Career Assessments

When making career decisions or exploring options, career assessments can be helpful in gaining awareness of your career interests, preferences, strengths, values and skills. Career assessments provide a framework for organizing career information and finding your fit in different occupations. They do not tell you what to do, but they can provide a piece of the puzzle.

There are two levels of assessments:

1) Professional assessments that are part of career counseling
2) Self-help assessment available online

Self-help Assessments

There are many self-help career assessments available online. Those can be a good starting point for exploration and self-knowledge. Here are a few that we would recommend:

1. 16 Personalities – is a good self-help MBTI type assessment, with a lot of detail and beautiful graphics
2. High 5 strengths assessment – Provides your top 5 strengths and suggestions for using and building upon them
3. Human Metrics – is another MBTI type assessment, simple and to the point
4. My Next Move – Interest Profiler – This assessment is based on ideas from the SII and assesses how your interests are compatible with occupations. It uses information from O*NET, the primary source of occupational information in the US

Feel free to bring results from self-help assessments to your career counseling appointment. They can be a great way to start the conversation.