As per the RIASEC classification, people's interests and personalities are a combination of one or more of the six RIASEC types as shown in the diagram:

It has been researched that people having particular RIASEC types find happiness/contentment/success in a unique set of careers. 

How the MyInterests report will help you?

It’s obvious, isn’t it, that we should choose careers where our strengths are valued and our weaknesses don’t matter much?

Understanding ourselves is therefore the first step in choosing the right career. Mapping our strengths to different careers and finding fit is the second.

In the first we look inwards, in the second, at the world outside.

There are two ways of going about it: the process of trial and error, and the process of thoughtful planning. You are here because you have chosen the latter.

Step 1: Understanding ourselves

Let’s take two examples:

If it’s important for you to be with people, it’s unlikely that you will enjoy working alone. Working as a researcher in a laboratory, for example, mixing chemicals for hours all alone is unlikely to be enjoyable for you. You would rather work in teams, managing a business operation or leading a sales team.

If you like to create with your vivid imagination it’s unlikely that you would enjoy a role where you have to take directions and follow established processes. You would rather be a designer or an artist or an architect.

Your MyInterest test results help you understand yourself better. They highlight the most significant aspects of your personality. Of the very many things you might be good at, you are able to point at those that will matter in your career. They point you towards careers where your interests will be valued, where you will find happiness.

Step 2: Finding fit

Learning about yourself is only the first step. Finding out careers where you with your unique personality will be valued is the next. The choices available to you still remain many. And they remain available across different industries, and study paths. 

If you are highly analytical, for example, you don’t necessarily need to become an engineer. You would find equal fulfillment as an equity researcher or even as an economist.

Similarly, if you value creativity, you don’t necessarily need to be a writer or a painter, you could be an engineer and design cars.

Whatever your strengths, there are careers across the conventional streams of arts, commerce or science in which you would do well.

The CAREER SELECTOR and STUDY SELECTOR will expose you to your options and help you choose the path forward.

Enjoy the process. Take the next steps.