Useful career websites & career quizzes
Use the below career quizzes to start researching careers
https://www.northeastambition.co.uk/buzz-quiz
A personality quiz designed to increase your awareness of your natural strengths, how you work in teams and what courses or jobs might suit you best.
https://www.wisecampaign.org.uk/my-skills-my-life/the-quiz
Complete our quiz to discover your personality types and see how your skills match up to STEM careers. Connect with real people who have the same personality as you. What do they do? What do they earn? How did they get there?
https://www.ucas.com/careers/careers-quiz
Take the new career quiz
Find your ideal job matched to your personality and a list of courses previous students studied in order to get there.
Sign in or register to take the full quiz and get more personalised results.
https://www.prospects.ac.uk/planner
Career Planner matches your skills, motivations and desires to a career that's perfect for you. To get even more from your results, take them to your University or College career adviser.
https://www.prospects.ac.uk/job-match
Takes less than 10 minutes, be honest with your answers
Get job groups that match your skills and interests
Then find your perfect job!
https://icould.com/buzz-quiz/?buzz_page=0
Take the quiz to see which job areas might suit you then start exploring opportunities – from apprenticeship or traineeship to researching some job families. There’s a huge variety of options you may not have thought of.
https://nationalcareers.service.gov.uk/skills-assessment
You may want to take an assessment to help you:
find out what interests and motivates you
identify your skills
find out what you can do with the skills you have
https://www.16personalities.com/free-personality-test
Free Personality Test NERIS Type Explorer®
https://www.myworldofwork.co.uk/tools/skills/start
Skills are things you learn through work, study or play.
Designing, building relationships, listening, motivating others and developing a plan are all examples of skills you might have. Using the Skills Explorer tool will give you an understanding of what yours are. This will help you decide which job you want and what to include in job applications to showcase the skills you have to offer. You can also try our About Me and Strengths tools. The more tools you complete, the better career suggestions we can give.
https://openpsychometrics.org/tests/RIASEC/
The Holland Occupational Themes is a theory of personality that focuses on career and vocational choice. It groups people on the basis of their suitability for six different categories of occupations. The six types yield the RIASEC acronym, by which the theory is also commonly known. The theory was developed by John L. Holland over the course of his career, starting in the 1950s
Radio one are hosting a series of podcasts alongside a personality test which can be taken here
Let's find your health career
There are more than 350 different careers in the NHS. Many work with patients while others work behind the scenes. What they all have in common is that they make a difference to people's lives.
To find the NHS careers that best suit you, all you need to do is answer some simple questions.
ARE YOU INTERESTED IN A CREATIVE CAREER IN GAMES, FILM OR TV?
Take our brand new free quiz for a fun way to find out what department you’re most suited to!