Are you exploring career options, planning a career change, or assisting students with their school-to-work transition? The U.S. Department of Labor offers a valuable suite of self-directed career exploration and assessment tools designed to empower individuals in making informed career decisions. These resources, including the Interest Profiler and Work Importance Locator, are readily available to help you navigate your career path more effectively.
These tools are built upon a “whole-person” assessment approach, meticulously designed to help you pinpoint your work-related interests, identify what you value most in a job, and recognize your abilities. By using these assessments, you can explore a vast landscape of over 900 occupations detailed in the O*NET database and CareerOneStop. This seamless integration allows you to directly connect your assessed interests, work values, and skills to the specific requirements of jobs in your local labor market.
For those seeking to delve deeper, O*NET also provides a series of insightful Testing & Assessment Guides. These guides are invaluable resources for both individuals and professionals:
Testing and Assessment: An Employer’s Guide to Good Practices: This guide is tailored for managers and workforce development professionals. It offers a clear understanding of employment testing and assessment practices, enabling organizations to strategically utilize these tools to achieve their human resources objectives. It simplifies the essential concepts of employment testing, making them accessible to all users.
Tests and Other Assessments: Helping You Make Better Career Decisions: Specifically designed for individuals, this guide clarifies the different types of career assessments available and how to effectively use them in your career decision-making process. It empowers you to understand and leverage assessments to make more informed choices about your professional future.
Testing and Assessment: A Guide to Good Practices for Workforce Investment Professionals (December 2007): This guide is an essential resource for workforce development professionals. It provides practical guidance on using assessment instruments to foster talent development. By appropriately applying these assessments, professionals can better assist clients in exploring career paths, identifying skill gaps, addressing educational needs, applying for suitable job opportunities, and obtaining industry-recognized credentials. This guide covers key areas such as evaluating and selecting assessment tools, understanding administration and scoring, interpreting results, and adhering to professional and legal standards in career counseling and talent development.
Explore these invaluable Counseling And Career Assessment Tools and guides today to take control of your career journey or to better assist others in their professional development. More detailed information is available at the O*NET Resource Center tools page and Reports page.
