career transition

ADULT Career ASSESSments & Resources

Take the time to reimage yourself!  

Awareness - Take a look at yourself

What are your strengths and your weaknesses?  

What tools do you have to change careers?  

Get answers to These questions!

• What is the job market?  
• What additional training is required?  Who provides the training?  What is the length of the training/  What is the cost for the training.
• What knowledge and skills a re necessary to be successful in the training?

There are resources to help you identify potential careers and to match those careers to the right training programs. 

These tools are quick, easy-to-follow, and efficient tools to navigate the career planning process.

Plan your next move!

Career Test Features

Features of the career tests are -

• Career interests - What drives or motivates you?
• Skills - What are you good at?
• Personality - What energizes you?
• Values - What is important to you?

Here are details of some adult career tests -

Career Transition Guidance System
Format: On-Line
Subject Area: Holland Codes, Interests, Abilities/Skills, Values
Databases: Occupations and Colleges/ Universities

RIASEC Inventory
Format: On-Line
Subject Area: Holland Codes, Interests, Occupations

Strong Interest Inventory®
Format: On-Line
Subject Area: Holland Codes, Interests, Occupations

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®
Format: On-Line
Subject Area: MBTI, Personality, Occupations

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®

The Myers Briggs Type Indicator assessment is the most widely used personality assessment in the world –

• More than 2 million assessments worldwide each year.
• Reliable, valid, versatile, and dependable - Used for more than 50 years

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®) types are in four groups –

• Extraversion / Introversion
  
• Sensing / Intuition
  
• Thinking / Feeling
  
• Judging / Perceiving

The results from the MBTI® produces the 16 types –

1. ISTJ
2. ISFJ
3. INFJ
4. INTJ
5. ISTP
6. ISFP
7. INFP
8. INTP
9. ESTP
10. ESFP
11. ENFP
12. ENTP
13. ESTJ
14. ESFJ
15. ENFJ
16. ENTJ

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®) Career Report

The MBTI® Career Report is a career exploration tool that helps you –

• Identify strengths and weakness that may influence the career exploration process
  
• Identify job families
  
• Choose a potential career
  
• Select a college or other form of training
  
• Provide information necessary to evaluate a possible career transition or job shift
  
• Develop a career plan
  

The MBTI® Career Report has information on –

• MBTI® Results – Reported Type and Clarity of Reported Preferences
  
• MBTI® Types and Career Choice – preferred work environments, and action steps
  
• MBTI® Types and Career Exploration – Strengths, challenges, strategies, and action steps
  
• MBTI® Types and Career Development – Strengths, challenges, strategies, and action steps
  
• MBTI® Types and Job Families – Job family ranking, Most attractive job families, Moderately attractive job families, Least attractive job families, Most popular occupations, Least popular occupations, and Tips for succeeding in atypical occupation.

DELIVERY INFORMATION:

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®) Career Report is an ON-LINE, career self assessment test. 

Please Note:

• Customer will receive User ID number and assigned password by the NEXT BUSINESS DAY.
• After completing inventory, customer will receive Reports within 24 to 48 hours.

When you complete the test, you will receive two reports.

COST for Myers Briggs Type Indicator Career Reports: $70

Order the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®) Career Report.

This does not include the Strong Interest Inventory Report!

Please Note: Customer will receive User ID number and assigned password by the NEXT BUSINESS DAY.

RIASEC Inventory
Online Version
A Quick and Easy Assessment

The RIASEC Inventory -

• Uses Holland’s RIASEC coding system and latest O*NET job titles
• Scores into six interest areas: Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional
• Takes only 10-15 minutes to complete

Complete only 72 work activity statements.
Match results those interests to potential careers.

Here is video that provides a RIASEC Inventory overview.

The second video tells details about the Holland Code Model.

With your purchase, you will receive access to additional videos that cover -

• Registering RIASEC Inventory
• Administering RIASEC Inventory
• Exploring careers
• Generating RIASEC Inventory Report

The cost for the online RIASEC Inventory is $7.50.

Strong Interest Inventory®

Strong Interest Inventory® (SII) Reports.

For nearly 80 years, the Strong Interest Inventory® assessment has guided thousands of individuals in exploring careers and college majors. The Strong Interest Inventory® assessment is the most respected and widely used career planning instrument in the world.

The results include –

• Scores on the level of interest on each of the six Holland Codes or General Occupational Themes. Holland Code Themes include – Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional.
  
• Scores on 25 Basic Interest Scales (e.g. art, science, and public speaking)
  
• Scores on 211 Occupational Scales which indicate the similarity between the respondent's interests and those of people working in each of the 211 occupations.
  
• Scores on 4 Personal Style Scales (learning, working, leadership, and risk-taking).
  
• Scores on 3 Administrative Scales used to identify test errors or unusual profiles.
  

