Assessments

Help your customers learn more about the benefits and limitations of assessments.

Online, self-directed career assessments can help people make sound decisions for training and career planning. These no-fee options also can save time and money for counselors. Use these assessments as homework for individuals, exercises in workshops, and handout resources. Many of the results link directly with online occupation descriptions.

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1. Skills Assessments

   Employers hire people with the skills to match their needs. Help your customers define, describe, and improve their unique skills.

   ISEEK Skills Assessment
   Matches preferred skills with occupations. It's short and easy to use.

   CareerOneStop Skills Profiler
   Matches preferred skills with occupations. It allows customers to find more detailed descriptions of past jobs to use in resume writing and interviewing.

   O*NET Ability Profiler
   Uses a pen and paper format to measure nine job-relevant abilities. These include verbal ability, arithmetic reasoning, computation, spatial ability, form perception, clerical perception, motor coordination, manual dexterity, and finger dexterity.

   Benchmark Learning CareerBooster (Role Profile) Tool
   Helps users profile their skills based on a specific job role. Users then choose an education path that allows them to meet the skill requirements for a specific position. The tool is geared toward business and IT careers.




2. Work Values

   People who find work that matches their personal and professional values tend to be more satisfied and successful. Workers can use these work values assessments to help identify what's important in terms of jobs, careers, and employers.

   O*NET Work Importance Locator
   Uses a paper and pencil format to help people learn about what they "value" in a job.

   Minnesota Importance Questionnaire (MIQ)
   Measures vocational needs and values, which are important aspects of the work personality. NOTE: MIQ does charge for distribution and scoring. Fees are dedicated to research and development in vocational psychology at the University of Minnesota.




3. Interest Inventories

   Research shows that people who enjoy their job tend to be more successful in their work. These online interest tools indicate what is enjoyable to them in the world of work.

   MnCareers Interest Assessment
   Based on Holland's Inventory of Basic Interests (1.15MB, .pdf), sometimes called the RIASEC assessment. The Holland interest assessment shows that people with similar personal interest types often like the same types of careers. Results will create an "interest profile" that corresponds to matching occupations and their descriptions.

   O*NET Interest Profiler
   Uses pen and paper format to help people discover the type of work activities and occupations they would like and find exciting. People identify and learn about broad interest areas most relevant to them.




4. Other Assessments

   These assessments help people consider other important factors so they can make effective decisions.

   CareerOneStop Employability Checkup
   Provides a snapshot of a person's ability to find employment with a specific occupation at a specific wage and location.

   Reality Check Tool
   Helps people learn how to achieve their desired lifestyle and goals through specific career or job choices, training, or education.