Find Career Interests

Can't decide what career is right for you or what job will keep you interested? Find Career Interests uses a simple survey to identify your interests and match those interests with appropriate career and job options that exhibit those interests. Not happy with your current job? Find Career Interests also shows you how your current job or job opportunity matches your interest profile.

Find Career Interests uses an interest quiz to rate your relative interests. Interests have been classified into activity profiles that differentiate types of activities people enjoy doing. As a career characteristic, these profiles can be used to match personal interests to careers and jobs that exhibit those interests. By taking a simple quiz, you'll discover how strong your interests are in the following categories:

Realistic - People with Realistic interests like work activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions. They enjoy dealing with plants, animals, and real-world materials like wood, tools, and machinery. They enjoy outside work. Often people with Realistic interests do not like occupations that mainly involve doing paperwork or working closely with others.

Investigative - People with Investigative interests like work activities that have to do with ideas and thinking more than with physical activity. They like to search for facts and figure out problems mentally rather than to persuade or lead people.

Artistic - People with Artistic interests like work activities that deal with the artistic side of things, such as forms, designs, and patterns. They like self-expression in their work. They prefer settings where work can be done without following a clear set of rules.

Social - People with Social interests like work activities that assist others and promote learning and personal development. They prefer to communicate more than to work with objects, machines, or data. They like to teach, to give advice, to help, or otherwise be of service to people.

Enterprising - People with Enterprising interests like work activities that have to do with starting up and carrying out projects, especially business ventures. They like persuading and leading people and making decisions. They like taking risks for profit. These people prefer action rather than thought.

Conventional - People with Conventional interests like work activities that follow set procedures and routines. They prefer working with data and detail rather than with ideas. They prefer work in which there are precise standards rather than work in which you have to judge things by yourself. These people like working where the lines of authority are clear.

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