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Career Quiz | The Princeton Review
In order for us to estimate your personal Interests and Usual Style, you will first need to answer a series of questions. Read each pair of phrases below and decide which one of the two most describes you, then select the radio button next to that phrase.
As you make your choices, assume that all jobs are of equal pay and prestige. When you have answered each of the questions, click "Continue" to go on. There are 24 total questions.
#1.
| I would rather be a wildlife expert. | |
| I would rather be a public relations professional. |
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#2.
| I would rather be a company controller. | |
| I would rather be a TV news anchor. |
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#3.
| I would rather be a tax lawyer. | |
| I would rather be a newspaper editor. |
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#4.
| I would rather be an auditor. | |
| I would rather be a musician. |
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#5.
| I would rather be a production manager. | |
| I would rather be an advertising manager. |
#6.
I would rather be an accounting manager. |
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| I would rather be a history professor. |
#7.
| I would rather be a bookkeeper. | |
| I would rather be an electrician. |
#8.
| I would rather be a writer. | |
| I would rather be an elected official. |
#9.
| I would rather be a clerical worker. | |
| I would rather be a carpenter. |
#10.
| I would rather be a payroll manager. | |
I would rather be a manager of engineering. |
#11.
| I would rather be an audit manager. | |
| I would rather be a safety manager. |
#12.
| I would rather be an artist. | |
| I would rather be a salesperson. |
#13.
| I am usually patient when I have to wait on an appointment. | |
| I get restless when I have to wait on an appointment. |
#14.
| It is easy to laugh at one's little social errors or "faux pas" | |
It is hard to laugh at one's little social errors or "faux pas". |
#15.
| It is wise to make it known if someone is doing something that bothers you. | |
| It is wise to remain silent if someone is doing something that bothers you. |
#16.
| It's not really OK to argue with others even when you know you are right. | |
| It's OK to argue with others when you know you are right. |
#17.
| I like to bargain to get a good price. | |
| I don't like to have to bargain to get a good price. |
#18.
It is easy to be outgoing and sociable at a party with strangers. |
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| It is hard to be outgoing and sociable at a party with strangers. |
#19.
| I would read the instructions first when putting a new toy together for a child. | |
| I would just "jump in" and start putting a new toy together for a child. |
#20.
| It is usually best to be pleasant and let others decide if your ideas are worth accepting. | |
| It is usually best to be forceful and "sell" your ideas to others. |
#21.
| I usually like to work cautiously. | |
| I usually like to work fast. |
#22.
| Generally I prefer to work quietly with a minimum of wasted movement. | |
| Generally I prefer to move around and burn some energy while I work. |
#23.
| I don't like to have to persuade others to accept my ideas when there is a strong forceful opposition or argument from others. | |
| I like to sell and promote my ideas with others even when it takes some argument. |
#24.
| It is better to listen carefully and be sure you understand when topics are being discussed. | |
| It is better to speak up quickly and be heard when topics are being discussed. |
Quiz Results
After you complete The Princeton Review Career Quiz we will show you careers that match the "style" and "interest" colors you created.
The colors have particular meanings:
- Red: Expediting
- Green: Communicating
- Blue: Planning
- Yellow: Administrating
Your Interest
"Interests" describe the types of activities that you are drawn to; these will need to be present in a job or career that you are considering if you are to stay motivated. It is important to note that interest in an activity does not necessarily indicate skill.
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People with yellow interests like job responsibilities that include organizing and systematizing, and professions that are detail-oriented, predictable, and objective. People with yellow Interests enjoy activities that include: ordering, numbering, scheduling, systematizing, preserving, maintaining, measuring, specifying details, and archiving, which often lead to work in research, banking, accounting, systems analysis, tax law, finance, government work, and engineering.
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People with green interests like job responsibilities and occupations that involve persuasion, sales, promotions, and group or personal contact.
People with green Interests enjoy activities that include: motivating, mediating, selling, influencing, consensus building, persuading, delegating authority, entertaining, and lobbying. These Interests often lead to work in marketing, advertising, training, therapy, consulting, teaching, law, and public relations. -
People with blue interests like job responsibilities and occupations that involve creative, humanistic, thoughtful, and quiet types of activities. Blue Interests include abstracting, theorizing, designing, writing, reflecting, and originating, which often lead to work in editing, teaching, composing, inventing, mediating, clergy, and writing.
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People with red interests like hands-on / problem solving job responsibilities and professions that involve practical, technical, and objective activities. Red Interests include: building, implementing, organizing, producing, and delegating, which often lead to work in manufacturing, managing, directing, small business owning, and surgery.
