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Assessments

Free, online assessments can help your customers make more realistic decisions for training and career planning.

Online, self-directed career assessments provide a wealth of information for customers. They also can save time and money for counselors. Counselors can use these no-fee online assessments as homework for individuals, exercises in career exploration workshops, and resources on handouts. Many of the results link directly with online occupation descriptions.

Help your customers learn more about the benefits of assessments:
Customers often have unrealistic expectations of how to use career-related assessments. This summary describes benefits and limitations of assessment tools.

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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
    This short, easy-to-use skill assessment matches preferred skills with occupations.

    Skills Profiler
    This comprehensive skill assessment matches preferred skills with occupations and allows customers to find more detailed descriptions of past jobs to use in resume writing and interviewing.

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


  2. 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
    Discover how your interests relate to occupations. Take this inventory and create your own "interest profile" that corresponds to matching occupations and their descriptions. The MnCareers Interest Assessment (1.15MB, .pdf) is a simple 42–statement quiz.

    O*NET's Interest Profiler
    On O*NET's Interest Profiler, customers use pen and paper to discover the type of work activities and occupations that they would like and find exciting. Customers identify and learn about broad interest areas most relevant to them.


  3. Other Assessments

    These assessments help customers consider other important factors such as work values, employability, and lifestyle realities for effective decision-making.

    Work Importance Locator
    O*NET's Work Importance Locator is a paper and pencil instrument that can help your customers learn about what they "value" in a job.

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

    Reality Check Tool
    The Reality Check Tool is an interactive way to help customers identify their desired lifestyle and learn how to realistically achieve their goals through specific career or job choices, training, or education.