Career Assessment Tools

Career Assessment Tools: Listen to Your "Internal Job Description"

These popular interactive sites will allow you to gain further awareness of your personal interests and strengths. Most university career service centers offer this type of resource as you begin to explore career information and job titles. Start here and then take your questions to a career counselor. You won't be disappointed! Your biggest mistake is to stop with just a bunch of data. The real bonus is when you get an interpretation of all of the pieces of the puzzle: your aptitude/skills, your interests, your blindspots, your temperament, and more.

6 Rules About Taking Career Tests

Career guru Dick Bolles summarizes the guidelines that everyone should remember before you attempt any career assessment tools. The guidelines are listed under career articles....worth seeking out.

CareerCruising

Another userfriendly commercial source of career information. Check with your school to see if they are subscribing to this service. Password protected.

CareerKey

Take John Holland's personality quiz to find out how similar you are to six basic personality types: realistic, investigative, artistic, social, enterprising, and conventional.

CareerZone

Very comprehensive site sponsored by the NY Department of Labor. Answers to the questions on the Holland hexagon can be changed according to your preferences. Using your top three letter codes, you can link to 900 career options.

MyRoad

College Board's career search program offers free password to anyone who has taken the PSAT. Check in thelower right hand corner of your PSAT results to find more information. Excellent tool available free of charge.

PersonalityType.com

Website by authors of DoWhatYouAre. Take online quiz to determine your personality style. If your school has Naviance Family Connection, you likely have access to the more detailed version of this assessment.

Princeton Review Career Quiz

Based on the "Birkman Method"^®, this short quiz is a fun way to get new ideas about your career interests. Dig further and you can take a full blown version of this career assessment tool.

QuintCareers.com: Assessment Tools

Part of the Quintessential Careers mega website, these topics can help jumpstart your career search.

Self-Directed Search (SDS)

For 15 minutes of your time and a small fee, you can get a comprehensive online report which explains Holland's RIASEC code and how it relates to your career interests. This is the same tool used by many career planning centers. Designed for high school and above.

SkillsOne

Fee based online career management tools. Focuses on work/life values, interest/skills, and other career factors. Sponsored by Consulting Psychologists Press, the authors have seriously analyzed how to harness the power of interactive career assessment.

University of Waterloo Career Services

Fabulous listing of career assessment tools. Easy to navigate website.

Last Update September 2008- Copyright Frieda Dietrich
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