Career Counseling Tests

Super's Work Values Inventory

-identify work values rates different workplace characteristics and learn what is most important to the client

Minnesota Importance Questionnaire

A measure of an individual's vocational needs and values, which are important aspects of the work personality. It is designed to measure six vocational values (and the 20 vocational needs from which the values derive): Six Values: achievement, comfort, status, altruism, safety, autonomy

NEO Personality Inventory

A test that measures the Big Five traits: extraversion, openness to experience, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and neuroticism.

Campbell Interest and Skills Survey

CISS instrument goes beyond traditional inventories by adding parallel skill scales that provide estimates of an individual's confidence in his or her ability to perform various occupational activities. It is used for college bound people to help with majors and training.

Kuder Skills Assessment

Client rates different tasks to their skill ability, and from there, view results to align them to career clusters.

CACG

Computer Assisted Career Guidance: including SIGI Plus or Discover

CVIS

Computerized Vocational Information System

DLOS

Department of Student Learning Outcomes

DOT

Dictionary of Occupational Titles

GIS

Geographic Information System

Vocational Preference Inventory

Holland Vocational Preference Inventory (VPI) assesses career interest utilizing psychological inventories. The VPI is scored by clinicians, whereas, the SDS is self scored. The VPI has five additional dimensions: Self-Control, Status, Masculinity/Femininity, Infrequency, and Acquiescence.

ISVD

Information System for Vocational Decisions

SIGI

It helps you pinpoint your career options based on your interests, values, and education. It searches and creates printouts of occupational information with critical major and education requirements. It also features college and graduate school selectors to help you make the best match.

KOIS

Kuder Occupational Interest Survey

MMPI

Minnesota Multi-phasic Personality Inventory

O*NET

Occupational Information Network compiled by the United States Department of Labor

OOH

Occupational Outlook Handbook

SDS

Self Directed Search

Strong Interest Inventory

Similar to an MMPI it is used to assess interest. It is sometimes called a RIASEC due to the control measures it uses from Holland's occupational themes (Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, Conventional).

SIGI

System of Integrated Guidance Information

ACT's Inventory of Work-Relevant Abilities

THE PURPOSE • to make the client think about his/her abilities and to be able to "translate" these into possible occupations • to shorten the time needed to complete the Inventories section

ACT's UNIACT

The ACT Interest Inventory provides a focus to career exploration, not by singling out the one "right" occupation, but rather by pointing to world-of-work regions individuals may wish to explore.

CASI

The Career Attitudes and Strategies Inventory (CASI) purpose is to assess career attitudes and behaviors. The CASI can be self-administered in addition to individual or by group. The CASI involves nine scales: "Job Satisfaction, Work Involvement, Skill Development, Dominant Style, Career Worries, Interpersonal Abuse, Family Commitment, Risk-Taking Style, and Geographic Barriers". Use caution when using the CASI to people with special needs. It is appropriate for individuals needing to explore possible careers and how their attitudes and behaviors might influence their results.

Career Priorities Profile

The Career Priorities Profile (CPP) provides an way for individuals to identify and compare their work needs, skills, interests, desires, and education to the realities of jobs. The result is a profile of their most important needs and preferences for use in exploring and deciding on careers. It helps to identify work needs and preferences prior to or as part of career exploration, job preparation, and the job search so these processes can be realistic, targeted, and effective.

College to Career Transition Inventory

The College-to-Career Transition Inventory is a tool for college career centers and counselors as a starting point for assessing a student's strengths and weaknesses in terms of starting, planning, and managing their careers. It measures life skills, soft skills, job search, career transition and career management.

DISCOVER

The DISCOVER® program provides guidance and information to help people make important career and educational decisions. DISCOVER help: Assess interests, abilities, and job values. Explore occupations, majors, and schools. Develop a resume and conduct a job search.

O*NET Ability Profiler

The O*NET Ability Profiler (AP) helps clients plan their work lives. Individuals can use O*NET Ability Profiler results to: identify their strengths and areas for which they might want to receive more training and education identify occupations that fit their strengths

Self-Directed Search

The Self-Directed Search (SDS; Holland, 1994) can be administered, scored, and interpreted by the individual taking the assessment. It is viewed as a tool that has two purposes. First, SDS can provide vocational counseling to those unable to have contact with professional counselors. And second, increase the numbers of people the assessment is able to serve. The SDS is considered a career interest inventory and comes in several different forms.

College Success Survival Scale

This assessment gauges the skills, habits, motivations, and attitudes needed to survive and succeed in college. In addition, the CSSS includes dozens of helpful suggestions for improving college survival and success, plus writing space for "My Success Plan." It measures: 1) Commitment to Education 2) Self- and Resource-Management Skills 3) Interpersonal and Social Skills 4) Academic Success Skills 5) Career Planning Skills.

VPI

Vocational Preference Inventory

Transition to Work Inventory

With this assessment, individuals with little or no work experience can identify their job options and make career transitions more effective and rewarding. Individuals review a list of 96 non-work activities and rate how much they like each one. Self-scoring connects their answers to the 16 career clusters, which then lead to a list of related jobs, self-employment options, and paths for education and training. Additional jobs and self-employment options appear in the career exploration chart. A new step helps individuals weigh the pros and cons of jobs that interest them and create a career plan that outlines educational and occupational goals, and how to overcome barriers to these goals. This tool can be used with: Job seekers and career changers. People returning to the workforce. Clients in rehabilitation-to-work programs. People with little or no work experience. Students in school-to-work programs. Clients in welfare-to-work programs. People transitioning from military to civilian careers. Ex-offenders in incarceration-to-work programs.

Occupational Outlook Handbook

a guide that informs you of hundreds of jobs, their requirements, and their future possibilities.

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator

a personality test that taps four characteristics and classifies people into 1 of 16 personality types

Dictionary of Occupational Titles

book published the the US DOL that provides short descriptions of more than 20,000 jobs and their relationships with data, people, and things.

Stanford Binet Intelligence Scale

intelligence test developed by Alfred Binet and later refined at Stanford University. Predicts academic success. Organized by age of child

Kuder Career Search with Person Match

scientifically aligns your top interests with career clusters. Then Person Match provides career stories from adults to give a real-world look at the careers a client may be interested in.

WISC-IV

the most recent revision of the Wechsler Intelligence Scales for Children, a well-known IQ test developed in the United States that includes both verbal and performance (nonverbal) subtests. Good for age 6-16