Skills assessment

Find out about careers that might be right for you by taking one of our assessments.

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.

We're removing the skills health check

On 3 October, we’re removing the skills health check as it no longer meets our accessibility standards.

If you’ve previously completed one of the assessments within the skills health check, you can download your report before 3 October.

To download your report, go to your skills health check and click ‘get your report’.

Select whether you want to download your report as a PDF or a Microsoft Word document. Finally, click ‘download your report’.

From 3 October, you will not be able to access or download your report.

Skills health check

The skills health check is a more in-depth collection of assessments. These assessments will generate a report, which can help you identify your personal and work-based skills.

This information could be helpful if you're applying for a job or preparing for an interview.

Before you start the skills health check, you may want to know that:

• there are 10 assessments
• each assessment takes 15 to 30 minutes
• you can take the assessments in any order you like

You must do at least one assessment to get your report. Your report will become more detailed every time you complete another assessment.

Speak to an adviser

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

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• 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.