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Here are some resources to explore possible careers.
PERSONALITY:
1. Personality Quiz: 16personalities.com
CAREERS:
1. Career Cluster: https://openpsychometrics.org/tests/RIASEC/
2. UofT Career Self-assessment: www.utsc.utoronto.ca/webapps/aacc-tools/SelfAssessment/cgi-bin/online_inventory.cgi
3. Career Clusters - online quiz (requires an email to login): www.educationplanner.org/students/career-planning/find-careers/career-clusters.shtml
VALUES:
Values are your beliefs about what is important or desirable. When your values line up with how you live and work, you tend to feel more satisfied and confident. Living or working in ways that contradict your values can lead to dissatisfaction, confusion, and discouragement. So there is good reason to clarify your values, and seek to match your work to them.
1. Work Values: www.vawizard.org/wizard/assessment-combined
2. Life Values - requires you to set up an account: www.lifevaluesinventory.org/the-process.html
SKILLS: Your skills describe what you like to do and what you are good at. You develop skills by training and experience that improve your ability to do tasks. Being able to identify and describe your skills allows you to answer key questions at job interviews such as What can you do for my organization? and What problems can you solve?
In the workplace, there are two kinds of skills: technical skills, and soft skills. Both types are essential for success. You may have learned technical skills from past work experience, school or training. Employers also want employees who fit in and get along well in the workplace. That requires soft skills. These are so valuable that soft skills are often the reason employers decide whether to keep or promote an employee. Some soft skills can be taught in school. But most you learn in everyday life and can improve at any time. For example:
1. Skills Profiler - skills needed for a career OR identify careers that match your skills: www.careerinfonet.org/skills/default.aspx?nodeid=20
2. Skills Assessment: www.vawizard.org/wizard/skill-assess
PERSONALITY:
1. Personality Quiz: 16personalities.com
CAREERS:
1. Career Cluster: https://openpsychometrics.org/tests/RIASEC/
2. UofT Career Self-assessment: www.utsc.utoronto.ca/webapps/aacc-tools/SelfAssessment/cgi-bin/online_inventory.cgi
3. Career Clusters - online quiz (requires an email to login): www.educationplanner.org/students/career-planning/find-careers/career-clusters.shtml
VALUES:
Values are your beliefs about what is important or desirable. When your values line up with how you live and work, you tend to feel more satisfied and confident. Living or working in ways that contradict your values can lead to dissatisfaction, confusion, and discouragement. So there is good reason to clarify your values, and seek to match your work to them.
1. Work Values: www.vawizard.org/wizard/assessment-combined
2. Life Values - requires you to set up an account: www.lifevaluesinventory.org/the-process.html
SKILLS: Your skills describe what you like to do and what you are good at. You develop skills by training and experience that improve your ability to do tasks. Being able to identify and describe your skills allows you to answer key questions at job interviews such as What can you do for my organization? and What problems can you solve?
In the workplace, there are two kinds of skills: technical skills, and soft skills. Both types are essential for success. You may have learned technical skills from past work experience, school or training. Employers also want employees who fit in and get along well in the workplace. That requires soft skills. These are so valuable that soft skills are often the reason employers decide whether to keep or promote an employee. Some soft skills can be taught in school. But most you learn in everyday life and can improve at any time. For example:
- communicate well
- think critically
- participate as a team member
- self-motivated
- flexible
- determined and persistent
- quick learner
- on time
1. Skills Profiler - skills needed for a career OR identify careers that match your skills: www.careerinfonet.org/skills/default.aspx?nodeid=20
2. Skills Assessment: www.vawizard.org/wizard/skill-assess