Career Aptitude Test
This is a small mod (with a big hidden mechanism :D ) that will allow your Sims to discover which career would be a perfect fit for them!
Main interaction visible for you - Start Career Aptitude Test - available directly under Career category on the computers, with 36 possible outcomes, discover them all :D
Requires XML injector (the newest version) to work. Base Game compatible. But it will suggest careers from all the packs.
What does influence the outcome:
All personality in-game traits: CAS traits and aspirations traits
Career and skills reward trait
A lot of in-game Rewards traits
Activity Preferences - Likes and Dislikes
Lifestyles
Character values (e.g. Compassionate)
Traits gained through formative moments challenges
Lumpinou's Talents - from Talents & Weaknesses mod
A lot of custom traits from: Kuttoe, KiaraSims4Mods, Triplis (Teen's traits), MissyHissy (from The Personality Mod), chingyu and some of mine traits as well, that I thought would be helpful.
Skill level (only 7+ plus level for major skills and 4+ for minor skills) - only for 1st and second triage, does not influence the final outcome.
Result
All results will be memorized by your Sim. If they will get the career suggested by the result - they will get a Confident moodlet for the next 48h ;) I hope it would be enough to make a good impression at the first day of work!
Additional interactions available once a test is taken, under category: Career> Career Aptitude Test:
Check All Previous Tests Results
Reset Data - Removes all saved results from previously taken Career Aptitude Tests.
Check for Custom Careers Match - You can check if there are any custom careers that also match your personality type based on your Career Aptitude Test result - will give result only if creator of a custom career added my add-on
Who can complete the test?
As per your voting - I left it possible for all ages! :) Even Children! - but take into account that their personality might not be developed enough to give varied results, or any result in some cases...
By the way - THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR VOTING! I actually did not expect that result :D
And if you want to delete some age group, you can easily do it yourself. Open the package file using Sims4Studio, go to Interaction Tuning - ilkavelle:computer_Career_StartCareerAptitudeTest:
Then on the right, on the XML tab, search for test_globals part:
(wider perspective just for navigation, cause letters are too small:)
(smaller perspective for details:)
And remove/add the line with age group you want.
Save the changes and that's all!
CUSTOM TRAITS AND CAREERS COMPATIBILITY
What else about this mod... I know many of you use various custom traits or careers. I am not able to include everything because there are thousands! Also, sadly, a lot of these custom traits and careers were born and later not updated due to various factors. I included the traits that in my knowledge are very popular and regularly updated. I do not plan to add custom careers to my mod, general description must be enough (also sorry, I did not include my spellcasters careers because I believe they should not be visible for non-magical Sims). However, I am open to add more custom traits to be taken into account - if they are quite popular and regularly updated.
INFO FOR MODDERS - Custom careers - I made a way how a custom career can be added to the results from my mod - it's not perfect solution, but I doubt I'll ever come up with anything better, as there is too many careers and too many possibilities, and my mod works in a way, it's hard to adjust it differently.
So, I added interaction to check for match with custom careers - the interaction will be visible when a Sim takes a test, but it will give the outcome only if a modder update their custom career with my add-on . The add-on modifies 2 action tuning from my mod:
1st is to give outcome notification to this interaction just mentionned. Notification text must be created within custom career mod and match a career with a personality type from my mod. Once a Sim gets this personality type as a result to the test taken, and they use interaction "Check for Custom Careers Match", they will get the notification text.
2nd is to enable adding confident buff when a Sim pick a custom career corresponding with their personality type
I described what to do and how to do it within the add-on package file, I hope, it will be clear for everyone. If not - please don't hesitate to ask me questions :)
Languages:
English - by me (default)
Polish - by me (integrated)
German - by Blubbie (to download from here: http://www.simfileshare.net/download/4732420/ or by helene912, to download from here: https://www.curseforge.com/sims4/translations/ilkavelle-in-german
Spanish - by RoshySims (to download from here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/career-aptitude-107000412 )
Traditional/Simplified Chinese - by Sul Sul (to download from here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/sheng-huo-shi-mo-106850877 )
Russian - by Pumpkin4u (to download from here: https://boosty.to/pumpkin4u/posts/fcf6cf65-50a8-45f1-b1e1-4402d7eb8424?share=post_link )
French - by Kimikosoma, to download from here: https://www.curseforge.com/sims4/mods/mod-career-aptitude-test-par-ilkavelle-trad-fr
Ukrainians - by Burbelka&4kotyky team, to download from here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/pereklad-modu-121476551
Change log:
28/02/2026 - updated for all February patches
7/12/2025 - not patch related, this update included some fixes, improvements and changes, also PlumbBuddy manifest was added. Details what exactly was changed for this mod can be found in this post: https://www.patreon.com/posts/mods-update-145212977
1.08.2025 - big update to this mod, that includes:
Added traits from: Lovestruck EP, Life&Death EP, EnchantedbyNatureEP, some older reward or aspirations traits not included previously.
Added chingyu's custom traits.
Added influence of known skills (only 7+ plus level for major skills and 4+ for minor skills) for the first and second triage.
Added careers: Naturopath, Romance Consultant, Undertaker (Mortician) and Grim Reaper.
