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Personal
Assessments
| Assessment |
Description |
Cost |
| Birkman
MethodÆ Career Style Summary |
From
Princeton Review, a 24 item quiz will lead you to a list
of possible careers & information about them. While you must
register with name & email, the test is free. |
Free
on-line summary |
| Campbell
Interest and Skill Survey |
For
prospective college and graduate students still undecided about
which career path to take, U.S. News offers an opportunity
to take a first step in sorting out particular skills and interests.
|
Free |
| Career
Planning Process |
From
Bowling Green State University. Self tests for career assessment,
competencies, career change. |
Free |
| Career
Questionnaire |
From
The Collegeboard, find jobs that match your likes, dislikes,
abilities, and interests. |
Free |
| CareerHub |
CareerHub
is a career planning site that helps people make career changes
and explore new careers. |
$24.95 |
| CareerLeader |
CareerLeader
is a fully integrated approach to business career self-assessment
developed by Drs. James Waldroop and Timothy Butler, Directors of
MBA Career Development Programs at Harvard Business School. |
$95 |
| Careers
By Design Assessment Center |
Identifying
your general interests, the things you like to do, and the occupations
that appeal to you, will increase your life and career satisfaction.
Find your ideal occupation! On-line assessments include the most
popular career assessments in the world including the Strong Interest
Inventory, Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) and FIRO-B'. |
$45-$75 |
| Do You Have a Fear of Success? |
This
quiz, adapted from a questionnaire developed at Boston College (and
published in "The Success-Fearing Personality," by Donnah
Canavan, Katherine Garner, and Peter Gumpert), isnt foolproof,
but it should give you a pretty good idea of whether you may be
your own worst enemy. |
Free |
| Do You Have Charisma? |
Are
you charismatically impaired? FORTUNE devised this quiz with the
help of Jay Conger, a leadership expert at USCs business school.
|
Free |
| Employment
Search Readiness Inventory |
Discover
if you are doing all that you can to find a good job or earn a promotion
in your current position. |
Free |
| Futurestep |
Futurestep,
from Korn/Ferry International, provides executives exclusive career
opportunities, customized career feedback, complete confidentiality,
and career management. |
Free |
| Interest
Finder Quiz |
The
Interest Finder Quiz can help you find answers. |
Free
Sample |
| IT
Aptitude Tool |
Curious
about where you'd fit in the IT industry? Find out where your interests
and skills could work for you! Answer the questions on this short
self assessment tool. A report will display the high technology
career paths to consider and steps to get you on your way. From
Microsoft. |
Free |
| Job
Search Self Assessment |
Self-assessment
is the cornerstone of career decision making! This material is essential
reading for anyone beginning a job search, writing a resume, or
planning to interview. |
Free |
| Keirsey
Character Sorter |
This
simple test acts as a guide for assessing your personality, then
applying the results to a variety of potential of jobs. |
Free |
| Keirsey
Temperament Sorter II |
This
test, made available online by David Keirsey, is like a short MBTI
exam. Answer all the questions, and you will get a 4-letter personality
indicator as the result along with an explanatory document. If nothing
else, it might help you to understand how you react and interact
with others. |
Free |
| LAIcompass.com |
An
innovative and comprehensive process utilizing a series of professional
level questionnaires geared toward mid-level professionals who want
to identify their core competencies, unique skills and work styles. |
Free |
| Match Your Personality Profile To A Career Path |
Compare
your unique pattern of interests and skills to many, diverse occupational
groups and discover how this information can help predict future
job satisfaction! |
$49
plus $5.00 postage and handling charge. |
| Motivational
Appraisal of Personal Potential |
MAPP
is the only assessment that measures motivations. This goes beyond
merely assessing aptitude, personality or interest. By taking MAPP,
you will receive a 20-plus page report detailing what motivates
you especially as it relates to work and your career. |
$24.95 |
| Assessment |
Description |
Cost |
| Myers Briggs Type Indicator |
The
MBTI is based on Carl Jung's theory of psychological types. Find
out how what type you are affects the way you work and live. |
Counselor
overview |
| Personality and IQ Tests |
This
site has links to many different IQ and personality tests that give
back automatic results. Some of them are just for fun. |
Free |
| PersonalityType.com |
Discover
accurate insights, meet experts, participate in research, and connect
with people who share your type or interests. |
Free |
| Resource
Materials on Personality Typing |
Lists
Books and Periodicals dealing with Personality Typing |
Resource
Listing |
| Riso-Hudson
Enneagram Type Indicator (RHETI) |
The
Enneagram is a system for understanding our personalities. The nine
personality types of the Enneagram each represent a motivating need
for an individual. |
Free |
| Self-Directed-Search |
The
Self-Directed SearchÆ can help you find careers or educational programs
that match your own skills and interests. The test takes only 15-20
minutes to complete online. |
$7.95 |
| SIGI Plus |
The
SIGI PLUS program is a complete, self-directed, interactive system
of career guidance and information. This pioneering software is
part of a comprehensive set of services offered by Educational Testing
Service (ETS) to help you prepare for tomorrow, today. |
Counselor
overview |
| Strong
Interest Inventory |
The
Strong Interest Inventory (SII) is an instrument designed to help
people increase their awareness of their general interests and to
alert them of possible activities and work that match those interests.
|
Fee |
| Test
Your Career Skills |
Money
magazine self-test to determine your career strengths & weaknesses. |
Free |
| Test
Your IQ, Personality, or Entrepreneurial Skills on the Web |
This
site links to many self-assessment and personality tests available
online. It will also tell you if these are online exams, download
and run exams, or pen and paper tests. |
Free |
| The Career
Advisor: How to Create Your Career Blueprint or Vision |
An
exercise to help you get a better idea of the career path you should
be on. Explore the attributes of previous jobs to get a clearer
idea of what attributes future jobs should possess. |
Free |
| The
Career Key |
A
free public service to help people make sound career decisions.
Measure your personality to find occupations that fit you and information
on those occupations. |
Free |
| The
Holland Career Interests Game |
This
simple game is designed to help match your interests and skills
with similar careers. University of Missouri-Columbia has created
a separate Web page for each of the six different Holland groups:
Realistic, Artistic, Investigative, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional.
|
Free |
| The Platinum Rule |
Personality
style tests based on The Platinum Rule by Tony Alessandra:
find out about your own style or someone else's; learn more about
4 personality types (Director, Relater, Socializer, Thinker.). |
Free |
| TRIMA
Career Competency Questionnaire |
The
TRIMA Career Competency Questionnaire was produced to help
you familiarize yourself with your career competencies. This questionnaire
consists of 150 questions and will take between 10 and 15 minutes
to complete. |
Free |
| University
of Waterloo Steps to Career/Life Planning Success |
An
in-depth, six-step process for career- and life-planning from Canada's
University of Waterloo. |
Free |
| What's
Your EQ at Work? |
EQ,
the social equivalent of IQ, is complex, in no small part because
it depends on some pretty slippery variables--including your innate
compatibility, or lack thereof, with the people who happen to be
your co-workers. But if you want to get a rough idea of how your
EQ stacks up, this quiz from Daniel Goleman, author of Working With
Emotional Intelligence will help. " |
Free |
| whichCareer.com |
The
assessments produced from these questionnaires will help you pinpoint
the type of work for which you are most suited, taking into account
both your personality and the things in which you are interested
and like doing. The reports also indicate the extent to which these
choices are crystalised in your own mind, indicating your determination
to train for these careers. |
$29
or $44 |
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