Take Stock of Your Interests and Aptitudes for Career Success

Assessing your career choices from time to time can be a valuable exercise. Whether you recently began your graduate education, embarked on your professional career years ago or are thinking of retooling your skills to enter a new field, it's important to take stock of your interests and aptitudes.

Following are links to a few online career assessment instruments. Some assessments are free, while others require a fee. Keller's career services staff can also offer career direction exercises. Contact your advisor for more information.

Human Metrics Assessment www.humanmetrics.com Tap into this site — at no cost — to take advantage of thought-provoking assessments that can provide insight into your skills, aptitudes, interests, strengths, etc.

Career Colleges.com www.careercolleges.com Learn more about yourself through this no-cost career assessment tool, designed to reveal your personality, aptitudes and interests, and the career fields that best correlate to these.

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Assessment www.myersbriggs.org The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, a popular assessment tool used worldwide, helps you understand your personality preferences and then, based on these characteristics, provides a list of career fields that potentially suit your personality. Fee required.

Strong Interest Inventory www.cpp.com The Strong Interest Inventory is a respected career-planning tool used by career placement experts. SII's 300-plus questions measure your interests in a wide range of career options, hobbies and leisure activities, as well as your compatibility with different personality types. Based on answers you provide in the 25-minute exercise, SSI lists potentially ideal career choices along with related career fields and sample job descriptions. Fee required.

MAPP Assessment www.assessment.com MAPP is a unique assessment that helps identify your educational and career potential. Results are delivered directly to your email address. Fee required.

TypeFocus www.typefocus.com This assessment tool helps identify personality strengths and how these strengths correlate with specific career fields. Fee required.