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Is entrepreneurship right for me? Test your skills
On this page you can learn about entrepreneurship, assess your own strengths and take various entrepreneurship tests. The tests help you consider, for example, the following questions:
- What strengths do I have?
- Do I enjoy working independently?
- Am I ready to take responsibility and make decisions?
- How do I deal with uncertainty and risks?
- What entrepreneurial skills should I still develop?
- Would I like to try entrepreneurship on a small scale first?
Remember that tests don't define you or give you ready-made answers. However, they can help you identify your strengths, interests, and areas for reflection.
Tests for entrepreneurs or those considering entrepreneurship
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In the test presented by Työmarkkinattori, you assess your own entrepreneurial personality and your current situation. The test has four sections and a total of 32 statements.
Go to the Entrepreneurial Suitability Test (link opens in a new window)
After the test, consider:
What about the result felt familiar? What surprised you? What quality or skill would you like to develop?
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The test assesses your entrepreneurial skills and provides a description of what kind of entrepreneur you could be.
Take the Finnish Federation of Entrepreneurs' Entrepreneur Test (link opens in a new window)
After the test, consider:
What entrepreneurial skills are already your strengths? Where would you need advice, training or the help of a partner?
What kind of entrepreneur could you be?
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In the YES network test, you can consider what kind of work tasks you are best at and what kind of entrepreneurship might suit you.
Take the YES Network Entrepreneurship Test (link opens in a new window)
After the test, consider:
Would you prefer to work alone or with others? Do you enjoy more idea generation, hands-on work, customer service or planning activities?
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The NYT Youth Entrepreneurship Test allows you to assess your entrepreneurial skills. Despite its name, the test is also suitable as a general and light reflection task.
Take the Youth NYT Entrepreneurship Test (link opens in a new window)
After the test, consider:
What skills do you already have? Could your skills be used to create a service or product that someone would be willing to pay for?
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The YOOP self-assessment tool is based on the European EntreComp framework for entrepreneurial competence. The tool allows you to examine your entrepreneurial competence in a broader sense, for example from the perspectives of opportunity recognition, initiative, collaboration and practical implementation.
Learn about the YOOP self-assessment (link opens in a new window)
The service is aimed specifically at students and higher education personnel, but its perspectives can also be utilized in the general assessment of one's own competence.
After the test, consider:
What are you already good at? What could you learn in education, work, volunteering, or working with others?
After the test, consider:
- What problem does my product or service solve?
- Who could be my client?
- Why would a customer choose my product or service?
- Where would the company's income come from?
- What should I find out next?
There are many ways to try entrepreneurship.
Entrepreneurship doesn't always mean starting a full-time business right away. An unemployed person can try entrepreneurship for four months with unemployment benefits. As a light entrepreneur (see tax authorities' instructions) You can employ yourself and act entrepreneurially without starting your own company. You can read more about business forms and starting a business. “I want to start a business” by the side.
Next step
Bring the test results to your discussion with your business advisor. The results are not binding on you, and you do not need to come to the meeting with a completed business plan.
Contact us (links to organizations offering start-up advice in your area, or contact the person at the bottom of the page)
- Hausjärvi (link opens to Business Riihimäki page)
- Janakkala (link opens to the Häme New Enterprise Centre page)
- Loppi (link opens to Business Riihimäki page)
- Riihimäki (link opens to Business Riihimäki page)
Let's take the first step together. The discussion does not obligate you to start a business.
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page updated 30.7.2026