Assessments

Self-assessments can be useful tools for career planning and exploration. Assessment activities can help you learn more about yourself, and the more you know about yourself, the better equipped you are to select and pursue a compatible career pathway that will provide you with long-term satisfaction and achievement.

Interest Assessments

Understanding your personal likes and dislikes will help you plan for a career that will best match your interests. Interest inventories can help identify, organize and rank your likes and dislikes.

Activity: Complete an Interest Assessment

The U.S. Department of Labor’s O*NET Career Exploration Tools: https://www.mynextmove.org/explore/ip

Holland Code Career Test: https://www.truity.com/test/career-personality-profiler-test

Your Free Career Test: https://www.yourfreecareertest.com

Personality Assessments

Personality can be defined as the combination of characteristics or qualities that form an individual’s distinctive character. Your personality makes you different from everyone else you know. Certain careers may appeal to specific people based on their personality traits.

Activity: Complete a Personality Assessment

What’s Your Learning Style? (visual, auditory, or kinesthetic/tactile): http://www.agelesslearner.com/assess/learningstyle.html

123 Personality Tests: https://www.123test.com/personality

Big 5 Personality Test: https://www.truity.com/test/type-finder-careers

Myers-Briggs Personality Test: https://www.16personalities.com/free-personality-test

Skills Assessments

Different careers require different skills and abilities. Skills assessments are one way of distinguishing if you have the specific skills, or the aptitude to gain specific skills that might be required for a job. You may need to take a test to enter a workforce training, college, or apprenticeship program in the energy industry. There are minimum mathematics, language and science skills required by these programs.

Activity: Complete a Practice Skills Assessment

Careeronestop: https://www.careeronestop.org/toolkit/Skills/skills-matcher.aspx

Education Planner: http://www.educationplanner.org/students/career-planning/find-careers/careers.shtml

Your Free Career Tests: https://www.yourfreecareertest.com

There are many online resources for a variety of assessment inventories, surveys and miscellaneous tools. After taking a few of these assessments, create a table summarizing your findings and think about how your interests and personality traits will affect your future career decisions.