Career Testing
Whether you are choosing a college major, just starting out in your first career, or contemplating a change, career testing can be powerful and informative.
Benefits of Career Testing
Career testing can lead to powerful insights and help with decision-making.
New Insights
Career testing can provide deep and meaningful insights and conclusions that guide you to a rewarding, enjoyable, and successful career.
Best Approaches
Career testing can give valuable guidance about how you might pursue the new career in question. What is the best path to success?
Specific Guidance
You may already generally know what career you want to pursue, but career testing can narrow things down even further within a given field.
Best Fits
Even if you want to stay at your current job, career testing can inform you about the ways you can maximize your strengths and overcome barriers.
Career Testing Instruments
Interest Inventories
These simple but comprehensive questionnaires provide a starting point: What types of careers might you enjoy? Which career paths match your interests?
IQ and Cognitive Ability
Personality testing ensures there is a strong fit with the type of person you are, including what brings you joy, who you like working with, and your work style
Aptitude and Skills
Next, we must ensure that your chosen path matches your aptitude and skills. In most cases, this step does not rule anything out but guides what must be worked on.
Career Testing Overview
We will work together to ensure that your career and vocational testing answers all your questions and gives the guidance you are looking for.
Vocational and career testing is a process that helps you identify your strengths, interests, and aptitudes to make informed decisions about your career paths. These Personality evaluation skills, and preferences and provide insights into career options you will enjoy and be good at. Career testing braids measurements of what brings you happiness, your underlying skills and cognitive potential, and the job categories that you could realistically pursue.
Many people use career and vocational testing in their current careers to guide them in making smaller changes and enhancements that will bring greater satisfaction and success. In contrast, others use career testing to embark on new careers. Testing is common with college students and young adults, but it can be just as fruitful with people who are later in their careers and looking for new insights and information.
Career Testing Process
Here is the process we will use for your career testing:
- We will start with interest inventories which are simple but proven questionnaires that assess your vocational preferences and interests in different areas such as art, science, social sciences, or business. They provide a starting point to identify potential career fields that align with your interests.
- Personality Assessments are the next step, where we can take the possibilities in the first step and match them to your personality traits, values, and work preferences. They deepen the exploration to uncover preferred work environments and career paths that suit your personality type.
- Now that we have some potential paths, we need to do aptitude tests and skills assessments to ensure a match between your potential choices and your natural abilities and skills.
- We might do specific assessments for certain potential careers, such as creativity testing.
- Finally, and importantly, we need to do a values assessment to explore your personal values and beliefs to make sure that the career paths we are uncovering align with those values, ensuring a sense of fulfillment and satisfaction in the chosen profession.
Career Testing Goals and Limitations
The Career Personality Profiling detailed above combines elements of both personality assessments and vocational interests to create a comprehensive profile. It provides a detailed analysis of your personality traits, interests, and preferred work environments to develop a path you will enjoy, succeed in, and be good at. The report provides a significant amount of information that can be used alone, or in combination with meeting with a therapist or career coach.
It’s essential to remember that career tests provide suggestions and insights but do not definitively determine your ideal career. They are tools to guide your decision-making process. Factors like personal motivation, life circumstances, and job market conditions also play a role in career choices. Our report will not suggest a specific job, nor will it suggest jobs that will not be suitable. Instead we will make suggestions for the type of work you might prefer, the environment within which you will enjoy working, and the skills you have that might be put to use.
Conclusions and Our Work
Career testing is helpful at many times during your life. You may be choosing a college major, contemplating your career after school, or considering a career change. Career testing is most helpful when done alongside Clinical Psychologist where you can also consider the results with personal introspection. In addition, you should do your research and seek professional advice when making important career decisions.
Our services are designed to provide a comprehensive career testing report that not only describes the type of environment within which you might thrive, but also how you can put your interests and skills to work in almost any career you choose. Career testing is not designed to limit you, but rather to show you the possibilities and then help you make the most of your choice.
Example
Laura is a young adult who graduated from college four years ago and hopes to go to graduate school. She is looking for career testing to help her decide between becoming a psychologist, attending business school, or staying with her current job in marketing.
We give Laura a lengthy questionnaire designed to elucidate her interests and what types of work situations make her motivated and happy. We also give her an Intelligence Quotient (IQ) relative to the math she might expect in business school. Finally, we give her some Personality evaluation designed to understand how she enjoys working with people and the kind of work environment she prefers.
The testing report describes Laura as very good at math, enjoys using her quantitative skills to solve real-world problems, and wants to work in a fast-paced environment. She also comes out as a high achiever who likes pushing herself to succeed.
Laura decides that she can tap into the understanding of psychology she has developed while finding a fast-paced, math-based job in marketing. Due to her achievement drive, instead of staying in her current position, she will get her Masters in Business with a focus on Marketing.
FAQ
Here are some of the common questions people ask about Career Testing.
You can also contact us or schedule a consultation to get more information.
How Long Will Career Testing Last?
Career testing involves two testing sessions of 60-90 minutes, and then a one-hour feedback session after the results are in. The first session is longer because it includes an intake.
How Specific are the Results of Career Testing?
This depends on your goals, but we can design career testing that points you toward specific vocations, or we can give your ideas about your strengths that will help you find new opportunities.
When Will I Get the Report and Results
We try to produce a draft psychological testing report between 2-3 weeks from testing. Then we will meet to make sure it answers your questions. A final report will come a week later.
Can Career Testing be Combined with other Tests?
Yes, we often do career testing in combination with other testing assessments such as Personality evaluation, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Intelligence Quotient (IQ), and Autism Spectrum Disorder. We may suggest a good combination as we get to know you.
Contact Us About Career Testing!
We’d be happy to talk to you more about how career testing can benefit you.