Education

Q1: What is the highest level of education you are planning to achieve after high school?

• Learn on the job or have training provided by my employer.
• Go to TAFE and complete up to a Certificate III or an apprenticeship.
• Go to TAFE and complete a Certificate IV or a Diploma/Advanced Diploma.
• Go to university to do a standard 3 year Bachelor Degree.
• Go to university for more than 3 years to complete a longer course or postgraduate studies.

Q2: How often do you want to update your knowledge?

• Rarely, and once I know the job I know it e.g. skills that do not change or update.
• Constantly, with new knowledge required all the time e.g. regular reading, attending conferences, regular training courses.
• Occasional updating of knowledge e.g. learning about new products, learning about new parts, short training courses once a year.

Q3: How much maths do you want your future job to require?

• No or very limited maths e.g. lawn mower operator, delivery driver, garbage collector.
• Some straightforward maths e.g. roof carpenter, truck driver, horticulturist, landscaper, police officer.
• Advanced maths including algebra and statistics e.g. nurse, electrician, physiotherapist, psychologist, surveyor, accountant, lawyer.
• Highly advanced maths including calculus e.g. engineer, scientist.

Q4: How much reading and writing do you want your future job to require?

• No or very limited reading and writing e.g. trades assistant, farm hand, factory worker.
• Some straightforward reading and writing e.g. bus driver, delivery driver, chemical sprayer.
• Everyday reading and writing like sending and receiving emails, taking notes or minutes e.g. administration, manager.
• Advanced reading and writing skills to understand and create complex documents like reports, policies and procedures e.g. nurse, psychologist, marketing, advertising, lawyer.

Technology

Q1: How much of your day do you want to do formal computing e.g. typing, coding or designing?

• Almost never e.g. manual work, trades, working with people.
• Most of the time e.g. working on a computer, typing, emails.
• Sometimes e.g. looking up information, processing sales.

Q2: How much do you want to use non computer electronic equipment e.g. small electronic devices, electronic testing, scanning, small screens, LCD displays?

• Almost never e.g. trades, working with people.
• A lot of the time e.g. surveyor, camera operator, lighting technician, sonographer.
• Some of the time e.g. GPS for driving, measuring electrical current.

Work Location

Q1: Where do you want to spend most of the time working?

• Mostly outside e.g. building site, a park or driving.
• Mostly inside e.g. in an office, laboratory or classroom.
• A mix of inside and outside e.g. in an office but you go out.

How Mental

Q1: What level of creativity would you like your work to involve?

• Little, I don't want to design things or come up with new solutions e.g. retail, hospitality, driving.
• High creativity where I need to develop new ideas e.g. marketing, musician, computer developer, artist, teacher, architect, engineer.
• Some creativity with a mix of routine and new ideas e.g. chef, draftsperson, landscaper.

Q2: What level of problem solving would you like your work to involve?

• None, I just want to do my work and each day is a repeat of work I can do.
• Complex problems will be a regular challenge e.g. facing new problems that you have never dealt with before.
• A mix of problem solving and routine work e.g. most of my week I have done before but I get some new challenges to solve.

Q3: How much variety would you like your work to involve?

• Mostly repeating tasks e.g. bricklayer, cleaner, data entry.
• Constant variety and every day is different e.g. entertainer, artist, nurse, doctor, teacher.
• A mix of routine tasks and variety e.g. police, surveyor, draftsperson.

How Physical

Q1: Do you want work that uses your hands to operate, make, move, fix or change things?

• Yes, I want to mostly work with my hands e.g. touching, holding, moving, manipulating.
• No, I rarely want to work with my hands e.g. computer work, reading, talking.
• Sometimes, I want a mix of working with my hands and other work e.g. applying bandages, surgery, measuring.

Q2: Are you happy to do work that is physically tiring?

• Yes e.g. moving bricks, digging, loading wood or lifting tyres.
• No e.g. office work, retail, computer based work.
• Sometimes, but I don't want this to be a major part of my job e.g. nurse, police officer, firefighter.

Q3: How much do you want to be on your feet and moving around?

• Move around or stand a lot e.g. a building site or moving from room to room or person to person, standing.
• Mostly sit e.g. in a fixed chair, office chair, vehicle seat.
• A mix of sitting and being on my feet e.g. serve a customer then sit down.

Working with others

Q1: How many people do you want to work with?

• On my own most of the time e.g. truck driver, security guard.
• With a small team perhaps under 10 people e.g. welder, pathologist, dry cleaner.
• With a large team perhaps over 10 people e.g. soldier, teacher, police, nurse.

Q2: How much do you want to work with customers or the public?

• Almost never e.g. I rarely interact with customers or the public.
• Most of the time e.g. the work I do is in front of or near the customer.
• Some of the time e.g. I talk to a customer then complete work away from them.

Q3: Do you want work that involves the care of other people?

• Almost never, I want to work with materials, equipment or information.
• Almost always, I want to work in a care profession such as health or community service.
• Sometimes, I am happy to provide care but this won't be my main responsibility e.g. teacher, police, firefighter.