Find out what you really want from a career — not just what subjects you like
Most career tests ask what subjects you like. This one asks WHY. By understanding what you value — creativity, helping others, financial reward, autonomy, and more — you'll make better decisions about TY, work experience, and Leaving Cert subjects. If you've done other CourseCompass tests, the AI weaves your results together for a complete picture.
Insights and outcomes from completing this assessment
Your top 5 career values out of 12 possible
Whether you're intrinsically or extrinsically motivated
What career families match your value profile
How your values connect to your other CourseCompass results
What to look for in TY work experience
What matters to you — and what doesn't
Here's an example of the personalized insights you'll receive after completing the assessment
Sample Profile
Ella W. — TY Student, Cork
✦ Intrinsic Motivator
Creativity & Expression
94Intellectual Challenge
88Autonomy & Independence
82Variety & Novelty
74Making a Difference
68Lowest Values (don't drive you)
AI Career Values Profile (excerpt)
"Your values profile is remarkably coherent — creativity, intellectual challenge, and autonomy form a tight cluster that's the hallmark of people drawn to design, research, and technology. You don't care much for prestige or rigid structure, which means traditional career paths may feel stifling. Careers like UX design, architectural visualisation, or independent research would give you creative ownership over complex, changing problems — exactly what your profile craves. During TY, seek out placements in companies where people are building or inventing, not just maintaining."
Real feedback from families who've used this assessment
"I always said I wanted to be a doctor but this test showed my top values were creativity and autonomy. Turns out I don't actually want to help people in a medical way — I want to make things. I'm looking at product design now and it feels way more like me."
Ella Walsh
TY Student, Cork
"The trade-off questions were hard because both options sounded good. But that's the point — it made me actually think about what I'd choose in real life. I didn't expect work-life balance to be in my top 3 but it makes total sense."
Seán Kelleher
3rd Year Student
Built on Donald Super's Career Development Theory and Schwartz's Theory of Basic Human Values. Research shows career satisfaction is predicted more by values-alignment than by interest-match alone. The forced-choice trade-off format reduces social desirability bias.
Rank your top 5 from 12 career values. Reveals your conscious priorities.
Choose between two appealing career scenarios. Reveals your genuine preferences when forced to pick.
Rank 4 'imagine your Monday' scenarios. Reveals preferences in realistic contexts.
Statement-based validation of your ranked preferences. Refines the composite scores.
This assessment collects career preference data. No sensitive personal or health data. Compliant with GDPR and Irish Data Protection Acts. Data retained for 24 months.
Explore our methodology, see sample results, and understand how we help Irish students
Take the assessment today and receive your personalized insights