Change: Now each test result will be saved. After choosing the career from test result, all results will be fogotten. I changed that cause after playing a bit it just made more sense to me, than saving only first result.
Added interaction to check previous tests results - at computer, under category: Career> Career Aptitude Test
Added interaction to reset (remove) previous tests results - at computer, under category: Career> Career Aptitude Test
Added interaction "Check for Custom Careers Match" - will give result only when a modder add my add-on to their custom career
Add-on file only for modders to update their custom careers. If you are not a modder, do not download it.
CHANGES FOR TRANLATORS: There are tiny changes in following strings: 0x3960EB96, 0x05C66E34, 0xB3EE663C, 0x07B835BA, 0x50208829, 0xD7BD3FA9, 0xBFB186BA, 0xBDD3069A, 0xFD76A42D, 0x75D3CE11, 0xAE467CAA, 0xC8651C87, 0x57CDE12D. New strings: 0x0D1820B2, 0x34168099, 0x788E0512, 0xFE28FC00, 0x3D0B51CE, 0xFEE2E7D8, 0x398929C6
INFO FOR OTHER MODDERS - COMPATIBILITY WITH CUSTOM CAREERS - new add-on only for modders added
27/07/2024 - updated for the Patch from 23rd of July (1.108.289.) Pre-Lovestruck and compatible with Hotfixes
Comments (36)
do we need this if we already have career services by adeepindigo which i think includes the same test?
You don't need to use any of my mods if you don't want to :)
Do i put the unzipped file into my mods folder
No. You need to unzip it. Use only the file ilkavelle_CareerAptitudeTest. The other one is only for other modders usage, if they would like to use it.
there are two zips,which one should be downloaded :)?
Are you a modder? If not, then don't download the one with "FOR MODDERS ONLY" in the name ;)
Hi! I was wondering if you were going to add the new traits and formative moments to influence the careers?
Yes, I have around 50 mods to update to include features from the new pack, so please be patient. It's quite a tedious work. Not complaining, just explaining, why I still didn't post anything.
Hello! Thank you so much for your hard work <3 I'm having a little trouble getting the career aptitude result. After I send my sim to do the test, I get a popup indicating that my sim is the "social personality type" and that they need to answer a few more questions. I click okay, and they stay on the computer for a little longer. And then they finish the action but nothing else pops up. No notif, no moodlet. I have the xml injector. I'm wondering if there might be a conflict with the Life and Death update maybe?
It should not conflict, but I still didn't update it with the newest traits from game. I thought I made an exception for cases where my test doesn't include traits that Sims has, but maybe something doesn't work in this particular set of trait. Can you tell me what life stage your Sim is and what traits they have? I'll check the logic of the test, why it results in no activity.
Hi! Thanks for creating this mod. It might be helpful to suggest other compatible mods that users can download alongside this one. You could include these suggestions in your post this would make it easier for users to find mods that work well together and also help promote your other mods.
Thank you for this suggestion. I can think about it.
So unfortunately I’m not seeing the option in the career pie menu… XML is up to date… is there something (else) I’m missing?
Hmmm... nothing comes to my mind that would conflict. The XML injector should inject the interaction to any in game computer 🤔 The age is set for every age in the game. There are no restrictions. 🤔 if you take out all other mods and leave only mine - does it appear in the new save, or also not?
Hi! It would be cool if you added Chingyu's traits, they are quite popular!
I will take a look, but there's a lot of them ;)
I think Chingyu's traits are popular and regularly updated! But there are a ton of them.
good point! I will take a look :)
https://www.patreon.com/posts/career-aptitude-107000412
My Spanish translation on my Patreon
thank you! It's added now to the article, other translations too!
RU. Привет, я сделала перевод на РУ к этому моду, ссылка ниже. ENG. Hi, I made a translation to your mod!)))))) Here's the link: https://boosty.to/pumpkin4u/posts/fcf6cf65-50a8-45f1-b1e1-4402d7eb8424?share=post_link
Hi! thank you! unfortunately the link doesn't open for me :(
Hi! Thanks again for the excellent work! Here is the Traditional/Simplified Chinese that I provided for this mod. You can find it here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/sheng-huo-shi-mo-106850877
thank you! It's added now to the article!
This is amazing 😍😍
This is so cool! Can't wait to try it!
Omg I'm so excited. I have so many teens who need direction
Thank you! I hope that the result will not disappoint them :D
I'm excited to try this out with my Sims (especially, they are just studying right now. Perhaps they have to change their major now :D love this :D)
Haha, thank you so much :)
I'm so excited for this one! Thank you!
I downloaded this yesterday and tried it out on my playable sims. One was in the right profession, but two needed to change theirs. This is super fun--thanks so much!
Thank you!!! I am so happy that you find it useful and fun :D
Thank you so much for this. I know you know what I've got in the kitchen at the moment, and a part of it entails focusing on Sims to the exclusion of others in played households, who mostly just autonomously skill build and run themselves through school. The idea that their aunt ilkavelle can now give them some special attention and give me a trusted recommendation as to what career track to put them on... well... let's say it would mean a lot to the Sims on whom I do have to focus. Thank you for that.
I love to see that what I made is really helpful and used :D hope your Sims think the same after they join the recommended careers ^^