Career Map
A map of your work interests
An inventory of work interests for self-knowledge. It shows what you enjoy doing, what you value and where you already feel capable, and lists occupations to explore. You decide.
- Six interest types
- Public-domain items
Example of the Career tab in the member area: the hexagon with the six types, the code I, A, S, occupations to explore, the I enjoy it and feel capable quadrant, values and the 30-day plan.
In the member area
What the Career tab shows
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The map
The hexagon with your six scores and the three-letter code that sums up your profile.
- 2
Your three letters, explained
What each type usually enjoys doing, in which settings and with what kind of task.
- 3
Occupations to explore
Twelve occupations in three preparation groups, each with the letters in common and how it connects to your values.
- 4
I enjoy it and feel capable
A quadrant with the six types: what you enjoy and already do with confidence, and what you enjoy but haven’t tried yet.
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What you value
Achievement, independence, recognition, relationships, support and working conditions, in order of importance to you.
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30-day plan
Small tasks to try an area before deciding: talking to someone who works in it, a free course, a weekend project.
The model
The six interest types
The RIASEC model, proposed by John Holland in 1959 and still used in career research today. Almost everyone has a bit of each; what changes is the order.
Realistic
Working with your hands, tools, machines, plants or animals, with a result you can see and touch.
Workshop, construction site, field, maintenance
Investigative
Observing, researching, figuring out how things work and solving abstract problems.
Research, data analysis, science, technology
Artistic
Creating and expressing ideas without a fixed script, through images, words, sound or form.
Studio, agency, stage, newsroom
Social
Teaching, helping, caring for and talking with people.
School, healthcare, customer service, community
Enterprising
Persuading, leading, negotiating and taking risks to make something happen.
Sales, management, your own business
Conventional
Organizing, checking and following clear procedures, with data and records.
Office, finance, logistics
How it works
Three steps, at your own pace
Answer
You say how much you enjoy work activities, what matters to you in a job and where you feel capable. There are no right answers.
See the preview
Before any payment you see your three-letter code and part of the occupations to explore.
Explore in the member area
The full map, the occupations, the quadrant, the values and the 30-day plan live in the Career tab, next to your IQ test if you took it.
This is an interest inventory for self-knowledge and career exploration, with educational content. It is not a psychological test, a consultation with a psychologist or career counseling, which in Brazil only licensed psychologists may provide. The result describes preferences you stated and has a margin of error; it neither points you to nor away from any profession. The decision is yours. If you want career counseling, talk to a licensed psychologist.
Science
The studies behind the Map
Holland’s model, the calculation that becomes your code, interest and confidence, work values and the limits, with the sources.
Fundamentals · 4 min read
Holland’s RIASEC model: six types, one hexagon and two readings
The Career Map describes your interests through six types proposed by John Holland. Knowing the model helps you read the three-letter code, and see what it doesn’t promise.
ReadMethod · 6 min read
How the Map scores your code and matches your profile with 183 occupations
From answer to report, with no black box: how the six scores, the three-letter code, the quality checks and the formula that ranks the occupations come out, with a worked example.
ReadResearch · 3 min read
Enjoying it and feeling capable: why the Map asks both
Enjoying an activity and feeling capable of doing it well are different things. Social cognitive career theory explains why both matter, and the Map’s quadrant crosses one with the other.
ReadResearch · 3 min read
Work values: what you want from a job
Two people with the same interests can want very different things from a job. Work values describe that, and in the Map they break ties and explain, without leading the list.
ReadLimits · 4 min read
What the Career Map is not
An honest result says how far it goes. Here are the Map’s limits: what Brazilian law reserves to psychologists, what the translation still lacks, what the occupation database can’t see and where each part comes from.
Read
Questions
Questions about the Career Map
Is it a psychological test?
No. It is an interest inventory for self-knowledge and career exploration, with educational content. It is not a psychological test, a consultation with a psychologist or career counseling, which in Brazil only licensed psychologists may provide.
Will it tell me which profession to follow?
No. It describes your affinities and shows occupations to explore, with the reason for each one. The map doesn’t pick or rule out any occupation: the decision is yours.
Do I need to have taken the IQ test?
No. If you have, the areas where you did best show up as “a strength that helps with…”, linked to the abilities each occupation uses. They never exclude or downgrade a career.
Does the result change over time?
It can. In adults interests tend to be stable, but new experience changes what we enjoy and where we feel capable. The member area reminds you to retake it in 6 months.
Who sees my answers?
The result stays in your account. We don’t sell or pass on answers to schools, colleges, companies or recruiters, and the terms of use forbid anyone from using the Map to decide about you.
I already subscribe to the member area. Do I pay again?
No. The Career Map is part of Plus: subscribers see everything in the Career tab, with no new charge.
Start with what you enjoy doing
Before any payment you already see your three-letter code.
Ready to see how you reason?
Start now. At the end, your estimated IQ with the 95% range stays in your member area.
Start the testTaking the test is free · IQNorth is an educational reasoning test: the result is an estimate, with a margin of error, for personal and educational use.