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What if you're not sure of what kind of job or career you want?
Need some career direction? Spend some time here and take one
or more of the following assessment tests to give you a better
idea of your attitudes and interests as they relate to possible
career choices. Read Online
Career Assessments: Helpful Tools of Self-Discovery for
more information about how best to use these assessments. And,
finally, read the Career
Assessment Do's and Don'ts for useful tips and advice.
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EXCELLENT ASSESSMENT TOOLS:
- Ansir's 3 Sides of You Self Perception Profiling System.
A three-part self-perception test that provides you with insight
into your particular styles of thinking, working, and emoting.
By 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. Basic report
is free.
- ImproveNow.com -- which offers several interesting assessments
for job-seekers, including ImproveNowPSI, which examines
your personal style in helping better understand yourself;
and the ImproveNow JSI, which is designed to help you
identify and articulate behavior styles appropriate for your
job. Free.
- Keirsey Temperament
Sorter. Fill in a questionnaire of about 70 questions,
which is automatically scored on the Web. Your results will
be in the form of Myers-Briggs Types, and suggestions
of appropriate careers are made. Free.
- MAPP (Motivational Appraisal of Personal Potential) Assessment.
Fill in a questionnaire that has 71 triads of three statements.
Assessment is designed to guide, motivate, and empower people
to achieve your greatest educational and career potential.
Very detailed results are sent via e-mail; more details and
guidance available for a fee. Free.
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OTHER GOOD ASSESSMENTS:
- TypeFocus
-- an online assessment that is similar to the Meyers-Briggs
and gives results in Meyers-Briggs types. TypeFocus also offers
an inexpensive ($14.95) paid program, TypeFocus Careers Program,
with results offering greater detail that is more career-oriented
than a typical personality tests.
- Work Preference Inventory. Based on the premise that the
process of values clarification is very important in career
planning, the Work Preference Inventory gives you a small
glimpse that helps you to clarify what you value in terms
of work style to assist you in making more fulfilling and
rewarding career and employment decisions. For best results,
use Java-script-enabled browser.
- The
Career Key. Developed by Dr. Lawrence K. Jones, this assessment
measures your personality, finds jobs that match your skills,
interests, and personality, and then provides links to the
U.S. government's Occupational Outlook Handbook to learn more
about the jobs that best fit you.
- The
Economist -- Unique self-assessment tools from The Economist
Global Executive
- Personality and IQ Tests -- take a personality test and
find out what others with similar personalities desire as
an occupation. Plus lots of other interesting and unusual
tests.
- The Big Five Personality Test. While this personality assessment
is not strictly career-oriented, it does provide insight that
can be applied to careers. It ranks you on scales of closed-minded
vs. open to new experiences; disorganized vs. conscientious;
introverted vs. extraverted, disagreeable vs. agreeable, calm
vs. high-strung.
- knowyourtype.com -- the only assessment site that offers
the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Instrument online. Take the
93-question assessment online and get the results (a seven-page
report) emailed back to you. Includes lifetime access to client
support area. Fee-based.
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SELF IMPROVEMENT
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FUN
- Emode – Take the Emode Match
Personality test and have
the results matched with people who are compatible
to you !
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