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Career Ambitions test
Identify your professional ambitions and build a path aligned with your values.
- It's free
- It's quick: just a few targeted questions
- Immediate results
- Clarifies goals and motivations
Guidance test: to build a career aligned with your values.
Start the test
Discover your career ambitions and what truly motivates you.
What pace of professional growth do you prefer?
What you can do after the test
Clarify goals
Discover what truly matters to you: rapid growth, balance, impact, recognition, or mastery.
Build your path
Use the results to make career decisions aligned with your true ambitions.
Find satisfaction
Careers aligned with one's ambitions lead to greater satisfaction and well-being.
This page has been reviewed by Federica Cavicchi
Work and organizational psychologist, specialized in guidance and human resource development.
Career Ambitions: defining your own success
Career ambitions are not just goals of position or salary. They are the manifestation of your values, aspirations, and what defines success for you. Some people are motivated by rapid growth, others by work-life balance, others by impact and meaning.
This test helps you identify your true ambitions, clarify what motivates you in your professional journey, and build a career that is not only successful in others' eyes, but satisfying and sustainable for you.
Frequently asked questions about Career Ambitions
What are career ambitions?
Career ambitions are the goals, aspirations, and motivations that guide your professional path. They include what you want to achieve (position, skills, impact), what motivates you (recognition, purpose, balance), and what kind of success matters to you.
Why is it important to know your ambitions?
Knowing your ambitions helps make career decisions aligned with your values, build a satisfying and sustainable path, communicate goals to managers and mentors, and evaluate opportunities consciously.
Can ambitions change over time?
Yes, ambitions evolve with experience, life changes, new priorities, and different contexts. It's natural and healthy to periodically review your ambitions to keep them aligned with who you've become.
How do you balance ambition and well-being?
Sustainable ambition integrates professional growth with personal well-being, sets challenging but realistic goals, values incremental progress, and recognizes that success also includes health, relationships, and quality of life.
How long does the test take?
The test takes about 4 minutes. The questions explore what motivates you, what defines success for you, what goals you have, and what kind of career you want to build.
What can I do with the results?
The results will help you identify your main career ambitions and receive concrete suggestions to build a professional path aligned with what truly motivates you and defines success for you.