Find my path
We’ll show you the problems. You tell us which ones you want.
Each screen is a real situation from a real job. Nothing is a trick, nothing tests whether you already know the answer, and there is no correct choice — several competent people would pick differently on every single one.
Pick the part you would want to be the one to dig into. If a word is unfamiliar, there is a link under the option that explains it in plain English. Reading the explanation costs you nothing and does not count as an answer.
Usually 11–15 questions
It adapts. Once the picture is clear it stops rather than padding.
No background needed
Every technical term has a one-line explanation attached.
Entirely private
Scored in your browser. Your answers are never sent to us. No account.
You have an assessment in progress. Starting will continue where you left off.
What a question looks like
A real scenario from the assessment, shown here read-only. It may come up in your run — if it does, answer it fresh.
It is 2:13 AM. Staff can still reach internal applications, but nobody can get to anything on the internet. A change was made to the firewall about twenty minutes before it started.
Which part of this would you most want to get your hands on?
- Follow the traffic hop by hop and find the exact point where it stops
- Read the firewall’s rules and logs to see what is being dropped and by which rule
- Check whether the servers and supporting services behind it are actually healthy
- Work out whether this could be someone deliberately causing it rather than a mistake
- Write something that collects diagnostics from every affected site at once
None of those is the right answer. A network engineer, a security analyst, a systems administrator and an automation engineer would each reach for a different one first — which is exactly why the choice tells us something.
How it works
- 1
Breadth — the first 8 scenarios
Drawn from very different kinds of work — outages, suspicious traffic, performance problems, people who need help, and more — so that no single field dominates the start. Nothing adapts yet: there is no signal to adapt to, and guessing early produces a confidently wrong result.
- 2
Sharpening — only the questions that could change the answer
For every remaining scenario, the engine checks whether different choices would change which role comes out on top. Scenarios where every option leads to the same place are skipped. It stops once the leader is clear and stable — never before 11 questions, never after 18.
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Matching — similarity, not buckets
Your choices build a profile across 41 dimensions, which is compared with the profile of each of the 38 roles. The score is adjusted for which scenarios you happened to be shown, so a topic that came up more often cannot inflate a result.
The 41 dimensions fall into five groups, so two people who both like security can still come out very differently:
- Fields you lean toward · 8
- Networking, Security, Systems & infrastructure, Cloud, Software, Data, Automation, Operations
- Problems you like solving · 9
- Troubleshooting, Investigation, Design & architecture, Building, Monitoring, Automating, Analysis, Policy & rules, Helping people
- Layer you want to work at · 8
- Physical hardware, Network layer, Operating systems, Applications, Identity, Cloud platforms, Code, Data & storage
- Security flavour · 9
- Detection, Prevention, Identity security, Network security, Endpoint security, Offensive security, Incident response, Security architecture, Governance & risk
- Rhythm of work · 7
- Reactive work, Proactive work, Deep focus, Continuous operations, Project delivery, Design work, Automation-first
What you get at the end
- · Your closest roles, each with the parts of your answers that put it there, and the recurring themes in the choices you made — not a generic description.
- · An honest confidence statement. When the top roles are too close to separate, it says so rather than inventing a winner.
- · Roles that sit between fields, flagged only when your answers showed real interest in both sides.
- · A way in: every role links to a full page covering the daily work, the honest downside, pay, and the certifications worth knowing — plus free weekend trials and side-by-side comparisons of roles people confuse.
Where your answers go
- · Scoring runs in this page. Your answers are not sent to our server or to analytics.
- · An assessment in progress is held in this browser tab, and is gone when you close it.
- · At the end you can choose to save the result in this browser, print it, or make a share link. The answers in a share link sit after the
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Already have experience?
If you work in IT now, tick the technologies you have used; if you served, start from what you did in uniform. Either is factored into the assessment automatically, at a deliberately lower weight than your answers — having done something is weaker evidence of what you would enjoy than choosing it when nothing made you.
Would rather describe yourself in your own words than click through scenarios? The Navigator Lab is a short conversation with an AI reader that points you at a field — labelled as AI, and linked to the same checked role pages.
Questions people ask first
Is this a personality test?
No. It never assigns you a type and it never asks how you would describe yourself. It records which parts of real technical situations you choose to work on, and compares that pattern with what people in each role actually spend their days doing.
How long does it take?
Usually 11 to 15 questions, and most people finish in under ten minutes. It adapts: it will not stop before 11 questions and never asks more than 18. A clear, consistent pattern finishes sooner.
Do I need IT experience or technical knowledge?
No. The scenarios are written so you can choose the kind of work that appeals to you without knowing how to do it. Any technical term has a plain-English explanation attached, and reading one does not count as an answer.
What do the percentages on the results page mean?
They are similarity scores: how closely the work you kept choosing resembles the day-to-day work of each role. They are not a probability that you will succeed or be hired. An unrelated role reads close to 0%, and nothing reads 100%, because no real person is a perfect copy of a job profile.
What if my top results are very close?
Then the results page says so instead of pretending to rank them. When roles are within a few points of each other, it tells you your answers point almost equally at them — which usually means those roles overlap heavily in practice and people move between them.
Can I change an answer?
Yes. Back shows you the answer you gave, with your choice still selected. If you change it, the questions after it are cleared, because they were chosen based on the answer you just changed.
Does it recommend certifications?
It points you at roles first. Each role page lists the certifications worth knowing about for that job and why, and certification guides show which roles use them. No role or certification is ranked higher because of an affiliate link.
Rather browse first? Explore every role and field.
Building a picture…
Answers are held in this browser tab only, and are cleared when you close it unless you choose to save your result at the end.