Career exploration
Browse reviewed career paths, learn what each role involves, compare related careers, and try a practical Mission or Career Challenge.
Descriptions, pathways, and missions
123 career guides
Browse every reviewed Rohit Compass career profile. Each guide explains what the work involves, how students in India can prepare, skills to build, related careers, a practical mission, and a Career Challenge students can try.
Business
Keeps a business's financial records — recording transactions, reconciling accounts, preparing statements and handling tax filings. Works in a company, a firm or independently.
Mission: Reconcile a fictional club cashbook · 12 minutes · paper
Practice matching simple fictional entries and recording a question accurately.
Career Challenge: Find the missing club-budget entry
Agriculture
Advises farmers on crops, seeds, pests, irrigation and government schemes. Visits farms, runs demonstrations, and connects farmers with new methods and support.
Mission: Make a field-observation question sheet · 12 minutes · paper
Practice listening to a grower’s observations before suggesting an investigation.
Career Challenge: Plan the next field observations with a grower
Agriculture
Services and repairs tractors, harvesters, pumps and other farm machinery. Diagnoses mechanical and hydraulic faults, often travelling to farms to do the work.
Mission: Draw a paper machine-service intake card · 12 minutes · paper
Practice collecting useful diagnostic details before a repair begins.
Career Challenge: The tractor service ticket has no model number
Skilled trades
Installs, services and repairs refrigerators, air conditioners and cold storage systems. Handles refrigerant gases safely, finds leaks, and tests electrical and cooling performance.
Mission: Show how an air conditioner moves heat · 12 minutes · paper
Explain the basic cooling cycle with a simple diagram.
Career Challenge: A cold-room reading is missing before delivery time
Creative
Creates moving images for films, advertisements, games and explainers, by hand or with software. Designs characters and movement and works through many rounds of revision.
Mission: Animate a bouncing ball on paper · 12 minutes · paper
Explore how spacing between drawings changes the feeling of movement.
Career Challenge: The character’s jump feels too sudden
Creative
Designs buildings and the spaces around them, balancing what the client wants against cost, safety and regulation. Produces drawings and models and oversees construction.
Mission: Sketch a shaded bus-stop shelter · 15 minutes · paper
Explore how a small structure responds to sun, rain, and people moving through it.
Career Challenge: The community room needs a quieter entrance
Public service
Leads soldiers, sailors or air personnel in training and operations. Responsible for a unit's readiness, discipline and welfare, and for decisions under pressure.
Mission: Make a training-day readiness map · 15 minutes · paper
Practice clear preparation and care for a team during a fictional exercise.
Career Challenge: A training team needs a fair rotation plan
Public service
Operates, maintains and repairs military equipment — vehicles, weapons, aircraft, communications. Trains continuously and works to exacting standards.
Mission: Log a technical equipment fault · 12 minutes · paper
Practice maintenance records and operational safety.
Career Challenge: The equipment log skips a maintenance sign-off
Skilled trades
Services, diagnoses and repairs cars and commercial vehicles — engines, brakes, steering, suspension and electrical systems. Uses diagnostic equipment to find faults and road-tests after repair.
Mission: Map the main systems in a car · 12 minutes · paper
Connect a driver’s needs to the systems a technician services.
Career Challenge: A driver returns before the warning is understood
Healthcare
Diagnoses and treats patients using Ayurvedic medicine alongside modern clinical training. Examines patients, prescribes herbal and dietary treatment, and manages ongoing care.
Mission: Make a careful plant-observation card · 12 minutes · paper
Notice how health professionals separate visible evidence from claims about a plant.
Career Challenge: Check the claim before the clinic visit
Hospitality
Makes bread, cakes, pastries and sweets — mixing, proving, baking and decorating. Works to recipes and quantities, often starting very early.
Mission: Scale a paper bakery recipe · 12 minutes · paper
Practise recipe arithmetic and production planning with a fictional recipe.
Career Challenge: The celebration cake needs a new pickup time
Business
Handles customer accounts, deposits and loans in a bank branch and assesses loan applications. Explains products to customers and ensures paperwork and rules are followed.
Mission: Map a branch customer journey · 12 minutes · paper
Explore how a bank branch organizes a simple customer service journey without using real account information.
Career Challenge: A customer needs a deposit receipt before closing
Services
Provides beauty treatments — skincare, facials, hair removal, makeup and nail care. Advises clients, uses products and equipment safely, and often runs their own salon.
Mission: Design a clean service-station layout · 10 minutes · paper
Explore how a cosmetology service area can support hygiene, consent, and clear setup.
Career Challenge: The event look conflicts with a comfort request
Business
Studies how an organisation works and where it loses money or time, then recommends changes. Gathers data, interviews staff, and writes up findings for decision-makers.
Mission: Measure a process before changing it · 15 minutes · paper
Practice creating a baseline process map that can inform a later business decision.
Career Challenge: The club queue stalls at duplicate forms
Hospitality
Looks after passengers' safety and comfort on flights. Runs safety checks and demonstrations, serves food and drink, and handles medical or security situations in the air.
