Morrisby Profile

[squirmelia]

Did anyone else take the Morrisby test when they were at school? (A 4 hour long test that told you what your career should be.) I just found the report for mine (taken about half my lifetime ago) and these were the careers it suggested would suit me:

1. Chemistry (research)
2. Civil Service - scientific office
3. Polymer science
4. Textile technologist
5. Engineering - chemical
6. Systems analysis (computers)
7. Computer programming
8. Chemistry (industrial)
9. Architecture
10. Engineering - civil
11. Insurance - underwriter/broker
12. Advertising executive

I wonder what it would suggest if I took it again now.

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[vodkafrenzy.livejournal.com]

I went to see the careers person at school as I was looking for some inspiration (or even a clue) as to what I could do post-school. All they could suggest was a YTS and even then, not actually a YTS in wany particular area! (It was an area of very high unemployment, so perhaps 'any' job was seen as a success?)

I've just bumbled through trying different things out since then - although I'm thinking I'm definitely on the right track now. I wonder if the Morrisby test would have saved me some time?

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

Sounds like not a very useful careers advisor!

I am unsure how useful the Morrisby test was, but I guess if you didn't really have much of an idea of what you wanted to do, it might have been useful for inspiration. I look at it now and think ooh, maybe I should become a textile technologist, but at the time I was very certain about what I wanted to do, so it wasn't very helpful for me then. I used to spend hours in the careers library at my school playing Snake with my friends. :)