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The Right Tools Can Help You Find The Right Job
Figuring out which job or career is right for you can be an
enormous challenge. Ideally, a job should fit your interests,
leverage your skills, and offer the opportunity for professional
advancement and development. This may be easier said than done
however, especially since there could be several job
possibilities that meet these criteria. You may be interested
in pursuing a career in sales, but also have a keen interest
human resources, or teaching.
Whether you have some sense of what you want to do, or have
absolutely no idea what job or career is right for you, a self
assessment test may help you narrow in on the right focus.
Following is a list of websites offering personality and
career-related assessment tests that may help you figure out
which jobs to pursue, and which ones to rule out. You may learn
for example that you are outgoing and proactive, and therefore a
job in sales could leverage these strengths. While no test will
tell you exactly what you should do for a living, you could gain
some valuable insight into yourself and the type of job you are
best suited for. Good luck!
Personality assessment test
Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI):
www.humanmetrics.com
Keirsey Sorter:
www.keirsey.com
and
www.advisorteam.com
Enneagram:
www.enneagraminstitute.com
Career-related personality assessments
The MAPP Test
(Motivational Appraisal of Personal Potential}:
Assessment.com.
Dr. John C. Holland's Self-Directed Search (SDS) test:
www.self-directed-search.com.
Spencer Stuart:
www.spencerstuart.com.
These tests may not provide all of the answers, however
contemplating your skills, strengths, interests and personality
can help you choose a more rewarding career path and realize
more of your true potential.
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