Mission: Prepare a passenger service message · 15 minutes · paper
Practise a calm explanation and a clear handoff for an unanswered passenger question.
Career Challenge: A passenger cannot find the seat shown on the card
Skilled trades
Makes and repairs things from wood — furniture, doors, window frames, roof structures and formwork. Reads drawings, measures and cuts timber, and joins and finishes the work.
Mission: Plan a desk organiser footprint · 15 minutes · paper
Compare scaled item footprints and revise a small storage plan.
Career Challenge: The reading nook shelf blocks the window
Hospitality
Plans and runs food service for events or institutions — menus, quantities, staff, hygiene and cost. Coordinates kitchen and service teams.
Mission: Plan a paper-token service schedule · 15 minutes · paper
Practice menu quantity, timing, hygiene, and team coordination.
Career Challenge: The event guest count changes after the order is placed
Business
Audits accounts, prepares and checks financial statements, and advises on tax and business decisions. Signs off the audits that companies are legally required to have.
Mission: Build an audit evidence trail · 15 minutes · paper
Practice linking a fictional purchase claim to records without making a legal conclusion.
Career Challenge: Follow the evidence in a practice audit
Hospitality
Prepares and cooks food in a kitchen — following recipes, managing timing, and holding standards and hygiene. Works fast and under pressure as part of a team.
Mission: Build a kitchen prep sequence · 15 minutes · paper
Organize a fictional no-cook fruit-cup service by timing, station flow, and safe handoff.
Career Challenge: A lunch order changes after prep begins
Engineering
Turns engineers' and architects' designs into precise technical drawings for construction. Works with drawing software, follows standards, and revises drawings as designs change.
Mission: Draw a clear plan for a reading corner · 15 minutes · paper
Turn a simple room brief into a readable scaled plan.
Career Challenge: Two drawings disagree on the doorway width
Engineering
Designs and supervises the building of roads, bridges, buildings and water systems. Works from and produces drawings, checks materials and quality, and manages work on site.
Mission: Test a paper bridge · 15 minutes · paper
Compare flat and folded paper using your own test or supplied fictional results.
Career Challenge: Why is water staying at the school gate?
Public service
Administers government at district and state level, or leads police services. Implements policy, manages large teams and budgets, and makes decisions affecting whole populations.
Mission: Make a public-service queue map · 18 minutes · paper
Practice spotting where a public process may confuse visitors.
Career Challenge: A public-help desk has a long queue and unclear signs
Technology
Sets up and maintains the online infrastructure software runs on. Automates releases, monitors systems, and keeps services available and recoverable.
Mission: Design a simple website status board · 15 minutes · paper
Show how a cloud operations team can notice service health.
Career Challenge: Review a release before it reaches users
Skilled trades
A CNC operator may load and run an approved programme, check the setup record and compare the first part with the drawing under the workshop's procedures. Editing a programme, setting up a machine and operating it can be separate trained responsibilities. The exact job decides which of these tasks an operator is authorised to perform.
Mission: Prepare a part inspection card · 18 minutes · paper
Practise precision, sequencing, and checking a process before tools are used.
Career Challenge: The new bracket has yesterday’s machine setup sheet
Healthcare
Works in villages and neighbourhoods to connect people with health services — advising on maternal and child health, tracking immunisation, and helping people reach a clinic.
Mission: Map six questions to information contacts · 12 minutes · paper
Organise a fictional service directory and flag unanswered questions.
Career Challenge: Help a family reach the right clinic desk
Business
Makes sure a company follows company law and its own rules. Runs board meetings and records, files legal returns, and advises directors on their duties.
Mission: Make a board-meeting preparation checklist · 12 minutes · paper
Explore how a company secretary helps a meeting run with clear, traceable papers.
Career Challenge: The board has not approved the venue yet
Skilled trades
Prepares and paints surfaces on buildings, structures and equipment. Cleans and fills surfaces, mixes and matches colours, and applies coatings by brush, roller or spray.
Mission: Build a paper paint-swatch plan · 10 minutes · paper
Explore how a painter organizes sample colors and records viewing conditions.
Career Challenge: The repaint plan misses a damp patch
Creative
Writes text for websites, marketing, documentation and publications. Researches the subject, writes to a brief and length, and revises after feedback.
Mission: Write a mini FAQ from verified facts · 12 minutes · paper
Practice turning a small set of confirmed facts into useful reader questions and answers.
Career Challenge: Readers cannot tell which library hours changed
Business
Works out what things actually cost a business to make or deliver, and advises on pricing, budgets and efficiency. Builds and monitors cost systems inside a company.
Mission: Find a snack pack unit cost · 15 minutes · paper
Use a small fictional cost sheet to understand how a management accountant compares cost per item.
Career Challenge: The snack pack costs more than the estimate
People & community
Helps people work through emotional and mental health difficulties by talking with them over a series of sessions. Assesses what is happening and agrees a plan of support.
Mission: Sort a fictional support directory · 15 minutes · paper
Learn how support services describe the kinds of help they offer.
