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 undergraduate or 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 complimentary, while others require a fee. DeVry's career services team can also offer career direction exercises. Contact your advisor for more information.
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Assessment www.myersbriggs.org
This 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
This is a respected career-planning tool used by career placement
experts. SII's 300-plus questions measure your interest 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.
Human Metrics Web Site 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.
MAPP Assessment www.assessment.com
MAPP, a unique assessment, helps identify your educational and
career potential. Results are delivered directly to your
email address. Fee required.
The Career Key www.ncsu.edu/careerkey
This online tool will first help you identify your interests,
then guide you toward corresponding college majors and educational
programs. Fee required.
TypeFocus www.typefocus.com
This assessment tool helps identify personality strengths and
how they correlate with specific career fields. Fee required.
College911 www.college911.com
As the name suggests, this assessment provides valuable and immediate
help in determining specific colleges and programs of study
well suited to you. No fee required.
Career Colleges.com www.careercolleges.com
Learn more about yourself through this career assessment tool,
designed to reveal your personality, aptitudes and interests,
and career fields that best correlate to them. No fee required.
