The best career for me test
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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Career Counselor Careers | The Princeton Review
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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.
Quality of Life
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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Type 1: Perfectionist or Reformer
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Not the best choice : companies where the process has not yet been established (example: start-up).
Type 2: Friend or Helper
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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.
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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. nine0005
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.
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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
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