When you search for a career, review your interests, skills, values, and personality. There are many assessment surveys that can help you identify these traits. The career counselor's office at your school or institution is an excellent resource for such surveys. The Internet is replete with many good surveys that are available to you at no cost.

As you work through these surveys, keep a copy of the results for each survey that you complete. You should then use these results to explore careers on this site. Keep in mind that the results from surveys vary greatly. The following key to linking what you discover from the surveys to searching for careers is meant to be a rough guideline. We also provide a few links to sites that offer free surveys.

Interests
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
The Career Key

Skills
This link will take you to O*NET's online skill search tool where you can select your current skills or those skills you plan on acquiring in the future and search for careers based on your selected skills. This tool 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.

Link to Skills Assessment Survey: * - (Note: Integrated Skills assessment under development.)
O*NET Skills search

Values
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
Learning Styles Assessment

Personalities
Identification of your unique personality traits will help you identify careers that fit your personality. 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 Personalities Assessment Surveys:
Personality (Short Version - Personality Quiz)
Personality (Long Version - Jung Typology Survey)