Objective:
To explore your interests, skills, values and personality
through career inventories and self-assessments.
Self-Discovery is the first step towards choosing your
career. Assessments are the tools that can help you to create your
unique personal profile.
Strategies:
1) Gather information about yourself through the use of
formal and informal assessments that will include strengths
and interests inventories and personality assessments.
Informal assessments can be
done by talking with family members, friends, co-workers and teachers.
Ask them to describe qualities and characteristics they see in you.
Formal assessments can be
completed in the Career Center and online, using some of the links
below. The Myers-Briggs, the Self-Directed Search
and e-Discover are all assessments that are available for free in
the Career Center, by appointment only.
2) As you complete these assessments, try to identify up
to 3 different jobs/careers that you would like to learn more about.
Links:
Assessments Connecting Interests to Careers
The
Career Interest Game - Learn more about the results of your
Self-Directed Search
O*Net Online - Click on
Find Occupations, scroll down and click on Interests. Explore the
letters in your Holland Code
The New York Career Zone -
Assessment and information related to your Holland Code
Quick
Online Personality Mosaic that yields a Holland Code
Assessments Connecting Skills to Careers
O*Net
Online Testing & Assessment Guides
Careeronestop-
Skills Profiler (scroll to bottom of screen to access)
eDiscover Program -
Must contact your Career Center to receive an ID and Password
(Catonsville: 410-455-4435, Dundalk: 410-285-9815, Essex:
410-780-6732)
The Holland Show (free self-paced
tutorial)
"MBTI" like assessment with results
according to type (free self-paced tutorial)
Assessments Connecting Careers To Personality Types
Keirsey Temperament
Sorter II
Human Metrics
The
Hemispheric Brain Dominance Test
Index
of Learning Styles (ILS)
Summary:
Now that you have learned more about yourself through
completing these assessments, you are ready to match your personal
profile to occupational possibilities.
