Career Counselors
A career assessment will guide you in the direction of selecting the right career for yourself. They are available over the Internet and also through help from a qualified career counselor.
Career counselors are qualified to administer a career assessment. They administer and score assessment tests and interpret the results to find your strengths and weaknesses. They advise you and make suggestions to make sure you’re on the right track.
Experts do not find free career assessments available over the Internet reliable enough to completely depend on them.
Online Career Assessments
A number of assessments are available online, so you need to check them out and compare them first to find the ones that will meet your needs. However, they may not be hundred percent reliable.
According to some experts, online career assessments can provide you with direction, ideas and even guidelines to careers that you would never have thought of. These suggestions will make it well worth the effort to further explore them to find out if they would be of interest to you.
The more assessments you go through, the more you will learn about yourself in the process. These assessments will finally help you ascertain which of the tests will provide you with reliable results.
Those results will give you the tools needed to make positive changes, and will also serve to give your career some direction.
Interpreting the Results
A good way to deal with online assessments is to retain printouts of the results of each test that you take. Later on, compare them and see if you can visualize a “career pattern” emerging. A definite pattern will appear, and the results of these tests will show you exactly where you fit in.
Sometimes you will be confronted with a result that may appear out of character for you. It is okay to disregard a few negative results if they do not fit the pattern.
You should never rely completely on online assessments for career guidance.
Follow up on the assessment results by consulting a qualified counselor. You should then compare the online test results with other direct results obtained from the assessments conducted by the counselor. The counselor will assist you in interpreting those results and in positively incorporating them into your career.
You should make the entire career assessment process part of an integrated effort of merging the results with your other self-directed interests and activities. This will help you recognize and improve upon your strengths and weaknesses.
You can read more about online career assessments and the tools towards self-discovery. You will enjoy indulging in the career assessments and making appropriate changes.
Tony Jacowski is a quality analyst for The MBA Journal. Aveta Solution’s Six Sigma Online offers online six sigma training and certification classes for six sigma professionals including, lean six sigma, black belts, green belts, and yellow belts.