Your Style
"Style" describes the strengths that you could bring to a work environment when you are at your best. This is the way you like to get results. A work environment in which your strengths are appreciated is a big part of career satisfaction.
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People with yellow styles perform their job responsibilities in a manner that is orderly and planned to meet a known schedule. They prefer to work where things get done with a minimum of interpretation and unexpected change. People with a yellow style tend to be orderly, cautious, structured, loyal, systematic, solitary, methodical, and organized, and usually thrive in a research-oriented, predictable, established, controlled, measurable, orderly environment. You will want to choose a work environment or career path in which your style is welcomed and produces results.
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People with green styles perform their job responsibilities in a manner that is outgoing.
They prefer to work where things get done with minimal analysis and where persuasion is well received by others. People with green styles tend to be spontaneous, talkative, personal, enthusiastic, convincing, risk-taking, and competitive, and usually thrive in a team-oriented, adventurous, informal, innovative, big picture-oriented, varied environment. You will want to choose a work environment or career path in which your style is welcomed and produces results. -
People with blue styles prefer to perform their job responsibilities in a manner that is supportive and helpful to others with a minimum of confrontation. They prefer to work where they have time to think things through before acting. People with blue style tend to be insightful, reflective, selectively sociable, creative, thoughtful, emotional, imaginative, and sensitive. Usually they thrive in a cutting edge, informally paced, future-oriented environment. You will want to choose a work environment or career path in which your style is welcomed and produces results.
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People with red styles prefer to perform their job responsibilities in a manner that is action-oriented and practical. They prefer to work where things happen quickly and results are seen immediately. People with red styles tend to be straightforward, assertive, logical, personable, authoritative, friendly, direct, and resourceful, and usually thrive in a self-structured, high-pressured, hierarchical, production-oriented, competitive environment. You will want to choose a work environment or career path in which your style is welcomed and produces results.
Recommended Careers
"Interests" describe the types of activities that you are drawn to; these will need to be present in a job or career that you are considering if you are to stay motivated. It is important to note that interest in an activity does not necessarily indicate skill.
Yellow — People with yellow Interests like job responsibilities that include organizing and systematizing, and professions that are detail-oriented, predictable, and objective.
People with yellow Interests enjoy activities that include: ordering, numbering, scheduling, systematizing, preserving, maintaining, measuring, specifying details, and archiving, which often lead to work in research, banking, accounting, systems analysis, tax law, finance, government work, and engineering.
Green — People with green Interests like job responsibilities and occupations that involve persuasion, sales, promotions, and group or personal contact. People with green Interests enjoy activities that include: motivating, mediating, selling, influencing, consensus building, persuading, delegating authority, entertaining, and lobbying. These Interests often lead to work in marketing, advertising, training, therapy, consulting, teaching, law, and public relations.
Blue — People with blue Interests like job responsibilities and occupations that involve creative, humanistic, thoughtful, and quiet types of activities. Blue Interests include abstracting, theorizing, designing, writing, reflecting, and originating, which often lead to work in editing, teaching, composing, inventing, mediating, clergy, and writing.
Red — People with red Interests like hands-on / problem solving job responsibilities and professions that involve practical, technical, and objective activities. Red Interests include: building, implementing, organizing, producing, and delegating, which often lead to work in manufacturing, managing, directing, small business owning, and surgery.
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Actuary Careers | The Princeton Review
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An actuary assembles and analyzes facts and estimates risks and returns to make financial planning decisions in a specific area of expertise.
As an actuary, you’ll spend a lot of time working with numbers. You’ll also spend up to 65 percent of your time working with people, establishing goals, reviewing work, and researching figures. “It’s a real learning experience at first-not at all like school,” one actuary wrote, referring to the interpersonal and communication skills that were required in her job.
A significant portion of the aspiring actuary’s time is spent studying for the multifaceted, information-specific exams that every actuary must pass. Initial examinations test basic mathematical skills, such as probability, calculus, and linear algebra, and are used as “litmus tests” to eliminate those unsuited to the actuarial life. Surprisingly, we found little mention of the long hours spent outside of work studying for the exams and the lack of a social life this hard study encourages. Actuaries seem to enjoy the constant education the profession requires, regardless of the personal cost. These exams provide good indicators of progress as an actuary; full passage of the exams take between five and ten years.
