“My child has no idea what they want to do.”
Choose the field of work your child is meant for. Then choose the university.
Almost every family does it the other way round, then spends four years and a great deal of money discovering the order was wrong. The Direction Assessment helps you make that decision with method rather than intuition, using the frameworks psychologists actually use to study careers.
Four things we look at. None of them a guess.
What they enjoy
Not what they happen to be good at. Interests across the six types used by the US government's own careers database.
Holland / RIASECHow they work
Whether they finish what they start, how they hold up under pressure, whether they'd rather lead the room or think in a corner.
Five-factor modelWhat the record shows
Nobody rates themselves accurately, so answers are checked against grades and a parent's view.
Grades + triangulationWhat they've actually done
Things nobody asked them to do predict better than anything they say they like. A person reads every word.
Revealed behaviourNot an IQ test. Not a label.
It can't tell you what your child will become, because nothing can. It is a structured decision aid built on established frameworks — not itself a validated psychometric test, and we say so in every report.
Anyone selling certainty about a sixteen-year-old is selling you something. What we offer is a much better starting point.
Direction, not destiny.
- Two or three fields worth taking seriously, ranked, with the reasoning shown so you can argue with it.
- The careers that don't fit, and exactly why — what the job involves, and what your child's answers showed.
- Where your child's view of themselves and the evidence part company.
- Three specific things to try in the next three months, each costing weeks rather than years.
Four steps, in this order
You create a parent account and add your child
Only a parent or guardian can create a student. You give consent, choose what a counsellor may see, and create your child's sign-in — no email address needed.
Your child answers on their own
About an hour, in three stages: over 100 quick questions, then a few answers in their own words. They can take as many sittings as they like, and everything saves as they go. You see their progress, not their answers.
You answer a shorter questionnaire about them
Budget, countries and what you've noticed. The differences between your view and theirs are usually the most useful material in the whole process.
A counsellor reads everything and prepares the report
Usually within about three weeks. They walk you through it in a 75-minute session, then your child tests the strongest directions for real before anyone chooses a degree.