Career Assessments
Choosing a career or considering a career change can feel overwhelming. One helpful place to start is by gaining a better understanding of your interests, personality, and work preferences. Your results are not meant to tell you what career to choose. However, they provide a starting point for meaningful conversations about your strengths, values, interests, and goals.
During our indvidual career counseling sessions, we will review your TruTalent results together and use them, along with your experiences, education, skills, and aspirations, to develop a personalized career plan.
Focus is an online career and education planning system that is designed to provide
McKendree University students and alumni with personalized career and education exploration
and planning services.
TruTalent is an online program that is designed to help McKendree University students
and alumni learn more about their personality type, and as a result maximize major
and career satisfaction.
Other free recommended career assessments include:
CareerOneStop - Career exploration tools from the U.S. Department of Labor, including career assessments, occupation information, salary data, and job search resources. Click on the Explore Careers link for self assessments.
O*NET Interest Profiler - Career assessment that helps individuals identify interests and discover careers that align with prefrences using the Holland (RIASEC) career model.
Truity - Personality-based career assessment that helps individuals identify strengths, interests, and work style while exploring careers that may be a good fit.
MyPlan - Online career planning resource that offers career assessments, college and career exploration tools, and educational planning resources to help individuals identify careers that align with interests, skills, values, and personlity.
Please contact Career Services for more information regarding these assessments and the passwords, and to schedule a time to review your results with our office.
