Career Assessment
On this page you will find resources to learn about your career interests, personality, skills, and learning style.
Interests
When you take a career interest test, it assesses what you enjoy doing now. You may change your interests in time. So don't base your career choice on current interests alone.
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"Top ten jobs for people who ....”
Read about career profiles, typical work days, majors, and history of these jobs.
Princeton Review career test
Based on the Birkman Method, The Princeton Review Career Test is a 24-question quiz that assesses interests, style, needs, and stress behavior to determine if you are red: expediting,
green: communicating,
blue: planning, or
yellow: administrating.
You have to sign in after taking the test to see the careers that are associated with your color type.
Compare interests with UC Berkeley students .
You'll have the opportunity to compare your interests to those of Berkeley students.
Click "assess my interests" to view lists of students and
descriptions of their Holland Personality Types:
- Realistic
- Investigative
- Artistic
- Social
- Enterprising
- Conventional
Personality
Career key
This is a personality test that begins by asking you about your career interests. Click "You" to go to the test page. After answering questions, you will receive scores as to your type based on Holland's 6 personality types. You will also see a list of careers that fit your type.
Keirsey Character Sorter
The Keirsey Character Sorter is a questionaire to determine your temperament:
- Rational
- Guardian
- Idealist
- Artisian
Read about the four temperaments including
celebrities with each of the temperaments.
Next, click the blue icon--Take the Keirsey Temperament Sorter,located to the left of the page.
Before taking the questionaire, you'll have to register. After that, click "Keirsey Temperament Sorter I and II." Then, when you arrive on the questionaire page, click "take the keirsey sorter."
Enneagram
At Enneagram Institute
you can take a short version of the test for
free. You can also cut and paste
icons of your type to post on your webpage, which will link back the the institute.
The nine personality types are as followings:
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The Reformer
- The Helper
- The Achiever
- The Individualist
- The Investigator
- The Loyalist
- The Enthusiast
- The Challenger
- The Peacemaker
Learning styles
Learning Styles and Strategies
An article by Richard M. Felder, North Carolina State University, on learner types:
- Active and reflective
- Sensing and intuitive
- Visual and verbal
- Sequential and global
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Last updated: 09/14/03
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