Free Career Assessment And Career Exploration Tools
www.quintcareers.com/career_assessment-dos-donts.html
This site provides simple rules about the keys to successful career assessments. Following these rules should help you achieve success in the self-discovery process. Read these before entering into an online assessment.
http://personal.ansir.com/test.htm
This is a three part self perception test that provides you with insights into your particular style 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.
www.career-intelligence.com/index.asp
This site calls itself the “smart woman’s online career resource.” It provides career planning information, exercises and assessment tools, as well as other useful information. You do have to register on this site, but membership is free.
Click on “Match Me To Careers,” “Search For Education,” and “Course Alerts.” “Match Me To Careers” is a career self assessment tool designed to help you find your best career matches based on your personality and self-assessed skills (both workplace and job specific). “Search For Education” allows you to search by job title to find the skills and education you require for that particular career. “Course Alerts” allows you to choose the skills you wish to develop and then be notified when the course or courses that addresses these skills becomes available.
www.acinet.org/acinet/skills_home.asp?soccode=&stfips=
This site allows you to identify skills you have and/or wish to acquire, and then identify and explore specific occupational opportunities that require those particular skills.
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.
www.truecolorscareer.com/quiz.asp
This is a personality system that is modeled as a graphical presentation of both Keirsey’s Temperament and Meyer’s Briggs Type Indicator. The assessment asks you to choose one of two ways to finish thirty-six statements. The results can help you define your skills and talents – and possibly direct you to various career paths.
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.
www.lifeworktransitions.com/exercises/exercs.html
This website is a companion to the book “Lifework Transitions.” Chapter Two of this book is dedicated to skill assessment, and this site includes several different skill surveys for you to complete and review.
www.mapping-your-future.org/planning
This site can help you find out how to choose a career and how to reach your career goal. You can use this site to develop a career plan, assess your skills and interests, research occupations, compare your skills and interests with the occupations you’ve selected, and choose a career goal. It also provides resources for resume writing, interviewing techniques, job search, and more!
http://career.missouri.edu/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=146
This site contains a career interest game, based on Dr. John Holland’s work, which will help you find out more information on career possibilities, co-curricular activities and identifications that correspond to your strongest interest areas. It will give you additional ways of checking out your career related interests and getting involved in your career planning.
www.assessment.com/custom/job/
This site provides a career analysis that yields: the top 11 to 20 jobs with your greatest potential for success, a sample of each section of your narrative results, 5 free job matches to over 900 O-Net job descriptions with complete Occupational Outlook Handbook documentation, a search for real jobs that match your personal motivations, and a free resource guide for career changers. Additional assessments, which are more in-depth, are fee-based.
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.
This is a self-assessment tool designed to help you find a good occupational match based on your interests and skills. It includes values, interests and skills inventories.
www.princetonreview.com/cte/quiz/default.asp?menuID=0&careers=2
This site contains a 24 item quiz, based on the “Birkman method,” which leads you to a list of possible careers (based on your personal interests and styles). It then provides descriptive information about those careers.
www.quintcareers.com/online_assessment_review.html
This site allows you to read their reviews of the major online assessment tools (free and paid) for job seekers. The websites of each of these assessments is easily accessible from this site.
http://www.acinet.org/acinet/skills_home.asp
This site provides a tool to build a list of your skills, identify occupations that require your skills, and identify gaps in your skills or education for each occupation. This is for persons entering the workforce, students considering potential careers, or persons considering a jump from one occupational field to another.
This site provides a personality assessment that is not strictly career oriented, but it does provide insight that can be applied to careers. It ranks you on scales of close-minded vs. open to new experiences, disorganized vs. conscientious, introverted vs. extroverted, disagreeable vs. agreeable, and calm vs. high strung.
This site is designed to help you with career choices, career changes, career planning, job search, and choosing a college major or training program. More than 5, 000 people visit daily for professional career guidance.
This site is a collection of free assessments offered by Psychometrics Canada, Ltd., a developer of assessments for career counselors. You must register to use the tools, but the service is free. You then have access to their Personality Index, the Career Values Scale, the Career Interest Inventory, and the Career Competency Explorer (skills inventory). Each of these also has an extended component and report, available for a nominal fee.
This is an on-line assessment that is similar to the Myers-Briggs, and gives results in Myers-Briggs types. The basic personality assessment is free, but the more detailed version is fee-based.
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.