DNC Holland Code Career Interest Test
This assessment explores what kind of work you would enjoy, grouped into six interest areas: Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising and Conventional.
- Questions: 60 across 6 short pages
- Time needed: about 6–60 minutes
- What it measures: your interests, not your ability or intelligence
- Saving: you can stop partway through and resume later
Instructions
For each activity, select how you would feel about doing it regularly. Do not answer based only on whether you are currently skilled at the activity. Answer based on whether you would enjoy or dislike doing it.
Please read before you start
This career-interest assessment is designed for educational and career-exploration purposes. It does not measure intelligence, capability or eligibility for a profession, and it is not a psychological or medical diagnosis. Results should be considered together with your skills, values, experience, education and advice from a qualified career adviser.
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Your answers are stored against your account so you can revisit your results. Only you and authorised Academics.Solutions staff can see them. Results are guidance for exploring options and are never used to reject an application.
The six interest areas
R — Realistic
You lean toward practical, hands-on work with tangible results. Tools, machinery, physical materials and the outdoors tend to appeal more than abstract discussion or paperwork.
I — Investigative
You are drawn to analysis, research and understanding how things work. You prefer thinking a problem through to following a fixed procedure.
A — Artistic
You value originality and self-expression, and work best where the method is not prescribed. Design, writing, media and performance appeal.
S — Social
You are energised by helping, teaching and developing people, and you gravitate toward collaboration and service rather than solitary technical work.
E — Enterprising
You like leading, persuading and driving initiatives forward. Commercial goals, negotiation and visible responsibility appeal.
C — Conventional
You prefer structure, accuracy and dependable systems. Organising information and keeping processes running correctly appeals more than open-ended ambiguity.
This assessment uses original questions written for Digital Nomad Council and organises them with the RIASEC interest framework. It is not the Self-Directed Search and is not endorsed by PAR, John Holland or the U.S. Department of Labor.
This career-interest assessment is designed for educational and career-exploration purposes. It does not measure intelligence, capability or eligibility for a profession, and it is not a psychological or medical diagnosis. Results should be considered together with your skills, values, experience, education and advice from a qualified career adviser.