Assess Yourself

Career Navigator Quizzes

Part of Service Canada site, quiz results are linked to career dictionary. Once you have logged in, look for Career Navigator in left-side menu.

Think of results not as absolutes but as additional pieces of information about yourself.

• Reports provide feedback on several components of vocational identity:
  
  • abilities
  • working with data/people/things
  • work interests ("preferences")
  • work values
  • multiple intelligences

Career Cruising

Canadian site with information profiles on hundreds of careers, as well as several self-assessment tools available under the Assessments button on the upper menu bar.

When using Matchmaker, be sure to answer all 116 questions to see results which are accurate as possible.

Matchmaker gets you to rate various interests then presents a list of possible careers to explore. Complete the My Skills assessment to rate your skill potential and see how it applies to your careers of interest.

Career Decision‑Making Questionnaires

Part of a long-standing research study to help you understand your career decision-making style, and how it may help or hinder.

Start with the Career Decision-Making Difficulties (CDDQ).

Results may identify possible internal and external obstacles to career decision-making (e.g., motivation, beliefs, information, conflicts, etc.).

Keirsey Temperament Sorter

Website dedicated to products and services related to understanding and assessing personality temperament. At its core, temperament theory draws on the work of Carl Jung, as do True Colors® and Personality Dimensions®.

• The widely used KTS® assesses the four primary personality temperaments:
  
  • Guardian
  • Rational
  • Idealist
  • Artisan

Type Focus

Website dedicated to self-assessment and its application in career planning. May be used on its own or in conjunction with guidance from your Counsellor.

Access code required. Meet with a Career Counsellor to obtain yours.

TypeFocus assesses personality type (introvert-extrovert, sensing-intuition, thinking-feeling, judging-perceiving) and interests (Holland code), as well as some limited perspective on work values.

Blueprint for Life/Work Design

Part of Service Canada site, the blueprint helps you discover the skills, knowledge and attitudes required to effectively design and manage your life, work and career.

• Helps you identify which requirements are the most important for you in each of the following categories:
  
  • personal management
  • learning & work exploration
  • life/work building

Employability Skills Checklist

The "soft skills" you need to enter, stay in, and progress in the world of work... can also be applied and used beyond the workplace in a range of daily activities.

• Checklist for several employability categories:
  
  • fundamental skills
  • teamwork skills
  • personal management skills

Authentic Happiness Questionnaires

Part of an ongoing Penn State University study on positive psychology and happiness.

• 20 questionnaires on a variety of topics, some of which are work-related including:
  
  • character strengths
  • work-life balance
  • life satisfaction