Find work that isn’t just your old job again.

We rank 774 occupations by what you actually enjoy, and set aside anything that repeats what you're trying to leave behind.

  • 120 questions
  • ~12 minutes
  • No account

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Try it. What do you like doing?

Closest of 774 occupations

Demo matches interests only. Full results add your personality. How the matching works

  1. 0187%Web and Digital Interface Designers
  2. 0287%Anthropologists and Archeologists
  3. 0384%News Analysts, Reporters, and Journalists
  4. 0484%Political Scientists
  5. 0583%Sociologists

How it works

  1. Answer the questions

    Name your current job and what you want to leave behind, if you like. Then answer 120 short questions about what you enjoy and how you work. It takes about 12 minutes.

  2. See your ranked jobs

    You get 774 occupations ranked by how well they fit your interests and personality. You also see your scores on six interest types and five personality traits.

  3. Review the jobs set aside

    Occupations that share the problems you named go on their own list, where you can still look at them; they just don't get ranked with the rest.

What the test measures

The psychologist John Holland split work into six types, and most people lean toward two or three of them.

  • Build

    Realistic

    Hands-on work with tools, machines, plants or animals, often with a physical result.

  • Investigate

    Investigative

    Researching, analyzing and solving problems that take time to understand.

  • Create

    Artistic

    Making original work in words, images, sound or design, with freedom in how you do it.

  • Help

    Social

    Teaching, caring for, advising and supporting other people.

  • Lead

    Enterprising

    Leading, selling, negotiating and starting things, usually with some risk.

  • Organize

    Conventional

    Working with data, records and systems where accuracy and order matter.

How you work

The second half of the test covers the Big Five personality traits, and those scores are mostly for you to think about. O*NET doesn't rate occupations on the Big Five, so the personality ranking in your results relies on our own rough translation of its Work Styles data. Give it less weight than the interest ranking.

  • OpennessPracticalCurious
  • ConscientiousnessFlexibleOrganized
  • ExtraversionReservedOutgoing
  • AgreeablenessDirectAccommodating
  • Emotional stabilitySensitiveSteady

What to expect from the results

You'll get a list of jobs worth looking into, which gives you somewhere to start reading and asking around. It can't tell you what you'd be good at.

Nobody has validated these questions or the scoring in a study. Occupation titles, interest profiles, work styles and Job Zones come from O*NET, and the work-context numbers are averages of what workers in each job reported. A high match means your interests look like the job's interest profile; it doesn't predict whether you'd do well or be happy there.

  1. 01

    Anthropologists and Archeologists

    Life, physical and social science

    InvestigativeArtisticRealistic
    Strong fit96% match
  2. 02

    Urban and Regional Planners

    Life, physical and social science

    InvestigativeEnterprisingConventional
    Strong fit91% match
  3. 03

    Technical Writers

    Arts, design, entertainment and media

    ConventionalArtisticInvestigative
    Strong fit87% match
Example matches. Yours will look different.

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