Purpose and Aspirations

1   Education and Career Trajectory

The picture on the left shows your education and career trajectory.  In this section, you will find useful tools to help you discover your purpose and aspirations. These include career interests, skill confidence, work values, and learning styles.

2   Career Decision Wheel

The career decision wheel is a useful tool, which helps you to consider a variety of factors to make informed education and career decisions. The career wheel can be divided into external (top half) and internal (bottom half) factors. 

The external factors include: 

The internal factors include: Values, Interest, Personality, Skills/Strengths. An easy way to remember these factors is  using the acronym VIPS.


Log into MySkillsFuture Portal to discover your Work Values, Career Interestand Skills Confidence.

3    Career Interest and Skills Confidence - RIASEC Test

The RIASEC test is a vocational personality profiling assessment tool created to help individuals identify their preferred interests and faciliate job role selection. 

RIASEC is an acronym that stands for six dimension: Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising and Conventional. 


Read more about RIASEC here and find out your RIASEC code by doing the assessment in MySkillsFuture Portal

4    Personality Tests


The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®) assessment is a personality tool. The questionnaire is made up of four different scales: introversion or extraversion, sensing or intuition, thinking or feeling, and judging or perceiving. One letter from each category is taken to produce a four-letter test result representing one of sixteen possible types, such as "ISTJ" or "ESTP". 

For an adapted free version of the test by 16Personalities, click here.  

5     Strengths from StrengthsProfile 


Click here to discover your top 3 realised strengths, 3 unrealised strengths, 2 learned behaviours and 1 weakness. You can use it to start your strengths journey and gain self-awareness of what you love to do.