Free Career Risk Assessment
Take the free layoff risk quiz and spot the signs of layoffs coming
Answer 24 quick questions about your company, your role, and the signals around you. Get an instant, private layoff-risk score, plus what to do next. There’s no sign-up and no email to hand over.
What is the layoff risk quiz?
The layoff risk quiz is a free, private self-assessment that helps you gauge how likely your company is to have layoffs soon, and how exposed your own role might be. Instead of doom-scrolling layoff news, you answer 24 focused questions about the six things that decide who gets cut: your company’s finances, your role and impact, your team’s structure, your industry, leadership decisions, and the personal warning signs many people notice but talk themselves out of.
It is built for anyone who has felt that quiet unease at work: the hiring freeze, the reorg rumor, the meeting that got cancelled and never rescheduled. You will get an instant risk score, a clear risk level, and a breakdown of which areas are driving it, so you know where to focus if you decide to prepare.
How is your layoff risk score calculated?
Every answer carries a weighted risk value from zero (a reassuring signal) up to three (a strong warning sign). The six categories are weighted equally, so no single question can spike your result on its own. Your total is converted into a percentage of the maximum possible risk, then mapped to one of four levels: Low Risk (0–30%), Moderate Risk (31–55%), Elevated Risk (56–78%), and High Risk (79–100%).
The category breakdown shows how each area contributes, so a high score driven by industry headwinds reads very differently from one driven by your own performance signals. The point isn’t a precise probability, since no quiz can promise that. It’s a clear, honest picture of where you stand and what to watch.
How we built this assessment
The six categories come from the factors that decide who gets cut, drawn from public layoff coverage, WARN Act filings, and how HR and finance teams typically approach a reduction. Cuts rarely start with individuals. They start with money problems, then a reorg or a redundant function, then a decision about which specific roles go. Each question maps to a documented warning sign from one of those stages, from a hiring freeze and missed earnings down to the quieter personal cues like losing access or dropping off future planning.
Every option is scored from zero to three based on how strongly that answer tends to precede layoffs, and the six categories carry equal weight so no single area can dominate your result. We kept the weighting deliberately simple and transparent rather than hiding it behind a black-box formula, because you should be able to see why your score landed where it did. This is a structured heuristic, not a statistical model trained on your company’s data. It reflects common patterns, so treat a high score as a reason to prepare, not a forecast of what will happen.
Is this layoff risk quiz free?
Yes, completely and permanently free. There is no sign-up, no email wall, and no paywall at the results screen. Your answers stay in your browser and are never sent anywhere or stored, which matters for a topic this personal. Take it as many times as you like: before a reorg, after an earnings call, or any time that familiar worry creeps back in.
What is unique about this layoff risk quiz?
Most “will I get laid off” content is a generic listicle of signs. This quiz turns those signs into a structured score across six weighted categories, so you get a personalized read instead of a one-size-fits-all article. It looks beyond the obvious financial cues to the human ones (your manager going quiet, your projects losing priority, decisions routing around you), because those are often the earliest tells.
It is also built to be calm rather than alarmist. A high score is framed as time to prepare, not a reason to panic, and every result points you toward concrete next steps for protecting your income and your career.
How can I reduce my layoff risk and protect my career?
You cannot control a company’s balance sheet, but you can control how prepared and how valuable you are. Keep an always-updated resume and a running list of your wins, quietly grow your network before you need it, and build an emergency fund that buys you calm during a job search. Most importantly, keep your skills current and visible. Layoffs tend to spare the people whose work is hardest to replace.
Investing in in-demand skills is one of the most reliable ways to lower your risk. Pick one skill that would make your work harder to replace, whether that’s data and analytics, AI tools, or a certification your field respects, and build it at your own pace. Even a few focused hours a week compounds into a stronger, more layoff-proof profile.