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Kirnova Calling
Tell us what work you'd enjoy, and see real jobs whose interest profile looks like yours.
How it works
Every question names a piece of work, like Build kitchen cabinets or Study ways to reduce water pollution, and asks one thing: would you like doing it? Not whether you're good at it or what it pays. The usual form is 60 questions and takes about 10 minutes on a phone.
You get your 6 kinds of work in order, with ties named as ties, and a group of real occupations whose published interest profile looks like yours, out of 923. There's no score, no percentage and no three-letter code. It's yours to keep, and you can take it again after 30 days.
Hands-on work
Work with tools, machines, materials, plants or animals — building, repairing, operating equipment, and being physically active or outdoors.Investigating
Work that studies how things happen — researching, experimenting, diagnosing, and solving problems by finding out.Creating (interest)
Work that makes something expressive — writing, performing, designing, composing — where there are few fixed rules and imagination pays.Helping and teaching
Work that serves people directly — teaching, caring, advising, treating and supporting others.Leading and persuading
Work that starts things and moves people — selling, negotiating, managing, and taking business decisions.Organising information
Work with data, records and clear procedures — keeping things accurate, ordered and to a set standard.
Who it's for
Anyone working out their own direction. A final-year student picking a path. A college careers service that wants to show students real jobs they've never heard of. An adult programme helping people change course.
What the result looks like
Kabir and his answers are invented. The shape is real.
Example only. Kabir is invented and his answers were made up by us.
Kabir's kinds of work, in order
Investigating and Organising information
Named together. His answers do not separate these two, so we do not pretend to.
Hands-on work
Clearly next.
Helping and teaching, Leading and persuading, Creating
Level with each other, and well below the three above.
Work that looks like his answers
A group of occupations shown together rather than numbered: Quality control analyst, Laboratory technician, Logistics analyst.
How we order themes and pick roles
The questions are the O*NET Interest Profiler, published by the U.S. Department of Labor, and we use them word for word. We hold 182 item records, which is the 180-item long form plus two items the Department later reworded. There are 3 forms. A longer one asks more questions, so it can tell smaller differences apart.
| Form | Questions | Per theme | Answer scale |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kirnova Calling Saga | 180 | 30 | 3-point |
| Kirnova Calling | 60 | 10 | 5-point |
| Kirnova Calling Core | 30 | 5 | 5-point |
We add up your answers within each theme and put the themes in order. Where a step in that order is smaller than the wobble in our own measurement, we name those themes together. We set that bar by simulating people whose interests are genuinely even. If everything comes out level, we say so. That's a real result.
For roles, we compare the shape of your 6 answers with the published profile of each of 923 occupations, and ignore how freely you said yes. We show a group that fits about equally well, never a numbered top ten. If your answers have no shape, we say so instead of listing roles. Occupation data comes from the O*NET Database, release O*NET 30.3, and your saved result keeps the roles we showed you at the time.
Limits
It doesn't measure ability.
Liking an activity and being good at it are different things. This asks only about the first.It isn't a hiring tool.
Nobody decides whether you get a job on what you're drawn to. That's our rule, and it's also the purpose the O*NET tools are licensed for. Inside TIGER Student, the merged job list is for the student and the college, never the employer.It describes now.
Interests move, especially in your twenties. Sitting it again in a year or two is sensible.A role is a place to start looking.
A named occupation means its published profile resembles yours. It doesn't mean the job is available, pays well or suits your circumstances. Talk to somebody who already does it.
Modifications and disclaimers
Kirnova Calling uses the O*NET Career Exploration Tools under licence. The licence asks us to say exactly what we changed, and to carry the notices below.
The nature of our modifications
What we changed: we present the questions in a randomised order, we add two check questions that are not scored, and we deliver the assessment online. On TIGER Student we also add a note to some suggested occupations, in our own words, about the working style the O*NET database records as distinguishing that work — shown beside the person's own readings and never combined with them. The questions themselves are unchanged from the published O*NET forms, and each form uses the response scale O*NET uses for it.
In more detail: we present the questions in a randomised order rather than the published order; we insert two check questions that are not part of the instrument and are never scored; and we deliver the assessment through a website rather than on paper. We do not reword, shorten, replace or add to the questions themselves, and each form is administered on the response scale O*NET publishes for it. Two items in our records carry an older wording alongside the current one, because the Department of Labor itself revised them after publication; each form uses the wording its own source published.
Required notices
This assessment includes information from the O*NET Career Exploration Tools by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). Used under the O*NET Tools Developer License. O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. Kirnova has modified all or some of this information. USDOL/ETA has not approved, endorsed, or tested these modifications.
Kirnova has modified all of, a portion of, or the purpose of the O*NET® Career Exploration Tools. The U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA) has not approved, endorsed, or tested these modifications. As such, USDOL/ETA will not be liable to any third party or end-user for any damages arising out of or from the use or misuse of the modified O*NET Career Exploration Tools or any products incorporating or containing the modified O*NET Career Exploration Tools.
The O*NET material is provided by USDOL/ETA as-is, with no warranty of any kind — including no warranty of accuracy or of fitness for a particular purpose. See Section 5 of the O*NET Tools Developer License.