How to Become an Actuarist
Becoming an actuary requires some of the skills of a gambler and some of the skills of a marathoner. You need a gambler’s understanding of statistics, probability, and risk analysis. Most actuaries graduate college with a degree in mathematics or a business-related field, although the industry trend of late is to hire more liberal arts students who can demonstrate a high mathematical aptitude. The endurance of a marathoner is required not for the hours, which are fairly acceptable, but to make it through the actuarial examinations, which can take as long as ten years to pass. These tests are administered biannually by three associations: The Society of Actuaries, the Casualty Actuarial Society (for casualty actuaries), and the American Society of Pension Actuaries. While each agency provides certification for a certain specialization, the first few tests are general enough that they may be taken without regard to any specific career path.
Present and Future Outlook for Actuarial Careers
With the rise of the science of probability, described mathematically by Blase Pascal and Pierre de Fermat, came the ability to create probability tables for any given event-death, accidents, even loan defaults. In 1792, the Equitable Society of London (an insurer) decided to use these tables to determine their premiums, and thus was born the role of the actuary. Edmund Halley-after whom Halley’s Comet is named-developed the first table of mortality, thereby giving birth to the life insurance industry.
The need for actuaries should rise over the next decade as insurance companies, pension plans, and large corporations recognize the need for accurate statistical analysis and cash-flow management. Computer skills are crucial at the cutting edge of actuarial development, particularly in the field of liability analysis. Another emerging field is actuarial health care science; with unpredictable changes in medical technology and the emergence of epidemic viral strains, life expectancy is becoming more difficult to predict and more variable-dependent.
Some actuaries believe these probablilities are describable and are working with complicated mathematics to find a way to explain them.
Quality of Life
PRESENT AND FUTURE
In the beginning, actuaries, referred to by professional societies as “associates,” are rotated among different jobs within the company to learn the variety of processes that an insurance or pension company follows. Entry-level actuaries spend much of their time researching and preparing data. Many people enjoy the lack of professional responsibility these early years offer, mainly because it allows plenty of free time to study for the exams that mark the first few years. Attrition is low; satisfaction is average.
FIVE YEARS OUT
“Fast-trackers” diverge from others at this point, and those who have trouble with the exams or find producing analyses on other people’s demands unsatisfying leave (18Ð22 percent).
Salaries rise, and some attain the professional title of “fellow.” Hours increase and specialization becomes critical-those who leave the profession beyond this point do so primarily because of a dissatisfaction with their area of specialization. Job performance is the distinguishing characteristic during these years; actuaries tend to view their jobs and colleagues as “very competitive.”
TEN YEARS OUT
Actuaries who have had success start their own actuarial consulting firms. Many leave the pure actuarial side and enter management and corporate strategy development. Some continue up the actuarial ladder, moving to “chief” or “head” of actuarial science. Others are recruited by the government or independent research panels for their statistical skill and their experience in a specific area of expertise.
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We in the editorial office have already passed and confirmed that we are where we need to be. You go too, get recommendations based on the answers and share the results. I wonder who among our readers is more - Leaders or Helpers? :)
Anastasia Pankovetskaya
Author and presenter of the training "Enneagram - a unique personality typology", trainer of Alla Zadneprovskaya's Living Business Consulting Group
Enneagram (from the Greek ennea - nine and grammos - figure) - a psychological model that combines nine types of personality , describes each type and the relationship between them.
Results
Type 1: Perfectionist or Reformer
Occupations 0027 : The office environment is great for your love of rules, organization, and attention to detail.
Work where you need to improve business processes. The area of education is also ideal for you.
Not the best choice : companies where the process has not yet been established (example: start-up).
Type 2: Friend or Helper
Occupations Possible : Community oriented caregivers - teaching, health care and counseling. Work in non-profit organizations and the service sector.
Not the best choice : anything that could harm others (example: law enforcement).
Type 3: Achiever
Possible professions : managerial positions or anything loud and public (example: project management, public relations, politics), project tasks where it is clear what result needs to be achieved and where they can be "challenging" tasks.
Not the best choice : no career advancement - only climbing to the top will satisfy your needs.
Type 4: Individualist
Possible professions : a career that allows you to express yourself and show your creativity, where you need to create a unique product, launch an unusual advertising campaign that will not leave people indifferent. Not every field provides such opportunities, most likely it is writing, psychotherapy and professions where you can show your uniqueness.
Not the best choice : companies that do not develop a system of non-financial motivation. Working solely for money is not your approach.
Type 5: Observer or Thinker
Possible professions : creating a strategy and vision for the development of a company, IT, scientific research.
Not the best choice : perhaps typical, "shallow" office work - there are too many distractions.
