Career · ~5 minutes
Thirty short activities, rated by how much you'd enjoy them. Your answers map onto the six RIASEC themes to reveal your Holland Code and the interest patterns behind it. It measures what energizes you — not what you'd be good at — and points you toward directions worth exploring.
For each activity, tap how much you'd enjoy it — from 1 (strongly dislike) to 5 (strongly like). Answer honestly about what appeals to you, not what sounds impressive or practical. There are no right answers, and completed report snapshots are saved locally in My AurorIQ.
Read this as a map, not a verdict. These are your interest patterns, ranked — not a measure of ability or a personalized career recommendation. The listed roles are common examples of each theme, meant to spark exploration. Real career fit also depends on your skills, values, and circumstances, and the best way to test a direction is out in the world, not in another quiz.
About this instrument
The kinds of work and activity that draw you, across Holland's six RIASEC themes. It captures what tends to energize you — a genuinely useful and stable input to thinking about career direction.
Five items per theme, each rated on a five-point like–dislike scale, presented in shuffled order to reduce patterning. Scores are normalized to a percentage per theme and ranked into your Holland Code.
Your three-letter Holland Code, a full ranking of all six themes with scores, and illustrative career families for your top three — framed as directions to explore, not a shortlist.
Interest is not ability, and a code is not a destiny. This can't see your skills, values, or circumstances, and the career lists are generic examples. It's a self-reflection map, never a hiring or aptitude tool.
Questions
A three-letter summary of your strongest work interests, drawn from the six RIASEC themes — Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, Conventional. A code like IAS means your top interests are Investigative, Artistic, and Social, in that order. It's a shorthand for the kinds of work that tend to energize you.
No — it measures interest, not aptitude. It tells you what kinds of activity you're drawn to, not how skilled you are or would become. Interest and ability often overlap, but not always, so treat your top themes as directions worth exploring rather than proof you'd excel at them.
As a starting map. Your top themes point to families of work worth investigating through real exploration — shadowing, side projects, or talking to people who do the job. The career lists are illustrative examples of each theme, not personalized recommendations or a ranked shortlist.
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Scoring & evidence
The inventory contains 30 preference items: five for each of the six RIASEC themes—Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional. Each response uses a 1–5 enjoyment scale. Within each theme, the total is linearly converted to 0–100, the six theme scores are ranked, and the top three letters form the displayed RIASEC code.
Those percentages are within-instrument preference scores, not percentiles against other people. A 90% Investigative score means your answers strongly favored Investigative activities on this questionnaire; it does not mean you are more investigative than 90% of the population.
Interests are not aptitude, personality, employability, or a career prescription. Use the result to generate possibilities for real exploration—projects, conversations, courses, or job shadowing—alongside skills, constraints, values, and opportunities.
Interpretation standard: observations describe this task; internal indices are model or response summaries, not population rankings. Use the report for education and reflection. See the methodology for limitations.
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The engine calculates results in your browser. Completed report snapshots are saved locally in My AurorIQ; planning tools require an explicit save. You can export or delete saved data at /passport/. Separate hosting, analytics, advertising and optional sharing have separate data implications. Read the privacy notice, methodology, or report an error.
The RIASEC framework organizes vocational interests in the O*NET manual. AurorIQ’s short profiler is an independent implementation; O*NET’s validation findings do not transfer to it.
