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  • Career Resource Sites

  • Free On-Line Career Assessments

  • Fee Based Assessment and Testing Services

Career Resource Sites

- Campus Career Center

- Career Guide by Industry Type

- Career Information Review

- Career Browser

- Career Journal

- Career Ship

- Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT)

- Employment and Labor Force Projections

- Ferguson's Career Guidance Center

- Guide to Your Career

- Job Profiles

- Mapping Your Future

- Occupational Outlook Handbook

- Riley Guide - A good resource site for career and job information.

- WetFeet.Com

- What Color is Your Parachute?

 

Free On-Line Career Assessments

 

Career Exploration

Identify your needs; Learn how elements of the CareerOneStop (America's Job Bank and America's Career InfoNet) may help you meet your needs; and Link to appropriate features of America's Job Bank and America's Career InfoNet or link to other appropriate resources.

 

Career Focus 2000 Interest Inventory

The purpose of the Career Focus 2000 Interest Inventory (CF2II) is to help you identify possible career goals that match your strongest personal interests. The CF2II can accomplish this objective by providing you with a means of assessing your interests and identifying matching occupations.

 

Career Interest Game

This is a game designed to help you match your interests and skills with similar careers. It can help you begin thinking about how your personality will fit in with specific work environments and careers. Come play along and see what happens!

 

Career Key

The Career Key will help you -- in choosing a career, choosing a college major or training program, and in career planning. Take The Career Key, a professional test or quiz. It measures your skills, abilities, talents, values, interests, and personality. You will identify promising jobs and get accurate career information about them.

 

Career Clues

The best way to take the mystery out making the best career decision is to gather the information necessary to make an informed choice. Use resources, experiences and connections offered at this site to guide you to a career that will fit.
 

Career Profile

The FPYC career test is no mere pop career quiz. It is designed using the latest psychometric knowledge and all content is approved by a PhD-qualified social scientist.

The career quiz is simple, fun, fast and free! The career test involves answering several pages of simple but carefully-constructed questions about yourself. Upon completion of the career quiz, you are taken directly to your free FPYC Personal Profile.

 

Career Quiz

Take this 24-question quiz that asks easy stuff about you, and then we'll analyze your answers to determine your most likely interests and work style. With this information, we'll help guide you to careers that would likely suit you--and, more importantly, that you'd enjoy!

 

Career Values Scale

Take a closer look at your values and see how they relate to your world of work. Completing the CVS will help you to identify areas of satisfaction and dissatisfaction in your career.

 

Career Videos

Short videos clips on various careers.

 

Career Zone: Target Your Interests

Work environments can be divided into the six broad interest areas on the right. These can be combined in many different ways. Knowing your unique combination of interests can assist you in determining jobs that suit you best

 

Cube

There are no right and no wrong answers, so let your imagination run free. Be as detailed and exacting as you'd like. This is your game and your private adventure. You'll be amazed by the results.

 

Enneagram Test

The Enneagram is mainly a diagnostic tool of one's emotional outlook on life.  It will not cure one's problems, but may help point out their underlying fixations.  It is also useful as a guide to how other people see the world differently. 

 

FOCUS

A computer web-based system designed to assist individuals with career and educational planning. The FOCUS system enables users to discover and learn about career options related to their personal attributes.

Users of FOCUS learn to make realistic decisions about their goals and plans, how to self-manage their careers and the importance of adaptability in these times of change.

 

Jung Typology Test

You will obtain your type formula, strength of the preference and type description as a result of the Jung Typology Test. It may help you to identify your general life style and your style in certain fields of activity.

 

Learning Styles

This questionnaire aims to find out something about your preferences for the way you work with information. You will have a preferred learning style and one part of that learning style is your preference for the intake and output of ideas and information.
 

MBTI Career Profiles

If you know your four letter MBTI Type, use this link to check out a few career possibilities. If you don't know your Type, stop by Career Services to take the assessment free of charge or use the JUNG Typology Test site above.

 

Research has shown that many of the different Personality Types tend to have distinct preferences in their choice of careers. This site incorporated observations of each type's character traits which affect career choice along with some suggestions for possible directions. Also included are lists of actual careers which the various types have chosen in their lives.

 

QUEST (Ball State University)

Quest can help you identify majors and careers that relate to your interests.   The first step is to answer a series of questions about what you enjoy.
 

Skills Assessment

A quick assessment to self-determine transferable skills into related careers.

 

Three Sides of You

Who are you? Why are you here? You have a life purpose, whether conscious of it or not. Success and happiness rest on strengths. Identify your dominant-to-least strengths with this instrument.

 

Transferable Skills Inventory

A survey consisting of five broad skill areas which are divided into more specific, skills. Your rate the skills indicating your ability in each area.

 

Type Focus

Often people need a little help to chart their future, especially when change in in the wind. You will begin to understand the underlying reasons for your career preferences.
 

Work Interest Quiz

To make a good decision about a future career, it helps to know what type of work you enjoy doing. Should I go to college or look for a job? If I try to find a job, what kind of job should it be? How do I find what jobs are best for me? The Work Interest Quiz can help you find answers.
 

