Objective:
To explore your interests, skills, values and personality through career inventories and self-assessments.
Self-Discovery is the first step towards choosing your career. Assessments are the tools that can help you to create your unique personal profile.
Strategies:
1) Gather information about yourself through the use of formal and informal assessments that will include strengths and interests inventories and personality assessments.
Informal assessments can be done by talking with family members, friends, co-workers and teachers. Ask them to describe qualities and characteristics they see in you.
Formal assessments can be completed in the Career Center and online, using some of the links below. The Myers-Briggs, the Self-Directed Search and e-Discover are all assessments that are available for free in the Career Center, by appointment only.
2) As you complete these assessments, try to identify up to 3 different jobs/careers that you would like to learn more about.
Links:
Assessments Connecting Interests to Careers
The Career Interest Game - Learn more about the results of your Self-Directed Search
The New York Career Zone - Assessment and information related to your Holland Code
The Holland Show (free self-paced tutorial)
Quick Online Personality Mosaic that yields a Holland Code
Assessments Connecting Skills to Careers
O*Net Online Testing & Assessment Guides
Careeronestop- Skills Profiler
Assessments Connecting Careers To Personality Types
Keirsey Temperament Sorter II
"MBTI" like assessment with results according to type (free self-paced tutorial)
Human Metrics
The Hemispheric Brain Dominance Test
Index of Learning Styles (ILS)
Summary:
Now that you have learned more about yourself through completing these assessments, you are ready to match your personal profile to occupational possibilities.
