HSE Career Quiz
A career interest assessment running on HSE's CareerHub, matching students to real healthcare roles.
My role: Designed the interest model, item set, scoring and feedback report; led delivery through Gyfted.
The Challenge
Ireland's Health Service Executive (HSE) wanted a way for secondary-school students, around 15 to 16 years old, to discover which healthcare careers fit their interests. Healthcare has hundreds of roles that teenagers have never heard of, so a generic career test would point them to broad labels they cannot act on. The quiz had to be short, readable without help, and end with specific HSE roles a student can look up.
The Approach
I built a nine-cluster interest model around the actual families of HSE roles, from clinical and allied health to administration and support services. Thirty forced-choice items make students choose between appealing options, which avoids the everything-sounds-interesting pattern of rating scales. Scoring produces each student's top three clusters, and the feedback report connects them to named HSE roles on CareerHub. The quiz is delivered as a plugin inside HSE's own CareerHub website, backed by an assessment API, with an Irish-language version in preparation.
Results
- 30 forced-choice items mapped to nine healthcare interest clusters
- Top-three cluster results linked to specific HSE role pages on CareerHub
- Feedback report written for teenagers: plain language, next steps, and routes into each career area
- Runs inside HSE's CareerHub website, with student answers buffered so a network failure does not lose them
- Irish-language translation prepared from a dedicated source document
The result has to be something a 15-year-old can act on, which is why every cluster ends in named HSE roles with links. The forced-choice format ranks each student’s own interests, which is exactly what a career-discovery tool needs, and the cluster model follows occupational frameworks such as O*NET, adapted to how HSE organizes its workforce.
Delivered through Gyfted.