The Career Guidance Test By E.A. Klimov

The most well-known and straightforward career aptitude test was developed by Professor Evgeny Alexandrovich Klimov, a labor psychologist at Moscow State University (Faculty of Psychology).

This test precisely classifies the subject area of professions. Choosing the right subject area of work is the most important aspect of career choice, as every professional deals with a specific subject area. Klimov's test significantly facilitates the search for a future profession by precisely classifying the subject area of professions. Choosing the right subject area of work is essential in career selection since every professional deals with a specific subject area.

In this test, E.A. Klimov does not base the assessment on a person's abilities but on their desires to work with certain subjects or objects.
If you make a choice in this test, it's primarily because you consciously or almost consciously prefer it. E.A. Klimov identifies five spheres of professional interests:

• Nature (working with the human body, animals, plants, living tissues, molecules and atoms, earth and its depths, rivers, oceans, planets, and stars...)
• Human (working with one or more individuals)
• Technology (working with technology not just as a tool but as the object of work: engineering)
• Symbolic system (working with numbers, tables, graphs, diagrams, letters, codes)
• Artistic imagery (working with images, music, text)

Author: Evgeny Alexandrovich Klimov