Self & Career Discovery

Do you prefer to read a book or hang out at parties? Do you make decision more based on feeling or logic? Are you more imaginative or scientific?

Find out more about your personality, interest and your career profiles so that you know how to prepare early for your career aspirations.

As a start, you may like to try out some self-assessments tools using various website listed below:

Personality & Type Indicators
 Big Five Personality Test - While this personality assessment is not strictly career-oriented, it does provide insight that can be applied to careers. It ranks you on scales of closed-minded vs. open to new experiences; disorganized vs. conscientious; introverted vs. extraverted, disagreeable vs. agreeable, calm vs. high-strung.

 Keirsey Temperament Sorter - Fill in a questionnaire of about 70 questions, which is automatically scored on the Web. Your results will be in the form of Myers-Briggs Types (MBTI), and suggestions of appropriate careers are made.

Interest Inventories
 O*Net Interest Profiler -this is an interactive tool to help you to learn more about your career options. The tool offers personalized career suggestions based on a your interests and level of work experience, producing a score which you can then use to help find occupations that match your interests.  

Career Inventories
 Find Occupations - this site contain occupations database in the same field of work that require similar skills. You can use the database to help focus education plans towards obtaining the necessary knowledge, competencies, and training for success in a particular career pathway.