Career Interest Test

The hexagon shows your interest in six areas: Doer, Thinker, Creator, Helper, Persuader and Organizer. Your top two or three together say more than your single highest score. For example, Thinker plus Helper often points to healthcare or research roles that serve people.

The test measures what you enjoy, not what you're good at. Skills can be learned, but interests tend to stay with you. Use the career ideas as a list to explore: read about each job, talk to someone who does it, or try a short course or internship.

This test is based on a model of career interests developed by the American psychologist John L. Holland from the 1950s onward. Holland proposed that most people — and most jobs — can be described by six interest types: Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising and Conventional, often shortened to RIASEC.

Holland arranged the six types in a hexagon: neighboring types (like Artistic and Social) have more in common than opposite ones (like Artistic and Conventional). People tend to be happiest in jobs that match their strongest interests.

The RIASEC model is one of the most widely used and researched tools in career guidance. Many schools and public career services use it, including the US Department of Labor's O*NET career database.

This test uses 48 original activities written for TestMyPsyche — eight for each type. It measures what you enjoy, not what you're good at. Use it as a starting point for exploring careers, alongside advice from teachers, mentors or career counselors.