Self-assessment is a critical first step in choosing a career. Taking time to reflect on your interests, skills and work values will help you find a good match with careers that use those traits.

Assessments are tools to help you better understand yourself and see how your interests, skills and values fit into the work world. The results are just one piece of information you can use when making a career choice.

e-Choices
Designed to help you assess and identify your interest, and match those interest with occupations within the state of Florida. The site also has extensive databases of occupations, colleges, universities, and graduate schools.

Florida Academic Counseling and Tracking for Students (FACTS)
Florida's official online student advising system! Plan and track educational progress, access career assessment instruments, explore majors and academic programs in Florida colleges and universities.

Keirsey Temperament Sorter
Designed to identify different kinds of personality temperaments and help you assess your preferences. The results will give you a 4-letter personality indicator and explanation of what each means.

Motivation Appraisal of Personal Potential (MAPP)
MAPP identifies your true motivations toward work and allows you to match yourself to job categories to see where you best fit.

The Occupational Information Network (O'Net)
Maintained by the Department of Labor, allows you to find jobs that fit your interest, skills and experience; explore career profiles from the latest labor market data; search for occupations that use your skills; view specific details about occupations and identify related occupations.

Skills Identification
From the Creative Job Search Guide discuss what are skills and categories of skills including job skills, self-management skills and transferable skills.

Transferable Skills Survey
Developed by the University of Minnesota, this survey asks you to rate 62 items from 0 to 3 in the following categories: communication, research and planning, human relations, organization, management and leadership and work survival skills and provides a percentage ranking of your skills from these major skill set categories.

Holland’s Self- Directed Search (SDS)
The SDS measures your strengths and interests based on multiple factors and identifies three occupational categories matching your responses from the following six: Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional. Each of the categories leads you to specific occupations that people with responses similar to yours have found satisfying.

Strong Interest Inventory (SII)
The Strong generates an in-depth assessment of your interests among a broad range of occupations, work and leisure activities, and educational subjects. To reveal your interest patterns, it presents results on a variety of complementary themes and scales:

• General Occupational Themes map out broad interest patterns to describe personalities and preferred work environments (corresponding to Holland’s RIASEC theory).
• Basic Interest Scales provide more specific information about your areas of interests
• Occupational Scales relate your interest patterns to those of satisfied workers within the occupation.
• Personal Style Scales describe your preferred style of working, learning, leading, risk-taking, and team participation.

A career counselor will determine when these instruments are appropriate for your use. Contact the Career Center for an appointment at: 727-873-4192 or career@stpt.usf.edu.