PCC - Unit One
Assessments - answerAre a way of collecting and evaluating information for
measurement purposes.
*When you complete a career assessment, the results provide information that will help
you choose a career based on your unique talents and passions.
career assessments - answerCareer assessments focus on what makes you a unique
person. The questions center on the activities you like, your natural talents and abilities,
the features of your personality, and the qualities you value in a workplace.
Career assessments help you investigate, identify, and recognize your interests,
personality traits, abilities, values, attitudes, and individual preferences.
Analyzing the results can help you set your career and life goals.
Self-Assessments - answerThe results of these tests are based on what you think of
yourself
You generally complete this type of assessment in more of an informal setting with no
time limits. Questions or Checklist
The best career assessments are often on government or college websites.
Formal-Assessments - answerWritten by psychologists and career counselors who
research careers and career skills to create the tests
The results are usually more in-depth than self-assessment results.
Used for Several Purposes....
Can help with career planning decisions
Colleges and universities may use them for admissions to assist in matching you with
suitable majors.
Employers may use them to make hiring decisions. Interests, skills, personality, and
work values are four categories of formal assessments that will help you discover your
Internal Career Design.
Formal Assessments - answerInterest Inventories
Skills Assessments
Personality Assessments
Work Values
Interest Inventories - answerSurveys designed to help you relate your interests to
career clusters
, In an interest inventory, you are selecting what you prefer to do.
The results often provide some career cluster suggestions or career choices that match
your interests.
Interests cannot be the only way to choose your career.
Skills Assessments - answerMeasures how well you perform specific tasks now and
whether you can master certain skills in the future
Yes, when you begin your education and training for your chosen career field, you will
master specific skills. But do you have the foundation, the ability to master the future
skills?
By using skill assessments results, you can avoid making a career decision that would
not be a good fit.
Personality Assessments - answerPersonality Assessments: The results reveal the
behavior style that makes you unique
The results of a personality assessment reveal the personal qualities that best describe
you.
The results often suggest your preferences for various social and private situations. In
addition, you may find out the type of work environment that fits your personality
traits.Knowing your character or personality can help you to choose a specific career
within a career cluster.
Example: Health related field→Nurse Practitioner or Biotechnologist
These assessments can help match a person's personality traits to those of top
employers in certain career areas.
Employers may use the results before hiring to assess an applicant's likely behavior.
The results can help determine how a potential employee will interact with other team
members in the workplace.
Work Values: - answerWork Values: Aspects about a career and the workplace that are
important to you.
The reasons how and why a person works depends on the individual.
Those traits represent a person's work values. Assessing work values helps you
discover why you want to work.
They also help you find characteristics of careers that appeal to you.
Formal Assessment - answerKeep the following ideas in mind when using formal
assessment results.....
Different ways of assessing appeal to different types of people.
Use the results of assessments as suggestions for new ideas.
Different assessments give different results.
Assessments - answerAre a way of collecting and evaluating information for
measurement purposes.
*When you complete a career assessment, the results provide information that will help
you choose a career based on your unique talents and passions.
career assessments - answerCareer assessments focus on what makes you a unique
person. The questions center on the activities you like, your natural talents and abilities,
the features of your personality, and the qualities you value in a workplace.
Career assessments help you investigate, identify, and recognize your interests,
personality traits, abilities, values, attitudes, and individual preferences.
Analyzing the results can help you set your career and life goals.
Self-Assessments - answerThe results of these tests are based on what you think of
yourself
You generally complete this type of assessment in more of an informal setting with no
time limits. Questions or Checklist
The best career assessments are often on government or college websites.
Formal-Assessments - answerWritten by psychologists and career counselors who
research careers and career skills to create the tests
The results are usually more in-depth than self-assessment results.
Used for Several Purposes....
Can help with career planning decisions
Colleges and universities may use them for admissions to assist in matching you with
suitable majors.
Employers may use them to make hiring decisions. Interests, skills, personality, and
work values are four categories of formal assessments that will help you discover your
Internal Career Design.
Formal Assessments - answerInterest Inventories
Skills Assessments
Personality Assessments
Work Values
Interest Inventories - answerSurveys designed to help you relate your interests to
career clusters
, In an interest inventory, you are selecting what you prefer to do.
The results often provide some career cluster suggestions or career choices that match
your interests.
Interests cannot be the only way to choose your career.
Skills Assessments - answerMeasures how well you perform specific tasks now and
whether you can master certain skills in the future
Yes, when you begin your education and training for your chosen career field, you will
master specific skills. But do you have the foundation, the ability to master the future
skills?
By using skill assessments results, you can avoid making a career decision that would
not be a good fit.
Personality Assessments - answerPersonality Assessments: The results reveal the
behavior style that makes you unique
The results of a personality assessment reveal the personal qualities that best describe
you.
The results often suggest your preferences for various social and private situations. In
addition, you may find out the type of work environment that fits your personality
traits.Knowing your character or personality can help you to choose a specific career
within a career cluster.
Example: Health related field→Nurse Practitioner or Biotechnologist
These assessments can help match a person's personality traits to those of top
employers in certain career areas.
Employers may use the results before hiring to assess an applicant's likely behavior.
The results can help determine how a potential employee will interact with other team
members in the workplace.
Work Values: - answerWork Values: Aspects about a career and the workplace that are
important to you.
The reasons how and why a person works depends on the individual.
Those traits represent a person's work values. Assessing work values helps you
discover why you want to work.
They also help you find characteristics of careers that appeal to you.
Formal Assessment - answerKeep the following ideas in mind when using formal
assessment results.....
Different ways of assessing appeal to different types of people.
Use the results of assessments as suggestions for new ideas.
Different assessments give different results.
