Understanding yourself and suitable career choices
How do I make my career choice?
Student using Adult Directions
Our interactive self assessment and career matching tools will help you to understand yourself and help you find suitable career options, in particular to:
- generate suggestions of careers for you to research further
- understand more about your strengths and how these might shape your career choice
- manage your career in today's fast moving world
Adult Directions career matching
Adult Directions is currently unavailable whilst access is being transferred to a new platform.
In the meantime you can use an alternative, Prospects Career Planner
We apologise for any inconvenience caused.
Profiling for Success personality and skills assessment
A series of online psychometric tests covering both personality assessment and skills tests. It includes two assessments that will be helpful to you in choosing your career and your personal development:
- Personality-type questionnaire
- Learning Styles Indicator questionnaire
If you are a registered University of Derby student you can access it at anytime via UDo - once logged in click on the 'Careers' tab and then on 'psychometric tests'.
If you have any difficulty in accessing these assessments or if you want to discuss your results, please contact the Career Development Centre.
