Step 1:Finding Out About Yourself |
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We recommend that you select at least two of the following assessments since no one test provides sufficient information for something as important as making a career choice.
**All fees are non-refundable**
(1) IDEAS (Interest, Determination, Exploration and Assessment System)
128 question on-line interest inventory. Receive an individualized profile showing how your interest pattern fits into 16 different occupational areas. Explore CIS occupations related to high interest areas immediately. Call 769-7821 or email career@nic.edu to create your portfolio to access IDEAS. Takes about 30 minutes.
Free to students, student groups and non student individuals For non-student groups, the IDEAS assessment fee is $5 per person.**
(2) ACT Profile
FREE College and Career Planning Experience from ACT
Test a brand new online career program for FREE through the end of May!
ACT Profile focuses on college and career planning experiences including exploring interests, abilities, values, and preferred job characteristics and how they relate to careers and college majors. Try it yourself, and please
encourage colleagues and students to try it out as well. For access, email career@nic.edu and be sure to schedule your follow-up appointment with Career Services.
(3) MICRO-SKILLS
After you select transferable skills that you enjoy using most, this program will suggest and rate 30 occupations. You will also receive a score for each of the 6 Holland Personality Types and see how that relates to the work you enjoy. Then find out why a particular occupation fits or doesn't fit.
1 & ½ hour appointment
Students - $15.00, Non-student fee - $20.00 **
- More Information on MicroSKILLS
Quick Micro-SKILLS Workshop
Design your Ideal Career with a quick and fun workshop. Select the 35 skills you'd most like to use in future work and find out which careers fit best. Call 769-3297 to sign up for the next workshop. Allow 1 hour. Free to students, student groups, and non-student individuals. For non-student groups, the Quick Micro-SKILLS workshop is $5 per person.**
Click below for the paperwork you need to fill out prior to the workshop. Then just bring your completed forms with you.
(4) MOTIVATED SKILLS
Discover the difference between your functional-transferable skills (things you are both good at and enjoy) and your burn-out skills (things you can do, but do not enjoy). Rather than producing a list of occupations, this can help you isolate the abilities that you want to emphasize in your work.
1 hour appointment
Students - $10.00, Non-student fee - $15.00 **
(5) STRONG INTEREST INVENTORY
This test is based upon a comparison of your interests to those of successful people in a wide range of occupations.
Allow about 45 minutes for homework, before a 1 hour appointment.
Students - $15.00, Non-student fee - $20.00 **
(6) Myers-Briggs Type Indicator & Keirsey Temperament Sorter
Based upon personality disposition on four scales:
Introversion-Extraversion, Sensing-Intuition, Thinking-Feeling, Judging-Perceiving. Includes the Keirsey Temperament Sorter, which produces an analysis of personality in terms of the four basic temperaments. Information provided on career choice and personality.
Allow about 1 & ½ hours homework before 1 & ½ hour appointment
Students - $25.00, Non-student fee - $50.00 **
è**All fees paid to Career Services are non-refundableç
Some Online Tools that May Be Helpful
The above assessments include career counseling with a trained professional, and that cannot be replaced by Internet tools. However, doing some thinking about yourself and your future can be guided by the following tools.
The Princeton Review Career Quiz