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Students
Understand your strengths before deciding what comes next.
Personal insight for your next step
Discover what makes you, you
Understand your strengths. Learn how you work best. Make better choices about your future.
If you are choosing your next step, looking for your first proper job, considering an apprenticeship, or simply wondering what sort of work might suit you, our assessment can help you understand your personality and behavioural style in a positive, encouraging way.
No pass or fail
Friendly personal feedback
Useful for applications and interviews
Know yourself before trying to sell yourself
Self-awareness makes career choices, applications and interviews easier.
Who is this for?
You do not need to have your whole future worked out
Most people do not. This is designed for young people who want a clearer picture of themselves before making choices about work, study, training or their first steps into a career.
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Apprentices
See the environments and responsibilities that may suit you best.
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First job seekers
Find better words for what you can bring to an employer.
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Still exploring
You do not need the answer yet. You just need a better starting point.
Already established in your career?
Looking for a change rather than a first step?
If you are already in mid-career and want a clearer view of your strengths, motivations and the kind of work that may suit you now, we have a separate assessment page designed for you.
What you'll learn
A clearer picture of how you naturally think, work and relate to people
Your natural strengths
The qualities and characteristics that are likely to come naturally to you.
How you approach work
Whether you prefer structure or flexibility, detail or the bigger picture, consistency or variety.
How you make decisions
How you weigh things up, solve problems and decide when to act.
How you approach people
How you communicate, collaborate, persuade, support and build relationships.
What may motivate you
The situations and responsibilities that are more likely to energise and engage you.
Potential challenges
Areas that may take more effort, explained as useful self-awareness rather than criticism.
No labels. No grades.
It isn't about finding weaknesses
Most personality characteristics can be a strength in one situation and a challenge in another. Confidence can help you act quickly, but sometimes too quickly. Careful thinking can improve decisions, but sometimes make them slower.
The point is not to put you in a box. It is to help you understand the way you naturally approach things, so you can make choices that fit you better.
There is no “good” personality and no “bad” result. There is simply better self-awareness.
Making it practical
How this can help when you are looking for work
Understanding yourself gives you something useful to say when an employer asks, “Tell me about yourself.” It also helps you judge whether a job is likely to suit you, instead of focusing only on whether you can get it.
- Explain your strengths more clearly in applications.
- Feel better prepared for interviews.
- Choose roles and apprenticeships that are a better fit.
- Understand what motivates you and what may frustrate you.
- Recognise the type of working environment in which you may thrive.
Career direction
Your assessment does not choose a career for you
Personality is only part of the picture. Your interests, skills, experience, education, values and ambitions matter too. The assessment simply gives you another useful piece of the puzzle.
People & communication
Problem solving
Organisation & detail
Creativity & ideas
Practical activity
Responsibility & independence
How it works
Simple to complete. Easy to understand.
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Answer straightforward questions
Complete the assessment online and answer honestly. There are no trick questions and no answers you are supposed to choose.
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Receive your personal report
Your results are turned into a clear picture of your personality strengths and behavioural style.
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Use the insight
Apply what you learn to career choices, CVs, applications, interviews and conversations about your future.
What you receive
Friendly feedback you can actually use
Your personal feedback is written to be encouraging, practical and easy to understand, not as a page of psychometric jargon designed to make everybody feel very important.
✓ Summary of your key personality strengths
✓ Explanation of your behavioural style
✓ How you are likely to communicate and work with others
✓ Working environments that may suit you
✓ Possible challenges to be aware of
✓ Practical ideas for applications and interviews
✓ Questions to help you think about your next step
A personal explanation
Understanding yourself is a better place to start
At the beginning of a career, people are often expected to explain what they can offer before they have had much chance to find out. This assessment is intended to make that first step easier.
It gives you language for your strengths, helps you recognise the environments that may suit you, and gives you useful things to think about before making your next decision.
Nik Plevan
Founder of eTalent · Creator of Working You
Know yourself before trying to sell yourself
Find out more about your strengths, your style and the kinds of work that may suit you.