Your Career Type

The one-minute scan

What is your career type?

How to answer

Five statements about your career, from your first job to today, paid and unpaid work included. Answer each statement for your whole career, not only for your current job.

Haven't had a career yet? Then answer for the career you would like to have.

Your roles: I've done very different kinds of work in my career, each with its own know-how.
What counts?

A role is one kind of work with its own know-how, such as accounting, carpentry or raising children. Two roles are very different when the know-how from one role doesn't carry over to the other role. More about role breadth (opens in a new tab)

Your environments: I've worked in places that are very different from each other: different people, cultures, rules and pace.
What counts?

An environment is the world around the work: the people, the culture, the rules and the pace. Two environments are very different when each environment expects different behaviour from you, as a hospital and a startup do. More about environment breadth (opens in a new tab)

Your depth: In at least one kind of work, I kept getting better long after I was good enough.
What counts?

Competent means you plan and do the work well by the rules; proficient and expert mean you read each situation and respond from judgement. Agree if you keep working towards expert, whether or not you have reached expert yet. More about depth pursuit (opens in a new tab)

Several at once: For most of my career I've had two or more commitments running at the same time: jobs, a business, a degree, caring for someone.
What counts?

A commitment is a role in a specific environment, paid or unpaid, such as a job, a business, a degree or caring for a parent. Agree if you have held two or more commitments at once for most of your career, not only while moving from one job to the next. More about concurrency (opens in a new tab)

Where your moves came from: The moves that shaped my career mostly came from my own initiative, not from an offer, a promotion or an assignment.
What counts?

Count the moves that shaped your career most. A promotion, a posting, a recruiter's call or the only job available came from outside you; looking for work and taking a job you found came from you. More about origin (opens in a new tab)

Five answers, and you'll know your type.

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