Patent ID: 8393903

Claim:
A system for aptitude or interest assessment, the system comprising: a user interface module adapted to present an interactive session to a user, wherein the interactive session provides one or more information gathering interfaces to the user, and wherein the user interface module is adapted to receive user inputs in response to the one or more information gathering interfaces; an assessment module adapted to process the user inputs received from the one or more information gathering interfaces and is adapted to determine a user attribute based on the processed user inputs, wherein the user attribute indicates an aptitude or interest of the user for a profession; a database containing a plurality of sectors, wherein each of the plurality of sectors respectively corresponds to one or more professions, wherein each of the plurality of sectors is assigned one or more sector attributes, wherein each of the one or more sector attributes represents a trait for that sector, and wherein the assessment module is adapted to perform a comparison in the database using the user attribute and the one or more sector attributes to identify a sector from the plurality of sectors and retrieve the sector identified by the database comparison; and a report creator that creates a report indicating the retrieved sector.