Show HN: Career Finder – A quiz that gives you career recommendations
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#2When I finished the last question it just sent me back to the homepage.
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#3Well, the two that stuck out to me were "economist" (something I'm interested in but haven't devoted much time to studying), and software developer, which I happily do for a living. Pretty accurate.
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#4Scored as an "Artistic Thinker", but there are no artistic endeavors listed! Here's a quote from the synopsis of my test: "You might enjoy coming up with original music lyrics - or with new mathematical theories." However there aren't any musical or mathematical kind of jobs listed - half of them have to do with psychology/psychiatry and another quarter have to deal with tutoring/therapy. About the closest thing to what I actually do for a living, software engineering, is Industrial Engineer - listed at the very bottom. I think you need a little more diversity in the career choices you pull especially for something qualitative like "artistic thinker."
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#5Practical thinker - engineer/technologist
;)
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#6Your results show you are a problem solving thinker
This means you like work where your main focus is on dealing with problems that you need to think about and find solutions for. You might enjoy being a computer programmer or a mathematician.
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#7Scored as an "Artistic Thinker", but there are no artistic endeavors listed! Here's a quote from the synopsis of my test: "You might enjoy coming up with original music lyrics - or with new mathematical theories." However there aren't any musical or mathematical kind of jobs listed - half of them have to do with psychology/psychiatry and another quarter have to deal with tutoring/therapy. About the closest thing to w…
Got categorized as that as well. The suggested careers are pretty good in my case, many of them are ones I'd been interested in reading about, particularly mathematicians, physicists, and medical research.
It took me a long time to realize that art and engineering are not as divergent as mainstream culture would have you believe, particularly when you get into the research side. Every interesting field gets a bit weird as you get into it.
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#8I came out as thinking helper. With the promise that I could enjoy becoming doctor. What a coincidence - I dream of becoming doctor :)
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#9Thinking helper - But I have to say there's not a job there I would enjoy. I think I prefer a more mixing of being a programmer creating stuff that helps people.
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#10This is somewhat similar to something I have been working on at, but which is focussed more on finding the right "next move" within the technology industry.
Essentially you rank your skills based around enjoyment and experience and it tells you what types of roles might be of interest to you.