Find the Best Career for You
You know it's out there - you just have to discover it! Use the assessment tools, personality tests, career information, and online education resourcesto help you in your career planning:
Career Assessment Tests
Career assessment used to be a process of simply following your gut feelings and doing a little research into your fields of interest. Today, career assessment is much more refined and looks not only at job fields but also spotlights the focus on you, the individual. This is critical to finding a career that will bring you happiness and satisfaction.
Key to jobs that are motivating and rewarding
Testing is an integral part of the process. Each of us is unique and career assessment tests help us identify personal traits that match up with skills and competencies for various fields of work. Your talents, abilities, values, likes and dislikes are all measured to narrow down the choices to jobs that fit your lifestyle interests. As a result, the feedback will give you an opportunity to explore careers that you'll enjoy and find highly motivating and personally rewarding.
How career assessment tests work
Testing methodologies vary but in general, career tests ask a battery of questions that attempt to:
1. Clarify your interests
2. Match your skills and competencies to specific fields
3. Identify your strong points and individual work style
4. Determine whether you like people jobs, analytical jobs, hands-on jobs, etc.
5. Point you to jobs that will lower your stress
6. Guide you in your education
A sense of purpose in your job search
After you've taken a career test and have identified particular career paths, you can begin exploring and investigating jobs in each field knowing you're not going about it blindly. Instead of being overwhelmed by the choices and possibly ending up in a career of drudgery, you'll be looking at specific jobs that will give you satisfaction and a sense of purpose. Your exploration should include:
1. Reading job descriptions to learn required skills, and competencies
2. Identifying education paths
3. Talking with employers in the field
4. Talking with people already working in the field
5. Learning about the typical work environment in your chosen field
6. Learning about related jobs
7. Reviewing compensation and advancement opportunities
8. Gauging the future
The competitive advantage
By testing first and then exploring jobs you'll save countless hours and will be focused in your efforts. After you've completed your investigation you'll be prepared to make informed decisions about your education and which jobs you'll apply for when you're ready.
Career assessment tests and your subsequent investigation of the job market will give you an edge on landing the job of your dreams because your personality, skills, and interests will line up with what the employer is looking for in a new hire. This competitive advantage, combined with the knowledge that you'll be embarking on a career likely to bring lasting happiness and satisfaction, makes testing a very sensible part of your personal career development plan.
Are you ready to "test yourself"?
Browse the listings below to find a test that's right for you:
Career Assessment Tools
Thursday, September 27, 2007
How do I use my personal job matches?
1. To see how your job results differ based on education, use the education drop down list.
2. Sort Jobs by clicking on the column heading. This will order jobs alphabetically or from highest to lowest.
3. Compare jobs by checking 2-3 jobs then clicking Next or Compare at the bottom of the page.
For detailed job information, click on the Job Title.
4. Click on Find Jobs to see current job openings in your area.
5. Use Advanced Options to select jobs based on salary, job growth, education or job category.
6. Back to initial matches link shows your original job matches based on your test results and the education level you entered during the registration process.
2. Sort Jobs by clicking on the column heading. This will order jobs alphabetically or from highest to lowest.
3. Compare jobs by checking 2-3 jobs then clicking Next or Compare at the bottom of the page.
For detailed job information, click on the Job Title.
4. Click on Find Jobs to see current job openings in your area.
5. Use Advanced Options to select jobs based on salary, job growth, education or job category.
6. Back to initial matches link shows your original job matches based on your test results and the education level you entered during the registration process.
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What do the different scales mean?
Salary and job growth data are collected by each state through the Occupational Employment Statistics (OES) survey, conducted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) at the U.S. Department of Labor. National trend estimates are developed by BLS. Job details are provided by the Occupational Information Network (O*NET), a comprehensive, database of worker attributes and job characteristics.
Context - includes a variety of scales with some unique and specific work context variables.
Extent - indicates the degree to which the value affects the nature of a job.
Importance - indicates the degree of importance a particular descriptor is to the job. The possible ratings range from "Not Important" (1) to "Extremely Important" (5).
Level - indicates the degree, depth or point along a continuum, to which a particular knowledge, skill or ability is needed to perform the job.
Context - includes a variety of scales with some unique and specific work context variables.
Extent - indicates the degree to which the value affects the nature of a job.
Importance - indicates the degree of importance a particular descriptor is to the job. The possible ratings range from "Not Important" (1) to "Extremely Important" (5).
Level - indicates the degree, depth or point along a continuum, to which a particular knowledge, skill or ability is needed to perform the job.
How are jobs matched to Education, Training and Experience information?
Jobs are matched education and training levels based on the following:
1. A job is mapped to the level that best describes the education or training needed by most
workers to become fully qualified.
2. Postsecondary awards, if generally needed for entry into the occupation, take precedence over work-related training even though additional skills or experience may be needed for a worker to become fully qualified.
3. The length of time an average worker generally needs to become fully qualified through a combination of on-the-job training and experience is used to categorize jobs in which a postsecondary award is not needed for entry.
1. A job is mapped to the level that best describes the education or training needed by most
workers to become fully qualified.
2. Postsecondary awards, if generally needed for entry into the occupation, take precedence over work-related training even though additional skills or experience may be needed for a worker to become fully qualified.
3. The length of time an average worker generally needs to become fully qualified through a combination of on-the-job training and experience is used to categorize jobs in which a postsecondary award is not needed for entry.
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