Choosing a career often begins with self-assessment.
The assessments described below can help you learn more about your Interests, personality, skills, and values.
No single test can tell you "what you should be." Successful career planning may require an appointment with a Career Specialist.
Take time to explore your interests, skills, personality, and values. You can also ask friends, family members, teachers, or mentors if they see the same qualities in you as you see in yourself.
A self-assessment can simply mean asking yourself questions like the following :
- What do I like to do?
- What activities do I find motivating, fun, interesting and enjoyable?
- What subjects did I enjoy in high school?
- What skills and abilities do I have or want to develop?
- What characteristics are important to me in the work place?
- What do I want to accomplish in my career?
We recommend you use more than one career assessment before making a decision and strongly encourage you to seek assistance in interpreting and discussing your individual results.
Assessments sponsored by Career Services
- Career Cruising (www.careercruising.com) offers Career Matchmaker, a survey to help you find careers related to your interests. You can then use Career Cruising to explore those careers. Please call Career Services at 920-498-6250 for the password and username.
- WisCareers (http://wiscareers.wisc.edu) helps you assess your career interests, work values and skills. Take any of the inventories, then enter your scores to learn about occupations that match your results. Please call Career Services at 920-498-6250 for the access code.
- MyPlan (www.myplan.com) uses personality tests, interest inventory, and other tools to help you choose a career. Click here for instructions.
Other Online Assessments and Career Information
O*Net http://online.onetcenter.org/ "Skills Search" allows you to explore and identify your skills, with an opportunity to consider careers related to your skills.
CareerVoyages www.careervoyages.gov is designed to provide information on high growth, high demand occupations along with the skills and education needed to attain those jobs.
Bureau of Labor Statistics Kids Page is designed to provide information for k12 students about careers related to class subjects.