NOTE: Many well-known, reliable, and valid assessments are
currently available online from their publishers. Therefore, we have not
included all assessment tools on this page, but invite readers to reference the
NCDA publication “A Counselor’s Guide to Career Assessment Instruments, 6th
Edition” (Wood & Hayes, 2013) for more complete information and reviews.
This short list of primarily free resources includes tools potentially suitable
for youth, young adults, and older clients, but it is necessary for the
practitioner to review each prior to using to determine the suitability for
their clientele and appropriateness to their scope of practice.
This site provides a “personality” (or preference) assessment
that returns a 4-letter code similar to the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. Users
will answer questions and be provided with detailed free information about
their type with the option to explore all 16 types. There is a strong “Our
Theory” page that describes how the assessment was created and where to go for
additional information.
The MAPP is an interest survey designed by the International
Assessment Network in Minneapolis, MN. A free sample MAPP Career Analysis is
provided to help individuals identify their preferences for working with people
or things, and other job characteristics; it also suggests some occupations
that match these preferences. The resulting report is sent to the user via
e-mail, outlining his or her “natural motivations and talent for work” and
matching these to five occupational descriptions from O*NET.
The Department of Defense provides high schools with the Career
Exploration Program as a career planning and exploration program. This is free
to the schools and students and can provide career path information that
students may not be considering. It includes an aptitude and interest
assessment with links to occupations.
This site has free online self-assessments for interests,
skills, and work values. Users who take the assessments can print and/or save
their results and compare with occupational information.
In addition to the Career Decision-making Difficulties
Questionnaire (CDDQ), this site includes seven more free assessments designed
to assist individuals in the process of making a career decision by helping
them clarify difficulties and providing a framework for career decision-making
organized into a three-stage process. Information about and access to Making
Better Career Decisions (MBCD), an Internet based career planning system, is
provided. There is a special section of the website with information
specifically for career development practitioners.
Career,
education, finance, leadership, and personal plans for success for students.
Start with the assessments and learn how to create smart goals and action
plans.
These
instruments will help individuals identify their work-related interests, what
they consider important on the job, and their abilities in order to explore
those occupations that relate most closely to those attributes.
The O*Net Interest Profiler is an assessment of client interests
based on Holland’s theory (RIASEC). This page has direct links to the four
forms of the interest profiler including a 60-question web-based version, a
30-question mobile-friendly version, a paper and pencil hand-scored version,
and downloadable software. A Spanish Language version of the online assessment
can be found at http://www.miproximopaso.org/explore/ip
This interest assessment was created by Arizona State University
to help students and clients match interests scores to occupations and college
majors.
A career guidance tool that allows students to respond to
questions and identify the top three Career Clusters of interest based on their
responses. This pencil/paper survey takes about fifteen minutes to complete and
can be used in the classroom or for presentations with audiences who have an
interest in career exploration. The survey is available in English and Spanish
and can be viewed and printed.
What's
important to you in a job? Discover how much you value achievement,
independence, recognition, relationships, support, and working conditions in a
job. Get a list of jobs that reflect your values.
From
exploration and self-assessment, to educational options and information, to
occupational information, to salary and economic trend data, CareerOneStop is a
comprehensive website with resources and tools for any stage of the career
development process. The site contains quality and up-to-date information as
well as a searchable directory of American One Stop Centers for clients to find
local career development assistance.
Careers.Org
is a source for employment, job search and career education information across
the world. It includes detailed information about over 1000 occupations,
including wages, skills, and links to corresponding college programs and
career, job and educational resources for states, cities, and counties in the
United States, as well as Canadian Provinces and international countries.
This
site contains both summary and detailed information on occupations in the US
economy as well as the ability to search for information by various criteria
such as job family, industry, skills, knowledge, interests, green jobs, bright
outlook occupations, and several others. It is produced by the federal
government, is updated frequently, and contains state and national wage
information, occupational projections, related occupations and opportunities
for more information from professional and trade associations. It is considered
to be the basic occupational information for various other websites and career
guidance systems.
This
is the “go to site” for comprehensive information on occupations and their
requirements. Occupational information can be search by several criteria such
as wages, education level, training, and job growth. It is updated and produced
every two years by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the official agency
responsible for collecting and analyzing occupational information.
NOTE: This section includes select resources that provide
industry- or occupation-specific career information categorized first by
cluster, then by field. Most are professional association websites. If you
cannot find information that matches your interest, use the resources found in
the General Occupation Information section of this webpage to search for
information specific to your desired field/occupation.


