Career assessment
Find work that fits
You see which parts of a working day pull you in and which drain you. The report names where a strong interest may narrow the work you consider and gives you example jobs to look into.
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Step 1 of 3
For each activity, rate how much you like or dislike doing it. Set aside whether you have the training or how much it pays.
Activity 1: Build kitchen cabinets
Activity 2: Develop a new medicine
Activity 3: Write books or plays
Activity 4: Help people with personal or emotional problems
Activity 5: Manage a department within a large company
Activity 6: Install software across computers on a large network
Activity 7: Repair household appliances
Activity 8: Study ways to reduce water pollution
Activity 9: Compose or arrange music
Activity 10: Give career guidance to people
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What decades of research reveal
Published research on career interests offers findings across large groups, not predictions about any one person or what any reader will experience.
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Interest-matched work went with better performance and somewhat higher satisfaction
Across 92 studies, people whose career interests aligned with their roles tended to perform more effectively, alongside a modest link to greater job contentment.
Nye, Su, Rounds & Drasgow (2017). Journal of Vocational Behavior 98, 138–151.
Hoff, Song, Wee, Phan & Rounds (2020). Journal of Vocational Behavior 123, 103503.
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Interests become much steadier through college
A review of change over age found that career preferences tend to gain far greater stability during higher education.
Low, Yoon, Roberts & Rounds (2005). Psychological Bulletin 131(5), 713–737.
What are the interest types?
These six interests describe the kinds of work activities you may find appealing, without assuming anything about your training, experience, or pay preferences. They are Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional.
Realistic
Practical, hands-on work with tools, machines, plants, or animals.
Investigative
Observing carefully, researching questions, and working through complex problems.
Artistic
Open-ended work that makes room for self-expression, imagination, and original ideas.
Social
Teaching, advising, caring for, and working alongside other people.
Enterprising
Leading, influencing, persuading, and getting new ventures off the ground.
Conventional
Clear structure, accurate records, data, and systems people can count on.
What is this assessment?
30 activities
Each activity uses the scale from Strongly dislike to Strongly like
6 interests
- Realistic
- Investigative
- Artistic
- Social
- Enterprising
- Conventional
The scores are read against one another
3 interest code letters
Your 3 highest interests make the interest code, in order
30 interest types
The first 2 letters of your interest code name your interest type
This assessment presents 30 work activities from O*NET’s Mini Interest Profiler, a career tool from the U.S. Department of Labor’s job database. You rate how much you would like doing each activity, from Strongly dislike to Strongly like, while setting aside training and pay.
Your results show six interest scores, a three-letter interest code, an interest type, and example jobs. Your interest code comes from comparing the six scores with one another, and each score is also shown beside an estimated average for U.S. adults as a reference point.
Why take it here?
Jobs worth exploring
The report names real jobs that share your three-letter interest code, drawn from the U.S. Department of Labor’s job database, for you to investigate. They appear as examples, with no ranking, scoring, or personal matching.
Working with differences
The report explains why your preferred way of working may click with one interest type and grind against another, including the blind spot that others may notice first.
What pulls you in
Rating 30 work activities lets your answers center on what you would like doing, rather than training, pay, experience, or what you have been told to want.
No loss after reading
Read the full report before deciding whether it is worth the price. If you are unhappy, you receive 100% of what you paid back, without giving a reason, within 30 days of buying it.
What the full report shows about you
The paintings, sections, and reading times here come from a made-up person’s report. Your report would be written from your own answers.
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Your interests
How your leading interests draw you in, and what the work you avoid may cost you.
- What your type is
- How your three interests fit together
- Lower interests
about 6 min
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Work in context
Example jobs that share your interest code, with possibilities to look into at different levels of match.
- Where CSI tends to fit
about 2 min
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Your reference points
How your work habits can come across to colleagues drawn to different kinds of work, and what tends to help.
- With other people
about 4 min
Contents
8 sections, 3,977 words, about 15 minutes.
Common questions
Where do the statements come from?
Each assessment uses a published instrument, except for some pillar check-in questions we wrote ourselves. The method page lists every instrument, its authors, year, and full citation. Most published items use our rewording of public-domain material rather than the originals, so no published reliability figure describes the wording you answer. The interest activities and self-esteem statements appear exactly as published, word for word, while our questions are labeled as ours wherever their numbers appear.
Can I use this for hiring?
No. Nothing here was built or checked for choosing, promoting, or screening out people. The assessment also measures no ability, intelligence, or employability.
What happens to my answers?
We keep your personal information private and never sell it, while anything that identifies you goes only to the companies needed to run the site and take a payment. To delete your account and everything saved in it, email us at hello@nomigram.com from the account’s own address.
How do these assessments compare with other sites?
Career uses the 30 activities from the O*NET Mini Interest Profiler, provided by the U.S. Department of Labor. Other sites may call the interest code a Holland code or RIASEC code, using the initials of the six interests John Holland described. Here, the six interests are Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional, and your code contains your top three as letters.
Nomigram is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by the Myers & Briggs Foundation, The Myers-Briggs Company or NERIS Analytics Limited, and the names are used here only to explain how our assessments relate to them. MBTI, Myers-Briggs and Myers-Briggs Type Indicator are trademarks or registered trademarks of the Myers & Briggs Foundation, Inc. in the United States and other countries. 16Personalities is a trademark of NERIS Analytics Limited.
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