Where are you right now?

This helps us frame the results to your context, not to compare you with anyone else.

Tell us about your current role.

This helps us frame the results against where you are today, not just where you might go. All fields are optional; skip any you don’t want to share. Nothing is sent anywhere; everything stays on this device.

What kind of work appeals to you?

Rate how interested you are in each kind of work. Be honest: this is not a test, and your ratings only shape what comes next for you.

What matters most in your work?

Pick up to three values that matter most to you. These shape which kinds of roles will feel sustainable, not just accessible.

How ready do you feel to navigate what's next?

Rate how true each statement feels for you right now. This is a short reflection on career readiness, based on Savickas’s CAAS framework, a well-established model in career-adaptability research, validated in a South African sample by Maree (2012). There’s no pass or fail; it doesn’t change which directions are shown to you.

What is your current qualification level?

Use whatever you have completed. If you are still studying, choose your most recent completed level.

What did you study?

A short answer is fine, e.g. acting, accounting, nursing, electrical engineering, hospitality, marketing. We use this to match you to relevant directions and flag big field jumps honestly. If you’d rather not say, skip.

Are you open to further study?

This helps us show realistic directions. If you are not willing to study further right now, we focus on roles where your current qualification opens doors.

Career directions worth exploring.

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Sources & methodology

The Career Report uses Holland’s RIASEC interest framework, a well-established model in career psychology and not a PositionMeAI-original instrument, plus work-value overlap and qualification matching against 77 career profiles drawn from O*NET OnLine (USDOL/ETA, CC BY 4.0), curated and adapted for the South African labour market. Qualification matching uses South Africa’s own NQF levels directly; the qualification level typically required for each career profile is PositionMeAI’s own estimate, not an independently verified SAQA figure. The Scan (in the Sprint) complements this by measuring six constructs: four grounded in Coetzee’s (2014) Graduateness Skills and Attributes Scale and Bezuidenhout’s (2010) Employability Attributes Framework, validated in SA early-career samples (Potgieter, 2012), namely Career Adaptability, Strategic Communication, Learning Agility, and Critical Reasoning & Innovation, plus two original PositionMeAI scales built for this platform rather than drawn from a published instrument: AI Readiness and Workforce Mobility. Results are exploratory, not a hiring or admission decision tool.

Honest scope note: the 50/30/20 weighting between interests, values and qualification, and the smaller adjustments the engine makes for context like your target role or industry, are engineering judgement calls tuned against reported edge cases, not empirically derived or independently validated coefficients. Treat the resulting tiers as a reasoned starting point for exploration, not a precise ranking.