Discover The Buzz Quiz
Hosted by North East Ambition The Buzz Quiz, a fun and insightful careers tool created by experienced careers professional David Hodgson and officially licensed to the North East Combined Authority.
With over 20 years as a Careers Adviser, David worked with thousands of young people—some confident in their career choices, many still exploring. Through extensive training and hands-on experience, he found that personality type (inspired by Carl Jung) and temperament theory (Keirsey) were the most effective tools for helping young people understand themselves and their future options.
Building on this success, David developed his own resources, including The Buzz Book and now The Buzz Quiz Online—a quick, engaging way to explore personality and career pathways.
👇 Try The Buzz Quiz below and start discovering your strengths.
What kinds of jobs and careers would be a good match for you?
Answer a series of quick-fire questions to discover answers that will help you think about what kind of jobs and careers would be a good match for you.
Take the quiz to discover:
which personality animal you are
your natural strengths
how you like to learn
how you work in teams
how to reduce stress
which jobs and courses best suit you
You could even learn about your friends and family too!
It only takes a few minutes to complete the quiz.
The average is four minutes.
Why is personality important?
Focusing on personality helps us achieve this more than focusing on skills and knowledge. Although important, skills and knowledge need to be regularly updated throughout our lives.
Choosing a course or job based only on our current skills misses so much about what makes us human. By exploring personality animals, we glimpse our values, beliefs, identity, future, and underlying potential.
Why it works
Easy to understand
We only have to identify our preferences in four chunks of personality.
It's positive!
It quickly identifies our strengths. We are usually too modest to list our strengths without cringing.
Boosts confidence and self-awareness
People who know their strengths can then apply these to become happier and more successful in work and in life generally.
Identifies suitable career paths
Type helps us identify job titles in which we could be successful, and helps us think about the values and beliefs we have that can steer us towards career areas of interest.
More about the Buzz Quiz
Local focus
Over 50,000 young people in schools across the North East have completed The Buzz Quiz since 2005.
Global reach
The quiz was developed in the North East and is used in countries worldwide, including India, USA, Malaysia and Germany.
Popular profile
The animal profile most revealed is the koala, making up almost 20% of quiz-takers.