Making the right plans for your future during these turbulent times can be difficult. Starting with a self assessment can give you more choices and broaden your options. You then can have the conviction that you are on the right road.
A personal inventory can reveal your abilities, interests and attitudes. It will define your strengths and your weaknesses. Looking for a match between your strengths and the work you are considering is the most important step before you write a resume or search for a job. In fact, when the time comes to write your resume and prepare for a job interview, you will find the task much easier the more you know about yourself.
The following websites provide an assortment of informal interest inventories and self-assessment tools, surveys and questionnaires.
Career Assessment Quiz
The Princeton Review uses a shortened version of the Birkman summary to provide a career profile.
Career Competency Questionnaire and the Work Styles Inventory
Try either or both of these new assessments to find out your Work Style and your Career Competencies.
Career Key
A series of question pages are provided here, followed by a listing of "work groups" that correspond to the score from the questions.
Discover Your Work
This 60 option quiz uses the Holland code and seems geared for high school students, especially those interested in the Military. It will give you two of the six types and a short list of compatible fields and then link to job descriptions of careers available in the military that match.
Electronic Edition of Career Manual
A well done career guide provided by Career Services at the University
of Waterloo.
Self Discovery Workshop
This site offers an online IQ test. 38 questions aiming for a time of 13 minutes. This yields an IQ score which they claim to be within 5 points of traditional full length tests.
The Career Interests Game
This site provides an on-line career game based on Holland Codes.
Tools Of The Trade
Learn from best practices and toolkits provided by your colleagues
Work Out Your Myers Briggs Type
This site provides information on working out your personality type using the Myers Briggs Model.
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