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Know Yourself to Make an Informed Career Choice

Before making a career choice, it's important to get to know yourself. To guide your choice, you can define, for example:

  • your skills
  • your strengths
  • the types of jobs that interest you
  • the working conditions you want.

Tool to help you make the right choice

Here are three steps to help plan your career

  1. Fill out the Bien se connaître (Know Yourself, in French)  questionnaire to specify your interests, your needs and your professional expectations. The questionnaire will help you determine your RIASEC profile.
  2. At the end of the questionnaire, explore the trades and professions filtered according to your RIASEC profile.
  3. Select an occupation that interests you and evaluate whether this career choice matches your criteria.

RIASEC Profiles

The RIASEC model represents six personality types. Each one groups together specific skills, personality traits and areas of interest.

To obtain your RIASEC profile, you can fill in the Know Yourself questionnaire. The result will give you your three dominant personality types.

Realistic

People with this profile prefer carrying out concrete tasks and being physically involved in what they do.

Investigative  

People with this profile prefer relying on theoretical knowledge before acting. They like observation, analysis and problem solving.

Artistic    

People with this profile prefer to express their emotions and thoughts through various art forms. They like to use their imagination.

Social

People with this profile prefer to be in contact with others, in particular to entertain, help or teach them.

Enterprising

People with this profile prefer having responsibilities, influencing others and responding to challenges.

Conventional

People with this profile prefer specific, well-defined tasks. They like to respect the order of things and follow established rules.

Last update: November 27, 2024

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