I've been finding these tests are like a lot of "personality" tests where they're highly dependent upon mood and such, except for this it's moreso a function of "what do you like to do these days?" or rather "what would you rather be doing?" For some people this is pretty stable and for others it changes constantly. The ones that try to match your personality to your career may do a tad better but it's still only so accurate I'd presume. I do like how this isn't really a personality test at all though and just asks what you like to do. Most career recommenders are glorified Myers-Brigg topology tests I've found.
Got business thinker when I've been mostly a software engineer. What's interesting is that on the suggestions list they have technical and/or likely software centered careers like physicist, VC, quants, and actuary but nobody actually writing software or systems as their primary job. Not a single software developer type career listed but industrial engineer and geneticist are higher recommendations with economist at the top? I dunno if the results are telling me that I probably wouldn't enjoy writing code primarily or if this type of thinker shouldn't be writing code.
But really, none of this means you'd be any good at it. Maybe there needs to be more of an assessment of different skills instead of the usual self reporting to contrast with these types of tests.
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I've been finding these tests are like a lot of "personality" tests where they're highly dependent upon mood and such, except for this it's moreso a function of "what do you like to do these days?" or rather "what would you rather be doing?" For some people this is pretty stable and for others it changes constantly. The ones that try to match your personality to your career may do a tad better but it's still only so accurate I'd presume. I do like how this isn't really a personality test at all though and just asks what you like to do. Most career recommenders are glorified Myers-Brigg topology tests I've found.
Got business thinker when I've been mostly a software engineer. What's interesting is that on the suggestions list they have technical and/or likely software centered careers like physicist, VC, quants, and actuary but nobody actually writing software or systems as their primary job. Not a single software developer type career listed but industrial engineer and geneticist are higher recommendations with economist at the top? I dunno if the results are telling me that I probably wouldn't enjoy writing code primarily or if this type of thinker shouldn't be writing code.
But really, none of this means you'd be any good at it. Maybe there needs to be more of an assessment of different skills instead of the usual self reporting to contrast with these types of tests.