Where there is no struggle,
there is no strength.
~Oprah Winfrey~
In addition to understanding yourself through exploring your values, interests, personality, and skills (VIPS), acknowledging your strengths, abilities, decision-making, and other aspects of yourself can be helpful as you explore a new career, relationship, activity, etc. Consider exploring some of the additional self-assessments below to gain a better understanding of yourself.
Strengths-based Career Inventories
- Clifton StrengthsFinder 2.0 ($15; free access code with book $15)
- Clifton Youth Strengths Explorer (ages 10-14; $10; free access code with book $30)
- INSIGHT Inventory ($18) includes a brief overview of INSIGHT, training manual with detailed descriptions, facilitator guides and tools, sample Self-Report, and INSIGHT Inventory for Student/Teens ($10)
- Positive Impact Statements (from How Full is Your Bucket?)
Career Decision-Making
- Career Decision Scale (CDS; $)
- Career Decision-Making Difficulties Questionnaire (CDDQ; includes a variety of career-related assessments for free)
- Career Factors Inventory
- Career Thoughts Inventory ($)
- Career Construction Interview (CCI)
Other Assessments
- Hope Scale
- My Vocational Situation
- SIGI and DISCOVER are no longer in use
- O*NET Work styles search
- O*NET Work context
- O*NET Work activities
Multiple Assessments and Career Portfolios
- MyPlan.com (Online inventories: values [free], interests, personality, & skills [$])
- Kuder Career Search planning system ($)
- CHOICES is offered through the Florida Department of Education.
- ICPAC Discover careers that fit for you (values, interests, abilities)
- ONET Academy webinars and courses.