SUNY Oswego - Learn about Yourself

Career Assessment - Learn about Yourself

Step One in choosing your major is getting to know yourself, how you think, what you value and how you learn. This is known as Career Assessment.

Student Advisement at the COMPASS offers workshops that can assist you in this process.

Strong Interest Inventory Workshop
Wednesday, April 9th 12:40pm 142 Campus Center

DISCOVER Workshops
Wednesday, February 20th 6:00pm 142 Campus Center
Monday, February 25th 12:40pm 142 Campus Center

If you are unable to attend a workshop, you may prefer to do some research on your own. In that case, there are many websites that offer ways you can get to know more about yourself. There are three different types of sites: personality assessment websites, learning/thinking assessment websites and values identification websites.

Personality Assessment websites

Temperament Sorter II (from advisorteam.com)
http://www.advisorteam.com/temperament_sorter
/register.asp?partid=1

TypeFocus Personality Assessment Test
http://typefocus.com/s_complimentary.html

Insight Reporting System
http://www.win.net/insightsys/question.htm

Learning/Thinking Assessments

Index of Learning Styles Questionnaire (North Carolina State University)
http://www.engr.ncsu.edu/learningstyles/ilsweb.html

Explanation of Learning Styles
http://www.ncsu.edu/felder-public/ILSpage.html

Values

Values Assessment (University of New Orleans)
http://www.career.uno.edu/pdfs/values%20Assessment%20Acrobat.pdf

Transferable Skills/Abilities

Transferable Skills Survey (University of Minnesota-Duluth)
Interactive Self Assessment on Skills
http://www.d.umn.edu/kmc/student/loon/car/self/career_transfer_survey.html

Ready for Step Two?