Are you looking for tools to gain awareness of your interests as well as careers, and college majors? Building career awareness is the first fundamental step in the career planning process to help you unlock your potentials. Finding the correct career tool is a fundamental step to identifying and achieving their career goals. You need a right tool to identify the connection between interests, careers, and training opportunities.

Examples of career tests are:

• Personality career test: Myers Briggs Type Indicator career test (MBTI)

• RIASEC career tests: RIASEC Inventory and Strong Interest Inventory

• Transferable skills career test: Transferable Skills Scale

Career Test Features

Here are features of some career tests -

RIASEC Inventory
Format: On-Line NEW!
Reading Level: adult, college student, high school student
Subject Area: Holland Codes, Interests, Occupations

Self Directed Search®

Format: On-Line
Reading Level: adult, college student, high school student
Subject Area: Holland Codes, Interests, Occupations

Strong Interest Inventory®

Format: On-Line
Reading Level: adult, college student, high school student
Subject Area: Holland Codes, Interests, Occupations

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®)

Format: On-Line
Reading Level: adult, college student, high school student
Subject Area: MBTI/ Personality Types, Occupations

Transferable Skills Scale

Format: On-Line
Reading Level: adult, college student, high school student
Subject Area: Transferable Skills

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®)

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®) assessment is the most widely used personality assessment in the world – more than 2 million assessments worldwide each year.

• Reliable, valid, versatile, and dependable - Used for more than 50 years

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®) types are in four groups –

• Extraversion / Introversion

• Sensing / Intuition

• Thinking / Feeling

• Judging / Perceiving

The results from the MBTI® produces the 16 types –

1. ISTJ

2. ISFJ

3. INFJ

4. INTJ

5. ISTP

6. ISFP

7. INFP

8. INTP

9. ESTP

10. ESFP

11. ENFP

12. ENTP

13. ESTJ

14. ESFJ

15. ENFJ

16. ENTJ

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®) Career Report

The MBTI® Career Report is a career exploration tool that helps you identify strengths and weakness that may influence the career exploration process

• Identify job families

• Choose a potential career

• Select training opportunities

  Provide information necessary to evaluate a possible career transition or job shift

• Develop a career plan

RIASEC Inventory Online Version
A Quick and Easy Assessment

The RIASEC Inventory

• Uses Holland’s RIASEC coding system and latest O*NET job titles

• Scores into six interest areas: Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional

• Quick, 4-page assessment takes only 10-15 minutes to complete

• Complete only 72 work activity statements.

• Match results those interests to potential careers.

Self Directed Search

Self Directed Search®

Format: On-Line
Reading Level: adult, college student, high school student
Subject Area: Holland Codes, Interests, Occupations

The Self-Directed Search has been used by more than 23 million people to help find occupations that suit their interests and skills. Developed by Dr. John Holland in 1971, the SDS is used throughout the world to help people make successful career decisions.

The SDS Internet site allows users to take the 200-item test. The user identification number and passwords that you received are required to generate a confidential, eight-to-twelve page interpretive report. After you take the test and enter the User ID number and assigned password, the customized report is sent directly to you, where it can be stored or printed for easy reference.

Your test scores result in a 3-letter code of the three personality types the individual most closely resembles.

Reports include an occupations list that matches the code, suggesting job types most suited to the individual's personality, interests, and skills.

Strong Interest Inventory®

Strong Interest Inventory® (SII) Report.

For nearly 80 years, the Strong Interest Inventory® assessment has guided thousands of individuals in exploring careers and training opportunities. The Strong Interest Inventory® assessment is the most respected and widely used career planning instrument in the world.

The results include –

• Scores on the level of interest on each of the six Holland Codes or General Occupational Themes. Holland Code Themes include – Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional.

• Scores on 25 Basic Interest Scales (e.g. art, science, and public speaking)

• Scores on 211 Occupational Scales which indicate the similarity between the respondent's interests and those of people working in each of the 211 occupations.

• Scores on 4 Personal Style Scales (learning, working, leadership, and risk-taking).

• Scores on 3 Administrative Scales used to identify test errors or unusual profiles.

Use the Strong Inventory® to –

• Explore and identify careers related to your interests

• Choose education and training options that match your interests and Holland Codes

• Understand how your personality is related to your interests

• Determine your preferred learning environment

• Understand your leadership, risk-taking, and teamwork preferences

• Improve career direction

• Focus on the future

• Find the new career opportunity

• Achieve satisfaction in your work

Transferable Skills Scale®

The Transferable Skills Scale is a researched and validated assessment. The Transferable Skills Scale is a short assessment that identifies an individual’s strongest soft (TS) skills. The eight (8) soft (TS) Skills are:

• Analytical

• Numerical

• Interpersonal

• Organizational

• Physical

• Informational

• Communicative

• Creative skills

The benefits of the TS Survey are -

• Complete in 20-25 minutes

• Is easy to use

• Has color-coded design

• Is self-scoring and self-interpreting

• Can be used as both a career exploration guide and a job search strategy tool

• Includes suggested resources for career exploration as well as a worksheet for comparing possible careers

• Includes job titles from the most recent O*NET database

• Can be given to groups or individuals

The TS Survey has 5 sections -

1. Mark Your Answers

2. Add Your Scores

3. Interpret Your Scores

4. Identify Occupations that Match Your Skills

5. Explore Occupations that Match Your Skills

Transferable skills show your hard, soft, interpersonal and general skills that make you successful in any environment.

Transferable skills are a product of our talents, traits and knowledge. These skills determine how you respond to new activities, work situations or jobs.

Transferable skills are also non-job specific skills that you have acquired during any activity or life experiences. To be successful in the school, workplace or entrepreneurial activity, you have to possess transferable skills.