Resources

Career Resources

ASSESS YOURSELF

MBTI

The Myers-Briggs Company’s official MBTI assessment – “Let personality insights guide your success” (fee)

16 Personalties

16Personalities – Personality test (free) and Professional success tests (fee). Uses the same four-letter naming model as Myers-Briggs.

CliftonStrengths

CliftonStrengths – “Gain an improved awareness of your natural talents and the confidence to describe them” (fee)

Career Directions

These free resources are provided by the U.S Department of Labor. They all use the same underlying database of occupations, with different front end search and assessment tools.

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Career One Step – Answer 30 quick questions online and will then get a list of careers that might be a good fit for your interests, along with pay levels and whether that career is a growing or not.  You’ll be able to click on a profile of each career option.

My Next Move

My Next Move– If the Career One Step assessment didn’t hit the mark, try this more in depth interest assessment, from which it was built. You’ll answer 60 questions and then see a list of careers with links to explore in more detail.  You can also search careers by keywords or industry.

ONet
O*Net – A database of occupations with even more ways to sort and discover options.

Books

Do what you are

Do What You Are: Discover the perfect career through the secrets of your personality type – see on Amazon

Working Together

Working Together: A Personality-Centered Approach to Management – see on Amazon

Onlyness

The Power of Onlyness: Make Your Wild Ideas Mighty Enough to Dent the World – see on Amazon