Take the free career test to discover your ideal career and purpose in life. Includes a skills assessment, aptitude test, & personality quiz
Directions for the Free Career Test
You will need approximately 15-20 minutes to complete the three parts of the Career Fit Test™ – a skills assessment, aptitude test, and personality quiz.
The first career assessment is Transferable Skills. Rely on your first impressions as you react to your level of enjoyment using each of the 60 skills. Don’t overanalyze your responses. There are no “right” or “wrong” answers, so relax and have fun thinking about what you enjoy doing!
Important note: Please ensure you have adequate time to complete the three parts of the Career Fit Test™ in one session, as your partially completed career test will not be saved.
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Testimonials
“The Career Fit Test is extremely helpful! I wish I had it when I was a college student or even still in high school.”
“Honestly, it has impacted me deeply! It makes me really think about what roles or tasks give me the most meaning and joy. I think it will guide my decision-making in the next few years, if not months.”
“We have used the Career Fit Test at Houghton College for two semesters. It has been a useful tool to help our undecided students find their calling and choose with confidence a major and career path. In our very first semester using the CFT, it raised our engagement with first-year students by over 300 percent. The training my office has received from the Christian Career Center has been outstanding. —Dennis J. Stack, Associate Director, Office of Vocation & Calling, Houghton College
Here are descriptions of other career tests and assessments:
The Motivational Pattern Test helps individuals better understand their motivational drivers and preferences, which can be valuable for personal development, career planning, and relationship dynamics. By identifying one’s primary motivational patterns, individuals can leverage this insight to set meaningful goals, make informed decisions, and cultivate successful strategies.
An aptitude test has right and wrong answers and assesses an individual’s knowledge, skills, or abilities in specific areas relevant to various occupations or industries. Unlike subjective assessments focusing on personal preferences and traits, this career test evaluates objective criteria and may include questions with clearly defined correct and incorrect responses.
Another type of aptitude test is a career aptitude test, with no right or wrong answers. It subjectively assesses an individual’s natural abilities, interests, preferences, and personality traits. Instead of focusing on correct or incorrect responses, this career test provides insight into an individual’s aptitude profile and career-related characteristics. This type of career test is typically more effective in career planning as it focuses on your interests, motivations, and personality traits.
A personality test is a psychological assessment designed to measure various aspects of an individual’s personality, including traits, behaviors, attitudes, and preferences. These career tests provide insights into an individual’s unique psychological makeup. They offer valuable information on personal development, interpersonal relationships, and career planning. While this is less of a career test than others, it can still help identify working environments that fit different personalities.
An IQ or intelligence quotient test is a standardized assessment to measure an individual’s cognitive abilities and intellectual potential. These tests aim to quantitatively measure a person’s general intelligence, often called IQ, by evaluating various cognitive skills, such as logical reasoning, problem-solving, verbal comprehension, and spatial awareness. This type of test is only recommended for career planning purposes when combined with other career interest tests.
Learn more about different career tests.
FAQ About the Career Test
Why should I take CareerFitTest.com’s career test over other career personality tests, assessments, quizzes, and aptitude tests?
Taking the Career Fit Test™ and premium report offers several advantages over other career personality tests, career assessments, career quizzes, and career aptitude tests:
Comprehensive Assessment: The Career Fit Test™ comprehensively evaluates various aspects of your career-related characteristics, including vocational interests, personality traits, and transferable, personal, and content skills. This holistic approach offers a more thorough understanding of your strengths, preferences, and potential career matches.
Personalized Recommendations: Our career test and premium report generate personalized career recommendations based on your assessment results and a database of over 900 jobs. These recommendations are tailored to your unique results, helping you identify suitable career paths that align with your interests, skills, and personality traits.
Research and Face Validity: With high face validity, the Career Fit Test™ measures what it aims to measure. Our career assessment also uses the most researched career theory, ensuring the reliability and accuracy of the assessment results and providing you with trustworthy insights into your career preferences and abilities.
User-Friendly Interface: The Career Fit Test™ user-friendly interface makes it easy to complete the assessments and navigate the platform. Engaging and assessable, the career assessment allows you to provide accurate responses and receive meaningful results.
Variety of Assessment Tools: The Career Fit Test™ is a unique tool for finding the right career fit. It offers three assessments that identify transferable, personal, and content skills. The assessments also provide a career code to match your results to top careers.
Convenience: The Career Fit Test™ is an online platform that can be accessed anytime, anywhere. It allows you to explore your career options at your own pace. You can complete the assessments and review your results without needing appointments or in-person visits.
Job Search Assistance: Unlike other career tests, the Career Fit Test™ includes a bonus CFT Career Mastery Program, which empowers you to find your dream job in half the time. The Career Fit Test™ offers job search assistance to help you translate your assessment results into actionable steps toward finding work you love. The CFT Career Mastery Program uses your assessment results to guide you in resume writing, interview preparation, job search strategies, and networking advice to support your career journey. Combining personalized career recommendations with practical job search support, Career Fit Test™ and premium report empower you to navigate the job market confidently and clearly.
