Interests

What are you interested in? If you know what you're interested in, it's much easier to decide what course or career may suit you.

This quiz is a guide only. It provides you with a starting point for course exploration; it is not the end point. You are strongly encouraged to discuss your choice of course with your school's careers adviser, staff from your faculty of interest or other career professionals.

First choice is the category that most interests you, second choice is the next most interesting and so on. Submit your response to get a list of UTS courses that could match your interests.

Interest categories

Realistic (practical and/or outdoors)

Do you like working with machines and tools? Do you like to work outdoors or with your hands, fixing or mending things? Do you see yourself as being practical? Do you like to keep fit?

Realistic people have athletic or mechanical abilities. They prefer to work with things, machines, tools, plants or animals or to be outdoors.

Investigative

Investigative people like to observe, learn, investigate, analyse, evaluate or solve problems.

Artistic

Do you have artistic skills and a good imagination? Do you like reading, music, art, movies or theatre? Do you enjoy doing original work or designing or writing? Do you work best in a creative, non-structured environment?

Artistic people are creative, innovative and intuitive and like to work in unstructured situations using their imagination.

Social

Do you like to be involved with other people? Do you like to help others learn, solve their problems or get well? Do you express yourself well?/p>

Social people like to work with other people to enlighten, inform, help, train, or cure them or they are skilled with using words and language.

Enterprising

Do you like teamwork and to influence other people? Do you enjoy responsibility, achievement and working towards goals? Are you a leader and a good public speaker?

Enterprising people like to work with people, influencing, persuading, performing, leading or managing for organisational goals or economic gain.

Conventional (organising/clerical)

Do you enjoy following processes and meeting clear standards? Do you like to work indoors and for things to be orderly? Are you a great organiser or administrator and/or good at maths?

Conventional people like to work with data. They have clerical or numerical skills and enjoy carrying out detailed tasks and following through on instructions.