Assessment Tools

Our career services offer a variety of career assessment options to assist you in discovering your interests, decision-making skills, values, and personality preferences.

Strong Interest Inventory (SII)

The Strong Interest Inventory (SII) is a psychological inventory used in career assessment or educational guidance to show how certain interests compare with the interests of people successfully employed in specific occupations. It's an assessment that can assist you to make educational and/or occupational choices.

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is a personality questionnaire that illustrates how your personality type affects your career exploration and discusses the benefits of choosing a job that is a good fit for your type. It also explores preferred work tasks and work environments—as well as most popular and least popular occupations—for any type, and offers strategies for improving job satisfaction.

Clifton StrengthsFinder

The Clifton StrengthsFinder gives a customized report that lists your top five talent themes, along with action items for development and suggestions about how you can use your talents to achieve academic, career, and personal success.

Career Thoughts Inventory

The Career Thoughts Inventory theory-based assessment and intervention resource is intended to improve thinking in career problem solving and decision making. The CTI measures dysfunctional career thoughts that may inhibit your ability to effectively engage in the career decision-making process.

You must meet with a counselor before beginning any of these assessment tools. Directions for taking the assessment will be distributed to you after the initial meeting with the counselor. There's no charge for any of these assessments.

Self-Guided Tools

You may prefer some self-guided tools:

The U.S. Department of Labor’s CareerOneStop offers a variety of self-assessments online at no charge, including:

• The Skills Profiler - identifies skills and matches them to jobs
• O*NET's Ability Profiler - matches strengths with occupations
• O*NET's Interest Profiler - identifies broad interest areas
• O*NET's Work Importance Locator - identifies job features that are important to you
• The Employability Checkup - provides a snapshot of your employability 

OR, you might want to start by simply asking yourself some questions:

• When you were little, what did you want to be when you grew up? What did you want to do?
• Was there someone in your life that you admired? What did she or he do for work?
• What do you want to do (accomplish)?
• What is your favorite saying or motto? What does this tell you about your values and goals?
• When I think about doing (being)_____, I feel ______.
  Are your feelings positive? Energizing? Exciting? Inspiring? Healthy? Involving the whole person? In line with your values? Or, are your feelings negative? Do you feel tired considering this path? Does this idea feel overwhelming? Does it make you want to cry? Do you feel resigned or depressed? What are your feelings telling you?

Consider making an appointment with Career Services to explore these and other questions more fully. The Career Counselor can provide you with additional tools to help you in your discernment process.