Professional Guidance Available: While the Career Fit Test™ provides valuable insights into your career preferences and abilities, it also recognizes the importance of professional guidance in career decision-making. You can seek personalized career counseling or coaching services to explore your career options and goals further.
Taking the Career Fit Test™ offers a comprehensive, personalized, valid, and reliable approach to career assessment, helping you make the best possible career decisions.
Is the career test guaranteed?
Your satisfaction is guaranteed. We take all the risk. That is how much we believe in the Premium Career Fit Test™ Report. If, after working through the steps of the Premium Career Fit Test™ Report, the CFT Skills Map™, and the CFT Career Mastery Program, you find that it was not helpful for you, let us know, and we will issue you a full refund.
Why is the Career Fit Test™ referred to as a career test if there are no right or wrong answers?
The Career Fit Test™ is often called a “career test” despite the absence of right or wrong answers. It is a tool for self-discovery and exploration rather than a traditional assessment with definitive correct responses.
*The term “test” in this context implies a structured process or instrument designed to help individuals assess their strengths, interests, preferences, and values in relation to career choices. However, unlike conventional tests where answers are objectively right or wrong, the Career Fit Test™ focuses on subjective aspects of individual preferences and inclinations.
Other terms used to describe career tests include career aptitude test, personality test, career assessment, career inventory, vocational assessment, career interest inventory, motivational pattern test, and occupational aptitude test.
Overall, while the term “career test” may imply a more rigid assessment process, the Career Fit Test™ is designed to be flexible, exploratory, and supportive of individual self-discovery and career exploration despite the absence of objectively right or wrong answers.
Is the career test free?
Yes, there is no cost to complete the Career Fit Test™. After finishing the assessment, you will receive a free report that provides strengths, sample jobs, values, potential weaknesses, problem-solving preferences, and more. Be sure to save your results; once you close the free report page, the system does not save it.
Next, you can access your Career Fit Test™ Premium Report by completing the form at the bottom of your free career test results. For only $19.95, you receive your best careers from over 900 jobs, details of those careers, including career videos, your top 10 transferable skills, top 5 personal skills and top 5 content skills, your Holland type code for exploring additional careers, and your CFT Skills Map™ for career exploration, decision making, career planning, and job search activities.
In addition to these benefits, your Skills Matrix, CFT Skills Map™, and bonus Career Mastery Program will guide you in job search activities (resume writing, cover letters, Strengths Summary, and LinkedIn) to find the right job faster.
No other career assessment provides you with all these benefits for this small investment.
Most people spend more time and money planning their vacations than their careers. Since most people spend 60% of their lives working, it makes sense to invest in your career. As Brian Tracy says, “Here is a rule that will guarantee your success and possibly make you rich: Invest 3% of your income back into yourself.”
Where can I see a sample Career Fit Test™ Premium Report?
You can view a sample Career Fit Test™ Premium Report and read more about the features and benefits of the upgraded career test report.
Who can benefit from the Career Fit Test™?
The Career Fit Test™ is the digital version of an assessment system that clients of all ages have used for over 30 years to make career changes, develop their careers, conduct successful job searches, and make educational decisions related to college majors and certifications.
We have also trained career counselors, colleges, and other organizations to use this tool to help those they work with do effective career planning and job search activities. Here are some of the categories of people who benefit from the career test:
Career Changers: As many as 4 out of 5 people are in the wrong jobs for their skills, causing stress and a lack of motivation and purpose. The Career Fit Test™ is a complete system that will help you assess and match your best skills, interests, and personality traits to find work that fits.
Job Seekers: Identifying and matching your best skills to jobs is a strategic way to find work you love. Also, learn how to cut your job search time in half by using the best job search strategies. The Career Fit Test™, CFT Skills Map™, Skills Matrix, and Bonus Career Mastery Program can help you find the right job faster.
Students: Eighty percent of first-year college students say they are uncertain about their major, and 50% will change their major at least once. The Career Fit Test™ matches majors and careers that best suit students’ skills, personalities, and interests, saving students frustration, time, and money.
High-Schools/Colleges: Help your students assess their strengths, explore the right careers and majors, and make successful school-to-career transitions. Early career planning increases students’ motivation and persistence, as well as schools’ retention rates.
Organizations: Help your employees to excel in their jobs by better using their strengths and having a process for developing and planning their careers. The Career Fit Test™ can also serve as a low-cost tool for helping choose the right candidates for job openings.
Career Counselors: Help your clients with a unique, low-cost assessment of their transferable, personal, and content skills. You can then use the client’s Holland Type Code, CFT Skills Map™, Skills Matrix, and Career Mastery Program to guide them in exploring careers, making career decisions, and conducting a successful job search.
What ages and developmental stages benefit the most from taking the career test?
Career Novices and Recent Graduates (16-24): Individuals at the outset of their professional journey can derive immense value from career coaching. It assists them in understanding their strengths, discovering their career and life callings, setting educational and career goals that align with their values, and devising a roadmap to reach those objectives.