Career Challenge: Choose a welcoming opening for a practice session
Business
Answers customer questions and complaints by phone, chat or in person and resolves them or passes them on. Keeps a record of every interaction.
Mission: Turn a complaint into a clear case summary · 12 minutes · paper
Practice listening and documenting a fictional customer issue without deciding who is at fault.
Career Challenge: The customer needs a missing-items update tomorrow
Technology
Protects an organisation's systems and data from attack. Monitors for suspicious activity, investigates incidents, and closes weaknesses before they are exploited.
Mission: Write a fictional sign-in alert · 12 minutes · paper
Practise separating recorded activity from an unconfirmed security concern.
Career Challenge: Investigate an unusual sign-in alert
Agriculture
Monitors milk receiving, chilling and processing records in dairy facilities. Tracks batch identity, hygiene and measurement entries, and reports gaps for supervisor review.
Mission: Map a milk quality record · 12 minutes · paper
Explore how careful records support dairy handling and quality checks.
Career Challenge: The sample record has no collection time
Technology
Finds patterns in data and explains what they mean to the people making decisions. Cleans and combines data, builds reports and charts, and answers questions with numbers.
Mission: Find a pattern in a library checkout table · 15 minutes · paper
Turn a small fictional table into a clear, limited finding.
Career Challenge: Explain the attendance-count mismatch
Healthcare
Examines, treats and prevents problems with teeth and gums — filling cavities, extracting teeth, fitting crowns and braces, and teaching patients how to care for their mouths.
Mission: Draw three tooth shapes · 12 minutes · paper
Explore how dentists use knowledge of tooth shapes to explain different jobs in the mouth.
Career Challenge: Help a nervous patient feel ready for a dental visit
Skilled trades
Maintains and repairs diesel engines used in vehicles, generators, pumps and farm machinery. Strips down engines, finds faults in fuel and cooling systems, and reassembles and tests them.
Mission: Label a diesel engine systems map · 12 minutes · paper
See how fuel, air, cooling, and power systems work together.
Career Challenge: Compare a generator output dip and recovery
Healthcare
Diagnoses and treats illness and injury in clinics and hospitals. Examines patients, orders and interprets tests, prescribes treatment, and refers on to specialists when needed.
Mission: Separate clinic observations from questions · 15 minutes · paper
Practice careful listening and notice what still needs to be asked.
Career Challenge: Help the clinic team hear the full story
Education
Teaches and cares for children below class 1 through play, stories, songs and structured activity. Watches each child's development and works closely with parents.
Mission: Make a picture story sequence · 15 minutes · paper
Explore how early learning uses simple images and repeated order.
Career Challenge: The story circle needs room for every child
Engineering
Designs and maintains electrical systems — power supply, distribution, motors and controls. Plans installations, tests equipment, and investigates faults and safety issues.
Mission: Trace the lights on a paper floor plan · 15 minutes · paper
Show how a lighting plan relates to the spaces people use.
Career Challenge: The event layout changes, but the power plan does not
Skilled trades
Installs, maintains and repairs electrical machines, wiring and fittings in factories, workshops, power houses, shops and homes. Works from drawings, tests circuits and traces faults.
Mission: Map lights and switches on a paper room plan · 12 minutes · paper
Connect a simple lighting plan to how people move through a room.
Career Challenge: Two classroom circuit records disagree
Engineering
Designs and tests electronic circuits and devices — control systems, instruments, communication equipment. Builds and tests prototypes and traces faults to component level.
Mission: Plan a sensor-to-display signal story · 12 minutes · paper
Explain how a sensor reading can become useful information.
Career Challenge: Find why the garden sensor light stays off
Hospitality
Plans and runs events — weddings, conferences, launches. Books venues and suppliers, manages budgets and schedules, and keeps everything on track on the day.
Mission: Plan a small school event · 15 minutes · paper
Practise coordinating timing, people, safety, and backup plans around a guest experience.
Career Challenge: The stage rehearsal and speaker arrival overlap
Creative
Designs clothing and accessories — sketching, choosing fabric, making patterns and fitting samples. Works with tailors and manufacturers to turn a design into a product.
Mission: Compare two rainy-day garment concepts · 15 minutes · paper
Balance coverage, arm movement and carrying a bag in a fictional clothing brief.
Career Challenge: The costume sketch needs to work for movement
Public service
Responds to fires, accidents and rescues — operating equipment, entering dangerous buildings, and giving first aid. Trains hard and maintains equipment between calls.
Mission: Plan an emergency readiness check · 15 minutes · paper
Practice prevention, equipment readiness, and safe escalation.
Career Challenge: A community drill map has a blocked exit
Agriculture
Manages fish farming and fishing resources — advising on stocking, feed, water quality and disease, and applying regulations. Works with fish farmers and fishing communities.
Mission: Make a pond observation log · 15 minutes · paper
Practice recording visible information without diagnosing fish or water conditions.
