Artistic
Doing it your own way
You need room to work in your own way. You are drawn to making things that have no ready template, and you lose motivation quickly where every step is prescribed. This is not limited to the arts — it applies to any work that lets you shape how it is done.
Where you are strong
- You find approaches outside the existing template
- You have a feel for form, language and how something is experienced
- You tolerate the unclear early stage
- You bring a distinct character to the work
Worth watching
- Hard to work inside a tightly specified process
- You may prioritise the good version over the on-time version
- Easy to take feedback on the work as feedback on yourself
Putting it to use
Fields worth investigating: design, content and brand, communications, writing, architecture, video and broadcast production, user experience, teaching in the arts. The environment that suits you hands you an outcome, not a procedure.
Under pressure
When constrained, you tend to deliver something adequate rather than object. That is the earliest sign to watch — not irritation, but indifference.
And you?
Take the test to see your own result.
Take the test to find your ownThe other results
The Holland model is widely used in careers guidance and has a reasonably solid research base for that purpose. Understand its limits, though: it measures interest, not ability, and it does not predict how well you will do. A result suggests directions to look into, not a list of jobs you should or should not take.