Peronsality & Career interest inventories
When attempting to decide on a career, individuals typically choose from choices presented to them during their adolescence. The goal of this section is to allow you to examine your personal characteristics and how they might lend themselves to jobs you may have never imagined. Hopefully, these useful sites will broaden your perspective and give you additional options when looking down the road to your future career!!
(Free) Personality Assessment & Career Interest Inventories
Keirsey Temperament and Character Web Site
The Keirsey Temperament Sorter®-II (KTS®-II) is the most widely used personality instrument in the world. It is a powerful 70 question personality instrument that helps individuals discover their personality type. The instrument should take you no longer than 10 – 15 minutes. If you take much longer than that, it means that you are thinking too hard. The results of the sorter are instantaneous, and can be accessed immediately.
The KTS-II provides individuals with a starting place, where they can first learn about themselves, and then learn about others. You can only figure out where you’re going when you first look at where you’re starting from. This has implications for your personal life – your relationships with family members and friends, understanding your natural talents and preferences; your school and career choices – finding out what you really enjoy learning and doing; and career success - leadership development, team building, managing others, working with customers, communicating to people who are different from you, resolving conflict and leveraging your greatest talents.
http://www.keirsey.com/sorter/register.aspx
Holland's Career Interest Inventory - Long (45 minutes??) but really good info.
This is one of the oldest and most valid inventories ever used. Frequently used by university college's to help students find direction to picking majors and career choices. It examines your interests and breaks things down into 6 groups: Artistic, Social, Enterprising, Realistic, Conventional, & Investigative. By examining your 3 highest categories, it can help in giving you options for future jobs, and possible college majors to investigate. BOSTOCK GIVES 2 THUMBS UP!!
Advice:
Don't login with your personal email address, Don't provide your home phone number!!
Skip Advertisements - they put a number of them in there... just click "No Thanks" or "Skip this ad..."
Print or copy PAGE 8!!! You need this!!
(Once done, bring it to Mr. Bostock and he will assist you with interpretation!!)
It's free, but they do charge for pages 13-15 - DON'T PAY... unless you really have the money to burn!!
Similar Minds Career Test - Short
Answer 71 questions in approximately 20 minutes. View your sample report straightaway. See which job tasks you prefer and the top 11-20 jobs that suit you. Follow a link to more research material – this is where you are offered the chance to purchase a more detailed report.
http://similarminds.com/career.html
Career Focus 2000 Interest Inventory - Long
Which career direction should you pursue? If that's a question that you've been asking yourself, we can help! 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.
The CF2II is ideally suited for use by high school and college students, as well as adults who wish to identify career options related to their personal interests. Completion of the CF2II takes approximately 20-30 minutes. If you wish, you may stop at any time, save your answers, and return at a later time to complete the inventory. There is no fee to take the CF2II.
http://www.iccweb.com/careerfocus/index.asp
MAPP™ Assessment
This assessment (MAPP stands for Motivational Appraisal of Personal Potential) is designed to reveal your motivations, interests and talents for work. You’ll need to register with the site first. The free mini-analysis is a sample of the larger analysis you can purchase and includes five job matches with occupational documentation, a selection of real job matches and a free resource guide for career changers. (Note: many websites offering career tests are offering the MAPP assessment.)
http://www.assessment.com/MAPPMembers/Welcome.asp?Accnum=06-5442-000.00
Job & Wage outlook
Have you ever wondered what income a marine biologist makes yearly? Is there a demand for them? Would this be a good job to go into if you are interested. The government sites below, especially the Occupational Outlook Handbook, give detailed wage information for jobs as well as what kind of future demand there will be for that particular occupation. It is highly advised that when examining options for schooling or employment, that you examine the potential employment & wage opportunities for the job in question. Also, training and educational requirements are available for each job type which you can use in selecting the best plan for pursuing the job that is just right for you.
Occupational Outlook Handbook
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Job Descriptions, Salary Estimates and Education Resources for all Major Careers. This is a terrific site to research occupations!!!!
If you ever wanted to know about what the work conditions , training & educational requirements, salary & wages, as well as current/future demands for a particular job, then this is the site for you!! Browse around, you'll be surprised by what you find.
http://www.bls.gov/oco/
Idaho Occupational Employment & wage Report (2007)
This site is a single PDF file that has the employment statistics for the State of Idaho. Using this, you can find the number employees in a certain occupation, as well as the average and median salary given in the state of Idaho for each particular job.
(hint: The list is very long, so use the "Search" feature and type in the job you are looking for)
http://lmi.idaho.gov/Portals/13/PDFS/2007%20Wage%20Survey%20Report.pdf
Payscales for 800 US Occupations
http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm#b00-0000