Type 6: Skeptic or Loyalist
Possible Professions : you will appreciate the development prospects in a large corporation, where you will be able to show your unique abilities in risk research and miscalculation of various options for further actions; great intelligence officers.
Not the best choice : Startup, small business, or any other company that loses out to the benefits of corporations.
Type 7: Optimist or Enthusiast
Possible Professions : areas where you can see opportunities around you, brainstorm different ideas. For example, the tourism industry, the work of a photographer or a writer, or a combination of all of the above.
Not the best choice : routine and endless work with documents is not your story.
Type 8: Boss or Leader
Possible Professions in which you cannot take responsibility, where there is no way to achieve ambitious goals; places where you will feel total control.
Type 9: Peacemaker or Mediator
Possible Occupations : Work at a slower pace and less stress. As an option, consider a career as a mediator, diplomat, product testing. You will like a place of work where you can create a family atmosphere and take into account the opinion of all employees during decision making.
Not the best choice : rate + bonuses for factorial or external performance (example: sales, investment banking or consulting).
Of course, you can track manifestations of different types in your character and behavior. In particular, this is due to the fact that we grow up in certain conditions, communicating with different people. And the enneagram does not drive people into "portrait frames" - on the contrary, it shows the path of personal development.
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Career Guidance Center Career Guidance Test Whom to work?
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What to work with, what is the best profession to choose, what specialty to study, which university to choose? On our site there is an excellent career guidance test.
Who to work with? Now is the time to enter universities and perhaps many guys have not yet decided where to take their documents? Where do they bring themselves as students and reflect on how to choose the right profession.
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Guys, I can only share my experience with you. I graduated from two higher educations, defended my Ph.D. thesis, worked in different places, studied and worked abroad. In Russia, she worked in various organizations, met many different people who have also already made their choice of profession and are now working in different areas. Therefore, I consider myself a competent person to talk about choosing a profession. I have said many times that the choice of a university is not critical, that you go to some university and that's it for life. In principle, everything can be changed! Of course, there are professions that are difficult to change, for example, medicine. Therefore, if you seriously decide that you want to be a doctor and enter a medical university, then you should be serious, because before my eyes there are several examples of guys who studied at a medical university, and then faced the problem of retraining.
Did you know that studies there last longer, on average, 6 years, plus there is such a thing as residency. Before my eyes, there are people who graduated from a medical university, and some even left the medical school in the middle courses, they had to change their medical specialty very hard. There is also a friend who graduated in medicine and he did not like the medical business and everything connected with the treatment, and he went to gymnastics and health improvement.
The other extreme, if you go, for example, to an economist, marketer, accountant. Or you choose a more scientific education: physics, chemistry, biology, then you have more opportunities to change your profession. There are spontaneous desires, if you liked some subject at school: I want to study at the Faculty of Geography of Moscow State University, or I want to be a physicist, I want to be an actor. You can choose solely on the basis of your desires. And what then, you graduate from the university and get a diploma in physics, geographer or historian or philologist, or you go as a psychologist.
Imagine for a second: can I go to work in this specialty?
Good advice: just go to some job search site for your development and see the vacancies that are close to you? I advise you to read the analytical reports. You can just type Google in Yandex ratings of professions. The highest paid professions are compiled annually. Maybe the analysis of specific proposals will give you an idea about your profession.
When people say “I want to be a geographer”, “I want to be an archaeologist”, “I want to be a doctor”, or something else, they do not fully understand that they will have to work in this specialty. Just try to imagine yourself in the place of a graduate and imagine in what area you would like to go to work. If you want, for example, to work in an office and negotiate. Or you like to travel more, then tourist, expeditionary work is suitable for you.
What else can you take a career guidance test? Imagine yourself in the future +5 years. Will you be comfortable working in your chosen profession? If you like the computer, then perhaps you are an IT specialist.
Such professions will always be in demand. In IT, you can choose different directions.
As for economists, there are a lot of economists now, but nevertheless these are highly paid positions. You go to an economist if you like to count and it delights you. Related topics are economics and finance. Business analytics, there is money here, but it must be the choice of the soul.
There are financial specialties in which you just need to become a good professional, a good specialist, and then you will succeed and be prosperous, but always choose a specialty to your liking.
Think about your inclinations, what kind of work makes you love. For example, I remember myself at school. I didn't particularly like anything in particular, but I liked the humanities, I liked the natural subjects. That's why I became a journalist. I also liked psychology, I read various books. I even considered becoming a psychologist. As a result, I am a journalist and a little psychologist for friends.
