| The
Self Assessment Process
How to discover yourself and find your career
passion.
I don't know what I want
to do. What career is right for me? What is my
purpose in life? What career or job will make
me happy? What will I succeed in? These are questions
that many people ask themselves. Taking time for
self-assessment can help you answer these questions
and more. Self-assessment is the process of evaluating
yourself and determining your interests, skills,
values, strengths, weaknesses and personality
style and how they relate to your career development
and success. This guide will take you through
the self assessment process and discuss the various
assessment tools you can use to help you discover
yourself and find your career passion.
| Self
Assessment Links |
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Know
Your Type
From KnowYourType.com
KnowYourType.com offers the Myers-Briggs
Type Indicator Instrument online.
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator®
Instrument, also referred to as the
"MBTI® Instrument" or
"the Indicator" provides
a useful way of describing people's
personalities by looking at their
preferences on four scales (extraversion
vs. introversion, sensing vs. intuition,
thinking vs. feeling, and judging
vs. perceiving). These preferences
combine to yield one particular type.
There are 16 types. You can take the
93-question assessment online and
get the results (a seven-pape report)
emailed back to you. Fee-based. |
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Career
Key
From
Lawrence K. Jones, Ph.D., NCC, North
Carolina State University
The
Career Key is a free service to help
you with career choices, career changes,
career planning, job search, and choosing
a college major or training program.
It measures your skills, abilities,
values, interests, and personality
and identifies promising jobs and
provides accurate information about
them. Career Key uses the six Holland
personality types (RIASEC - Realistic,
Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising,
Conventional) to assist you. Free
Service. |
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JVIS
(Jackson Vocational Interest Survey)
F rom
JVIS - Sigma Assessment Systems
The
JVIS is an educational and career
planning tool. It provides a detailed
snapshot of your interests and how
they relate to the world of study
and work. It focuses your search for
professional and academic satisfaction.
You will have access to links, resources,
and industry contacts to help you
learn more about the careers and university
majors that will make the most of
your time and talent. Fee-based. |
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MAPP
(Motivational Appraisal of Personal
Potential)
From
Assessment.com
MAPP
is an Internet assessment tool that
measures an individual’s motivation
toward specific work areas. MAPP works
to reveal your natural motivations,
interests and talents for work. Fee-based. |
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Ansir's
3 Sides of You Self Perception Profiling
System
From
Ansir
This
is a three-part self-perception test
that provides you with insight into
your particular styles of thinking,
working, and emoting. Ansir focuses
on the concept of achievement being
tied to self-belief, and being tied
to our innate strengths. The 3 Sides
of You® draws self-perception
— what none but you can know.
ANSIR® translates your drawing
into a 3-sided profile of innate strengths.
After completing the test, you become
a member of the Ansir Community, allowing
you to search their database (150,000
records) to learn what others just
like you do for a living. Fee-based
but you can get a basic report for
free. |
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Testing
Room
From
TestingRoom.com
Testing
Room provides three (3) assessments.
The Career Interest Profiler will
help you discover work that is fun,
stimulating, challenging, and enjoyable
to YOU. The Personality Index helps
you understand how you approach situations.
The Career Values Scale lets take
a look at what drives you to be happy
or unhappy at work. The assessment
is built on upon helping you to become
a better you. This in turn will enable
you to work to your full potential,
and make decisions that result in
greater satisfaction. |
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Career
Leader - For those interested in business
careers
From
Peregrine Partners
Career
Leader is an integrated approach to
business career self-assessment. With
Career Leader you take the Business
Career Interest Inventory (BCII) and
Management and Professional Reward
Profile (MPRP) and an abilities assessment
inventory. With all of the information
in hand, Career Leader combines it
and compares your integrated profile
against the opportunities available
(or not available) in more than 20
major business career paths, in order
to recommend that you investigate
those careers further. Details are
provided about each career, showing
why a given career is (or is not)
a good match for you. |
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The
Big Five Personality Test
From
OutOfService.com
This
psychology test has been developed
to help you find out about your personality!
This test measures what many psychologists
consider to be the five fundamental
dimensions of personality. The five
basic dimensions of personality are:
Extraversion, Emotional Stability,
Agreeableness, Conscientiousness,
and Openness to Experience. Free Service.
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Career
Assessment Tools & Tests
From
Quinessential Careers
Quintessential
Careers provides links and information
about the self-assessment and career
discovery tests that can help you
plan your future. Various self-assessment
tests you can take give you a better
idea of your attitudes and interests
as they relate to possible career
choices. Quintessential Careers also
provides a good article on Career
Assessment Do's and Don'ts. |
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Online
Career Assessment Tools Review
From
Quinessential Careers
Quintessential Careers
provides ratings of various self assessment
tools. It is a guide to free or inexpensive
($30 or under) career assessments
on the Web. The ratings are based
strictly on Quinessential Careers
staff own experiences and those of
our clients and students who they
work with.
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| Inspiration
for You |
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To
come to be you must have a vision
of Being, a Dream, a Purpose, a Principle.
You will become what your vision is...
-
Peter Nivio Zarlenga |
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Dream
lofty dreams, and as you dream, so
shall you become. Your vision is the
promise of what you shall one day
be; your ideal is the prophecy of
what you shall at last unveil.
-
James Allen |
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You
see things; and you say, "Why"?"
But I dream things that never were;
and I say, "Why not?"
-
George Bernard Shaw |
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