Who am I? What makes me unique? What do I have to offer? What are my strengths and weaknesses? These are the important questions for you to be asking yourself now and throughout your life. Gathering information about oneself is the first step on the path to discovering a satisfying career direction. You need to develop an understanding of self: including interests, aptitudes and abilities, personal traits, and values. In addition to print versions of career assessment instruments, the Internet is fast becoming a source of free or low-cost career assessment instruments. The following Websites are sources of free self-assessment tools.
1.1 Interest and Ability Assessments
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Career Key |
The Career Key is a very comprehensive free, on-line career assessment tool developed by Dr. Lawrence Jones. Visit the Career Key to: a) measure your personality, b) find the jobs that best fit you, and c) learn about these jobs in the Occupational Outlook Handbook. This site does an excellent job of combining interest, personality, abilities, values, and work preferences into Holland types with direct links to the Occupational Handbook Website.
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Interest Finder Quiz |
http://www.myfuture.com/secondary/career/ch_interestquiz.html |
The Interest Finder Quiz is a sample quiz (60 interest test items) designed to acquaint the user with a national test interest-Finder which is a part of the ASVAB Career Exploration Program. Your profile results are analyzed and fit into two of the 6 Holland RIASEC (Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising or Conventional) work types.
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Traditional IQ Tests on the WWW |
This site provides a collection of web links to more that a dozen on-line IQ tests from around the world. Tests found here include: The Mensa Workout from Mensa International, Self-Discovery Workshop—IQ Test, and IQ tests from Norway, Sweden, Hong Kong and South Africa.
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Steps to Career/Life Planning Success |
Choose work that will be compatible with your own unique skills, knowledge, personality, and interests. Define the balance that you would like to have with your work, finances, health, and relationships with family, friends and colleagues.
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Internet site for career planning |
National Career Development Association with resources and information to assist in career development , job search and career planning.
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O’net |
The O*NET database includes information on skills, abilities, knowledge, work activities, and interests associated with occupations. This information can be used to facilitate career exploration, vocational counseling, and a variety of human resources functions, such as developing job orders and position descriptions and aligning training with current workplace needs.
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Keirsey Temperament Sorter |
One of the better on-line personality tests, complete with analysis and descriptions of temperaments and lists of famous people who share the same traits. Dr. Keirsey’s descriptions of temperaments is based on the study of people and the study of psychology, including the works of Jung, Myers, Kretschmer, Spranger, Fromm, Haley, Bateson, etc. The Keirsey Temperament Sorter is quite similar to the Meyer-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI).
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Myers Briggs Personality Types and Careers |
KnowYourType helps business; organizations, teams, government, individuals, couples and those in education determine their unique personality type
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Myers Briggs type indicator |
http://www.asu.edu/counseling_center/career/myers_briggs.htm |
The Myers Briggs Type Indicator is a personality assessment that helps you identify your workstyle preferences. Knowing your preferences can help you understand where your special strengths are and the type of work you might enjoy and be successful doing.
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Kindomality Personal Preference Profile |
This clever personality assessment seeks to help you identify your vocational personality in a medieval context. After answering a few brief questions, your personality is classified in medieval terms. You can see if you share the personality traits with a medieval White Knight, Doctor, Prime Minister, Shepherd, Merchant, Discoverer and many others. While medieval descriptions are used, each personality type is nicely related to today’s modern workforce.
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Behavioral Style Survey |
This site provides and informal survey to determine how you usually interact with others in everyday situations. This profile is used to help people develop stronger business relationships and better interpersonal skills. Persons taking this profile will be added to a mailing list to receive a series of seven FREE articles-one per week-on how to improve various facets of their personal and professional life.
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Quick Personality Test |
This is perhaps the quickest personality test around. No multiple choice questions. Just choose the pattern, which appeals most to you and this test, will tell you what you are like. A simple process, but yields interesting results
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Holland's Personality Types |
Dr. John Holland thought that the best way to identify a career area that feels like a good fit was to analyze their work related personality characteristics, and match those with different types of work environments.
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Career web |
This is your opportunity to discover if you are doing all that you can to find a good job or earn a promotion in your current position.
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Assessment tools |
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