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  • Tailored to your goals and life stage
  • Current UK salary ranges for each match
  • Built on the trusted Holland RIASEC model
  • A free PDF career report that is yours to keep
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How it works

Three steps. Around 1 to 2 minutes.

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Answer a few short questions

Pick images, move sliders, choose scenarios. No essays and no maths, and it is done in roughly 1 to 2 minutes.

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Discover your work personality

We work out your personal Holland code (for example SE, RI or CA) and spell out what it means in everyday language.

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Receive your top 3 matches and report

A suitability score for every course, genuine UK salary ranges, and a PDF report you can save right away.

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Your output

What you’ll come away with

Most career quizzes hand you one job title and vanish. Ours gives you a personalised report you can genuinely put to use, on the page, the second you finish.

Your three strongest course matches

Ordered by a personal suitability score from 0 to 100, drawn from our complete catalogue of online courses.

A read on your work personality

A plain-spoken summary of how you prefer to work, based on the Holland RIASEC framework that careers advisers rely on.

Five to seven genuine career routes

The real job titles that each of your leading courses opens up, alongside today's UK salary ranges.

A Career Guidance Report to download

Save your outcome as a PDF: hold on to it, pass it to family, or run through it with one of our advisers.

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Worked example

How a 92% match on a real course actually reads

  • Work personalitySocial-Enterprising (SE), at your strongest helping and leading others
  • Recommended courseNCFE CACHE Level 3 Diploma in Supporting Teaching and Learning
  • Suitability score92 / 100
  • Leads toTeaching Assistant · Higher Level TA · SEN Support Assistant
  • Typical salary£18,000 to £25,000 (up to £30,000 as an HLTA)
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John Doe, age 34 · London
Holland code SE
Social · Enterprising
Sample
92% Top match
RIASEC profile
  • Social92
  • Enterprising78
  • Artistic54
  • Conventional48
  • Investigative42
  • Realistic30
Top match
NCFE CACHE Level 3 Diploma in Supporting Teaching and Learning
Teaching & Childcare · Level 3 · 100% online
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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

It looks at how you like to work, your personality style and what you want from a career across six dimensions, the Holland RIASEC model (Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, Conventional). Those answers are then turned into a suitability score for each of our online courses.
About 1 to 2 minutes. Just a few quick questions, and each one takes seconds to answer.
Yes. Once you add your email, your full results appear on the page right away, including your personal RIASEC career profile, your top 3 course matches with suitability scores, and a Career Guidance Report you can download.
Courses from every one of our faculties, including Teaching and Childcare, Health and Social Care, Counselling, Access to HE Diplomas, Animal Care, Veterinary Physiotherapy, Functional Skills, A-Levels and GCSEs, Management and Leadership, Cyber Security, Accounting and Bookkeeping, Fitness, Beauty, Business, and TEFL.
Yes, it costs nothing. There is no charge and no requirement to enrol. Your results and the downloadable Career Guidance Report are all included free of charge.

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