The Holland Code (RIASEC) Explained: 6 Career Interest Types
The Holland Code explained: the six RIASEC interest types, real jobs for each, how to read your three-letter code, and what the research says.
Rank what matters most to you and see the values that guide your choices.
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The principles that guide your decisions, ranked.
A radar chart of six key values.
Which values tend to fit well with yours.
Tips to make choices that feel true to you.
It takes about 6 minutes. Go with your first instinct: there are no right or wrong answers.
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Success, ambition, competence and influence.
Safety, stability, order and tradition.
Independence, creativity and thinking for yourself.
Excitement, novelty, fun and enjoying life.
Caring for, helping and being loyal to the people close to you.
Equality, justice, tolerance and care for nature and the wider world.
Your top value is Achievement. You're motivated by goals, growth and success — and you want your efforts to make a mark.
Your top value is Security. You value stability, safety and the traditions that hold people together.
Your top value is Freedom. You need independence, creativity and the right to choose your own path.
Your top value is Adventure. You want a life full of excitement, variety, fun and new experiences.
Your top value is Kindness. You care deeply about the people close to you and find meaning in helping them.
Your top value is Fairness. You care about justice, equality and the wider world — including people you'll never meet and the planet itself.
Your values map shows six values from 0 to 100. Your top value is the one that guided most of your choices, especially in the ranking questions, where you had to pick between good things.
Values that sit opposite each other, like Security and Adventure, often pull in different directions. Seeing both high can explain why some decisions feel hard. Use your top two or three values as a check when you face a big choice: does this option fit them?
Values are the deep beliefs about what matters most in life. They guide our choices, our careers and our relationships — often without us noticing.
One of the best-known models of human values was developed by the Israeli psychologist Shalom Schwartz from the late 1980s onward. Studying people in dozens of countries, he found a similar set of basic values everywhere, arranged in a circle: values next to each other (like security and tradition) go together, while opposite ones (like security and adventure) pull in different directions.
This test groups those ideas into six easy-to-understand values: Achievement, Security, Freedom, Adventure, Kindness and Fairness. It combines importance ratings with ranking questions, because choosing between good things often reveals what matters most.
All 28 questions were written for TestMyPsyche. There are no good or bad values — this test is for self-reflection and fun.
Personal values are the things you believe are most important in life — like freedom, security or kindness. They shape your decisions and what makes you feel fulfilled.
Most people rate many values as important. Putting options in order makes you choose, which reveals your true priorities.
Your core values are fairly stable, but their order can shift with life stages — for example, security often becomes more important when starting a family.
Use them when making big choices, like picking a job or a partner, or when something feels 'off' — it may be clashing with a core value.
About 6 minutes for 24 ratings and 4 short ranking questions.
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