How well
do you know yourself? Want to know more about your
personality, your skills, your values, and your interests?
Self assessment is the first step of the career
planning process. It is the process of gathering information
about you in order to make an informed career decision.
A self assessment should include a look at your values,
interests, personality, and skills.
The Career Center offers a variety
of tests and assessments to help you determine which
careers
are
best suited
for
your
personality and interests.
Our range of tests and assesments include:
CISS (Campbell Interest & Skills Survey) -
Measures interests and skills; reflects the individual's
degree
of attraction to specific occupational areas and
provides a comparison to individuals employed in those
occupations.
Adds a parallel skill scale that estimates the individual's
confidence in his or her ability to perform various
occupational activities.
With the CISS®, students and adults learn how
their likes, dislikes, and self-reported skills compare
to those of individuals who are happily and successfully
employed in occupations that require post-secondary
education. This test is offered at the testing center
on the CEU campus.
Career Clues Inventory - This is a short 24
question self-administered inventory that indicates
your interest
in one of three work styles: Hands-on person, people
person, or information person. Your preferences are
then matched to various occupations.
CHOICES - CHOICES is a computer assisted
program that allows users to identify their transferable
skills with the on-line interest checklist. Reports
show related occupations.
Myers-Briggs Type Inventory - There are no right or
wrong answers on this test. Your answers will help
show how you make decisions and look at the world.
Knowing your own preference and learning about other
people's can help you understand where your special
strengths are, what kind of work you might enjoy and
be successful doing, and how people with different
preferences can relate to each other and be valuable
to society. The MBTI is a great personality examination.
Testing materials available at the
CEU Testing Center.
This test takes around 45 minutes and costs
$14.00.
Holland Personality and Work Environment Assessment -
Dr. John Holland created a system of placing people's
interests into groups. He believed every person's interests
fit into at least one group; most fit into two or three
groups. Your personal combination of Holland groups
is your Holland Code. These codes may help you identify
careers in which you might have interest.
This short
inventory can be taken on-line or with pencil anytime
at the Career Center.
Kiersey Temperament Sorter - The Kiersey Temperament
Sorter was developed by David Kiersey, and is based
upon the ideas of psychologists Carl Jung and Elizabeth
Myers-Briggs. This test divides people into 16 basic
categories or temperaments. People in any one group
will tend to act and think more like each other than
like people in other groups.
This test can be taken
anytime at the Career Center using a
paper and pencil and consists of 70 questions.
Other Assessments - Arrangements may be made for
assessment and testing services provided by the State
Department of Workforce Services as required. Testing
and Assessment is by appointment only and the individual
must be referred by a career counselor. Assessments
include the following:
Self-Directed Search (SDS) - Holland Codes
USES Interest Inventory
There is no
charge for most career tests and assessments. Some
of the tests are self-administered and self-scored;
others require professional interpretation and
administration.
Visit the CEU Testing
Center website for more information on what tests
are offered to students.
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