Your Thing

How it works

The algorithm rests on a mathematical model that combines three psychological questionnaires:

• RIASEC — 48 questions on occupational interests.
• TIPI — 10 questions on personality (the Big Five).
• Klimov's DDO — 20 questions where you pick one of two options.

How the system works

The test picks each next question itself and ranks occupations by how close they are to your interests.

• Smart survey. Questions come in a single stream. The algorithm always picks the question whose answer will sharpen the result the most. Every answer instantly recalculates your profile on 11 hidden scales.
• Ranking. At the top are the occupations closest to your interests. The Russian version also takes into account working conditions and how long you are ready to study.
• Reliability. The interest model is trained on data from more than 107,000 people who took the tests in 2015–2018.

Where do the occupations come from?

The list of occupations and their parameters come from the O*NET 30.0 database (U.S. Department of Labor).

Each occupation has tabs. O*NET: the description and a link to the O*NET site. ESCO: occupations of the European classification linked by the official O*NET crosswalk.

Technical note. The Russian version of TIPI uses a working translation rather than an official adaptation, and Klimov's questions are mapped onto the scales by content only and are still being calibrated.

Sources: openpsychometrics.org raw data, RIASEC 2015–2018 · Gosling, Rentfrow & Swann 2003 · E. A. Klimov, DDO · ESCO, © European Union · This page includes information from the O*NET 30.0 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA), used under the CC BY 4.0 license.