Know yourself well enough to choose the right career.

A psychometric profile and personalised careers report - built around how you think, what drives you, and what kind of work you'd actually thrive in.

Shane Adams, founder of Career Decoded

"Most people make career decisions without ever properly understanding themselves. I built this to change that."

- Shane Adams, founderRead the story

Profile ReportSample report

Your professional pattern

The Creative Finisher

Who you are

The most defining thing about you is the combination of your exceptionally high Openness and your above-average Conscientiousness — a pairing that produces someone who can both originate and execute.

How you work

You work best when you have genuine latitude in the early phase of a problem and clear ownership of the output at the end.

Careers Report · Why this role fitsEmployability Manager

Your Investigative and Conventional codes map directly onto these dual demands, and your high Openness means you will redesign what is not working rather than administer it unchanged.

The Real Problem

The data on why careers go wrong.

1 in 10
people truly know themselves
Tasha Eurich - 5,000 person study
Almost everyone thinks they're self-aware. Almost no one actually is. That's the gap this assessment is designed to close.
21%
of workers worldwide are engaged
Gallup, 2025 - 160+ countries surveyed
The rest are going through the motions or actively unhappy. Our view: a big part of that is people in roles that don't fit who they are.
50%
would choose a different career
Harris Poll / University of Phoenix, 2015-2024
Most people didn't choose their career - they fell into it. 50% say they took the job because it was available, not because it was right for them.

WHO IT'S FOR

For anyone who doesn't really know themselves yet.

Most people have never been given a clear picture of how they think or what they need from work, whether they’re neurodivergent or neurotypical. The Profile Report gives you that picture in plain words, and the Careers Report shows the kinds of roles it points to.

Leaving school or university

You've probably never had anyone ask how you actually think. This is a good place to start, before you decide what to apply for.

See what’s in the Careers Report →

Good at your job, but detached from it

You're doing fine on paper, but something doesn't fit and you can't quite say what. The report helps you put a name to it.

See what’s in the Profile Report →

Made redundant

Your job has gone, and the easy thing is to apply for the same role somewhere else. The reports show what you’re good at beyond your last job title, and the roles that might fit, whether that’s a new career or work that suits you better.

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Coming back after time away

You've been out of work long enough to lose confidence and lose touch with what you're good at. The report sets that out clearly, so you have something to start from.

See what’s in the Profile Report →

You don’t need to be choosing a career to get something from this. The Profile Report might tell you things you already knew, just more clearly than you’ve been able to say them yourself, and for some people that’s all they need. If you are choosing, the Careers Report turns your profile into roles that might fit.

Your reports

Two reports. Who you are, and the work that fits.

Built from your answers and personalised to you.

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Your professional pattern

The Creative Finisher

Who you are

The most defining thing about you is the combination of your exceptionally high Openness and your above-average Conscientiousness — a pairing that produces someone who can both originate and execute.

Most people trade one for the other: high creativity tends to come with lower follow-through, and high discipline tends to come with lower originality. You do both, which means you close loops that others leave open and generate ideas that others cannot finish. Your lower Extraversion adds a specific texture to this: your thinking is internal rather than performed, so in group settings you tend to arrive with a formed position rather than developing one out loud.

How you work

You work best when you have genuine latitude in the early phase of a problem and clear ownership of the output at the end.

You generate your own accountability and are most productive in extended, uninterrupted blocks — fragmented environments are a real cost, not a mild inconvenience. Your lower Extraversion means that deep, one-to-one professional relationships are where you build trust most effectively, and that high-visibility or always-on roles carry a genuine energy cost that accumulates over time.

Top work values

  1. 01Autonomy
  2. 02Impact
  3. 03Creativity
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Your strongest match

Employability Manager

Builds on Your ExperienceAI risk: Low

Why this role fits your profile

Your experience as a Placement & Internship Advisor gives you direct sight of what this role requires — the shift is from delivering support to designing the system that delivers it. An Employability Manager owns the programme architecture: setting strategic direction, analysing outcome data to identify gaps, and influencing institutional decisions to address them.

A practical next step Express interest in project-leading a strategic employability initiative within your current institution — owning the design and evaluation of one programme end to end demonstrates readiness for the management tier without requiring a job move first.

Key skills

programme designstakeholder influenceoutcome data analysisteam leadershipstrategic planning

UK salary outlook

Entry£32,000
Mid£45,000
Senior£58,000+

One of six matched roles in the full report

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Why I built it

It's rarely a skills problem. It's a starting-point problem.

I built Career Decoded because the people who need career support the most are the least likely to get it.

This isn't a substitute for a careers coach. It's a starting point most people never get.

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Pricing

A clear starting point. Yours to keep.

Profile Report

A clear picture of how you actually work.

£19.99

  • Your named professional pattern (one of 13)
  • How you think, work and perform best
  • What your profile rules out, and why
  • Your blind spots at work
  • Interview language for your profile
  • Downloadable PDF report