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What motivates you?
Forget about traditional personality tests and focus on what truly motivates you to find career success. Take our quick career quiz. Our science-backed questions are backed by more than 2 decades of motivational research, to equip you with the knowledge to pursue a career path that leverages your strengths to achieve career satisfaction and well-being in the workplace.
Uncover roles for your talents
Are you quick to think on your feet, or do you prefer to pause and reflect before taking action? Our science-backed questions measure 48 different motivations with more than 90% accuracy. Identify your unique motivations, strengths, and blind spots to uncover a career match you may not have previously considered.
XFactor career success models
Do you have what it takes to achieve success as an entrepreneur? Or are you better suited for a role in a large organization? Assess and rank your work style and potential for next-level success against our industry benchmarks.
Ask our AI Coach, Marlee
Our AI Coach, Marlee can answer all your burning questions with data-backed career advice. Want to know if you’d make a great writer? Or whether you would succeed as an entrepreneur? Just Ask Marlee and receive personalized coaching, based on your motivations.
The journey to success begins with knowing yourself. With greater self-awareness, you're able to make better decisions, leverage your strengths, and ultimately, navigate towards fulfilling your career goals in a workplace where you can shine.
How Marlee Works
Say goodbye to career guesswork: Our revolutionary analytics are more than 90% reliable at forecasting personal work style motivations, behaviors, and career performance.
Step 1
Tell us what motivates you
Answer a series of questions on your work style. The more you answer, the more accurate Marlee's career coaching support will be in assisting you with making smart career choices.
Step 2
Gain insights about yourself and your career
Have a question about your career? Ask Marlee! Whether it is 'Would I make a great product manager?' or 'What industries am I suited to?' Marlee delivers instant, razor-sharp insights based on your personal motivations.
Step 3
Set a goal and start AI coaching
Set a personal or professional goal and Marlee will recommend a coaching program to help you achieve it. Marlee will keep you on track with twice-weekly AI coaching at a time that suits you.
Why is it important to understand motivations?
Unlocking a deeper understanding of yourself and those around you is a key factor in unleashing your full potential, whether you're a high school student thinking about the right path to pursue, an undergraduate ensuring your degree matches your goals, or a long-term employee undertaking a career evaluation or exploring a career change.
Developing a strong sense of self-awareness is a vital cog in the career planning process, as it empowers you to make informed decisions, capitalize on your strengths, and choose a perfect career match to thrive in.
Understand yourself
- Understand your work style, and what motivates, drives, and inspires you
- Identify your interests and passions to align them with potential career types
- Recognize the unique strengths that set you apart in your chosen field
- Identify what types of activities bring you joy versus what drains your energy to enhance your well-being
- Cultivate self-motivation strategies to drive personal and professional success
- Understand your comfort level with uncertainty and risk
- Uncover blind spots that may unconsciously hinder your career trajectory
- Find out how your career attributes stack up against others in your chosen field
- Understand and improve your decision-making skills
Gain insights to excel in your dream career
- Determine what work environment best suits your motivations, and whether that entails working independently, remotely, or in mixed settings
- Develop skills to collaborate effectively with diverse individuals in different professional settings
- Shape your career path based on your unique strengths and skills
- Leverage your talents to thrive in your chosen field
- Explore career matches that offer a sense of belonging and acceptance
- Define and align your career with a sense of purpose and fulfillment
- Fast-track your career progression through personalized development
- Tailor your growth strategies to meet your individual needs and aspirations
Understand others
- Develop leadership career skills
- Explore ways to lead and inspire in academic, professional, or personal settings
- Learn coaching techniques to unlock others' capabilities, and support colleagues in reaching their goals
- Understand your communication style, and learn how to improve connections through effective communication strategies
- Learn how to foster positive interpersonal relationships through mutual understanding
- Learn to celebrate the unique strengths and perspectives of other individuals
- Cultivate active listening skills to better understand perspectives
- Develop conflict-resolution skills to create a harmonious environment
- Foster efficient and productive collaboration
- Develop self-esteem and confidence in leadership
What to do with your instant results
You hold the key to your career success! Once you’ve answered our questions to uncover what motivates you, armed with our science-backed insights and a list of the ideal roles for you, you may then want to:
Set a goal in Marlee and Coach Marlee will recommend personalized coaching programs to help you achieve it
Use our XFactor success models to find out your strengths and any areas where you may need to strengthen soft skills to succeed
Use our Ask Marlee AI to ask what industries you’re best suited to, or which roles you’re most likely to succeed in
How we approach online coaching ethics
We’re committed to ensuring that our products promote inclusivity, minimize discriminatory practices, and enable people to live more authentically connected lives, helping everyone to realize their full potential.
At Marlee, we align with the International Coaching Federation (ICF) Code of Ethics. AI Coach Marlee has been intentionally designed with responsible AI principles. For example, we use anonymized user data so that Coach Marlee can learn and improve from coaching sessions while protecting your privacy. To learn more, read our ethical commitments.