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Career Self-Assessment

Interests Skills
Most interest-assessment surveys indicate your Holland type. You may use your Holland codes to search for careers in the Career Matching Assistant.

Links to Interests Assessment Surveys:

My Interest Finder - Discover how your interests relate to the working world.

The Career Key - Find a career that matches your abilities and personality.

Most surveys will help you map your skills into general work activities such as communicating, coordinating, performing technical activities, reasoning and decision making, information/data processing, coordinating/managing/advising, administering, and performing physical/manual work activities. You can search for careers by the above skill clusters in the Career Matching Assistant.

Links to Skills Assessment Surveys:

Learning Styles Assessment - Find out your learning style - Active or Reflective, Sensing or Intuitive, Visual or Verbal, Sequential or Global.

Work Skills Profiler - Identify your skills and match skills important to you with occupations to find out what type of training you may need.

Values Personalities
The surveys on personal values will give you insight into what you value the most in a career. Understanding your values will help you select a career with a good match to the things you feel most strongly about. Read about and further investigate careers from your values perspective.

Links to Values Assessment Surveys:

My Work Values Finder - Identify the work values that are important to you, and explore related occupations.


Identification of your unique personality traits will help you identify careers that fit your personality, giving you the most likelihood of personal and professional growth. As you explore careers and find the ones that interest you the most, you should devote more time to learning about them and evaluating the match between your personality traits and the careers.

Links to Personality Assessment Surveys:

Short Version - Personality Quiz

Long Version - Jung Typology Survey






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