Using self-assessment inventories to plan your career

One of the key step in making a career plan is choosing a major, goal setting and planning a career path. Career advisors are available throughout the world (you can ask your own Career Guru also) to help you evaluate, select and pursue a rewarding career option that is in harmony with your skills, your interests, your values, and your personality.

Some of the popular self-assessment inventories used worldwide are:

• Myers-Briggs Personality Type Indicator
• Campbell Interest and Skill Inventory

Here we are providing you links to some of the prominent self-assessment inventories for career seekers. You can explore interest inventories online through the following links:

• Jung Typology Test – Personality assessment based on the Myers-Briggs
• Princeton Review Career Quiz – Skills and interests inventory (will need to create an account)
• Work Values Inventory – Work value inventory

The Jung Typology test will give your type formula according to Carl Jung and Isabel Myers-Briggs typology along with the strengths of the preferences. It will give the description of your personality type. Princeton Review Quiz asks 24 questions which evaluate relative merit of each occupation in your view to chose what you like most. Work values calculates values dear to you at work.

Take the tests. You can write a brief review about your experience on comments to this post.