AltoTrail

Work interests

Explore which kinds of work activities appeal to you.

Discover your work activity interests

Answer 30 questions about work activities. Your answers will show which kinds of activities appeal to you most and help you explore occupations. This does not test your ability, qualifications, personality, suitability, or future success.

Based on the O*NET Mini Interest Profiler, adapted by AltoTrail for European career exploration.

Evaluation

This test is currently being evaluated

We are developing and evaluating this test for a limited period. The result is guidance and does not provide a definitive answer about which occupations are right for you. If you have questions or feedback, you are welcome to contact info@altotrail.com.

Method, sources and limitations

Purpose and limits

Work interests supports self-directed career exploration by reflecting which types of work activities you may enjoy. It does not measure ability, qualifications, personality or suitability, and it does not predict future success or make employment decisions. It is not intended for recruitment, candidate filtering or ranking, promotion, dismissal, work allocation or performance monitoring, and it should not be the sole basis for an important decision about a person.

O*NET Mini Interest Profiler

The questions use and adapt the O*NET Mini Interest Profiler 2.0, part of the O*NET Career Exploration Tools from the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). AltoTrail provides the presentation, integrations and translations where applicable.

O*NET Database

Occupation-level interest profiles come from the O*NET 30.3 Database from USDOL/ETA, used under CC BY 4.0. AltoTrail applies its own deterministic matching and presentation to locally tracked data; this is not an O*NET Web Services runtime integration.

ESCO

This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission. AltoTrail uses ESCO 1.2.1 occupation identities, labels and routes for European occupation exploration.

European Commission O*NET–ESCO crosswalk

The official source maps O*NET-SOC 2019 occupations to ESCO 1.1.0. AltoTrail validates and applies the source relations to project O*NET candidates into the currently published ESCO 1.2.1 occupation authority, then filters and localizes the presentation. AltoTrail did not author the meanings of the source relations.

AltoTrail's contribution

AltoTrail provides the five-locale web experience, local deterministic scoring, matching against tracked O*NET occupation-interest profiles, projection and publication through current ESCO occupations, localized occupation pages, version controls, accessibility behavior and contract tests.

Privacy

Your 30 raw answers remain in browser memory, and your interest profile is calculated in the browser. Only six aggregated interest scores are sent to AltoTrail's server to find occupation suggestions; raw answers are not sent. AltoTrail does not save the assessment profile or link it to an account, email address, job alert or application. Answers are not stored in localStorage or sessionStorage, so refreshing or closing the page removes them and the current profile. The application route is not designed to log the six scores; normal infrastructure may process technical request information as described in the Privacy Policy.

Review status

English source parity, official Spanish source parity and technical parity checks are implemented. Human in-context language review for all five locales, comprehension review, validation-study assessment, final license and legal review, and privacy review remain pending. This experience is not available in production.

Independent implementation

USDOL/ETA has not approved, endorsed, recommended, certified, validated or tested AltoTrail's adaptations. O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. The European Commission has not endorsed AltoTrail's matching, projection or presentation.

Official sources and licenses

How to answer

  1. Read each activity and imagine doing it as part of a job.
  2. Answer based on how appealing the activity feels to you.
  3. Do not think about education, pay, or whether you already know how to do it.
  4. There are no right or wrong answers.
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Your interest profile

Your answers show relative differences across the six interest areas. Use them to reflect and explore occupations, not as a definitive recommendation.

See which kinds of activities appealed to you most and use the result to explore occupations.

Your six interest areas

The scores show how your answers compare across six areas of work activity. Higher areas reflect activities you found more appealing.

Your six scores

R 0 / 20 · I 0 / 20 · A 0 / 20 · S 0 / 20 · E 0 / 20 · C 0 / 20

R Realistic

Activities involving hands-on, practical, physical, technical, mechanical, outdoor, or equipment-focused work.

Score: 0 of 20

0 / 20

I Investigative

Activities involving analysis, inquiry, research, evidence, problem solving, or understanding how things work.

Score: 0 of 20

0 / 20

A Artistic

Activities involving creativity, expression, design, language, performance, ideas, or producing original work.

Score: 0 of 20

0 / 20

S Social

Activities involving helping, teaching, supporting, guiding, caring for, or working closely with people.

Score: 0 of 20

0 / 20

E Enterprising

Activities involving initiative, persuasion, leadership, coordination, negotiation, selling, or moving work forward.

Score: 0 of 20

0 / 20

C Conventional

Activities involving structure, accuracy, administration, organisation, routines, records, planning, or orderly information handling.

Score: 0 of 20

0 / 20

Occupations to explore

These occupations are related to the pattern in your interest profile. Open an occupation to learn more about the work.

These are ideas to explore, not a judgment about what you should become or what you are qualified to do.