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Had enough of job fit tests yet? Go on, you know you want to take one more.
This interesting one presents you with 71 preference sets of three situations. For each, you choose your least favourite, your most favourite and leave one blank. Some are obviously work-related (be primarily involved with people in your work; be primarily involved with ideas in your work; be primarily involved with procedure in your work) while some of them are not (live in or near a stable community; live in the suburbs of a small city; live in an apartment in a large active city).
For most, the choices were relatively easy. But, in a few, I wanted to make them all my least favourite (command a police department riot control squad; serve as a traffic control officer; supervise youth activities at a city playground) or choose them all as my most favourite (work at a wildlife rescue and rehabilitation centre; restore wolves to wilderness areas; have vacations at a comfortable resort).
The test took about 15 minutes and involved a bit of thinking. But it does appear to be an accurate one.
You have two choices - without paying a cent you will get a paragraph on your strengths and preferences in several areas: interest in job content, temperament, aptitude for the job, people, things, data, reasoning and mathematical and language capacity.
This can be quite detailed. Or it can be humorously blunt when there's really nothing much to say - under "things" it simply said: "For one or more of a variety of possible reasons, Ashley does not prefer working with heavy equipment operation." Well, no.
But it teases you to pay for a complete report with hints of your detailed analysis and by listing only 11-20 in your top 20 career areas.
I couldn't resist and found out that my top career areas are, in order: creative writing, corresponding, musical creative, fine arts instructive, decorating and art, dramatics, secretarial, promotion and publicity, and health physics. Not bad, but I'm a bit concerned about numbers 8 and 10.
Send your nominations for work-related websites of the week to ashley.campbell@nzherald.co.nz.