Career Challenge: A pond log shows a change in water readings
Skilled trades
Cuts, shapes and assembles metal parts to very fine tolerances so machines fit together and run properly. Works from engineering drawings and measures constantly with gauges and micrometers.
Mission: Make a paper parts-fit sequence · 12 minutes · paper
Show how a fitter checks parts before assembling them.
Career Challenge: The pump bracket holes do not line up on paper
Agriculture
Operates and monitors the equipment that turns raw produce into packaged food. Follows recipes and hygiene rules and checks quality on the line.
Mission: Design a batch label checklist · 12 minutes · paper
Practice checking the information that helps a packaged food batch stay traceable.
Career Challenge: The packaging line has two different batch codes
Public service
Patrols a forest beat on foot — watching for illegal felling, poaching and fire, recording what is found, planting and tending new growth, and being the person nearby villages deal with day to day.
Mission: Record a fictional forest patrol · 12 minutes · paper
Practise careful observation, accurate records, and safety-first reporting.
Career Challenge: A patrol note needs a location before handoff
Public service
Coordinates forest staff, conservation records and site-specific public issues. Responsibilities vary by post and jurisdiction. Checks evidence and the required approval process before decisions.
Mission: Map a forest-path request · 15 minutes · paper
Practice noticing who and what a public request could affect.
Career Challenge: A village path plan crosses a wildlife buffer
Skilled trades
Makes metal castings by preparing moulds and cores, melting metal and pouring it, then cleaning and finishing the cast part. Works with sand moulds, furnaces and molten metal under strict safety rules.
Mission: Trace the stages of a casting · 12 minutes · paper
Organize the stages and checkpoints used to make and review a casting.
Career Challenge: The next casting batch has a new sand result
Hospitality
Works at a hotel reception — checking guests in and out, taking bookings, handling payments and answering requests. Usually the first person a guest meets.
Mission: Design a welcoming first conversation · 12 minutes · paper
Practise listening, organising information, and helping a visitor feel oriented.
Career Challenge: The guest name is misspelled on a practice booking
Creative
Creates visual material — logos, packaging, posters, social media images, layouts. Works to a brief, chooses type and colour, and revises with the client.
Mission: Design a three-icon wayfinding set · 15 minutes · paper
Practice making consistent visual symbols for a school book-swap event.
Career Challenge: The festival poster is bright but hard to read
Services
Cuts, colours and styles hair. Advises clients on what will suit them, uses cutting and colouring techniques, and manages appointments and products.
Mission: Create a style-shape reference card · 12 minutes · paper
Practise recording a hairstyle idea as a visual reference without performing a service.
Career Challenge: Turn a client’s idea into a clear plan
Agriculture
Grows and manages fruit, vegetable, flower and ornamental crops. Plans planting, manages soil, water and pests, and works to improve yield and quality.
Mission: Compare a plant’s growing conditions · 12 minutes · paper
Practice noticing how light and water relate to plant care.
Career Challenge: The garden plan puts shade-loving plants in full sun
Hospitality
Runs a hotel day to day — front desk, housekeeping, food service and staff. Handles guest problems, manages budgets, and keeps standards consistent.
Mission: Recover a difficult hotel check-in · 15 minutes · paper
Practice coordinating departments and protecting guest experience.
Career Challenge: A group booking arrives before rooms are ready
Hospitality
Leads the team that cleans and prepares rooms and public areas in a hotel. Allocates work, checks standards, and manages linen and supplies.
Mission: Inspect a hotel room turnover · 12 minutes · paper
Practice quality standards, assignment, and guest readiness.
Career Challenge: The room status board has one unconfirmed room
Business
Handles hiring, joining formalities, records and day-to-day staff questions. Arranges interviews, maintains employment records, and supports managers with staff matters.
Mission: Design a privacy-safe onboarding checklist · 12 minutes · paper
Organize the steps that help a new colleague start while keeping personal records protected.
Career Challenge: An interview candidate has no accessible room
Engineering
Installs, programmes and maintains robots and automated equipment on production lines. Diagnoses faults, adjusts programmes, and keeps the line running.
Mission: Plan a robot’s pick-and-place sequence · 15 minutes · paper
Map how sensors, decisions, and movement work together.
Career Challenge: The packing robot pauses before the next box
Engineering
Installs, calibrates and repairs the instruments that measure and control industrial processes — pressure, temperature, flow. Keeps readings accurate and controls working.
Mission: Show how a sensor reading travels · 12 minutes · paper
Explain how an instrument turns a measurement into a useful display.
Career Challenge: The gauge and shift log show different temperatures
Business
Explains insurance policies to customers, works out what cover they need, and helps them make claims. Often works independently and is usually paid by commission.
Mission: Translate policy words into plain language · 12 minutes · paper
Practice making a fictional insurance summary easier to ask questions about, without giving coverage advice.
Career Challenge: The policy summary leaves out an exception
Creative
Plans and furnishes the inside of homes, offices and shops — layout, lighting, colour and furniture. Produces drawings, selects materials, and coordinates the trades doing the work.
