Employees Retraining Board

Training and Career Needs Test is an assessment tool to facilitate users to have a preliminary understanding of their career aspirations, and assist them in selecting suitable training courses. The test was designed by making reference to the Self-Directed Search (SDS) assessment tool developed by John Holland, which was based on the theory that both people and working environment could be classified according to six basic types.

The system will assess the two more prominent personality types of the users, so as to identify the more suitable job types and training courses for them. The test is a self-administrated online questionnaire which takes about 20 minutes. 

6 Personality Types	Interest and Personality Characteristics	Suitable Job Types
Realistic	Practical-minded, love to make handicrafts, competent in making use of tools and machines, like to learn practical skills	Craft and technical occupations such as engineering, building, maintenance
Investigative	Love to investigate and explore new things; logical thinking; analytical and possess problem solving abilities	Investigative and intellectual occupations such as working in information technology and communication industries
Artistic	Like creative and original work, impulsive, self-expressive using different medias	Creative occupations like entertainment and design
Social	Friendly, generous, helping people, enjoy interacting with others	Occupations involving helping people like social services and healthcare services
Enterprising	Energetic, persuasive, ambitious and risk-taking	Selling and marketing occupations like financial, property and retail industry
Conventional	Conventional, like to work following well structured plans and orderly instructions	Occupations requiring clear procedures and routines such as accounting, import and export, logistics

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