Career Assessment Tests
See also: Career Counseling, Executive Coaching
Burned out!! Tired of your career!! Don't know which direction to turn. Testing can be one of the most effective tools to help you focus and provide some direction in revitalizing your career. Some of the tests used for this purpose include the following:
Myers Briggs Type Indicator. The MBTI is designed to assist you in identifying your personality type. Organizational preferences of your personality type are identified to profile the type of work and organizational setting that most appeals to your type. Among the items identified are: characteristics of your personality type; contributions to the organization; leadership style; preferred work environment; and areas for personal development. (time to complete: 30-45 minutes)
Campbell Interest and Skill Inventory. This assessment assists you in determining the interests and skills that are important to you in your work. Specific careers that match your interests and skills will be identified to assist you in focusing your career exploration efforts. These identified occupations can then be cross referenced with those identified in the MBTI. (Time to complete: 45 minutes)
Career Anchors. This assessment helps you to determine the factors that motivate you in your career. It represents your perceptions of who you are regarding areas of competence, motives, and values that you will not give up in your career. When you know your career anchor, you empower yourself to confront career choices and decisions in a manner consistent with what you truly value and how you really see yourself. (time to complete: 20 minutes)
Self Assessment. There are four open ended instruments in this assessment: Skills Inventory; Values Inventory; Personal Characteristics; Sentence Completion. Your responses on these self assessments are compared to your responses on the standard assessments. (time to complete: 1 hour)
FIRO-B (Fundamental Interpersonal Relations Orientation-Behavior). This is a personality instrument that measures how you typically behave with other people and how you expect them to act toward you. This information can provide you with a better understanding of your behavior and the behavior of others in your organization. The results can help you:
