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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.
	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.
	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.

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.
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.
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.

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.
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.
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

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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Career counselors serve as teachers, confidants, and advisors to their clients. They help people examine their interests, styles, and their abilities to find and enter the profession that best suits them. They can be helpful to people who have yet to choose a career and people who are unhappy with their choice. Career counselors spend most of their day meeting with clients. Early sessions explore the history and behavior of the client to help the clients understand their own motivations and desires more thoroughly. Working with younger people, especially, career counselors must understand and appreciate the role of parents and the student’s home environment. An understanding of the client’s peer and familial pressures, along with a familiarity with current events and culture, allow the career counselor to make contact and earn the trust of his or her clients. Most career counselors have a degree in counseling or another mental health field. After conducting a thorough evaluation of the client’s personality traits, counselors must use their expertise to help clients assess their skills base and direct them to a career wherein those skills may be most profitably employed, both financially and in terms of job satisfaction. Counselors are responsible for knowing what skills are needed in a broad variety of professions, how much they pay, and what a hiring authority will want to see in a successful applicant. They then coach the client through the process of researching fields that match their interests, setting up informational interviews with people to supplement their research, and finally targeting or creating specific job positions that meet their needs. Counselors try to empower the clients to become as active as possible in their search.

Paying Your Dues

Most career counselors have a master’s degree in a field such as mental health counseling, psychological counseling, or community counseling. At the moment, career counseling is an unregulated field, but most members of the profession are licensed in their state of business as a professional counselor. Nevertheless, people come to the profession through a variety of paths. Some counselors come from social work or human resources management. Others come to career counseling from a discipline such as law or medicine and then use their industry expertise to counsel people in their former field. Many professionals embark on continuing education courses in counseling or psychology. Familiarity with basic personality, interest, and skills tests, such as the Holland Code, the Myers-Briggs Analogy Test, and the Birkman Personality Assessment (a customized version of which appears in this book) are invaluable aids in assessing clients’ occupational aptitudes. Usually, a successful career counselor works as an independent counselor but receives references from other services, therapists, or agencies. The profession may entail long hours, intense listening and assessment, and the ability to think objectively without being swayed by emotion.

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Present and Future

Many occupations, such as high school vocational counselors, job retrainers, and psychotherapists, used to have career counseling as one part of their overall job description. The Internet has allowed counselors and potential clients to troll for one another with seeming ease; however, the uncertain provenance behind some career-counseling sites and the tools they offer makes the public wary, as it should be, of snake-oil salesmen with no training in the field. Indeed, career counseling is a rapidly growing field. At their core, legitimate career counselors depend on the funding from government agencies to do the bulk of their work. It’s now estimated that the average person will have as many as half a dozen distinct jobs in the course of his or her career, and the need for this service is likely to increase.

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PRESENT AND FUTURE

Typically, career counselors start out by working with established professionals who have an existing client base. Many counselors are still moving through training programs associated with established testing authorities and spend significant time attending professional seminars and keeping up with professional reading. A number of career counselors come into the profession as psychotherapists, and many professionals make the transition to career counseling gradually. Many career counselors are hired by local school districts, private schools, rehabilitation agencies, and social welfare organizations.

FIVE YEARS OUT

By now, most counselors have begun to see progress among their clients—many of whom have successfully shifted careers in these first five years. Among the more successful counselors, client bases have broadened through word of mouth. Salaries have gone up, hours are significant, and satisfaction is strong. Those professionals who began with more established counselors break off between years four and seven to establish independent practices. Marketing skills become important. Many career counselors become involved in professional education seminars, conferences, and other professional establishments to train in cutting-edge counseling techniques.

TEN YEARS OUT

Those who’ve survived 10 years in the profession have earned solid reputations and have shepherded many clients to new occupations. Many established professionals begin scaling back hours and professional commitments during these later years. Many 10-year veterans of this profession are prolific contributors to professional journals and mainstream publications. Salaries level off as professionals work fewer hours at higher hourly rates.

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Test: Which profession suits me?

Do you get to know people easily?

Yes

Perhaps

rather no

Your friends notice and say that you are good ...

Work with numbers / Languages / maps

Care

Creat 9000,

Understand technology

Where do you feel comfortable?

In the company of pleasant people

In nature

Workshop / laboratory

Your ideal home should have a lot of...

Books

Beautiful interior items

Convenient technology

Plants

When you need to find a solution in a new situation for you, you...

Study the literature on the subject, analyze, make calculations

Seek advice from a familiar expert

Conduct experiments

Doodle on a sheet, watch films on the topic

As a child, you most often ...

Walked in the yard, in the garden, in the forest, not always in company

Built, dismantled and repaired

Invented your own world, drew maps and invented a language

Drawn, danced, sang - expressed themselves

Played with other children, organized their games

Going on a trip abroad, you will definitely . ..

Walk in the parks, go to the zoo

Go to a party, meet someone

Attend a spectacular show, go to an exhibition, bring home souvenirs

Plan your travel itinerary and practice a foreign language

Go to a technology museum, study the architecture of the city

You capture new information best when...

Tell someone something

Write it down in a well-structured way

Get it in practice yourself

Come up with a vivid association or image

At work, you tend to...

Consult with colleagues

Follow a clear plan

Keep track of intermediate results and structure everything

First get to work, then change something repeatedly

What does your computer desktop look like?

Nature wallpaper, lots of free space

Meaningless wallpaper, everything in order for you

Chaotic icon set, colorful wallpaper, files organized in a creative mess

Everything is clearly structured, the desktop is not crowded, any program is easy to find

As a child, you dreamed about . ..

