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
Offered through this website, this tool will help you explore your interests, skills and values and how they relate to Rutgers University majors and general career options.
- Focus Career & 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.
- 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:
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