{"id":20443,"date":"2022-04-25T17:34:55","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T17:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/careersuccess\/?page_id=20443"},"modified":"2025-10-20T17:07:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T17:07:51","slug":"personal-assessment-industry-research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/careersuccess\/personal-assessment-industry-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Personal Assessments"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\tCareer assessments can help you narrow down your job choices and choose a career path that is compatible with your interests, skills, values, and personality. Industry research is like \"Career Intelligence\" that will give you essential information, insights and resource links to find your future. Try both of them today!\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
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    The\u00a0O*NET Interest Profiler<\/b>\u00a0is a free career assessment from the U.S. Department of Labor that helps people identify the kinds of work they enjoy most. It then connects those interests to real career options, showing details like skills needed, education requirements, salary ranges, and job outlook to support smart career choices.<\/span><\/p>\n

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      Assessments are a great way to learn more about yourself and you can get started right now with your choice of free web assessment tools. <\/span>
      \nEach are influenced by different perspectives in psychology and can provide you more information about future possibilities and potentially help you choose a major or possible career. <\/span>
      \nWe recommend that you consider taking several kinds of assessments and compare the results. Each assessment takes roughly 10 minutes to complete.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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      Comprehensive interest, personality, and preference assessment that builds a profile using a psychometric model of\u00a0who you are<\/i> and matches you against career data collected from multiple sources.<\/span><\/p>\n

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      Measure my big 5 personality traits.<\/span><\/p>\n

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      Measure my personality type at work using the DiSC method: Dominance, Influence, Steadiness and Conscientiousness.<\/span><\/p>\n

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      Discover how a more detailed look at your personality and how it relates to others can help you find work preferences.<\/span><\/p>\n

      Email\u00a0aac@wcsu.educreate new email<\/span><\/a> to receive information on how to take the assessments.<\/span><\/p>\n

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      Find your vocation with O*NET Interest Profiler.<\/span><\/p>\n

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      Explore how I could match against many workplace skills. Rate my workplace skill levels and what careers match my ratings.<\/span><\/p>\n

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      VIA is Values In Action. This free, psychometrically-validated personality test will measure your character strengths that make up your positive personality.<\/span><\/p>\n

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      Understanding your strengths unlocks your potential and leads you to greater performance. This assessment takes 30 minutes and has additional cost<\/span><\/p>\n

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      Explore my interests and how they relate to the world of work.<\/span><\/p>\n

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      Find your vocation with <\/span>O*NET Interest Profiler.<\/span><\/p>\n

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      This quick assessment gives you a career roadmap based on your interests.<\/span><\/p>\n

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      Researching, learning, and experiencing more about positions and industries will give you a much better perspective.<\/span>
      \n This will ultimately save you time and money in the long run as you find which industries you may like to work in and those that you want to stay clear of. <\/span>
      \nChanging industries later in life also won't be the end of the world, it may even be a much needed change of pace for your life.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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          Assessments are a great way to learn more about yourself and you can get started right now with your choice of free web assessment tools. <\/span><\/h1>\n

          Each are influenced by different perspectives in psychology and can provide you more information about future possibilities and potentially help you choose a major or possible career. <\/span><\/h1>\n

          We recommend that you consider taking several kinds of assessments and compare the results. Each assessment takes roughly 10 minutes to complete.<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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          Researching, learning, and experiencing more about positions and industries will give you a much better perspective.<\/span><\/h1>\n

          This will ultimately save you time and money in the long run as you find which industries you may like to work in and those that you want to stay clear of. <\/span><\/h1>\n

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          Take our Personality Test and get a \u201cfreakishly accurate\u201d description of who you are and why you do things the way you do.<\/span><\/p>\n

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          Comprehensive interest, personality, and preference assessment that builds a profile using a psychometric model of\u00a0who you are<\/i> and matches you against career data collected from multiple sources.<\/span><\/p>\n

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          Measure my big 5 personality traits.<\/span><\/p>\n

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          Measure my personality type at work using the DiSC method: Dominance, Influence, Steadiness and Conscientiousness.<\/span><\/p>\n

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          Discover how a more detailed look at your personality and how it relates to others can help you find work preferences.<\/span><\/p>\n

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          VIA is Values In Action. This free, psychometrically-validated personality test will measure your character strengths that make up your positive personality.<\/span><\/p>\n

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          Comprehensive interest, personality, and preference assessment that builds a profile using a psychometric model of\u00a0who you are<\/i>\u00a0and matches you against career data collected from multiple sources.<\/span><\/p>\n

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          This quick assessment gives you a career roadmap based on your interests.<\/span><\/p>\n

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