Resources to Help You Find the Right Career
Personal Motivation, Job Aptitude & Personal Interest Assessments to Help You Find the Right Career
Career Assessments & Job Aptitude Guidance for Finding Your Skill Potential, Personal Motivation & Professional Goals
Online Assessments
Career Personality Assessment
CareerFitter offers an online Career Personality Assessment, showing people the careers that best fit their personality, as well as personality strengths and weaknesses. CareerFitter also offers research on how to get started and what to expect from hundreds of different careers.
Motivational Appraisal of Personal Potential
The Motivational Appraisal of Personal Potential reveals your natural motivations and talent for work. When your job matches your true motivations, work seems easier and is more fulfilling. You can take the MAPP online for free and receive initial feedback on your results. Once you've taken the MAPP, you can then choose if you wish to purchase one of several upgrade packages featuring much more detailed feedback on your results, as well as suggested career areas you can explore.
Books
Finding a Career That Works for You:
A Step-by-Step Guide to Choosing a Career and Finding a Job
Wilma Fellman helps readers better understand their interests, aptitudes, personality, and goals as the first steps in choosing a career. She provides practical tips in how to find a job in a chosen field. She instructs readers in where to search for available jobs, the best ways to prepare a resume, how to write a cover letter, and how to make the best impression during a job interview. Filled with personal stories of people who love their work, this book will become your road map to finding a career that works for you.
Test Your Own Job Aptitude: Exploring Your Career Potential
This easy-to-use handbook features a battery of tests which assesses logical, numerical, verbal, and abstract reasoning powers, as well as technological and clerical skills. The guide takes into account personality, motivation, and individual interests, and matches the results against an extensive index of over 400 careers.
The Pathfinder: How to Choose or Change Your Career
for a Lifetime of Satisfaction and Success
Nicholas Lore uses the techniques of his career-guidance network, the Rockport Institute, to make The Pathfinder a substitute for a great job counselor. Through goal setting, list making, and other techniques, the book leads readers though the process of deciding exactly what they want to do for a living and finding a way to make it happen. Lore realizes that people have different temperaments and decision-making methods, so he provides individualized advice to suit each one. He also understands that creating a new career requires courage as well as desire, so The Pathfinder devotes plenty of space to motivation and overcoming fears. While anyone looking for a new career will find direction with this guide, people who didn't know they were looking may decide to start once they go through Lore's probing self-examination process.
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