PATHFINDER
“Success comes easily when your strengths
are aligned with your interests.”
01The instrument
What Pathfinder actually does
Pathfinder is a psychometric career diagnostic that tells a South African student, job seeker, or employer which paths actually fit — and what to do about it in the next ninety days.
02What it measures
What Pathfinder measures
Six dimensions, each scored on its own 0–100 scale. Pathfinder does not hand back a type. It reports where every dimension actually sits, and the shape of the whole profile is the finding.
R
Realistic
Tools, machines, materials. Work that leaves a physical result you can point at.
I
Investigative
Analysis, research, diagnosis. Problems settled by evidence rather than instinct.
A
Artistic
Composition and design. Work where the brief is open and the form is yours to set.
S
Social
Teaching, care, advocacy. Work that only pays off through other people.
E
Enterprising
Persuasion, leadership, commercial risk. Carrying a decision through to a result.
C
Conventional
Order, accuracy, systems of record. The work everyone else depends on being right.
03Mechanics
How it works
The whole diagnostic takes about fifteen minutes. Nothing about it is a quiz — each item is scored against a validated dimension, and response timing is captured so that inconsistent answering is visible rather than silently averaged away.
01
Diagnostic
45 adaptive items covering aptitude, work preference, and values. Roughly fifteen minutes, resumable, and it saves as you go.
02
Vector profile
Answers resolve into a five-dimension profile rather than a type. Two people with the same headline result can have visibly different shapes, and the report shows both.
03
Cluster matching
The profile is scored against ten career clusters by proximity. You see the ranking and the distance, not just the winner.
04
Subject stream
For school users the result maps onto a CAPS-aligned subject recommendation, so the finding converts into the decision actually in front of the learner.
05
Live market feed
Matched clusters are filtered against current South African vacancies with real salary bands, so the recommendation is anchored to a market that exists.
Guessing is expensive. Knowing takes fifteen minutes.
Start the assessment04Indicative lean
This is what a lean looks like.
Twenty-four items is enough to see a shape and not enough to call it. The specimen below is a fixed illustration — real dimensions, real scale, invented numbers — so you know what the instrument returns before you spend forty minutes inside it.
Specimen · not a result
24 / 96 items
- Investigative86
- Artistic74
- Enterprising61
- Conventional48
- Social37
- Realistic22
Indicative match
71%
Data Science & Analytics
Closest of twenty career archetypes. A full run returns a ranked five, each with its CAPS stream, its subject choices and the skills to build.
05Plans
Choose Your Entry Point
Select the tier that matches your context to begin.
Individual Core
For Learners & Job Seekers
ZAR 299/ month
Rolling subscription — career roadmap vectors update continuously as you grow
- 30-question psychometric screening
- 5-dimension career vector profile
- Top 3 career cluster matches scored
- CAPS subject stream recommendation
- 90-day personalised action roadmap
- Live SA job board filtered to your clusters
School Aptitude Deployment
Per-Institution Annual Licence
ZAR 4,999/ year
Annual assessment block — optimised for Grade 9 CAPS subject selection
- Unlimited Grade 9–12 learner accounts
- Multi-disciplinary aptitude engine
- Quantitative & Spatial/Creative matrices
- Analytical & Financial problem-solving
- Class-level aggregate career analytics
- Per-term progress reporting export
Recruitment & Enterprise Suite
Corporate Talent Intelligence
ZAR 1,499/ month
Per-organisation subscription — full SJT pipeline with CSV candidate export
- Pre-hire psychometric screening pipeline
- Situational Judgment Test (SJT) environment
- Role–candidate vector proximity scoring
- Talent cluster heatmap across cohorts
- Real-time retention risk indicators
- Dedicated account manager + SLA
Create your account free — pay only when you subscribe. Secure card payment via Yoco · POPIA compliant.
06Common questions
Straight answers
What do I actually get at the end?
A ranked shortlist, not a personality label. Forty-five items resolve into a five-dimension profile, and that profile is scored against ten career clusters by proximity — you see the ranking and the distance, not just the winner. School users also get a CAPS-aligned subject stream, so the finding converts into the decision actually in front of the learner. Every result ends in dated, checkable actions you can start the same evening.
Why R299 a month and not once off?
The diagnostic is a single sitting; the roadmap behind it is not. Matched clusters are filtered against current South African vacancies with real salary bands, and that feed moves while you are working through the ninety days. It is a rolling subscription — a school licence is annual, an individual one is cancellable the month you are done with it.
Is this just another personality quiz?
No. Each item is scored against a validated dimension, and response timing is captured so that inconsistent answering is visible rather than silently averaged away. Cluster scores, dimension shape and match distance are all shown to you. A recommendation you cannot interrogate is one you cannot argue with — or trust.
What happens to my child’s data?
POPIA and COPPA compliant by construction. Learner accounts require no email address, so a school deployment never creates a directory of minors’ contact details. Tenant isolation is enforced at the database layer with row-level security, not by application code remembering to filter — one school cannot read another school’s learners even if the application above it is wrong. Assessment responses are never sold, and are never used to train anything. Card details never touch our servers; checkout hands off to the payment provider’s hosted page.
How long does it take, and can I stop halfway?
About fifteen minutes for forty-five questions. It saves as you go and it is resumable, so a dropped connection, a shared computer or a lunch break does not cost you the session.
Is it built for South Africa, or imported?
CAPS subject streams, South African salary bands, South African vacancies. Imported instruments describe a labour market that is not the one our users are entering, which is the whole reason this exists.
06Contact
Engage the Engine
Response within one business day.
Start
Ready when you are.
One sitting, about twenty minutes, and no preparation. You get your profile, the reasoning behind it and the paths it opens — whether you are choosing subjects, choosing a degree or changing direction entirely.