Quarter-Life Young Adults (25-35): Many individuals in this age group experience uncertainty and self-doubt about their career choices, leading to confusion and frustration. They may question their career path, seek purpose, and strive to balance their professional and personal life. Career issues in quarter-life young adults often revolve around pursuing meaningful, purposeful work, finding a stable footing in a competitive job market, and navigating the complexities of career decision-making.
Age-Thirty Transition (36-44): Many individuals in this age group have established themselves in their careers and achieved a certain level of stability. However, they may also desire continued growth, advancement, and professional development. Balancing the need for stability with pursuing new challenges and opportunities can be a significant consideration.
Those in this age group may experience a desire for career reinvention or transition, whether due to changing interests, burnout, job dissatisfaction, or shifts in the labor market. They may explore new industries, roles, or entrepreneurial ventures to seek greater fulfillment and alignment with their evolving priorities.
Mid-Career Professionals (45-55): For those experiencing a lack of purpose, dissatisfaction, and even a “mid-life crisis” in their current positions, career coaching provides a way to move beyond success to significance in their careers.
Career Explorers: Individuals contemplating a significant career change, whether driven by personal motivations, shifts within their industry, or a desire for more fulfilling work, can reap substantial benefits from faith-based career transition coaching.
Return-to-Work Aspirants: Those planning to reenter the workforce after a hiatus, such as parents or caregivers, can utilize career transition coaching to reassess their skills, update their resumes, and prepare themselves for a successful return to work.
Retirees and Those Preparing for Retirement (56+): Even individuals on the cusp of retirement can leverage career coaching to explore God’s will for them in post-retirement work opportunities, including part-time roles, consulting, or volunteer work. Many people at this stage can make new choices as there may be less need to produce as much income as in the past.
How will the career test results help me?
Your results will help you clarify your motivated skills and interests through a proven assessment process, determine your most enjoyed and most marketable skills and strengths, identify careers that fit who you are, make career decisions that engage your best skills, develop short—and long-term career/education goals for living your calling, and land a new or better job.
How long does it take to complete the career test?
The Career Fit Test™ takes approximately 15-20 minutes to complete. You will then receive your Free Career Fit Test™ Report. After reviewing your results, you can purchase your Premium Report, which will provide you with your top career, detailed descriptions of those careers, including career video, your CFT Skills Map™ (which includes your top transferable, personal, and content skills), your Skills Matrix, and the Career Mastery Program for finding the right job faster.
I’m a student. Can the career test help me to choose the right major?
80% percent of first-year college students say they are still determining their major, and 50% will change their major at least once. The Career Fit Test™ will show you the majors and the careers that best fit your skills, personality, and interests.
Is this an aptitude test?
You probably completed aptitude tests in high school or college preparation (ACT, SAT, etc.). While aptitude tests can be helpful, the place that most people get stuck at is needing to know what they are motivated to do in a career. The Career Fit Test™ will help you assess your highest interest skills and how they relate to careers. The assessment will also allow you to self-assess your level of proficiency in using different skills.
After completing the Career Fit Test™, do you provide career coaching?
Yes. Many people benefit from our affordable one-on-one career counseling/coaching services through ChristianCareerCenter.com. If you are stuck or want more help taking the needed steps to identify and obtain work you would love to do, we can help. The first step to learn more is to visit our career services consultation page.
How do I know that the results will be accurate?
The Career Fit Test™ has high validity, meaning it measures what it says it is measuring. Unlike other traditional career assessments, the user can see how their skills relate to their Holland code and can make changes to the code until they validate that it is correct. Our clients have used the Career Fit Test for over 30 years, and colleges, universities, and organizations also utilize it.
To ensure you have answered the assessment accurately, the free Career Fit Test™ provides your top interest type results, including your overall strengths, interests, values, personality traits, problem-solving preferences, and more. You can complete the assessment again, at no charge, if you didn’t accurately answer any part of the career test.
When the initial free report feels accurate, you can upgrade to receive your Career Fit Test™ Premium Report. Here is a sample premium report.
How much time does it take to complete the career test?
The Career Fit Test™ typically takes 15-20 minutes to complete. However, there is no time limit.
Remember to finish the free career test in one sitting, as the career test only remembers your answers once you have completed the free career test and upgraded to the Career Fit Test™ Premium Report.
Can I print my free career test results?
You can print the free career test results and the upgraded Career Fit Test™ Premium Report.
Who are the developers of the career test?
The Career Fit Test™ was developed 30 years ago by Kevin and Kay Marie Brennfleck, who are National Certified Career Counselors and the authors of ‘Live Your Calling: A Practical Guide to Finding and Fulfilling Your Mission in Life,’ Kevin and Kay Marie are also the directors of ChristianCareerCenter.com and ChurchJobsOnline.com.
Since 1990, thousands of clients, universities, and organizations have used the Career Fit Test™, including Insight for Living, CRU, Wycliffe Bible Translators, World Vision International, World Impact, Azusa Pacific University, and Houghton University.
In addition to their work as career coaches, Kevin and Kay Marie have also provided training to certify college admission staff and career directors as Career Fit Coaches.