Not sure what type of job you’d be good at? Use any one of the 6 tools below to help you figure it out.
Casey Life Skills (For Youth)
If you have a 14 to 21 year old who is trying to figure out what they want to do, then this should help. This is a free tool that assesses the behaviors and competencies youth need to achieve their long term goals. It is best used with an adult, parent, teacher or mentor. It’s free, but you’ll need to register to use the tool (and register your student once you’re registered). This free service is provided by Casey Family Programs, the nation’s largest operating foundation focused entirely on foster care and improving the child welfare system.
The iSeek Skills Assessment
This is a fairly simple tool that allows you to rate yourself on 35 different skills and then see what occupations match those skills identified as the being most important to you. The whole thing only takes 5–10 minutes to complete, and the results are presented immediately once you’re done. Yo’ll be able to print the results page, e-mail it to someone eslse, or save the results to a free iSeek account.
Motivational Assessment of Personal Potential (MAPP)
Do you like working with people or do you like working with things? This tool will help you be able to figure it out as well as several other characteristics about work you may or may not like. It takes about 20 minutes to complete and you get the results immediately in which you’ll find out your “natural motivations and talent for work”.
Queendom.com
It’s a weird name for a website with the tag line “The Land of Tests”. This site offers a variety of personality, intelligence, and health test and quizzes including a full range of professional-quality, scientifically-validated psychological assessments designed to allow users to reach their potential through feedback and custom tailored analysis. You can register for free and take a short form of most of these assessments and tests at no cost, but some tests as well as extended personalized result reports will cost.
Career Decision-making Difficulties Questionnaire
This site has five assessment tools designed to help you clarify what your difficulties are in making a career decision. It then gives you a framework to make a decision. All of this is available for free.
Career Development eManual
These assessments from the University of Waterloo Career Services cover personality and attitude, skills and achievements, knowledge and learning style, values, interests, and entrepreneurism. Individuals outside of the University of Waterloo community are charged a fee for access which is good for 90 days. Institutions are welcome to inquire about group discounts.
More Helpful Stuff For Job Hunting
Labor Market Information State by State
Want to know what’s happening to your job, or perspective job, in YOUR state? This will tell you state-level labor market information on employment, wages, industries, and other factors affecting the world of work.
O*NET Online
This is the Occupational Information Network database of occupational information. Basically, this is THE resource for everything work related. It has information on skills, abilities, work activities, and interests associated with over 950 occupations. You can browse occupations by career cluster, industry, job family, job zone (level of education usually required), or other current interests. These make for extremely detailed occupational reports, but their accessibility and readability makes the entire system a pleasure for users as well as practitioners and educators.