Assessments
Interpreting Your Assessment Results
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•Updated January 2026Once you've completed your assessments, GuideBeam provides detailed results to help you understand yourself better. Here's how to interpret what you see.
Your assessment scores are presented on a scale, typically showing where you fall compared to the general population.
Most results show percentile scores (1-99), which indicate:
Important: Lower percentiles aren't "bad"—they simply indicate a different tendency that may suit different careers.
Your HEXACO results appear as a visual profile showing all six dimensions:
Your traits are displayed on a wheel showing:
Each main trait has several facets providing more detail:
Extraversion facets include:
These help explain why two people with similar overall Extraversion scores might be quite different.
The Holland assessment measures your career interests across six types:
Your results produce a three-letter "Holland Code" representing your top three interests, like:
This code helps identify career families that match your interests.
GuideBeam combines your assessment results to generate career matches:
Each career shows a match percentage based on:
Click on any career to see a detailed breakdown showing:
Careers with lower match percentages aren't necessarily wrong for you—they may:
Use match percentages as guidance, not absolute rules.
Your personality and interests can evolve. You can retake assessments:
However, avoid retaking immediately to try for "better" results—there are no better or worse profiles, just different ones.
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Your results are the starting point of your career exploration journey, not the final destination.