Free Career Assessment And Career Exploration Tools
This site connects you to appropriate careers based a simple self assessment of your interests. Once your career options are identified, you can then click on your career of choice for a detailed description.
On this site, they claim to be “the most popular personality test in the world.” They also say that “the Temperament Sorter is used by major universities and career counselors worldwide as a tool for helping graduates select a career.” Answer all the questions and you will get a four letter personality indicator as a result, along with a short explanatory document.
This site allows you to use a list of your skills, and/or skills you’d like to have, to find occupations that match. It then provides detailed descriptions of those occupations.
www.cdm.uwaterloo.ca/step1.asp
This site is a self-assessment tool developed by the University of Waterloo. According to Dick Bolles, of “What Color Is Your Parachute,” it is one of the best on the internet. It incorporates an assessment of your personality, values, skills, interests, knowledge and learning, and self-employment potential.