The Role is live
Four steps and about fifteen minutes to describe the work you would actually choose - in your own words and in hours, with no job title at the end and nothing leaving your device.
The Role is now available on the site. It is free, it takes about fifteen minutes, and nothing you enter leaves your device.
Most people are doing a job nobody designed. Roles accrete. They are assembled from whatever was left over when the last person moved on, then given a title that describes about half of it. The result is that a great many people cannot say what work they actually want, because they have never been asked in a form that made answering possible.
The Role is an attempt at that form. Four steps: one piece of work you genuinely loved, the work you would most enjoy from forty-one kinds, the five conditions you need to do it well, and how you would spend an actual week in hours.
No job title at the end
This was a deliberate choice. The tool does not tell you what you should be. It gives you back a description of the work you have just said you want, in your own words, precise enough to say out loud - to a manager, a recruiter, or yourself.
A title is a compression of a role, and compressing too early is how people end up applying for the wrong things. Hours are harder to argue with than adjectives.
Where the forty-one kinds of work come from
The work categories are grounded in O*NET, the US Department of Labor's occupational database, used under CC BY 4.0 and modified by us. The full attribution and the release we built against are on the tool's pages.
One thing we removed rather than answered: the original design included a values card sort. O*NET withdrew its Work Values data in release 30.3 and retired the Work Importance Locator in 2024, and in testing the narrative question - what about that did you love? - turned out to be the better way of getting at what someone actually values anyway.