Interest · Cognition · Affect · Process

iCAP is a free, open-source career discovery tool.

You leave with one profile — not a pile of quiz names. That profile is the thing you take into a school search, a trade, or a second career.

Whether you are a student or a career-changer, this is the sitting that has been missing while universities and businesses compete for your interest and trust. Knowing this picture at least gives you the confidence to pursue what is in front of you — and to walk away from what is not.

Other online assessments measure one slice, or they are so subjective they never say the useful thing: No. You are a poor fit for this. Steer clear of jobs like this.

When you finish, export the profile and take it to a free chat — Claude, Grok, or Gemini — with the prompt we give you. Use the job links too. The research names live on Sources if you want them. You do not need them to use the profile.

Session

When you have a quiet stretch of time, you are welcome to begin. The full iCAP sitting usually takes about 90 to 180 minutes across six parts in one go.

A few assessments are timed (working memory and focus-in-noise); the rest are untimed, so you can think carefully without a clock. Start when you can give the sitting your attention — your profile will be waiting when you finish.

Interest

Want matters as much as skill. People get stuck in work they can do and cannot stand. This last piece asks what you would like a day to be made of.

Work you want
Sixty ordinary work activities — build, teach, keep the books, start a shop. You rate like or dislike, not talent. Want matters as much as skill. We chose this public career list because it turns those likes into real job families you can search: making, investigating, creating, helping, leading, organizing.
10–20 min · 60 activities

Cognition

The next question is how you handle new problems you have not been trained for yet. Some paths will stretch you. Some will bury you. Some will bore you. You deserve an honest look, not a pep talk.

Problem solving
Sixty puzzles with words, numbers, patterns, and turning objects in space. No clock. This is here so you can tell a long, hard program from a mismatch — and from a path that will bore you. We chose four kinds of puzzles, not one parlor trick, so a single question type cannot define you.
45–60 min (untimed) · 60 puzzles

Affect

Career discovery starts with who you already are. If the daily life of a job fights your nature, you will not last — even if you are qualified on paper.

Personality
You rate 60 everyday statements about yourself. There are no right answers. This is here because a job is not only tasks — it is people, rules, stress, and new ideas every day. We chose a public-domain six-factor inventory so you can see whether a path will fit who you already are.
10–15 min · 60 statements

Process

Work is what your mind does all day: holding a thought, ignoring noise, and switching when the plan changes. People leave jobs they are “smart enough” for because this load is wrong.

Working memory
You remember a few letters while you do simple math. That is the everyday skill of keeping something in mind while you handle something else. We chose a standard dual-task because interrupt-heavy work — kitchens, clinics, dispatch, classrooms — lives or dies on this.
~20 min · 15 scored sets
Focus in noise
Five arrows appear. You answer the one in the middle and ignore the rest. This is here because a lot of real work is noisy. We chose a simple, well-studied attention method so the result means one thing: can you still pick the right move when the room is loud.
8–12 min · 80 scored trials
Switching gears
First you sort cards one way. Then the rule changes. The hard part is dropping the old rule. We chose this because jobs change the plan constantly, and a test that never switches cannot tell you about that cost.
6–8 min · 24 scored trials