Assessments of Career Interests 
Assessments of Personality Preferences 
Other Assessment Sites 

Assessments of Career Interests 

Career Key
A free public service on the web to help people make sound career decisions. The Career Key helps you identify your career interest codes and related occupations similar to Holland's Self-Directed Search.
http://www.careerkey.org/english 

Princeton Review Career Quiz
Think of how happy you'd be to go to work each day saying to yourself, "I want to," not "I have to." The difference? It's simply matching the right person with the right place. For most people achieving that perfect fit isn't that simple.

Welcome to The Princeton Review 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!

The people who created the Birkman Method developed The Princeton Review Career Quiz. This summary quiz is designed only to give you a taste of the full tool, which constructs a much deeper and more accurate individual profile. http://www.review.com/career/careerquizhome.cfm?menuID=0&careers=2 

CareerZone
Work environments can be divided into the six broad interest areas. These can be combined in many different ways. Knowing your unique combination of interests can assist you in determining jobs that suit you best.
http://www.explore.cornell.edu/newcareerzone/assessment/

 
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Assessment of Personality Preferences 

HUMANMETRICS: Jung Typology Test
According to the Jung - Myers-Briggs typology all people can be classified using four criteria: 
Extroversion - Introversion Sensing - Intuition 
Thinking - Feeling Judging - Perceiving

Different combinations of the criteria determine a type.
For example: ISTJ Introvert Sensing Thinking Judging 
You will obtain your type formula, strength of the preferences 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. http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp 

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/ 

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Other Assessment Sites 

Transferable Skills Survey
Self assess 62 skills in five categories: Communication; Research & Planning; Human Relations; Organization, Management & Leadership; and Work Survival. http://www.d.umn.edu:80/student/loon/car/self/career_transfer_survey.html 

The VARK
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. http://www.vark-learn.com/english/page.asp?p=questionnaire

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 

Other Assessments

FOCUS 
FOCUS is an online career exploration tool that includes a battery of seven assessments, five of which, lead to lists of matching occupations. Students will have the opportunity to explore occupations in depth, and are given the tools needed to help them narrow down their career alternatives. At its core, FOCUS offers a clean, simple to follow interface, that is well liked by students and requires very little guidance from a counselor. Students should visit Career Services to access this assessment tool.

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) 

Hollands Self Directed Search (SDS) 
The SDS helps people with a wide range of vocational uncertainties, including those who wonder what career to follow, those who want to support a tentative choice, and those who want to make sure they have not overlooked obvious alternatives.

The Major-Minor Finder 
The Major-Minor Finder is designed to acquaint you with the facts and information concerning most of the major fields of study offered in two-year and four-year college programs. It will help you explore representative college majors.