some jobs than in others according to what the job requires you to do. Know your type already? Click here to move on.
Take the TestThis career change test will only take a few minutes. Look at the tables below and consider which side of each pair seems more ‘right’ to you. Think about how you would prefer to be or behave when you are relaxed and able to just be yourself. Choose one of each pair, and you will end up with a 4 letter code such as ENFJ or ISTP. Pair One – Where do you direct your energy?
Pair Two – How do you focus on and handle information?
Pair Three – How do you make decisions?
Pair Four – How do you like to live your life?
Completing the career change test should give you a set of four letters, one from each pair, such as ENFP or ISFJ. Make a note of the set of 4 letters that seem to best apply to you.
What do the individual preferences mean?It is helpful to start by looking at what the individual letters of your preferences mean. Take a look at the individual preferences (or letters) you have identified. This will give you a flavour of what these preferences indicate in terms of your personal style and can suggest the kind of work situations that are likely to feel more comfortable for you and others with these preferences. Then you should move on to explore your complete ‘type’. The four preferences you have identified all work together to create a particular mix of strengths, behaviours and challenges. Click on the ‘type’ you have identified in the grid below to read more about your type and career.
If you are uncertain about your type - for example, you may be unsure if you are ISFJ or ISFP - then look at both and see which feels more like you. If you are still unsure, just observe yourself over the next few weeks and months and a pattern will probably begin to emerge. However, it is a good idea to take a more detailed MBTI® assessment and to receive individual feedback to discuss your results. But even a simple career change test like the one on this site can give you new insights into what kind of work may suit you. Make a note in your Career Change Project File of the ideas and insights you get from this career change test and from reading about MBTI®. Why not continue exploring what makes you tick to help you with your Career Change Project? You can look at... Return from Career Change Test to How To Change Careers Homepage
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