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This quiz will help you identify what types of work you most like doing if you are unsure or don't already know. The quiz will only take a few minutes to complete.

How to do the quiz

The quiz consists of 15 questions. Each question provides a list of six tasks that people do. For each set of tasks, select the work you'd enjoy doing most. Make sure to choose one task you'd like doing more than all the others in the group - no matter how qualified you are to do that job. Then select See result to view the jobs you are most likely to enjoy or be good at.

Question 1

Do professional lifesaving at a beach
Work on genetic research in a laboratory
Edit articles written for a popular magazine
Analyse and re-write a company budget
Convince a retailer to buy your company's wholesale product
Monitor and attend to sick people in an intensive care unit

Question 2

Handle enquiries at an information desk in a busy shopping mall
Look after children in an after school care centre
Work in vineyards, checking grape yields and quality
Review and evaluate global weather patterns
Plan interior designs for a new office complex
Manage a historical records office

Question 3

Devise and test new synthetic materials
Act in a stage play
Calculate economic values of commercial properties
Lobby government agencies about political issues
Provide counselling to stressed employees
Patrol in a boat looking for holes in fish nets

Question 4

Audit company records for a legal firm
Liaise with wholesale companies about new swimwear stocks
Help people with addictions stop using drugs
Spray paint cars in an auto repair shop
Examine soil taken from state forests to test ecology
Paint a commissioned portrait

Question 5

Examine people's eyes to see if they need glasses
Supervise keeping a cricket pitch in top condition
Control the movements of airplanes in and around airports
Design clothes for a fashion label
Type up court proceedings for legal records
Assist people with directions to city attractions at a tourist centre

Question 6

Work on graphic art designs for advertising companies
Assess correctness of business tax returns
Ask people in the street to complete surveys
Give physiotherapy to a stroke patient
Harvest seed supplies from crops growing in the field
Re-design voice recognition software for computers

Question 7

Monitor absenteeism and work output for factory managers
Teach small community groups about preventing accidents
Supervise a group of adults with intellectual disabilities
Work within a team putting electrical cables underground
Produce a vaccine for a serious new flu strain
Be the key media spokesperson for a company

Question 8

Maintain and review complex radio signalling equipment
Make and sell your own pottery
Review insurance claim forms and report on findings
Give cabin service to international air passengers
Look after sick animals in a vet hospital
Drill for underground metal deposits

Question 9

Interview applicants for a retail position
Work with domestic violence-affected people
Iron and quality check garments for a fashion designer
Plan mathematical dimensions and coordinates for new road building
Shape different flowers into unique arrangements
Manage a retirement village's strategic investment planning

Question 10

Direct a movie or theatre production
Manage housing loan funds for a bank
Sell hardware materials to customers in a shop
Attend to the needs of migrant children without parents
Work on an ocean rig searching for oil
Write new computer programs for a software company

Question 11

Monitor power generation in an electrical plant
Chart and analyse deep space signals
Write a TV script
Catalogue library books
Show prospective tenants around a rental property
Diagnose sickness and prescribe medicines or remedies for people

Question 12

Write poetry for greeting cards
Review and document new government policy
Bargain with manufacturers to obtain good retail resale prices
Assess young children with learning difficulties
Train in search and rescue work
Study mosquito breeding patterns and malaria outbreaks

Question 13

Assist university students to understand lecture materials
Round up and shear sheep
Take measurements of light and temperature, conducting research
Write for a restaurant guide publication
Prepare wills and legal papers
Distribute information about careers to high school students

Question 14

Measure a paddock before building a shed
Work in an aeronautical team re-designing an aviation engine
Compose music for movie soundtracks
Arrange and schedule appointments for a politician
Travel and review service standards across several hotels
Work in a police station assisting victims of crime

Question 15

Analyse chemical balance and acidity levels of wine
Regularly host a radio segment, giving your views
Manage a busy office
Meet and greet visitors at the front counter of a hotel
Help people with brain damage live rewarding lives
Feed and monitor cattle bred for the livestock market

Developed by C. Weightman MAPS and Dr R. Goddard for the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations

Note: This is a career interest reference tool only, not a psychological test. Results give a very general guide to help with review of courses and information about work activities and workplaces. Australian Job Search does not warrant that the results of the career quiz are accurate.

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