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Skills assessment

Find out about careers that might be right for you by taking our skills assessment

A skills assessment can be helpful at any stage of your career, like when you:

  • start your career
  • return to work
  • progress your career

Transferable skills are a set of skills that you’re good at. You can build them up over time, through work, volunteering, education and life. You can apply these skills to a range of jobs.

You may want to take an assessment to help you:

  • find out what interests and motivates you
  • identify your skills
  • find out what you can do with the skills you have

Discover your skills and careers

In this assessment, answer questions about the things you like to do or are good at. Understanding yourself can help you work out what careers you may enjoy working in.

This assessment:

  • contains fewer than 50 multiple-choice questions
  • takes 5 to 10 minutes to complete

When you finish, you will see some suggestions of roles you may enjoy based on your answers. You may want to explore careers based on these recommendations. You can compare different careers to see what interests you.

Go to discover your skills and careers

We’re starting to delete old assessments

To improve the efficiency of our systems, we're starting to delete any skills assessments that have not been updated for over 12 months.

You can return to your skills assessment for up to 12 months after the last time you updated it.

An update could be progressing your assessment or changing a previous answer.

After 12 months of no updates being made, your assessment will be automatically deleted.

We’ve removed the skills health check

On 3 October 2024, we removed the skills health check as it no longer met our accessibility standards.

If you previously completed a skills health check, you’re no longer able to access or download your report.

Speak to an adviser

You can call 0800 100 900 or use webchat to speak to an adviser.

We're open:

  • 8am to 8pm Monday to Friday
  • 10am to 5pm Saturdays and bank holidays

We're closed on Sundays, Christmas Day and New Year's Day.