How The Bridge Career works
You answer 312 questions about activities at work and in your free time. For each you say how much you would enjoy it on a scale from 1, zeker niet leuk, to 9, heel leuk. You also rank activities against each other, from 1, minst leuk, to 6, meest leuk. TestGroup says the questions adapt to your answers as you go.
The report shows your six RIASEC preferences (Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, Conventional), 30 specific interest areas, your scores on the eight career anchors, and how well you match occupations and study programmes. The hbo/wo version covers more than 200 occupations and studies; the beroepskeuzetest mbo version covers 232 mbo occupations and 320 mbo programmes.
Scores are stens from 1 to 10 against a norm group of 500. TestGroup’s report explains that a 5 means about half the group scored lower and half higher, and that a 5 is not a fail.
TestGroup sells the loopbaantest for development, career advice, mobility, reintegration and outplacement, so you are more likely to meet it with a coach or employer than as a hiring hurdle.
How to answer The Bridge Career
A useful report depends on clear answers:
- Rate how much you would enjoy the activity, not whether you are good at it or whether it pays well.
- Use the ends of the scale for things you clearly like or dislike. A profile of fives cannot point you anywhere.
- Answer for yourself, not for what a parent, school or employer expects. The report checks how far your free ratings and forced rankings agree.
- Do not say yes to everything. The report also measures a tendency to agree with every question.
Tips for The Bridge Career
- Set aside 35 minutes in one quiet stretch so your answers stay consistent.
- Think of activities you have actually done, at work, at school or in your free time, when you rate similar ones.
- Read the bottom of the report as carefully as the top. The summary lists your three least interesting areas as well as your top five.
- TestGroup advises taking it again after two years, so treat it as a snapshot rather than a verdict.
Practise The Bridge Career on CogniPrep
Our version runs 18 screens of six activities on the same nine point scale, with tied ratings sent back for a most-and-least choice. It takes about 20 minutes with no clock. At the end you get a Holland code, your strongest and weakest interest areas, your leading career anchors and a note if your profile came out flat. We do not produce the ranked list of occupations, because TestGroup does not publish the library behind it.