Career profiling · Free
Find out which kinds of work interest you — and why.
Answer thirty short questions about the activities you enjoy. You get back a clear picture of your six interest areas, written in plain English, plus real career directions worth looking into.
- About 4 minutes
- 30 questions
- Private to you
No account needed to start, and no right answers. This is self-insight about the work you enjoy — not an aptitude test and not a hiring judgement.
What happens
Answer. Discover. Explore.
01
Answer
Thirty short statements about activities. No right answers, nothing to prepare, and you can stop and come back.
02
Discover
Your six interest areas, ranked against each other and written in plain English — with the reasoning shown.
03
Explore
Real occupations linked to your strongest areas, each carrying the reason it appeared. Directions to look into, not verdicts.
How we handle it
Private, deterministic, and kept out of every score.
Deterministic scoring
The same answers always produce the same result. No model guesses at you.
No employer visibility
Your profile is yours. No employer or recruiter can see it.
No effect on scoring
Profiling never enters Career Health, gap analysis or your CV.
Not a test
It measures interest, not ability — and never predicts how you would perform.
How this works — the methodology
Career Profiling is a structured interest and work-preference exploration tool developed for CareerPathIQ. It is informed by UK careers-guidance practice, including the National Careers Service approach to discovering your skills and careers, and it uses UK and European occupational and skills language aligned with the European Commission’s ESCO classification.
The mechanics are deliberately plain: thirty short statements about kinds of work, a fixed five-point response scale, and simple addition within each of the six interest areas. Nothing is weighted, modelled or inferred, and the same answers always produce the same result. Your areas are only ever compared with your own other answers, never with anyone else’s.
Career directions are UK job titles grouped under your strongest areas, using ESCO-compatible skills and occupation concepts. If two areas come out level, you are asked which interests you more — or you can leave them level.
This is not a clinical or psychometric diagnosis, and it does not determine your career or predict how well you would do in a role. It exists to support exploration, not to label you. What is realistic for you is settled later, by the evidence in your Career Record.
Where this sits
The first step in your connected career journey. Interest opens the door; evidence tells you what you can support.
If you want more
Start free. Go deeper only if it helps.
Free Career Profiling is the place to start and needs no account. The Full Career Profile adds additional career insight, and is included with Plus.
Start with the work you actually enjoy.
Thirty questions, about four minutes. Free, private, and yours to keep.