Assess Yourself

Self-assessment is an important first step in choosing that first career or changing careers, and helps you better identify occupations that you may find satisfying, based on the similarity between your work values and characteristics of various occupations.

The following set of self-directed career exploration/assessment tools will help you learn more about yourself, identify your work-related interests and values, and match your job skills with occupations in the labor market.

Take one (or all three!) assessments to learn more about yourself and to help match your interests and work values to occupations.

• Quick Assessment - Explore jobs that best match your personality. Are you realistic, investigative, artistic, social, enterprising, or conventional? Find out with this quick assessment. (Approximate completion time: 5 minutes)
• Interest Profiler - Discover what your interests are, and how they relate to the world of work. The Interest Profiler helps you decide what kinds of occupations and jobs you might want to explore based on your interests. (Approximate completion time: 30 minutes)
• Work Importance Profiler - What's important to you in a job? Discover how much you value achievement, independence, recognition, relationships, support, and working conditions in a job. Get a list of jobs that reflect your values. (Approximate completion time: 30 minutes)