If you’ve always been incredibly ambitious... you’d work as the Minister for Magic. 

If you have a lot of hobbies, if you always asked for more paper in your exams, if you are constantly worrying about how to improve upon yourself, and if you are an over-achiever like Hermione Granger, you would end up like her to be the Minister for Magic.

If you’re good with people... you’d work at the Department of International Magical Cooperation.

If you are a social butterfly, you would really love working at and work at the Department of International Magical Cooperation. The famous Percy Weasley started his career here.

If you want something relatively straight-forward... you’d work at the Misuse of Muggle Artefacts Office.

This is a very interesting department. Working here can involve a Muggle teapot that’s gone berserk or can get even crazier when regurgitating toilets get involved.

If you are good at keeping secrets... you’d work at the Department of Mysteries.

One of the most enigmatic jobs in the Ministry of Magic lies in the Department of Mysteries, where employees are so secretive, they are called Unspeakables.

Although we don’t know much about what the Unspeakables actually do, we learnt about their department during Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, where Harry and his friends learnt about different rooms specialising in different abstract concepts, such as love, death and time. So, if you’re good at keeping secrets, this is the job for you. But be warned: as interesting as this job sounds, it also sounds very dangerous – but maybe that’s more the case when Lord Voldemort suddenly has an interest in your department...

If you’re a competitive person or are a sports obsessive... you’d work at the Department of Magical Games and Sports

This department specialises in Quidditch, Gobstones and other wizarding world activities. 

If you just want Harry’s job... you’d work at the Department of Magical Law Enforcement

This department is perhaps most famously known for the fact it is where Aurors work, although it has a series of sub-divisions. It was Harry’s main goal to become an Auror (no surprises after his dealings with Lord Voldemort) which he fulfilled after the events of the Battle of Hogwarts. In his later years, he would go on to become the head of the department.

So, if you want to follow in the footsteps of the Boy Who Lived, defeating the Dark Forces of the wizarding world and helping to attain justice wherever you roam, this is the job to sign up for.

If you’re talented at solving problems quickly... you’d work for the Department of Magical Accidents and Catastrophes

This job requires quick-thinkers and people who don’t get stressed out easily – and the clue is in the title as to why. Jobs within this department include the likes of the Accidental Magic Reversal Squad, who help sort out situations such as... inadvertently blowing up your Aunt Marge, for example. Those that are particularly adept at Memory Charms may become professional Obliviators.

Basically, this department is for selfless people who know how to tidy up other peoples’ messes – so you need to be made of strong stuff to work here.

If you love to travel... you’d work at the Department of Magical Transport

From Portkeys to Floo Powder, this department takes care of all the magical ways a wizard or witch gets from point A to point B, and gave us the likes of the Hogwarts Express and the Knight Bus.

Depending on which section you worked in, you could end up developing the next big mode of magical transport – or maybe you’d just end up fining people for unauthorised Apparition. Either way, we imagine this job would require a bit of travel, just from the sheer nature of it.