Use the Strong Inventory® to –

• Explore and identify careers related to your interests
  
• Choose education and training options that match your interests and Holland Codes
  
• Understand how your personality is related to your interests
• Determine your preferred learning environment
  
• Understand your leadership, risk-taking, and teamwork preferences
• Improve career direction
• Focus on the future
• Find the dream job
• Achieve satisfaction in your work

adult Interpretive Reports

The Strong Interest Inventory with Interpretive Report has the following additional information –

• General Occupational Themes – General Interests or Holland Codes
• Basic Interest Scales – Specific activities you might like to do at work and in your leisure time
• Occupational Scales – Occupational suggested by interests
• Personal Style Scales – Your preferred styles of working and learning

For the six Occupational Themes or Holland Codes, there are –

• Definitions
• Descriptions
• Career fields
• Personal descriptors
• Leisure activities
• Career Motivators
• Motivator Combinations
• Action Steps
  

In the Basic Interest Scales areas, the report discusses –

• Top Strong Interest® Areas
• The relationship between Basic Interest Scale, General Occupational Theme/ Holland Code, and Typical Interests and Activities
• Action Steps

The report outlines Similarity to Occupations. Similarity to Occupations highlights –

• Top Strong Occupations
• The relationship between Occupations, Holland Theme Code, Typical Work Tasks, and Selected Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
• Action Steps
  

In Your Personal Style, the Interpretive Report uses the Personal Style Scale Preferences to provide suggestions about your Work Style, Learning Environment, Leadership Style, Risk Taking, and Team Orientation.

The Interpretive Report Summary provides an overview of the following -

• Highest Themes
• Personal and Work Environment Descriptors
• Specific Interests for Work, Leisure, and Learning
• Careers that might be Most Appealing
• How you like to work and learn

The Interpretive Report also lists Action Steps and Helpful Resources.

DELIVERY INFORMATION:

Strong Interest Inventory with Interpretive Report is an ON-LINE, Holland Code career self assessment test with Interpretive Report. 

COST for Strong Interest Inventory®: $70

If you are ordering a test for someone else, please send an email to explorecareers at gmail.com.

Order the Strong Interest Inventory® with Interpretive Report. There are three (3) editions: Standard (Adults), High School, and College.

Please Note: Customer will receive User ID number and assigned password by the NEXT BUSINESS DAY.

Career Guidance System

Career Guidance System is a personalized, online, interactive, self-guided career planning and college planning system.

key features of the EXPLORE CAREERS AND COLLEGE MAJORS SYSTEM

Dashboard

The Dashboard is the control center of the Explore Careers and College Major System. 

There are five sections in the Dashboard -

• Self Assessments
• Explore the Possibilities - Career Exploration & College Major Exploration
• Take Action
• Career and Education Planning Results
• Recommended Tools & Websites

Self Assessment

The Self Assessment section begins with the My Academic Strengths.

The results provide an overview of the following areas -

• Subjects "I do very well"
• Subjects "I do alright"
• Subjects "I don't do well"
• "I never took this subject"

There are four assessments -

• Work Interest Assessment
• Personality Assessment
• Values Assessment
• Skills Assessment

There are detailed instructions for each assessment.

Explore the Possibilities

The Explore the Possibilities is the Career Exploration, the College Major Exploration and the College Search sections of the Explore Careers and College Major System.

Career Exploration

In the Career Exploration section,

• You perform personalized career research.
• You identify potential careers.
• You begin narrowing career options.

After completing the interests, skills, personality types, and/or values tests, you can personalized occupations to your results and click on any occupation that interests you. 

Then, you filter and personalize occupations by the following criteria -

• Alphabetically
• Job Family
• Green Job
• Bright Outlook
• Salary
• Saved Occupations

After completing Career Exploration, you will -

• Match Holland Codes to training programs
• Perform personalized research to identify potential training programs
• Use training program search web site to find potential training programs

 
Explore and Occupation


The Explore and Occupation section is designed to help you can access college majors or degree programs. 

One method is to click on the Explore any Occupation link. 

Click on any occupation that interests you.   Then, click on Education Requirements.

Another college major tool is the Explore Any Major Area of Study That Interests You tool.

College Major Exploration

Click on the College Search tool to use excellent college search resources!.

College Search options include -

• Type of College
• Enrollment & Costs
• Majors Offered
• Test Scores and Selectivity
• Location
• Athletics & Activities
• Search for colleges by name

Take Action

The purpose of the Take Action section is to create a personalized road map of your academic and career development activities.  Take Action serves as an online portfolio.

The areas under the Take Action section are -

• My Education
• My Professional Development

My Education covers -

• My Area of Study: Past, Current and Future
• My Study Abroad: Past, Current and Future
• My Awards, Research, Publications, Presentations
• My Campus Involvement: Teams/Clubs/Leadership

 
My Professional Development entails topics such as -

• My Internships: Past, Current and Future
• My Work Experience: Past, Current and Future
• My Volunteer / Community Service Experience: Past, Current and Future
• My Network of Contacts
• My Social Networking, Professional Memberships
• Resume / Cover Letter / Other Documents

Career and Education Planning Results

Career and Education Planning Results are a summary of your personalized assessment results and saved preferences.

 Recommended Tools & Websites

Recommended Tools & Websites include -

• Job Boards and Internship Opportunities
• Links to Resources - including extensive online step-by-step tutorial loaded with downloads and websites

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Career Guidance SYSTEM

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