Mission: Plan storage for a shared study table · 15 minutes · paper
Use a simple room plan to improve how a shared space works.
Career Challenge: The reading corner blocks the classroom path
Technology
Keeps computers, networks, printers and users working. Diagnoses problems, installs and configures hardware and software, and explains fixes to people who are not technical.
Mission: Make a new laptop easier to set up · 12 minutes · paper
Turn a first-day setup into clear, friendly instructions.
Career Challenge: The projector is blank five minutes before the showcase
Creative
Finds, checks and reports news for newspapers, television or online. Interviews people, verifies facts, and writes to tight deadlines.
Mission: Make a public notice easy to scan · 15 minutes · paper
Turn confirmed details into a short reader-friendly news brief.
Career Challenge: A viral post makes a claim the school has not confirmed
Engineering
Measures land and buildings precisely to fix boundaries, levels and positions for construction and legal records. Works outdoors with instruments, then prepares plans from the measurements.
Mission: Make a simple map of a familiar route · 15 minutes · paper
Turn distance clues into a clear, scaled route map.
Career Challenge: Two survey maps place the garden path differently
Services
Advises people and organisations about legal rights and duties. Studies laws and case facts, drafts documents, prepares arguments, negotiates settlements and represents clients before courts or tribunals.
Mission: Sort facts and questions in a fictional case · 18 minutes · paper
Practice separating facts, questions, evidence, and legal boundaries.
Career Challenge: Make a fair case from the facts
Education
Organises and manages a collection of books and digital resources, helps people find what they need, and supports reading and research. Catalogues new material and manages lending.
Mission: Create a tiny topic shelf · 12 minutes · paper
Practice organizing resources so a reader can find a useful starting point.
Career Challenge: Help a reader find a book without guessing
Skilled trades
Sets up and operates machine tools such as lathes, milling and grinding machines to make metal components to precise measurements, working from engineering drawings.
Mission: Plan a repeatable first-part check · 12 minutes · paper
Choose measurements that help a team compare a part with its drawing.
Career Challenge: The inspection sheet checks the old hole position
Skilled trades
Builds and repairs walls, floors, arches and concrete structures using bricks, blocks, stone and mortar. Sets out the work from drawings and checks it is level, square and plumb.
Mission: Plan a straight garden path · 12 minutes · paper
Practise translating a simple site need into a measured masonry layout.
Career Challenge: Review a path around a root zone
Engineering
Designs, tests and maintains machines and mechanical systems — engines, pumps, production equipment. Works from drawings and calculations, and solves problems when machines fail.
Mission: Make a paper mechanism move a marker · 15 minutes · paper
Explore how a paper sleeve guides a sliding strip and its marker.
Career Challenge: The test rig starts shaking after a design change
Healthcare
Runs tests on blood, tissue and other samples so doctors can diagnose disease. Operates laboratory instruments, follows strict procedures, and records and reports results precisely.
Mission: Spot a quality-control pattern · 12 minutes · paper
Explore how lab teams check whether a test process is behaving consistently.
Career Challenge: Catch a sample-label mismatch
Skilled trades
A phone repair worker records what the customer says is wrong with a phone or tablet. They keep the device and its data safe. They check the fault through the approved service process before proposing work. Building electronic parts or control systems is a different kind of work from most phone repairs.
Mission: Make a phone parts and repair-boundary map · 12 minutes · paper
Recognize common phone parts and what needs trained repair.
Career Challenge: The tablet restarts during the school showcase
Technology
Builds and maintains apps for phones and tablets. Writes the code, connects the app to online services, and fixes problems users report.
Mission: Sketch a bus-arrival helper app · 15 minutes · paper
Turn one clear phone-user need into a small app flow.
Career Challenge: Make a club event app work on a small screen
Creative
Performs, records or teaches music. Practises and rehearses, plays for audiences or in studios, and teaches students individually or in groups.
Mission: Compare two versions of a four-beat pattern · 12 minutes · paper
Explore timing, rests and loudness in one short practice session.
Career Challenge: The ensemble loses its place during a transition
Technology
Sets up and looks after the networks connecting an organisation's computers. Monitors traffic, fixes connection faults, and manages access and security.
Mission: Design a small club’s network map · 12 minutes · paper
Show how devices connect and where access should be limited.
Career Challenge: The club’s shared printer disappears before sign-ups
People & community
Runs a development or welfare programme on the ground — planning activities, managing budgets and staff, working with communities, and reporting to funders.
Mission: Build a small event run sheet · 15 minutes · paper
Practice planning the practical steps behind a community programme.
Career Challenge: The workshop plan does not fit the travel time
Healthcare
Cares for patients in hospitals, clinics and communities — giving medicines, monitoring recovery, dressing wounds and supporting families. Works as part of a ward or clinic team.
Mission: Make a care update easy to scan · 15 minutes · paper
Turn a fictional care update into a clear visual communication aid.
Career Challenge: The handover before visiting hours
Healthcare
Advises people on what to eat to stay healthy or manage a condition such as diabetes. Assesses diet and health, plans meals, and works in hospitals, schools or the community.
