Who am I and what do I want to do? The benefits of taking a career assessment test.

Confused about what career would match your personality and interest? Take a career

assessment.

A career assessment assesses your interests, skills, personality traits, and values.  By completing a career assessment in these areas, you may gain some insight on the careers that are best matched to you and discover and possibilities that you might not have thought of before or reinforce your original plans.

The most widely used career assessments are the Myers-Brigg Type Indicator and the Strong Interest Inventory and they are administered by a trained professional.  However, several assessments are available for online.  When completing an assessment, free or paid, do not take the results too seriously and consider the assessment as a tool in discovering your career path.

Some questions you can expect to see are:

1.       You are almost never late for your appointments

         YES   NO

2.       You like to be engaged in an active and fast-paced job

         YES   NO

Or

     1.       Which do you admire more:

   a-      practical solutions

   b-      creative ideas

2.       Do you worry more about

   a-      current preoccupations

   b-      future plans

3.       Would you say that you like to

  a-      assume responsibility

  b-      avoid responsibility

Remember to take the results with a grain of salt because the uncertainties in life add flavor to the process of finding a career and discovering amazing passions along the way!

An example of a free online career assessment:

http://www.careertest.net/cgi-bin/q.pl

Personally written by:

Nancy Stecker