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STEP 1 - SELF ASSESSMENT

INTEREST, ABILITY, AND PERSONALITY ASSESSMENTS

Step 1 - Self Assessment
Step 2 - Career Planning
Step 3 - Job Search Resources


Who am I? What makes me unique? What do I have to offer? What are my strengths and weaknesses? These are the important questions for you to be asking yourself now and throughout your life. Gathering information about oneself is the first step on the path to discovering a satisfying career direction. The Internet is a great source of free and low-cost career assessment instruments to assist in developing an understanding of self including interests, aptitudes/abilities, personal traits, and values. 

Self Assessment

The following is an alphabetical listing of web sites that are sources of self-assessment tools.

Birkman International, Inc. http://www.birkman.com 
Birkman International, Inc. provides worldwide and comprehensive methodology for assessing human potential and optimizing personal and organizational performance. The Birkman Method is an innovative technology that has been used for more than fifty years to assess human potential, enhance performance, and transform corporate culture.

Career Development eManual http://www.cdm.uwaterloo.ca 
The Career Development eManual has been prepared to guide you through the necessary steps, whether you are looking for your first or twenty-first job. This comprehensive eManual is organized in an efficient and effective way.

Career Exploration http://www.experience.com 
This site promotes university-powered recruiting solutions offering employers a connection to the nation's largest network of diverse and educated talent.

CareerMaze http:/www.careermaze.com 
Online career assessment report helps you refine your present career vision or direct you down a new path; its relevant insights will add to the knowledge you need in choosing a career.

DISC Personality System http://www.discprofile.com 
The DISC Profile describes human behaviors and is a very popular assessment. DISC Profiles describe and measure human behavior in a specific environment. You cannot "pass" or "fail." There are no "right" answers, but DISC gives insight into your behavior as well as the behavior of others.

EUREKA http://www.eureka.org 
A GOLD MINE of Career and Educational Information. Tools to unlock hidden skills and discover your true personality. Match your results to promising career options.

Job Hunter's Bible.com http://www.jobhuntersbible.com/counseling/counseling.shtml  
Many interactive tests, much information, and plenty of advice to learn more about yourself. This site has tons of career articles and links to a host of other career exploration sites.

Keirsey Temperament Sorter http://keirsey.com 
One of the better on-line personality tests, complete with analysis and descriptions of temperaments and lists of famous people who share the same traits. Dr. Keirsey's descriptions of temperaments is based on the study of people and the study of psychology, including the works of Jung, Myers, Kretschmer, Spranger, Fromm, Haley, Bateson, and others. The Keirsey Temperament Sorter is similar to the Meyer-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI).

Kindomality Personal Preference Profile http://www.cmi-lmi.com/kingdomality.html 
This clever personality assessment seeks to help you identify your vocational personality in a medieval context. After answering a few brief questions, your personality is classified in medieval terms. You can see if you share the personality traits with a medieval White Knight, Doctor, Prime Minister, Shepherd, Merchant, Discoverer and many others. While medieval descriptions are used, each personality type is nicely related to today's modern workforce.

MentorU.com http://www.mentoru.com/index_asmt.asp?id=13&acode=TPR 
MentorU.com is a behavioral style survey that provides a free and informal survey to evaluate how you usually interact with others in everyday situations. This profile is used to help people develop stronger business relationships and better interpersonal skills. Those taking this profile will be added to a mailing list to receive a series of 52 FREE articles on how to improve various facets of their personal and professional life.

MIT's Office of Career Services http://web.mit.edu/career/www/workshops  
A gateway for self assessment, career exploration, and strategic implementation information and workshops.

Motivational Appraisal of Personal Potential http://www.assessment.com 
MAPP offers a unique online assessment that seeks to guide, motivate, and empower individuals to achieve their greatest educational and career potential. This site offers extensive assessments/tests and appraisals/reports that are comprehensive and uniquely personal to help individuals find work they will love.

MU Career Center http://web.missouri.edu/~cppcwww/planlinks.shtml#assess 
This site covers on-line personality and career assessment exercises and is a satellite site for many different assessment sites.

Myers Briggs Testing http://www.knowyourtype.com 
KnowYourType helps business; organizations, teams, government, individuals, couples and those in education determine their unique personality type. This site offers personality testing for groups and individuals.

National Career Development Association http://www.ncda.org/cjs/links.html 
Website for career planning that provides resources and information to assist in career development, job search, and career planning.

O'net OnLine! http://online.onetcenter.org 
The O*NET database includes information on skills, abilities, knowledge, work activities, and interests associated with occupations. This information can be used to facilitate career exploration, vocational counseling, and a variety of human resource functions, such as developing job orders and position descriptions and aligning training with current workplace needs.

Queendom http://www.queendom.com/tests.html 
Queendom is an Internet magazine providing an interactive avenue for self-exploration with a healthy dose of fun...and a serious entertainment motto. They develop their own professional quality interactive tests, giving readers the opportunity to look into their own personality, relationships, intelligence and health. They also offer advice, community, surveys and trivia quizzes on every subject imaginable.

Quick Personality Test http://www.users.interport.net/~zang/personality.html 
This is perhaps the quickest personality test around without multiple-choice questions. Just choose the pattern which appeals mostly to you and this test will tell you what you are like. A simple process but it yields interesting results. 

Qwiz - Skills Testing & Certification Site http://www.qwiz.com 
Qwiz is synonymous with pre-employment competency assessment solutions and training needs analysis serving corporate human resources, the staffing industry, Call Center, and IT markets with computer-based, cost-effective and innovative products.

RIASEC Typology http://web.missouri.edu/~cppcwww/holland.shtml 
Welcome to the Career Interests Game! This is a game designed to help match your interests and skills with similar careers. It can help explain how your personality will fit in with specific work environments and careers.

The Career Key http://www.careerkey.org/english 
The Career Key is a very comprehensive, free, on-line career assessment tool developed by Dr. Lawrence Jones. Visit the Career Key to: a) measure your personality, b) find the jobs that best fit you, and c) learn about these jobs in the Occupational Outlook Handbook. This site does an excellent job of combining interest, personality, abilities, values, and work preferences into Holland types with direct links to the Occupational Handbook Website.

Type Logic http://www.typelogic.com 
This site covers Introverted iNtuitive Feeling Perceiving (INFP).
University Test Site http:// www.mois.org/moistest.html
If you are interested in finding out what careers you might like to pursue, this site offers a brief survey of career cluster area interests. This survey is divided into three areas to help maximize its effectiveness and to specify your interests, aptitudes, and experiences.


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