Work Preference Inventory
I LIKE work assignments which enable me to...  Find out your work preference before taking that next job.

 

Pay to Use Assessment and Testing Services
 

- Birkman, Birkman International

Provides tools geared toward the specific needs of corporations and consultants, including profiling for success, building teams, coaching, and shaping successful careers. Includes information on Birkman Direct, a Birkman Questionnaire that can be completed online.


- Birkman Method
, CareerLab

A consulting firm that uses the Birkman Method to develop reports for clients. The reports may be used to streamline hiring, establish job fit, reduce turnover, and improve retention.


- Campbell Interest and Skill Survey
, U.S. News Online

Provides information on the Campbell Interest and Skill Survey (CISS) assessment test. Targeted questions and analysis may help users understand how they fit into the world of work. Survey results are compared to the results of the people who are successfully employed in the field the user is interested.


- CareerPerfect

A career guidance firm that offers online career planning through assessment inventories and testing. Users are tested on career interests, personality, values, skills, and decision-making. Includes information on resumes, interviews, and job search tips.


- CareerWay.com

CareerWay.com is a career discovery tool. Users may learn about salaries, job duties, promotion opportunities, and review career information.


- DISC Profiles

A personality assessment based on the personality style categories as Dominance, Influence, Steadiness, and Compliance. Provides information on the paper and electronic versions of the DISC Personal Profile system. Offers the the DISC Personal Profile System test and Online Reports.


- Jackson Vocational Interest Survey (JVIS), Sigma Assessment Systems

Provides career information for Students, Parents, Career Changers, and Counselors. The JVIS is an online career planning tool. The JVIS profile describes areas of career activity users had indicated an interest. Offers a Career Exploration Guide to assist in career and educational choices.

 

- Keirsey Temperament Sorter II

The #1 online personality assessment. PhD designed for career and personal development. Used by Fortune 500 companies, professional counselors, and major universities.


- Kuder Career Planning System, National Career Assessment Services, Inc.

Kuder offers career assessment and administers career tests. The online Kuder Career Planning System offers the career assessment tools Electronic Career Portfolio, Interest Inventory, Skills Assessment, and Work Values Inventory.


- MyJobCoach

Provides career assessment and coaching resources for job seekers and employers. User find information on salary negotiation and resume writing.


- O*Net Ability Profiler

The O*NET Ability Profiler measures nine job abilities: Verbal Ability, Arithmetic Reasoning, Computation, Spatial Ability, Form Perception, Clerical Perception, Motor Coordination, Finger Dexterity, and Manual Dexterity.


- O*NET Career Exploration Tools

An introduction and information on ordering O*NET's self-directed career exploration/assessment tools online. The Interest Profiler and the Work Importance Locator are available. Click on the test name to find an overview, demonstration, ordering, and download information.


- O*Net Computerized Interest Profiler

Users may use the O*NET Computerized Interest Profiler (CIP) to receive a profile of their vocational interests. The Profiler measures the following six types of occupational interests: Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional.


- O*Net Interest Profiler

Users may use the Interest Profiler to discover the type of work activities and occupations they might find interesting. The Profiler measures six types of occupational interests: Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional.


- O*Net Work Importance Locator

Users may use the Work Importance Locator to identify occupations they may find satisfying based on the similarity between a users work values and the characteristics of the occupations. The Locator measures the following six types of work values: Achievement, Independence, Recognition, Relationships, Support, and Working Conditions.


- O*NET Work Importance Profiler

Users may use the O*NET Work Importance Profiler to identify occupations a user may find satisfying, based on the similarity between work values and the characteristics of an occupation. The Profiler measures the following six type of work values: Achievement, Independence, Recognition, Relationships, Support, and Working Conditions.


- Selector Career Step

An assessment that measures a users' interest in particular tasks, experience and skills, and their ideal work environment. The assessment covers six sections: personal details, ability self-assessment, vocation, skills, and experience checklists, and my ideal job.


- Self Directed Search
, Dr. John L. Holland

A fifteen to twenty minute online test based on the Holland code. The test may assist users in finding careers or educational programs that match skills and interests. There is no charge to take the test, but there is a fee to receive a personalized report.


- Strong Interest Inventory, Careers by Design

The Strong Interest Inventory is an assessment that identifies a person's interests and compares them to individuals who are happy in their jobs. The resulting report identifies career choices based on those interests. There are various reports that may be ordered.


- Your Career Wave

Fee-based career assessment site to enable users to evaluate, develop and market their employability skills. Includes sections for learners and for advisors.


- Zenith Coaching, Inc.

Zenith Coaching, Inc. is a global network of experienced business and executive coaches. Zenith coaches help clients achieve peak performance levels and sustainable solutions to personal, leadership, and organizational challenges. Zenith Corporate and Executive Coaches are available on every continent and accessible to every country in the world.

 

 
Career Services
OSU - Marion
1465 Mt. Vernon Avenue
Marion, OH 43302-5695
Voice: (740) 389-6786
Fax: (614) 292-5817
Email: careers@osu.edu