Compass
● Sample report

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You’re a Thinker first.

Your Holland code is IAS— here’s what that means and where it points.

IThinker
ACreator
SHelper

The Builder-Investigator

You get quiet joy from figuring out how a thing works, then making it work better. You'll trade prestige for autonomy every time, and you do your best work when someone else handles the room — pitching, negotiating, managing up. Give you a hard problem and enough time alone with it, and you'll come back with something that actually works.

IAS — Investigative-led with a strong Artistic second — you want to solve real problems, but you want to solve them your way, not by the book.

Your interest map

Six work types, scored from all 100 answers. Your peaks are where you’ll thrive.

  • Realistic: 3
  • Investigative: 9
  • Artistic: 8
  • Social: 7
  • Enterprising: 4
  • Conventional: 3

Your signal strip

The traits that stood out most in your answers.

💪 Problem-solving💪 Attention to detail★ Autonomy★ Craft over speed
● Your house
Observatory house crest

Observatory

Understanding why; evidence, models, proof.

A House describes how you like to be useful in the world — separate from the specific careers below, and scored from a different set of answers than your Holland code.

●Drives — Understanding why. Evidence, models, proof, the pleasure of a question that resists you.
●Signature strengths — Analytical depth; comfort with uncertainty and long feedback loops; high tolerance for being wrong on the way to being right.
✕The cost — Can research past the point of deciding. Undervalues execution, selling and people-management. Perfectionism disguised as rigour.
●Where it leads — Research science, medicine (diagnostic/academic track), mathematics and statistics, data science, economics, AI/ML research, actuarial work.
● In your own words

What we actually pulled from your answers — not a template.

“I rebuilt my school's timetable in a spreadsheet because the printed one kept clashing
→ Self-directed problem-solving, not assigned — a strong Investigative + Realistic signal.
“I'd rather redo something three times until it's right than hand in the first draft
→ High conscientiousness paired with a craft mindset — shows up again in your Conventional score.
“Group presentations stress me out more than the actual work does
→ Prefers depth over performance — consistent with your low Enterprising score.
● Careers that fit you
★Product Engineer
Research Analyst
UX/Product Designer
Fit
94% fit
89% fit
81% fit
Education
BSc Computer Science or Software Engineering
BA/BSc in Economics, Data Science, or a related field
BA/BSc in Design, HCI, or a portfolio-based bootcamp
Outlook
Steady across the wider software sector — most industries now build and maintain products in-house.
Analytics work sits behind most decisions in finance, consulting and policy, so the function keeps widening.
A younger discipline than engineering — fewer roles overall, but most product teams now want one.
★ Best fit

1Product Engineer

94% fit

You like owning a problem end-to-end — user complaint to shipped fix — and you'd rather ship something imperfect than sit in a planning meeting about it. That's the job.

🎓 BSc Computer Science or Software Engineering🌍 Steady across the wider software sector — most industries now build and maintain products in-house.

2Research Analyst

89% fit

Your answers show you'd rather find the real cause of a problem than guess at a fix — that patience for digging is rare and it's exactly what this role pays for.

🎓 BA/BSc in Economics, Data Science, or a related field🌍 Analytics work sits behind most decisions in finance, consulting and policy, so the function keeps widening.

3UX/Product Designer

81% fit

The Artistic streak in your answers isn't about art class — it's about wanting things to feel right, not just work. That instinct is the core skill in this role.

🎓 BA/BSc in Design, HCI, or a portfolio-based bootcamp🌍 A younger discipline than engineering — fewer roles overall, but most product teams now want one.
✦ Wildcard — worth a look

Instrument Maker / Precision Technician

It sounds unrelated, but the combination of hands-on tinkering and obsessive attention to detail in your answers points here too. If you like the idea of building something physical and exact — not just software — this is worth a look before you rule it out.

● Approach with caution
✕High-volume sales roles — Your answers consistently rank being persuasive and 'on' all day as draining, not energizing.
✕Roles with no autonomy over how work gets done — You push back hardest, in your own words, against being told exactly how to do something you already know how to do.
● Your next moves

This sample is illustrative — your real report is written from your own 100 answers, not reused from anyone else’s.