Whether you’re a recent college graduate or looking forward to the next chapter in your career, finding the right fit isn’t always easy. You really need to know yourself and where you shine. But it’s nearly impossible to be objective about yourself without outside validation.
The Life Working® Career Assessment Center will help you:
Understand your personality type, interests, innate talents, skills, values, and strengths
Increase your confidence as you explore appropriate jobs and companies
Use the insights, language, and data from reports and related resources to help narrow
and refine choices as you enter the next phase of your career discovery.
Assessment testing is the first step in discovering the real you. We provide a wide range of customized career assessments and exercises. These tools are your window into your true style, natural abilities, interests, skills, values, and personal motivators.
Here’s an assortment of our interactive tests and exercises:
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI): Deepens self-awareness by understanding blind spots, work style preferences, and ideal work environments. By helping people better understand themselves, Myers and Briggs believed that career seekers could select occupations best suited to their personality types and lead healthier and happier lives.
Strong Interest Inventory® (SII): It’s an assessment test that helps you match your interests with potential educational, career, and leisure activities, using your individual preferences to help discover what you’d most enjoy doing with your work and free time.
Highlands Ability Battery™ (HAB): Measures your innate abilities, problem-solving approaches, and interpersonal communications styles. The Highlands Ability Battery is the most effective career aptitude test available. People use this knowledge to make more effective career decisions. Because the HAB provides insight into how you reason and approach problems, the test-taking experience itself has been known to spark self-awareness.
Strengths Profile: This well-researched, scientifically developed survey primarily focuses on an individual’s strengths within a working context. As well as highlighting strengths, the supporting report and coaching questions identify where strengths can be developed and provide a good foundation for a career development plan. Research shows that people who use their strengths more:
Are happier and more confident
Have higher levels of self-esteem, energy, and vitality
Experience less stress, are more resilient and more likely to achieve their goals
Perform better at work
Are more effective at developing themselves and growing as individuals
SkillScan: These tools help clients at each stage of the career development journey from focusing, exploring, skill development, and self-marketing. It gives our clients the personal clarity to make informed and intentional career decisions.
VIA Character Strengths Survey: Highlights character strengths that may improve work performance and well-being. It’s a psychometrically validated personality test that measures the character strengths that make up an individual's upbeat personality.
Wisdom and Knowledge: Creativity, Curiosity, Open-mindedness, Love of Learning, Perspective, Innovation
Courage: Bravery, Persistence, Integrity, Vitality, Zest
Humanity: Love, Kindness, Social Intelligence
Justice: Citizenship, Fairness, Leadership
Temperance: Forgiveness and Mercy, Humility, Prudence, Self-control
Transcendence: Appreciation of Beauty, Gratitude, Hope, Humor, Spirituality
Values assessments: What does creating an inventory of your values have to do with career exploration? Value assessments are a shorthand way of describing your motivations. This list of value priorities or essentials can help determine a career path that will align with what is truly important to you.
Once you finish the assessments, you’ll be able to clearly articulate how your fortes align with your prospective employer’s mission and describe why your strengths and talents make you the best candidate. Communicating your unique value gives you a leg up on the competition and on your way to finding meaningful and fulfilling work and a deeper level of career satisfaction.
“Understanding your professional values – and how they will fit into an organization’s culture – makes you more marketable from the standpoint of hiring managers,” Life Working Founder and Certified Career Coach Wilma Nachsin said. "The career assessment process informs how you will present yourself during an interview. It will help you clearly define what makes you the best candidate for the position you are seeking."
Start finding out what makes you uniquely suited for your next dream job. For more information, visit the Life Working Career Assessment Center, <link to URL> or email explore@lifeworking.com.