Mission: Make a food-pattern picture map · 15 minutes · paper
Practice describing a fictional meal pattern without judging or prescribing.
Career Challenge: Rescue the label-reading station
Healthcare
Helps people regain the practical skills of daily life after illness, injury or disability — dressing, cooking, working. Assesses needs and adapts tasks and equipment to suit them.
Mission: Spot access barriers in a classroom routine · 12 minutes · paper
Notice how tasks and surroundings can support participation.
Career Challenge: Adapt a daily task around someone’s goal
Business
Keeps an office running — records, correspondence, scheduling, supplies and visitors. Supports the whole team and is usually the person who knows where everything is.
Mission: Build an office handoff board · 12 minutes · paper
Make a simple coordination tool for routine office tasks.
Career Challenge: The visitor arrives before the meeting pack is ready
Healthcare
Prepares the operating theatre and equipment for surgery and assists the surgical team during operations. Sterilises instruments and follows strict infection control.
Mission: Map a clear operating-room handoff · 12 minutes · paper
Explore how precise communication supports a surgical team.
Career Challenge: Pause the operating-room practice run
Healthcare
Tests eyesight and eye health, prescribes spectacles and contact lenses, and spots eye disease early enough to refer on. Uses specialised instruments to examine the eye.
Mission: Trace two light-ray drawings · 12 minutes · paper
Compare how drawn light paths meet or stay parallel.
Career Challenge: Guide a visitor through an eye-check appointment
Agriculture
Supports growing systems that follow defined organic practices. Works with growers on soil care, pest observations, input records and questions about the applicable standard.
Mission: Build a crop-practice record page · 15 minutes · paper
Explore how farm records document actions and observations over time.
Career Challenge: The certification folder is missing a field record
Healthcare
Gives urgent medical care at accidents and emergencies and during transport to hospital. Stabilises patients and makes fast decisions with limited information.
Mission: Map an ambulance team’s ready-to-go check · 15 minutes · paper
Explore how emergency teams organize equipment checks before a shift.
Career Challenge: Coordinate a calm practice response
Healthcare
Dispenses medicines and advises patients on taking them safely. Checks prescriptions for errors and interactions, and manages stock and records in a pharmacy or hospital.
Mission: Map a pharmacy shelf check · 12 minutes · paper
See how an organized stock system helps a pharmacy team notice what needs checking.
Career Challenge: Hold the handoff when the package and record disagree
Creative
Takes and edits photographs for clients — events, products, portraits, news. Sets up lighting and composition, then selects and processes the best images.
Mission: Compose a still-life photo sequence · 12 minutes · paper
Practice visual composition and sequencing without photographing people or private spaces.
Career Challenge: The photo plan catches a student name tag
Healthcare
Helps people recover movement and strength after injury, surgery or illness. Assesses what a patient can do, plans exercises, and guides them through treatment over weeks or months.
Mission: Turn a movement goal into a progress tracker · 12 minutes · paper
Design a simple way to notice progress toward a goal set with a physiotherapist.
Career Challenge: Make the practice space easier to use
Aviation
Flies aircraft safely by planning routes, checking weather and instruments, communicating with air traffic control and making precise decisions during normal and abnormal situations.
Mission: Read a fictional flight weather map · 10 minutes · paper
Practice noticing weather information and questions a pilot checks before a flight.
Career Challenge: Flight 218: The weather is turning
Skilled trades
Lays out, installs and maintains water and separately authorised gas pipelines, drainage and sewage systems, and sanitary fittings in buildings. Cuts, joins and tests pipework, and finds and fixes leaks.
Mission: Plan a rainwater route for a garden · 12 minutes · paper
Trace how a simple water route could support a garden.
Career Challenge: The new sink is missing from the drain plan
Public service
Handles counter services, mail sorting and records in a post office — accepting parcels and money orders, and serving the public.
Mission: Sort a post-office service queue · 12 minutes · paper
Practice records, public service, and clear counter communication.
Career Challenge: A parcel label and the counter record differ
Agriculture
Runs a poultry farm — feed, housing, health, hatching and production. Watches for disease, keeps records, and manages workers and the sale of birds or eggs.
Mission: Create a flock-care handover checklist · 12 minutes · paper
Explore how a farm team organizes routine care and biosecurity.
Career Challenge: The daily flock count does not match the feed record
Education
Teaches all subjects to children in the early school years. Plans lessons, teaches reading, writing and number, assesses progress, and works with parents.
Mission: Make a number-pattern practice card · 15 minutes · paper
Create a short learning aid for younger students.
Career Challenge: Help a class spot a number pattern
Creative
Hosts radio programmes or podcasts — planning what to say, interviewing guests, and holding an audience's attention. Records, edits and presents.
Mission: Write a 45-second audio intro · 12 minutes · paper
Practice structuring a spoken introduction for listeners.
Career Challenge: The guest has 45 seconds left to explain a big idea
Healthcare
Takes X-rays, CT and other scans that doctors use to see inside the body. Positions patients carefully, operates imaging equipment, and follows radiation safety rules.
