Background
Your experiences, family, culture and the things you’ve learned along the way.
Knowing yourself is important
The more you understand yourself, the more positive and confident you can feel. Getting to know who you are can help you make choices at school and in life that feel right for you.
Knowing yourself can help you:
- Choose subjects at school that you enjoy and feel confident in
- Explore different careers that suit who you are
- Make decisions about what you are going to do when you finish school
About you
Take a few moments to think about yourself and write down:
- What you like to do in your spare time
- Your hobbies and interests
- How you would describe yourself
Careers that suit you can be based off:
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Beliefs and values
The things that matter to you, what you stand for, and what motivates you. -
Skills and strengths
What you’re naturally good at, and the skills you’ve developed through school, hobbies or home life. -
Hobbies and interests
The things you enjoy doing and choose to spend time on.
Personality types
The 16 personalities test is a tool that helps you explore your personality. It asks 93 questions and places you into one of 16 personality types.
The test looks at traits such as:
- introversion vs. extroversion
- intuition vs. sensing
- thinking vs. feeling
- judging vs. perceiving
It can help you understand your likes, dislikes, strengths, possible career interests and how you work with others.
Your personality
Thinking about what you learned from your personality type, write down:
- Your main personality type and what your second-closest might be
- Careers that would suit your personality
- Why those careers feel like a good match
Explore your career
Use what you've learned about yourself to explore myfuture.
- Create an account (or log in if you already have one).
- Go to My career profile.
- Complete the Interests activity.
Your results
Using your results, think about:
- What are your top three career interests?
- Do these match your personality type?
- Do these careers interest you or feel like a good fit?
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