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Bunch of feedback:
• Doesn't seem to have an option to display / change my userid.
• add titles to the <a> tags which use Javascript (eg: &lt;a title="My Password" href="javascript:accountform..."></a>
• The location dropdown is insane. Maybe tier it: pick state then offer list of localities within the state? Alternately: enter a zip code and then narrow localities based on zip code.
• Location drop down is US only. Not sure anywhere else on the site explicitly says this is US only (I created a new account and didn't see it in the account creation flow. And no, I didn't read the ToS)
• Do you really need to use drop downs for the day of month and year for the birthday? Do you foresee many 108 year olds using the site? I'm not saying it's out of the question
• I looked for Brooklyn under "New York - Brooklyn". Even if behind the scenes you’re collapsing the boroughs into one locality, maybe list them twice? Use the same value in the <option> so it gets stored in the db your preferred way?
• Consider having the "Your profile has been updated" fade out after a period of time (if it's supposed to, it's not on Safari 3.1.2)
• Suggest flipping the <title> string around so it's "My Account | Path 101 ..."

Unrelated to My account but found while I was digging around: got a 403 error when loading the About Path 101 page (http://www.path101.com/about/) on this URL: http://s3.amazonaws.com/slideshare-au...

Can you add a generic "Path 101" product to Get Satisfaction (I had to pick either RGP or Personality Quiz, neither of which is accurate)</title></option>

Very accurate! I declined to include law and work with political organizations in my list of industries, yet the survey ranked those as the top career paths.

I do think that there should be some additional industries/occupations - such as new product development and product management,

The obscurity of the sliders for the personality test should be adjusted. It was not very clear as to how much I was agreeing or disagreeing which led to some inaccurate personality results. Definitive scales like 1-5 or 1-3 would deliver clearer results.

Hello,

A couple of suggestions:
+ I'd like to see a way to retake the test or amend some of the answers
+ I'd like to check how my 'personality' stacks up against other industries (not only the good matches)

In addition, I was surprised to see five industries with a very high fit for each trait. Maybe that's linked to the number of persons having taken the test so far.

Cheers,
Thomas

Suggestion: version the Yahoo UI stuff, either using your own numbers or the Yahoo version numbers. I have been using it for about two years and have gotten bitten by a couple of incompatible changes between versions (that is, I just unpacked the new version overwriti

The slider is a nice widget but the user has to slide twice for each question to total 100%. Perhaps have 1 slider that weights between the 2 parts automatically removing 1 step.

One of the questions struck me as being a bit convoluted and I had to reparse it a couple of times ("I would rather be in a situation where I experience little emotion than one which is sure to get me emotionally involved"). It's totally clear to me now, but I'm wondering if you've had any E2Lers take the quiz, or alternately had someone edit the questions from an E2L perspective?

It wasn't possible, really, for me to pick an industry. I'm an information security and privacy (data use) risk manager. Not really IT, not really in a specific industry although the industry will affect which rules apply. I thought it most interesting that even without the industry designation my personality quiz mentioned risk management :-) Probably because I left so many sliders untouched with my traditional "it depends" answer :-)

Using other Personality Tools for information:
I suggest that you might want to leverage other personality assessment tools like Myers Briggs and Strength Finders in the assessment. It is information that is readily accessed and helps in the assessment of traits that map to success in certain career profiles

"Neurotic" seems a little harsh, especially in comparison to the other attributes, which are primarily expressed as positive traits. You could reverse the whole category and call it something like "Ability to handle stress" and have the people who previously scored high on "Neurotic" score low on "Stress Capacity"...