Mission: Build an image-orientation guide · 12 minutes · paper
Explore how imaging teams label and communicate views so clinicians can read them correctly.
Career Challenge: Prepare a radiographer question handoff
Public service
Maintains and repairs railway equipment — locomotives, coaches, signalling or track. Works to strict safety procedures, often in shifts and outdoors.
Mission: Plan a rail equipment inspection note · 12 minutes · paper
Practice safety checks and maintenance communication.
Career Challenge: A railway inspection sheet has one skipped checkpoint
Hospitality
Runs a restaurant — staff, service, stock, hygiene and customers. Manages shifts and bookings, handles complaints, and watches costs and quality.
Mission: Plan a busy dinner shift · 15 minutes · paper
Practice table flow, staff coordination, and complaint recovery.
Career Challenge: Help the team recover a busy service
Business
Runs a shop floor — stock, displays, billing and the staff on shift. Handles customer problems, tracks what sells, and keeps the store orderly and secure.
Mission: Plan a window display with a clear path · 12 minutes · paper
Try a retail visual-merchandising task that is separate from the Challenge’s stock shortage.
Career Challenge: The delivery count does not match the shelf plan
Business
Finds and visits customers, explains products, negotiates and closes sales. Travels to meet clients, follows up leads, and works towards targets.
Mission: Make a product facts comparison card · 12 minutes · paper
Practice matching customer needs to verified product details without persuading or inventing claims.
Career Challenge: The buyer asks for proof behind a product claim
Education
Teaches one or two subjects to students in classes 6 to 12. Plans lessons, sets and marks work, prepares students for board exams, and manages a classroom.
Mission: Create a source-comparison organizer · 12 minutes · paper
Help students compare evidence in a subject they are learning.
Career Challenge: Help the class compare two history sources
Agriculture
Produces, tests and certifies seed for quality, purity and germination. Runs laboratory and field tests and manages seed processing and storage.
Mission: Plan a simple germination observation · 12 minutes · paper
Practice recording a seed test without making a professional quality claim.
Career Challenge: The germination test card and tray label disagree
Skilled trades
Marks out, cuts, bends and joins sheet metal to make ducts, panels, tanks and enclosures. Works from drawings and uses folding, riveting, soldering and welding to shape and join the metal.
Mission: Compare a flat net with a square sleeve · 12 minutes · paper
See how a flat pattern can become a three-dimensional sheet-metal form without handling metal.
Career Challenge: The duct opening lands on the wrong panel
Business
Starts and runs their own business — deciding what to sell, finding customers, managing money, and hiring help as it grows. Carries both the decisions and the risk.
Mission: Test a tiny business idea on paper · 15 minutes · paper
Explore how an entrepreneur can learn about a customer need before spending money.
Career Challenge: Test a bookmark idea at the school showcase
Creative
Plans and runs an organisation's social media — writing posts, making images and video, replying to comments, and tracking what people respond to.
Mission: Plan a week of useful posts · 15 minutes · paper
Practice organizing a small content calendar around one clear audience need.
Career Challenge: A post is ready, but the event time changed
People & community
Supports individuals and families facing difficulty — poverty, illness, family breakdown, disability. Assesses what someone needs, connects them to services, and follows up.
Mission: Map a fictional community resource · 15 minutes · paper
Practice organizing helpful public information without handling anyone’s personal story.
Career Challenge: A family needs help finding the right service
Technology
Writes and tests the code behind apps, websites and business systems. Works from requirements, fixes faults, and works in a team through shared code and reviews.
Mission: Prototype a tiny useful feature · 15 minutes · paper
Practise turning a user need into small steps that can be built and tested.
Career Challenge: One seat, two booking confirmations
Technology
Checks that software works before customers see it. Designs tests, tries deliberately to break the product, and reports faults clearly to developers.
Mission: Find a missing book-reminder test · 15 minutes · paper
Practise anticipating normal use, mistakes, edge cases, and accessibility needs.
Career Challenge: Find the checkout case the team missed
Agriculture
Collects and tests soil samples to establish what nutrients are missing and what a field needs. Runs laboratory tests and reports results to farmers or officers.
Mission: Make a sample identity log · 15 minutes · paper
Practice keeping soil samples connected to the right record.
Career Challenge: Two soil samples arrived with the same label
Engineering
Installs and maintains solar panels with their wiring, inverters and mountings on roofs and in solar farms. Tests output and traces faults in the system.
Mission: Compare sunny and shaded roof areas · 15 minutes · paper
Notice how shade and roof layout affect a solar-site plan.
Career Challenge: The solar display drops after a cloudy afternoon
Education
Teaches children with disabilities or learning difficulties, adapting lessons and materials to each child. Assesses needs, sets individual goals, and works with therapists and families.
Mission: Redesign directions for more access · 12 minutes · paper
Practice making one learning task easier to understand in different ways.
