Assess yourself

Career Planning Process

Assess yourself

Explore your career options

Set career goals

Step one

Assessments are tools that help you discover important things about yourself.

Career assessments identify possible careers based on different things - like your interests, skills, and work style.

Assessments come in different formats and some are more reliable than others. Take as many as you can and compare the results you are given. Approach your assessment results as new options to explore as you plan your career.

Locate career assessments

Try ISEEK's online assessments.
Visit a Minnesota WorkForce Center for free use of their computers and assessments.

Consider a career path

Whether or not you choose to take assessments, think about a career path you wish to take. Consider past experiences that you feel were particularly rewarding such as:

jobs
volunteer activities
parenting
going to school
working on a hobby

Make a list of these experiences and identify reasons why they were so satisfying. Include other experiences that could provide the same sort of satisfaction.

Utilize your self-assessment results to explore your career options.

Page last updated in August 2008.