Monday, 12 October 2020

Careers quiz

I took the skills assessment test on the UK government's careers website.

There are 50 questions, each with five possible answers: stongly agree, agree, it depends, disagree, strongly disangree.

I did it and the outcome was:

Your answers show that:

  • you like dealing with complicated problems or working with numbers
  • you are a creative person and enjoy coming up with new ways of doing things
  • you like to lead other people and are good at taking control of situations

The following job categories are based on the answers you have given.

Computing, technology and digital

After three more questions, three jobs were suggested:

Information scientist

Information scientists manage an organisation's information resources and make sure it's all readily available.


IT security co-ordinator

IT security co-ordinators protect their clients' data from unauthorised access, theft and misuse.


Technical architect

Technical architects help plan, design and build IT systems for clients.


Frankly, those all sound far too much like hard work. And it's all about machines rather than people. Nothing about teaching! But I don't think I was ever a good teacher anyway.


I was actually hoping it would come up with: "you should become a blogger".


1 comment:

  1. Just to cheer you up and show you daft the quiz is, one of my suggested occupations was - football manager!

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