The Buzz Quiz

A personality quiz designed to increase your awareness of your natural strengths, how you work in teams and what courses or jobs might suit you best.

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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.

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.

Take the quiz Learn about all of the personality types Q and A with David Hodgson, creator of the Buzz Quiz

About The Buzz Quiz

North East Ambition is proud to host The Buzz. The quiz was created by David Hodgson and is officially licenced to NELEP.

David was a Careers Adviser for 20 years. During this time, he met some young people that knew what course or career they wanted to follow. Most were less sure. He explored different approaches that might be helpful and attended many training courses. He tried and tested different approaches with teenagers and by far the best were personality type (Carl Jung) and Temperament (Keirsey).

After a lot of positive feedback, David began to develop his own resources using the models he tested and over a period of 10 years, he developed The Buzz book and more recently The Buzz Quiz Online. 

    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.

    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.