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Below are a few assessments that may be helpful in identifying your personality and matching it to potential career options. Please stop by your Career Services Department at your institution in order to further explore other options. Please take advantage of these services and see a Career Services Representative if you are unsure or have questions about your results.
Holland Code Career Test
http://www.truity.com/test/holland-code-career-test#ixzz2gUP69Mgp
http://www.truity.com/test/holland-code-career-test#ixzz2gUP69Mgp
- If money and skill were not involved, what would you enjoy doing?
- This assessment helps to identify your strongest career interest, without taking into account money or skill.
- These could be any of Holland’s six occupational themes: Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional.
- The test is scored by the computer and results are provided for you.
- The results include what your primary career type.
- This website also lists career options for you to explore that may or may not fit your primary career type.
What Career Is Right For Me?
http://www.whatcareerisrightforme.com/
http://www.whatcareerisrightforme.com/
- This career aptitude test will help you determine what careers are best suited to your skills and interests.
- The test is composed of four brief sections covering your:
2. INTERESTS: What sorts of activities and subjects do you find interesting?
3. STYLE: What style of work environment would best suit you?
4. VALUES: What values are important to you in your ideal career?
- The results provide you with different career types and sample jobs that are closely related to your attributes. You are then able to explore these career types in order to learn more about the job responsibilities, tasks, salary, and related careers.
Work Preference Inventory
http://www.careerperfect.com/content/career-planning-work-preference-inventory
http://www.careerperfect.com/content/career-planning-work-preference-inventory
- The Work Preference Inventory is an assessment that measures the characteristics of your work style.
- These include your preferred role, your work values, what you work well with, and how you learn best.
- The results provide you with your preferred work style, out of 4 work styles:
2. Relater (enthusiastic)
3. Integrator (finisher)
4. Operator (detailer)
- You can use this information to analyze different job tasks and responsibilities and determine if they match with your preferred work style.
Jung Typology Test
http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/jtypes2.asp
http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/jtypes2.asp
- This assessment is based on Carl Jung’s and Isabel Briggs Myers’ typological approach to personality.
- This test provides you with your 4-letter personality type.
- The results give you a description of your personality type.
- The results also list careers and occupations that are most suitable for your personality type.
By: Shannon Schmeding
Learning Style Assessment
This brief, online assessment helps you understand why you learn the way you learn. We all have different ways of processing and absorbing information. Take the 20 question assessment and get a head’s up on your very own specific learning style.
The assessment looks at three learning styles:
http://www.educationplanner.org/students/self-assessments/learning-styles.shtml
By: Anthony Romano
- Visual – sense of seeing
- Auditory – sense of hearing
- Tactile – sense of touch
http://www.educationplanner.org/students/self-assessments/learning-styles.shtml
By: Anthony Romano
The Live Career Report
http://www.livecareer.com/career-test#.UpN3BnewXO1
http://www.livecareer.com/career-test#.UpN3BnewXO1
- The assessment describes to you that it is assessing your interests, personality, values, knowledge, skills and abilities which help make up “You as a person”. Specifically its goal is to measure your occupational interests, work style, as well as your highest and lowest interests.
- The test is a 100 question quiz. Each question has three options where you markup “M” for most like you, and “L” for least like you. The last answer is left blank. After completing the quiz (roughly takes 20 minutes) the quiz even gives you the option to review your answers or continue to the results.
- This results breaks you down as an individual via 10 separate pages which you can read through and examine yourself through all of the different aspects: occupational interests, work style, and values. It provides you with charts and graphs as well as descriptions about what your interests and work styles mean in terms of what career fields you would be happiest in.
- The assessment describes to you that it is assessing your interests, personality, values, knowledge, skills and abilities which help make up “You as a person”. Specifically its goal is to measure your occupational interests, work style, as well as your highest and lowest interests.
- The test is a 100 question quiz. Each question has three options where you markup “M” for most like you, and “L” for least like you. The last answer is left blank. After completing the quiz (roughly takes 20 minutes) the quiz even gives you the option to review your answers or continue to the results.
- This results breaks you down as an individual via 10 separate pages which you can read through and examine yourself through all of the different aspects: occupational interests, work style, and values. It provides you with charts and graphs as well as descriptions about what your interests and work styles mean in terms of what career fields you would be happiest in.
By: Tamika Quick