Quintessential Careers Content Index: Career Assessment

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Career Assessment and Exploration

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15 Quick Self-Assessment Tips
By: Katharine Hansen, Ph.D.
Published: 2011, Jan. 11
Updated/Revised: 2012, Oct.
Summary: This article provides a list about getting to know yourself better through assessment and self-reflection.

Take Charge of Your Career Direction: Career Assessments Can Point the Way!
By: Susan Guarneri
Published: 2011, Jan. 11
Updated/Revised: 2012, Oct.
Summary: You can be more in control of what your career future delivers than you ever anticipated. It simply takes a combination of IN-sight and OUT-sight to provide the right signposts to follow. This article explains.

Dependable Strengths®: Finding Your Unique Excellence
By: Katharine Hansen, Ph.D.
Published: 2011, Jan. 11
Updated/Revised: 2012, Oct.
Summary: This article describes the Dependable Strengths Articulation Process (DSAP) developed by Dr. Bernard Haldane.

Creating Opportunity by Knowing Yourself: Career Assessments for Lifetime Career Management
By: Susan Guarneri
Published: 2010, Nov. 1
Updated/Revised: 2012, Oct.
Summary: This article is a story about change, turmoil, insight, and opportunity. It's the story of one person's career journey, but it could very well be yours or mine. And it's a story about career assessments, tools for real life career management.

Handling Pre Employment Screenings and Assessments
By: Katharine Hansen, Ph.D.
Published: 2010, Jan. 11
Updated/Revised: 2012, Oct.
Summary: Employers are increasingly using pre-screening and assessment techniques early in the interviewing process typically after one or more initial phone screenings and before the first face-to-face interview or between the first and second interview. This article prepares candidates for these techniques.

Career Passion Tutorial
By: Randall S. Hansen, Ph.D.
Published: 2009, Jan. 12
Updated/Revised: 2012, Oct.
Summary: This free tutorial is all about self-discovery, life planning, and choosing an ideal career -- wherever you are in life, from student to post-retirement.

Career Passion Worksheet
By: Katharine Hansen, Ph.D., and Randall S. Hansen, Ph.D.
Published: 2009, Jan. 12
Updated/Revised: 2012, Oct.
Summary: Worksheet to accompany Career Passion Tutorial.

Integrating Assessments Into Your Personal and Career Branding
By: Katharine Hansen, Ph.D.
Published: 2009, Jan. 12
Updated/Revised: 2012, Oct.
Summary: Let's say you've decided that you indeed need to develop your personal brand so you can stand out in the job market and climb the career ladder. If you don't know where to start, consider taking some career and personality assessments and integrating the results into your personal- and career-branding materials. This article takes you through the steps to do so.

Finding Your Career Passion
By: Randall S. Hansen, Ph.D.
Published: 2007, March 26
Updated/Revised: 2012, Oct.
Summary: Regardless of where you are in life -- where you are in your career -- there is always time to discover -- or rediscover -- what you're truly passionate about and turn that interest and passion into a new career. This article explains.

Plotting the Story of Your Ideal Career
By: Katharine Hansen, Ph.D.
Published: 2007, March 26
Updated/Revised: 2012, Oct.
Summary: If you're confused about what to do with your career -- or what to do next with your career -- and you haven't gained insight from taking assessments, there is another way. As this article explains, you can learn more about yourself, gain insight into the best career for you, and plot out how to get there through creating stories.

Deploying Your Intuition to Find Your Ideal Career
By: Katharine Hansen, Ph.D.
Published: 2006, June 5
Updated/Revised: 2012, Oct.
Summary: Most of us have, to one degree or another, a tool right between our ears for choosing a career -- the intuition embodied within our minds. Call it gut feelings, call it a set of hunches or "Eureka" insights, call it "stomach art" as the Japanese do, call it what you will, but your intuition can be a powerful tool for making career choices. This article explains.

Career Exploration Calendar for College Students
By: Randall S. Hansen, Ph.D.
Published: 2005, April 11
Updated/Revised: 2012, Oct.
Summary: This article is one in a series excerpted by permission from How to Get Any Job with Any Major, Ten Speed Press, (c) 2004 Donald Asher.

Identifying Your Passions: Building Blocks
By: Curt Rosengren
Published: 2004, Feb. 16
Updated/Revised: 2012, Oct.
Summary: A great first step as you begin exploring the possibilities for a passionate career is identifying your building blocks. Take a look at the things that you have really loved doing over the course of your life and break them down into the reasons why. This article explains.

Ten Tips for Creating a Career That Lights Your Fire
By: Curt Rosengren
Published: 2004, Feb. 16
Updated/Revised: 2012, Oct.
Summary: This article is a Passion Primer to help you begin exploring your passions and discovering ways, whether big or small, to incorporate them into your life.

Career Assessments Can Shed Light on Career or Job Ailments
By: Susan Britton Whitcomb
Published: 2003, Feb. 3
Updated/Revised: 2012, Oct.
Summary: Does your job score a 10 on the satisfaction scale? If not, it may be time for a career checkup to determine "what ails you." Where do you start? Career assessments are an excellent way to do some diagnostic work. This article explains.

Relationship Between Personality and Career Type Step One Self Assessment
By: Maureen Crawford Hentz
Published: 2003, Feb. 3
Updated/Revised: 2012, Oct.
Summary: A self-examination is the best way to begin thinking about career and personality. Conduct your self-assessment in a thoughtful and focused manner. Try the exercises in this article to help you focus.

Workplace Values Assessment Do You Know the Work Values You Most Want in a Job and an Employer -- and Does Your Current Employment Reflect Those Values? A Quintessential Careers Quiz
By: Randall S. Hansen, Ph.D.
Published: 2002, Feb. 18
Updated/Revised: 2012, Oct.
Summary: How well do you know your workplace values? If you're like most people, you may have done some self-assessment years ago when you were first starting out in your career, but have you taken the time recently to stop and see who and where you are now? Take this quiz to get some answers.

Career Assessment Do's and Don'ts
By: Katharine Hansen, Ph.D.
Published: 2001, Feb. 12
Updated/Revised: 2012, Oct.
Summary: Follow the simple rules in this article, and you should achieve success in the self-discovery process.

Online Assessment: A Cyber Spatial Career Snapshot
By: Marc A. Verhoeve
Published: 2001, Jan. 29
Summary: A standardized career-assessment tool provides the individual with an accurate career snapshot that portrays one's self-view in front of the appropriate job settings. The added benefit of online assessment is that this career snapshot is instantaneous and dynamic. Learn more in this article.

Online Career Assessments Helpful Tools of Self-Discovery
By: Katharine Hansen, Ph.D.
Published: 2001, Jan. 29
Updated/Revised: 2012, Oct.
Summary: Free (and inexpensive) online career assessments are by no means the "be all and end all" that will give you comprehensive career answers. But as long as you keep your expectations in check and supplement the results with other avenues of self-discovery, you will likely find these online assessments to be somewhat helpful pieces of the career self-discovery puzzle. Learn more in this article.

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Quintessential Careers Content Index: Career Assessment and Exploration

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Quintessential Careers Content Index:
Career Assessment and Exploration

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Career Assessment Tools & Tests

Career Exploration Tools and Resources