Career Interest Assessments
CHOICES - Choices is a free online career exploration program for UNCW students that includes a database of over 650 occupations. Choices contains national and North Carolina career data, including occupational descriptions; related web sites; education needed; related skills, abilities, and work values; job outlook; and earnings. Choices also includes the “Interest Profiler”, an assessment that will help identify occupations that match your career interests. Other built-in assessments include the “Work Values Sorter” to identify occupations that match your work values, and the “Career Finder” to identify occupations that fit several of your preferred career characteristics, such as educational level, earnings, career areas, etc. Other sections of Choices will help you find information about specific graduate or professional school programs throughout the country, as well as write a quick resume or practice job interview questions. Click this link for login information: http://www.uncw.edu/stuaff/career/students/choices.htm
Self-Directed Search The SDS is the most widely used career interest inventory in the world. Whether you are looking for a college major, beginning a job search, or thinking about a career change, the SDS will provide valuable career information. Students can take a paper version of the SDS in the Career Center for $3. The online SDS takes 15 minutes and costs $9.95. Your 8-16 page personalized report will appear on your screen. This printable assessment report provides a list of the occupations and fields of study that most closely match your interests. We strongly recommend that you make an individual appointment with a career counselor to discuss your results. Call the UNCW Career Center @ 962-3174.
TypeFocus Personality Profile: A free personality assessment together with a printable two-page report relating personality strengths to careers. Sixty-six item questionnaire clarifies type preferences similar to the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. http://typefocus.com Type Profiles In-depth descriptions of the 16 types identified by the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, the Jung Typology Test, or the TypeFocus Personality Profile. http://www.typelogic.com/
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator The MBTI is the most widely used personality inventory in the world. The preferences suggested by the MBTI can help you make career and personal decisions, with scores highlighting preferences on four dimensions. The various combinations of these preferences result in 16 personality types, which relate to career choices, communication modes and learning styles. The MBTI is taken online, and the results provided during an individual appointment with a career counselor, or through group feedback in a class, etc. Cost to UNCW students: $11. Contact the UNCW Career Center to take the MBTI.
Self-Assessment Resources: Self-assessment is a process by which you learn more about yourself -- what you like, what you don't like, and how you tend to react to certain situations. Knowing these things can help you determine what occupations might fit you better than others and what kind of work situation might work better for you. Check out the link below for some other assessment tools and resources. http://www.rileyguide.com/assess.html
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