CompTIA IT Pro Assessments

Looking for your next job? Before you start your search, inventory you strengths, weaknesses and your preferred working style. Use these factors to help you find the job that best fits your qualifications. The following resources will help you:

• Develop your resume
• Research a career change
• Work with a career coach to develop your success strategy

Online Career Assessment Resources - Mapping Your Strengths/Interests to Job Roles

Career Directions Inventory at LiveCareer.com
identifies your career interests and then tells you what jobs match your results in your highest scored categories. Also includes workplace fit preferences using seven approaches to work. The LiveCareer Test was developed by Dr. Douglas N. Jackson, who has published over 200 research articles and is the Former President of the American Psychological Association's Division of Measurement, Evaluation, and Statistics.

CareerMaze.com - For Season Job Seekers and Career Changers
If you are a career professional seeking additional career direction or are interested in pursuing a new career track then this assessment test might be a very useful tool for you. The tool is designed to help you increase your understanding of your personal aspirations and talents whereby providing you additional insight into satisfying career paths. Provides a detailed report, with career advice and job suggestion.

Workplace Values Assessment for Job-Seekers
People expect to achieve certain ideals from their jobs, employers, and careers. These workplace values, concepts, and ideas that you hold dear have a direct impact on your satisfaction with your job, with your career, and even with your life.

Personality, Communication, and Working Style Assessments

Ansir's 3 Sides of You Self Perception Profiling System
A three-part self-perception test that provides you with insight into your particular styles of thinking, working, and emoting.

Forte System
An interpersonal communication system that identifies a person's natural communication style preferences and strengths, how they have been adapting to a specific individual and/or environment, and how they are most likely coming across to others. Forté also identifies an individual's current logic style, current stamina level, and current feelings about goal attainment. Designed to enhance interpersonal relationships, Forté identifies and maximizes the positive strengths of individuals in teams, and minimizes their chances for misunderstandings and conflicts.

Keirsey Temperament Sorter - Internet's #1 Personality Test
The Keirsey Temperament Sorter II® (KTS®-II) is a powerful 70-question personality instrument that helps individuals discover their personality type. The KTST-II is based on Dr. David Keirsey's Temperament theory and has helped over 30 million people worldwide to gain insight into themselves and the people around them. This insight is useful when selecting a career or choosing a work environment.

knowyourtype.com
KnowYourType offers a personality indicator that gives insight into how and why people understand and approach the world in such different ways. It's called the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® Instrument.The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® Instrument is a self-report questionnaire designed to make theory of psychological types understandable and useful to everyday life. MBTI® Instrument results identify valuable differences between normal healthy people, differences that can be the source of much misunderstanding and miscommunication. More than 2 million Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® Instruments are administered annually in the United States. Do you know your type?

Kolbe Assessment
Unlike many personality tests that suggest what's wrong with you and tell you how to change it, Kolbe focuses on what's right with you.

Kolbe A Index - What makes you tick

Kolbe B Index - Measure the demands of your job against your natural motivations and leverage your natural talents at work.

MAPP (Motivational Appraisal of Personal Potential) Assessment
Assessment is designed to guide, motivate, and empower people to achieve their greatest educational and career potential. Provides "teaser" results sent via e-mail; more details and guidance available for a fee.

Self-Assessment Resources
Self-assessment is a process by which you learn more about yourself -- what you like, what you don't like, and how you tend to react to certain situations. Knowing these things can help you determine which occupations and work situations could be a better fit for you. You may recognize some of these tools if you ever worked with a career counselor or consultant.

Work Preference Inventory
Based on the premise that the process of values clarification is very important in career planning, the Work Preference Inventory gives you a small glimpse that helps you to clarify what you value in terms of work style to assist you in making more fulfilling and rewarding career and employment decisions.