Beautiful dolls and toys

Lego, radio-controlled cars

Pet

Travel and adventures 900 family

Imagine that you are moving to another planet. What worries you first of all?

What physical laws work there

Will I be there alone? Who is there to talk to?

What kind of flora and fauna is there?

It is necessary to draw up a plan of the area

What will I see from the window?

What do you like to watch?

Animal Planet and nature films

Melodramas, comedies, series

Video tutorials, reviews of technology and MythBusters

Feature films, music videos

Documentary films

What gift would you like best?

Houseplant

New device or tool kit

Book, training course

Concert ticket, art supplies

What helps you calm down in a difficult situation?

Own action

Living being nearby

Support of a loved one

Detailed analysis of the problem and ways to solve it

Draw, listen to music

You are a man of nature

You are predisposed to work with biological animals processes and nature as a system. You are fascinated by the way living organisms are arranged, you love and know how to take care of them, and they are of great importance to you. Surely as a child you brought home animals from the street, but now you may have a talent for growing and healing plants. You are also able to predict changes in living systems and thus prevent unforeseen situations. You are balanced, capable of painstaking work and independent. You can best prove yourself in the professions of a biologist, zoologist, ecologist, veterinarian, landscape designer, florist, pharmacist and others, work in an animal shelter.

You are a technical person

You are predisposed to work with technical systems, machines, devices and installations, materials and energies. You like to carefully understand how mechanisms and processes work, you can repair devices or even invent new ones. You are excited and inspired by progress, and you see the meaning of your life in making life better with the help of technological advances. You are practical, disciplined and accurate enough. You will be able to prove yourself in the best way in the professions of a mechanic, power engineer, engineer, technologist, architect, builder, assembler, designer, constructor and others from this field.

You are predisposed to work with people

You are good at getting along with people, working in a team, coordinating the work of a team. You may have developed leadership qualities, or you may simply be comfortable working among people, you easily read them, determine their needs and know how to help them. You can prove yourself in the professions of a doctor, teacher, educator, trainer, psychologist, psychotherapist, HR specialist, HR manager, social worker, technical support specialist, administrator, sales assistant, waiter, insurance agent and other positions, involving human interaction.

You are a person of sign systems

You are predisposed to work with various sign systems: foreign languages, notes, drawings, maps, numbers, formulas, programming languages, codes and ciphers. You are attentive, able to focus on details, do not shy away from monotonous work, like to systematize information and record it. You will best prove yourself in the professions of an economist, programmer, IT specialist, tester, topographer, accountant, translator, proofreader and others.

You are a person of art

You are predisposed to work with artistic images, roles, reincarnations. You love the world of art, cinema, fashion, have creative abilities and a non-standard perception of the world, do not hesitate to be in the spotlight and are not afraid to express yourself. Creative self-realization is very important for you. The professions of an actor / actress, director, fashion designer, designer, artist, blogger, musician, composer, journalist, writer, stylist, makeup artist, hairdresser, dancer and others related to creative self-expression are suitable for you.

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Answering the question of what profession suits me is a task with an asterisk. In order to find a job that will bring pleasure and decent earnings, we have created a 10-question career guidance test for you. It will help you decide on a modern profession and show your strengths and character traits!

1. How do you like to start your day?

a) I have breakfast, check social networks, I can do exercises - everything is in my mood

b) From obligatory rituals: a contrast shower, a glass of water with lemon

c) I definitely do a warm-up and a little meditation - it is important to emotionally tune in to the day

d) I prefer to sleep until the last minute - packing in a hurry does not scare me

2. What does your ideal work morning look like?

a) Planning meeting with the team, brainstorming on the tasks of the project

b) Meeting interesting people and understanding that I can be useful to them

c) Bright speeches with colleagues at business meetings

d) Distribution of goals for the day among employees and positive feedback from the client - sounds great!

3. At work, would you prefer to…

a) Constantly interact with people and immerse themselves in their activities

b) Solve more interesting tasks and professional challenges

c) Collaborate with a large team of like-minded people

d) Communicate less with people and engage in your own creative processes

4. In the work process are important to you:

a) A team that works as a single mechanism under my control

b) Creativity, independence and constantly new tasks

c) Events where I can show my professionalism and leadership skills

d) Cozy and beautiful workspace, calm and friendly atmosphere

5. What role do you feel most comfortable playing in a team?

a) Distributor

b) Coordinator

c) Motivator

d) Idea Generator

6. You choose an activity to spend your leisure time with your colleagues. What will it be?

a) Active recreation where team interaction is important: paintball, team racing, rope park

b) Yoga, group meditation or other mindfulness practice

c) Going to an art exhibition, interesting lecture or art brunch

d) Quiz, intellectual quest

7. What motivates you at work?

a) Earnings

b) Creative tasks, an opportunity to express yourself

c) Awareness of the importance and significance of one's own business

d) The feeling that the well-coordinated work of the team is my merit

8. A colleague has a problem and asked you for help. Your actions:

a) I will support, if necessary, I will calm him down and try to sort out the situation

b) If it is within my competence, I will help, if not, I will refer him to the manager or other employees

c) Let's try to unravel it together, look at the situation from different angles - I'm sure that together we will find a solution

d) I will try to immediately free up time to solve his problem - helping colleagues and establishing communications are paramount for me

9. You have an important job decision to make. How will you receive it?

a) I will collect all the data on this issue, analyze, if necessary, consult with colleagues

b) Only in a calm state and with a cool head - meditative practices and psychological tools will help me with this

c) I will start from my desires and plans for the future

d) I will make a decision on my own, I will immediately take responsibility

10.

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