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Career Interest Assessments
Personality Preferences Assessments
Other Assessment Sites

 

Career Interest Assessments

CHOICES - NEW ONLINE VERSION COMING FALL 2006

A free ONLINE career exploration program that includes a database of over 500 occupations. Choices contains national and North Carolina career data, including descriptions, web sites, education, skills and abilities, work values, job outlook and earnings. Choices is available on all ten student computers in 104 & 106 University Union. Choices also is available through any computer with access to the UNCW network - all computer labs, desktops, and wireless laptops.

Click this link for login information: http://www.uncw.edu/stuaff/career/choices.htm

PRINCETON REVIEW CAREER QUIZ

Think of how happy you'd be to go to work each day saying to yourself, "I want to," not "I have to." The difference? It's simply matching the right person with the right place. For most people achieving that perfect fit isn't that simple.

Welcome to The Princeton Review Career Quiz! Take this 24-question quiz that asks easy stuff about you, and then we'll analyze your answers to determine your most likely interests and work style. With this information, we'll help guide you to careers that would likely suit you--and, more importantly, that you'd enjoy!

The people who created the Birkman Method® developed The Princeton Review Career Quiz . This summary quiz is designed only to give you a taste of the full tool, which constructs a much deeper and more accurate individual profile. http://www.review.com/career/careerquizhome.cfm?menuID=0&careers=2

CAREERZONE

Work environments can be divided into the six broad interest areas. These can be combined in many different ways. Knowing your unique combination of interests can assist you in determining jobs that suit you best.
http://www.explore.cornell.edu/newcareerzone/assessment/

Assessment of Personality Preferences

HUMANMETRICS: Jung Typology Test:

According to the Jung - Myers-Briggs typology all people can be classified using four criteria: Extroversion - Introversion  Sensing - Intuition -
Thinking - Feeling  Judging - Perceiving

You will obtain your type formula, strength of the preferences and type description as a result of the Jung Typology Test. It may help you to identify your general life style and your style in certain fields of activity.

http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp

TypeFocus Personality Profile:

A free personality assessment together with a printable two-page report relating personality strengths to careers. Sixty-six item questionnaire clarifies type preferences similar to the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. http://typefocus.com

Type Profiles

In-depth descriptions of the 16 types identified by the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, the Jung Typology Test, or the TypeFocus Personality Profile. http://www.typelogic.com/

KnowYourType:

To hear a brief audio clip describing your personal type preferences from the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator or the Humanmetics inventory, click on the link below, select your four-letter type from the drop-down menu, then click on your type on the top left of the page . http://www.knowyourtype.com/

 

Other Assessment Sites

Transferable Skill Survey:

Self assess 62 skills in five categories: Communication; Research & Planning; Human Relations; Organization, Management & Leadership; and Work Survival. http://www.d.umn.edu:80/student/loon/car/self/career_transfer_survey.html

Measure Your Soft Skills Smarts:

http://content.monstertrak.monster.com/resources/archive/jobhunt/softskills/

The VARK:

This questionnaire aims to find out something about your preferences for the way you work with information. You will have a preferred learning style and one part of that learning style is your preference for the intake and output of ideas and information. http://www.vark-learn.com/english/index.asp

Self-Assessment Resources:

Self-assessment is a process by which you learn more about yourself -- what you like, what you don't like, and how you tend to react to certain situations. Knowing these things can help you determine what occupations might fit you better than others and what kind of work situation might work better for you. Check out the link below for some other assessment tools and resources. http://www.rileyguide.com/assess.html

Also available through Career Services is the Self-Directed Search (SDS) interest inventory for $3 and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) for $10.  We strongly suggest you make an appointment with a career counselor to discuss your results.

Self-Directed Search
The SDS is the most widely used career interest inventory in the world. Whether you are looking for a college major, beginning a job search, or thinking about a career change, the SDS will provide valuable career information. Students can take a paper version of the SDS in Career Services for $3. The online SDS takes 15 minutes and costs $9.95. Your 8-16 page personalized report will appear on your screen. This printable assessment report provides a list of the occupations and fields of study that most closely match your interests. http://www.self-directed-search.com/