Career-change quiz

The quiz asks 28 questions about your interests and work preferences and assigns your answers to the Holland-RIASEC model, a method widely used in career counseling with six interest types: realistic, investigative, artistic, social, enterprising, and conventional. The 28 questions are grouped into five blocks: interests, skills, work environment, values, and motivation, so your profile is not based on a single question type but combines several perspectives on the same tendency. In about ten minutes, you get an initial sense of which career fields might fit your interest profile, even if you have worked in a completely different field so far.

At the end, you receive not just your dominant interest type but a ranking of all six types, because most people have a mix of two or three interest directions. This combination gives a more precise indication of suitable career fields than a single type alone, especially when changing careers, where previous experience and new interests need to be brought together. For each of the five best-fitting career fields, the result shows a short explanation of why the field suits your profile, along with concrete example occupations within that field, so the recommendation stays tangible instead of abstract. If your answers turn out mostly neutral, the quiz explicitly points this out and tells you the result is less meaningful, instead of pretending to show a ranking based on answers that were not clear enough.

The result does not replace thorough career counseling, but is a good starting point, especially if you are considering whether to stay in your previous profession in Germany or switch. From each recommended career field, a direct link leads to matching job listings and, where relevant, to checking the recognition of foreign qualifications for that occupational group, so you do not have to search for the next step separately. For a deeper comparison with specific career fields and recognition pathways, it is worth talking to a coach from the coach directory afterward, as well as looking at the Check-U test of the German Federal Employment Agency as a more thorough, complete variant of the same model.

Your answers are stored exclusively locally in your browser, not transmitted to our server, and are therefore handled as described in our privacy policy. Your last result stays saved, so you can view it again later without redoing the quiz, and you can redo the quiz at any time if your situation or your career interests change.