Career Challenge: Make a class activity easier to join
Education
Trains athletes or teams in a sport — planning sessions, teaching technique, building fitness and preparing for competition. Observes performance closely and corrects it.
Mission: Make a fair practice rotation · 12 minutes · paper
Plan a simple activity so a team can share practice time.
Career Challenge: Adjust a practice so everyone can join
Public service
Maintains public order, prevents and investigates crime, and responds to emergencies. Patrols, takes complaints, gathers evidence, and gives evidence in court.
Mission: Arrange a fictional report timeline · 15 minutes · paper
Practice separating recorded facts from unknown details in a public-safety report.
Career Challenge: A fictional incident report has facts out of order
Business
Plans and tracks the movement and storage of goods — ordering, warehousing, transport and delivery. Solves delays and keeps records of stock and shipments.
Mission: Trace a parcel through a route map · 15 minutes · paper
Explore how a logistics coordinator tracks a shipment through handoffs.
Career Challenge: Get the art supplies to the school on time
Skilled trades
Cuts, stitches and finishes garments and other sewn products using industrial sewing machines. Works from patterns and measurements, and checks the finished item for fit and quality.
Mission: Make a paper pattern-match card · 12 minutes · paper
Practise comparing garment pattern pieces and written instructions without collecting real measurements.
Career Challenge: The uniform sleeve pulls when the arm lifts
Skilled trades
Makes and repairs the dies, moulds and precision tools that factories use to shape and cut parts. Works to extremely fine tolerances on machine tools, reading complex engineering drawings.
Mission: Compare sample and tool reports · 15 minutes · paper
Try the precision drawing comparison used when planning a die or mould inspection.
Career Challenge: The same raised edge appears on every part
Hospitality
Leads visitors around a place and explains its history and significance. Plans the route, keeps a group together and interested, and answers questions.
Mission: Plan a respectful heritage walk · 15 minutes · paper
Practice storytelling, route planning, and group safety.
Career Challenge: A group walk needs a quieter route
Hospitality
Plans and sells travel — itineraries, bookings, transport and accommodation. Advises customers, handles documentation, and solves problems while people are travelling.
Mission: Build a safe day-trip itinerary · 15 minutes · paper
Practice travel planning, timing, and customer communication.
Career Challenge: The museum visit is closed on the itinerary date
Skilled trades
Shapes metal on a lathe — turning, drilling, threading and finishing parts to precise sizes. Reads drawings, sets up the machine and checks each part against the specification.
Mission: Plan the order for a stepped spacer · 12 minutes · paper
Turn a simple part drawing into a clear sequence of checks.
Career Challenge: The spacer sample is outside its marked range
Skilled trades
Services and repairs motorcycles and scooters — engines, transmission, brakes and electrical systems. Diagnoses faults, replaces parts and tests the vehicle afterwards.
Mission: Build a scooter care schedule card · 12 minutes · paper
Organize routine service reminders for a fictional scooter.
Career Challenge: The scooter is back, but the sound has no timestamp
Technology
Designs how software looks and how people move through it. Sketches and tests screen layouts, watches real users struggle, and changes the design until it makes sense.
Mission: Prototype an event sign-up flow · 15 minutes · paper
Use visual hierarchy to help someone find the right information fast.
Career Challenge: Redesign the school arts-night sign-up
Healthcare
Diagnoses and treats illness and injury in animals — livestock, poultry and pets. Performs surgery, vaccinates, and advises farmers and owners on animal health and breeding.
Mission: Design a welfare-friendly animal space · 12 minutes · paper
Notice how a veterinarian considers an animal’s needs and surroundings.
Career Challenge: Help a pet owner prepare for a vet visit
Creative
Films and edits video — advertisements, events, films, online content. Shoots footage, cuts it together, adds sound and graphics, and delivers to a deadline.
Mission: Create a sound and caption cue sheet · 15 minutes · paper
Practice planning an edit handoff using fictional footage without duplicating the Challenge’s story cut.
Career Challenge: Shape a short story from event footage
Education
Teaches a practical trade or skill in an ITI (Industrial Training Institute), polytechnic or training centre. Demonstrates techniques, supervises practice, and assesses whether students can actually do the job.
Mission: Write a safe step-by-step demonstration card · 12 minutes · paper
Practice turning a practical skill into clear learner instructions.
Career Challenge: A trainee understands the diagram but needs another example
Skilled trades
Joins and cuts metal parts using heat — arc, gas and other welding processes. Prepares and cleans joints, sets up the equipment, and checks the finished weld for strength and defects.
Mission: Inspect a fictional weld drawing · 10 minutes · paper
Practice describing visible evidence and knowing when qualified inspection is needed.
Career Challenge: Choose what to inspect in a sample weld report
Skilled trades
Installs and maintains electrical wiring, switchboards, panels and fittings in buildings and installations. Runs and connects cable, tests circuits, and works to safety standards.
Mission: Map separate paper lighting controls · 12 minutes · paper
Practise reading and labeling a basic circuit plan without touching electrical equipment.
Career Challenge: The lighting circuit changes rooms