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Career Assessments

Career assessments are available to help individuals choose college majors and career plans. Students and alumni are eligible to use them to facilitate their career decision making in cooperation with and at the discretion of a career counselor. An appointment with a career counselor is necessary prior to career assessment use.

Some of the assessments utilized at Career Services include:

Rutgers Online Career Planning Site

The Rutgers online career planning site is offered through this website to help you explore your interests, skills, and values and how they relate to Rutgers University majors and general career options.

Focus Career and Educational Planning Solutions

Focus helps you to assess your interests, values, skills, personality, and leisure preferences to assist with exploring career options and choice of major.

Campbell Interest and Skills Survey

The Campbell Interest and Skills Survey (CISS) is an interest inventory that assesses self reported interests and skills. It is designed to assist you with understanding how your interests and skills relate to the world of work.

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator

This personality instrument is based on psychological types and temperaments. It provides information about your personality style and the way that you interact with the world. This information is used to help you understand the relationship between personality and careers.

Self-Directed Search

The Self Directed Search is a self scored inventory that can be used to explore and identify majors and careers based upon interests and skills.

SkillScan

The SkillScan is a card sort exercise that explores seven categories of skills. It will help you to identify and label your skill sets. The card sort results can then be linked to career options. It can also assist with career development concerns including resume writing and interviewing techniques.

Strong Interest Inventory

The Strong Interest Inventory provides information on overall patterns of interests that can be explored for both immediate and long-range career, educational and leisure planning. It is designed to expand your thinking in the areas of choosing a major and choosing or changing a career.

No assessment instruments can make your career decisions for you. But they can be helpful tools for gathering information about your interests, skills, personality style, and the world of work. This information will help you make appropriate career decisions.

Schedule an appointment with a career counselor to determine if any of these assessments are appropriate choices for you.

	Career Center at 46 College Avenue, 732-932-7997
	Career and Interview Center, Busch Campus Ctr., 732-445-6127

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Updated 8/1/06