Interest Test or Career Interest Assessment

An Interest Test or Career Interest Assessment is used to identify the kind of careers you might be passionate about. An Interest Test or Career Interest Assessment measures your career interests, that is to say, likes and dislikes and enjoyments in terms of courses, tasks, people, and job titles. From this data, a Interest Test or Career Interest Assessment report is produced that either lists a variety of occupational options or specific career matches. Interest tests also produce information about leisure or recreational interests, college degrees and majors, values and motivations.

This type of test - Interest Test or Career Interest Assessment - is recommended as a first step in your career planning. Unlike ability tests which discover your natural skills or aptitudes, interest assessments uncover the type of work, careers and tasks you are highly motivated to perform and passionate about and, therefore those in which you will most likely to be successful.

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Interest Test or Career Interest Assessment Options

The SII Strong Interest Test is the single most highly regarded, most extensively researched and most widely used Career Planning Instrument in the world.! In 2004, the publisher revised the Strong Interest Test tool which is referred to as the Newly Revised Strong Interest Inventory® . Depending on the Strong Interest Test report you select, you obtain information on general theme, work tasks, career matches, career motivator, and work, leadership, learning and team player styles.

Other interest-based career assessments available here include: Self-Directed Search (SDS), Career Occupational Placement Survey(COPS), and Ministry Gifts. Each of these produces occupational options for your top three categories rather than career matches, and are currently available in self-scoring paper-only versions.

The Best College Major Interest Test is the Strong Interest Test. The Strong Interest Test provides information about your most suitable college degrees, college courses and college jobs. When combined with the Myers-Briggs® personality test, it provides the best college environment for you as well.