Information
on how much it costs to go to different colleges. The center uses and analyzes
several federal government databases.
This
US Government site offer you the ability to find colleges and universities and
compare them on size, cost, graduation rate, student debt pay down, salary
after attending, percent of students obtaining federal loans, and others.
Nonprofit
educational association that sponsors a nationally recognized accrediting
agency for distance education programs. The site includes distance education
activities within an institution and it provides a single source of nationally
recognized accreditation from the secondary school level through professional
doctoral degree-granting institutions. Users visiting the website can find a
searchable directory of accredited high school and college degree programs,
including some offered by federal and military schools.
Job
Corps is a free education and training program that helps young
people learn a career, earn a high school diploma or GED, and find and keep a good
job. For eligible young people at least 16 years of age that qualify as low
income, Job Corps provides the all-around skills needed to succeed in a career
and in life.
This
resource provides brief articles on tips and ideas to consider when in a career
transition. It also offers an assortment of resources that include Colleges,
Online Education, and various Guides for specific categories of workers.
This
publisher of guides to colleges provides this free searchable resource for
information on a variety of training and education programs, including undergraduate
and graduate programs, online schools, and help for international students.
Among the many descriptions of institutions and degree possibilities are
articles on applying for college (both undergraduate and graduate), selecting a
school and a program, financing education (financial aid as well as
grants/scholarships), and more.
The
publisher of U.S. News and World Report produces one of the most well-known
guides to education information on the web. Dedicated sections of this area of
the website focus on high schools, colleges, community colleges, graduate
schools, online programs, and global universities. Various articles are
provided on topic such as financial aid, STEM, writing essays, college
applications, etc. USNews.com also lists the annual rankings of colleges and
graduate schools.
The
site offers more than 750 courses in such areas as personal development and
soft skills, business and enterprise, digital literacy and financial and
economic literacy. There is even a course to assist in selecting a career path.





















This site summarizes the latest official government national
2014-2024 projections for labor force by age and ethic group, industry, and
occupation. Links are provided for additional labor force demographics, major
industry and occupation sector, and the industries and occupations with largest
or fastest growth.
This site summarizes the latest monthly national workforce data
from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. Narrative and tables include
unemployment rates by age, sex and race; length of unemployment; part time and
discouraged workers; employment by industry; length of workweek and average
hourly earnings. Links to accompanying data tables provide detailed information
on these and related workforce categories.
This site provides the official government national information
on hundreds of occupations including number of jobs and job outlook, duties,
education and experience requirements, pay, and sources of additional
occupation.
This site provides two and ten year occupational projections for
each state and occupation.
All states have similar (but not as detailed) workforce trends
and related data as the Bureau of Labor Statistics but their information is
provided in different formats and reports. This site provides the link to the
state agency research bureaus that compile that information which can then be
accessed for the various reports for their state, metropolitan areas, and
counties.
These videos show the types of work people do in nearly 550
careers, organized by the 16 career clusters recognized by the U.S. Department
of Education. The videos are being updated and are also available in Spanish,
and include some industry videos, occupations by educational level and
definitions of various O*NET skills and abilities of interest to employers.
The site contain videos of interview with persons in selected
careers.
This site houses more than 300 videos organized into 17
different clusters. These are “home made” movies in that Dr. Kit himself and
some of his followers have contributed to the site.
The website features thousands of videos of people doing their
jobs and provides statistical data on job forecast and career information. The
website (made by teens, for teens) is educational in nature, while also
engaging with elements of entertainment. One interesting feature is the ability
to sort videos by various criteria including interests.
This site contains videos and information on careers for kids,
grades K-5, teens, grades 6-8, teachers and parents.
This site, created by
South Carolina Educational Television, features an assortment of media content
for K-12. It contain career and educational videos, audio files, and other
educational offerings.
This sites focuses on videos that are related to college
degrees. The site also has videos on several participating universities and
helpful hints like how many schools should you apply to, how to get along with
your roommate, etc.
Over 600 of the best stories, tips and advice from young people
across Canada and the U.S. have been “crowdsourced” to help young people find
careers they will love. Each career story starts with “In high school, I wanted
to be...”
This site has numerous videos in a variety of areas to include
nearly 600 in various career paths and how to find a job.
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