What is the Chaside test?
The Chaside test is a vocational guidance test developed by Dr. Holland. It is a tool designed to help you determine the most suitable career choice based on your interests, skills, and preferences.
What are interests and aptitudes?
The Chaside test consists of a 98-question questionnaire designed to identify your interests and aptitudes for career selection.
Interests are natural inclinations or tendencies toward certain activities, objects, or individuals. You may have many interests, and they make your work or activities enjoyable. Interests drive individuals to actively seek ways to satisfy their “desire for knowledge and learning.”
Various occupations exist, and people may prefer one or multiple fields. In general, everyone has a vocational profile or a combination of interests. Dr. John Holland proposed six types of interests that correspond to different personality types.
There are six personality types based on interests:
- Realistic personality: Prefers working with objects or machines. These individuals are usually practical and persistent, with mechanical skills, and prefer working outdoors.
- Investigative personality: Prefers working with ideas. These individuals are generally analytical and reserved, with scientific and mathematical skills. For example, they conduct research or work in laboratories.
- Artistic personality: Prefers working with creative ideas and different ways of expressing them. These individuals are usually emotional and open, with skills in musical composition, acting, writing, or visual arts.
- Social personality: Prefers working and interacting with people. These individuals are helpful and friendly, enjoying careers that involve advising, guiding, and teaching.
- Enterprising personality: Prefers leading or directing others. These individuals are usually sociable and bold, demonstrating leadership and communication skills.
- Conventional personality: Prefers organizing and managing data in environments that require systematic information handling. These individuals are usually methodical and practical.
On the other hand, aptitudes are abilities that individuals possess to perform specific activities. They are developed through practice and repetition, meaning they result from an interaction between inherited characteristics and environmental influences. Certain traits, such as intelligence, personality, interests, and education level, predispose learning. Knowing your aptitudes makes it easier to determine which profession suits you best.
The Chaside test helps identify 12 types of aptitudes:
- Visuomotor coordination: The ability to perform controlled movements requiring high precision and hand-eye coordination.
- Social: Ease of interacting with people, listening to them, and helping them.
- Musical: Ability to perceive tones and rhythms, compose music, and memorize notes.
- Numerical: Capacity to work with numbers and quickly perform calculations.
- Abstract or scientific: Understanding principles and theories that are not directly observable in nature.
- Spatial: Skills in organizing, transforming, and orienting objects in a specific space.
- Verbal: Comprehension of words, sentences, and texts, along with the ability to construct logical structures.
- Mechanical: Ability to handle objects and understand mechanisms.
- Artistic-plastic: Talent for applying colors, appreciating aesthetic forms, and developing designs.
- Executive: Capacity to manage social situations, plan, and lead workgroups.
- Organization: Skill in classifying, ordering, and systematizing information sources.
- Persuasive: Ability to argue, convince, and counter-argue.
What is my vocational profile?
To create an individual’s vocational profile, each interest is associated with two abilities. This might seem complex, but the table below illustrates the relationship between interests and the 12 associated skills. After taking our vocational tests, you will gain a deeper understanding of your vocational profile.
To develop an individual’s vocational profile, each interest is linked to two abilities.
By understanding your aptitudes and interests, you can determine your career path. If you are considering a new job opportunity, this test can help guide your decision. You can take the Chaside test in our CAREER TEST app and discover your vocational profile.
What are occupational areas?
Occupational areas are groups of careers that share a common work environment or scientific and technical principles. These areas categorize different types of job activities. For example, occupations related to agrarian or natural sciences.
The occupational areas are derived from the acronym that forms the name of the Chaside test, representing fields in which you might be interested:
- C (Exact Sciences, Administrative and Accounting Sciences)
- H (Humanistic and Social Sciences)
- A (Artistic)
- S (Health Sciences and Medicine)
- I (Engineering and Computing)
- D (Defense and Security)
- E (Agrarian and Natural Sciences)
If you want to learn more about Occupational Areas, we invite you to read our article on the M.G M.M. test. Remember, the more vocational tests you take, the more results you can compare, helping you make a well-informed decision. If the results differ or don’t feel right, don’t worry—take it as an opportunity to learn more about yourself. If the results are similar and you feel comfortable with them, you are closer to understanding your true calling.
