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Vocational Career Match
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A deeper look at your interests, temperament, values, and skills — generating a personalized career narrative.

Claude AI · Narrative Report

About This Assessment

This tool goes beyond a simple interest inventory. It gathers information across five dimensions, then uses AI to generate a personalized narrative report — matching your profile to specific growing fields and giving you concrete next steps.

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Vocational Interests
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Work Style & Temperament
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Core Values
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Skills & Comfort Areas
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Context & Goals

The assessment takes about 15–20 minutes. Your responses are never stored — they are sent directly to Claude to generate your report. There are no right or wrong answers.

Inspired by the Youngs-Ferris vocational battery and Holland occupational theory.

Section 1 of 5

Vocational Interests

Rate how much you would enjoy the following types of activities. Answer based on genuine feeling, not what you think you should enjoy.

Not at allA littleNeutralEnjoyLove it
Working with electronics, circuits, or hardware
Building or assembling physical things
Figuring out how systems work — diving deep into the "why"
Research, data analysis, or solving technical puzzles
Mathematics, statistics, or algorithms
Designing interfaces, graphics, or visual experiences
Creative writing, storytelling, or communications
Teaching, mentoring, or explaining things to others
Collaborating closely with a team on a shared goal
Pitching ideas, persuading others, or selling solutions
Leading a project, making decisions, managing risk
Organizing information, building processes, or creating documentation
Which of these broad domains genuinely interest you? (check all that apply)
Section 2 of 5

Work Style & Temperament

These questions help identify environments and ways of working where you naturally thrive — not where you think you should thrive.

When working on a hard problem, I prefer to:
Go deep alone
Research independently, iterate quietly, surface with a solution
Whiteboard with others
Think out loud, bounce ideas, build on others' input
Structured research
Read docs, gather data, build a clear picture before acting
Just try things
Learn by doing — build, break, iterate fast
How do you feel about ambiguity and open-ended problems?
Energized
Love the freedom; I invent the constraints
Manageable
OK with it if I can define the scope early
Draining
Prefer clear specs; ambiguity creates stress
Depends on domain
Fine in areas I know; tough in new territory
Rate how true each statement is for you:
Not meRarelySometimesOftenVery me
I get absorbed in work and lose track of time easily
I prefer working alone rather than in meetings or groups
I notice small errors or inconsistencies that others miss
Deadlines and pressure tend to motivate rather than paralyze me
I enjoy explaining technical things to non-technical people
I tend to think carefully before speaking, rather than thinking out loud
I find satisfaction in mastering one thing deeply over time
I get bored easily and like switching between different types of work
Section 3 of 5

Core Values

What matters most to you in a career? Honest answers here shape how the AI matches you to fields — there's no correct answer.

Rank these work values from most important (1) to least important (8) to you. Drag to reorder.
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1
Financial security & high earning potential
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2
Autonomy — working independently, setting my own direction
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3
Meaningful impact — work that matters to the world
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4
Intellectual challenge — always learning, never bored
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5
Stability & predictability — consistent work, clear expectations
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6
Creative expression — making things that didn't exist before
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7
Recognition & advancement — growing fast, being noticed
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8
Work-life balance — clear boundaries, time for personal life
Which work environment appeals to you most?
Startup
Fast, scrappy, high risk/reward, broad role
Big Tech
Scale, resources, specialized, competitive
Government / Defense
Stability, mission-driven, clearance work
Consulting / Agency
Variety, client work, broad exposure
Research / Academia
Deep problems, publishing, long horizons
Remote / Freelance
Flexibility, autonomy, self-managed
Is remote work important to you?
Essential
Must be fully remote
Hybrid fine
Some in-person is OK
On-site preferred
I work better in person
Section 4 of 5

Skills & Comfort Areas

Rate your current comfort and confidence — not your potential, not what you've studied. How do you actually feel working in each area right now?

Avoid itWeakOKConfidentStrong suit
Writing code in any language
Low-level / systems programming (C, C++, Rust, assembly)
Working with hardware, microcontrollers, or embedded devices
Mathematics & statistics
Data analysis, SQL, or working with large datasets
Networking, cloud platforms, or Linux administration
Security concepts — vulnerabilities, protocols, threat modeling
Writing and communicating clearly in English
Presenting ideas confidently to groups
Which languages or technologies have you actually used? (check all that apply)
Section 5 of 5

Context & Goals

A few open-ended questions give the AI the context it needs to make your report genuinely specific rather than generic.

Where are you in your education or career right now?
What's your current biggest concern about your career path? (be honest — this helps the AI give grounded advice)
Is there a field or role you're already drawn to, even if you're not sure? (optional)
What does success look like for you in 5–10 years? (in your own words)
Anything else you want the AI to know when generating your report? (optional — health context, unusual background, specific constraints, etc.)

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