Career Assessments
A number of career assessments are used to help clarify future career direction. Assessments are a part of the career counselling process and used on an individual needs basis. Incorporating a variety of career interventions and counselling skills are essential for providing personalised career guidance.
Careerwise offers a wide range of tools, resources and assessments available. Here is a list of some of my most commonly used assessments.
• SII (Strong Interest Inventory - newly revised version). This comprehensive interest assessment truly is a leading edge tool of the highest quality and is accessible only to suitably qualified professionals.
• SDS (Self-Directed Search) Interest Inventory. Another top-notch assessment tool based on Holland’s theory of personality/environment type classifications. Arguably one of the most validated and researched international career assessment tools. The SDS helps individuals to increase career options considered, vocational aspirations and self-understanding.
• Insight Personality Type Assessment – provides insight into personality and temperament based on MBTI personality typology. This assessment can provide information about a client’s inherent work and decision making style, and preferred career areas and work environments.
• Values Assessment – An individual’s values are at the absolute core of any career planning service. Many people leave their job or career because of a values clash of some sort – for example a clash with the content or structure of the role, or environmental conditions. Clarifying values is essential to making career decisions that are meaningful and sustain career and life goals.
• Motivated Skills. Being good at something doesn’t necessarily mean we enjoy it, or that it ‘strengthens’ us. This is a really powerful assessment and leads to insights about our strengths, weaknesses, and passions. This activity also helps clients to explore new skill areas that they may want to develop and use more.
• AE (Ability Explorer). Often people disregard career ideas because of self-beliefs in terms of their abilities and perceptions of possible outcomes. This assessment explores self- beliefs, promotes exposure to new ability areas, highlights ability strengths, explores adequate outlets for abilities, and much more.
• CPS (Career Planning Scale). This unique career assessment provides a measure of an individual’s strengths and weaknesses for engaging in the career planning process. An excellent tool for prompting specific feedback and discussions around useful strategies and goals for counselling.
Many more life/work assessments and activities may be used depending on client individual needs.
Careerwise offers a wide range of tools, resources and assessments available. Here is a list of some of my most commonly used assessments.
• SII (Strong Interest Inventory - newly revised version). This comprehensive interest assessment truly is a leading edge tool of the highest quality and is accessible only to suitably qualified professionals.
• SDS (Self-Directed Search) Interest Inventory. Another top-notch assessment tool based on Holland’s theory of personality/environment type classifications. Arguably one of the most validated and researched international career assessment tools. The SDS helps individuals to increase career options considered, vocational aspirations and self-understanding.
• Insight Personality Type Assessment – provides insight into personality and temperament based on MBTI personality typology. This assessment can provide information about a client’s inherent work and decision making style, and preferred career areas and work environments.
• Values Assessment – An individual’s values are at the absolute core of any career planning service. Many people leave their job or career because of a values clash of some sort – for example a clash with the content or structure of the role, or environmental conditions. Clarifying values is essential to making career decisions that are meaningful and sustain career and life goals.
• Motivated Skills. Being good at something doesn’t necessarily mean we enjoy it, or that it ‘strengthens’ us. This is a really powerful assessment and leads to insights about our strengths, weaknesses, and passions. This activity also helps clients to explore new skill areas that they may want to develop and use more.
• AE (Ability Explorer). Often people disregard career ideas because of self-beliefs in terms of their abilities and perceptions of possible outcomes. This assessment explores self- beliefs, promotes exposure to new ability areas, highlights ability strengths, explores adequate outlets for abilities, and much more.
• CPS (Career Planning Scale). This unique career assessment provides a measure of an individual’s strengths and weaknesses for engaging in the career planning process. An excellent tool for prompting specific feedback and discussions around useful strategies and goals for counselling.
Many more life/work assessments and activities may be used depending on client individual needs.
