Science
The science of the Career Map
Where the model comes from, how the math works, what studies say about interests and what this result can’t tell you. Each article lists its sources at the end.
Articles
To understand your map
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.
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Method notes
The technical note and the licenses
How we measure the Career Map
Model, questions, scoring and limits, on one page
ReadSources and licenses
What comes from O*NET® and from the IPIP (ORVIS), and what is ours
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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.
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