Career Quizzes

Career quizzes and tests can help young people develop their career path. They can be used as a starting point in their journey and can be helpful by making your teen more self aware by understanding their strengths, weaknesses, personality, passion, interests and ambitions. All of these impact on their potential success and satisfaction with different career options and work environments.

Explain to your teen that a career quiz is an algorithm - it cannot read minds, it can only offer programmed suggestions based on a combination of answers. These suggestions are merely ideas to consider, and they are not the “truth”.

When your teen talks about their “whys,” help them turn negatives into positives (e.g. “I would never want to work outside” becomes “I would like to work indoors in an office”).

Gather these statements to make a list of work-related desires and make a criteria of what is important to your teen.

Do not focus on just one career, get your teen to list all careers they have an interest in. Get them to choose one of the career options and get them to brainstorm at least TEN occupations that relate to this.