Monday, February 25, 2013

Assessment


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An interest inventory is a self assessment tool that is used in career planning.  An interest inventory is designed to assess a person's likes and dislikes of a variety of activities, objects and personality styles using the theory that people in the same career tend to have the same interests.

There are many different types and styles of interest inventories. Here are some examples:

  • COPS, COPES, CAPS
    • Science
    • Technology
    • Consumer Economics
    • Outdoor
    • Business
    • Clerical Communication
    • Arts
    • Service
  • Strong Interest Inventory

    • Doers (Realistic)
    • Thinkers (Investigative)
    • Creators (Artistic)
    • Helpers (Social)
    • Persuaders (Enterprising)
    • Organizers (Conventional)

  • Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
    • Extrovert vs. Introvert
    • Sensing vs. Intuition
    • Thinking vs. Feeling
    • Judging vs. Perceiving
  • Janus Job Planner
    • Clerical
    • Sales
    • Service
    • Physical Work
    • Driving and Operating
    • Mechanical and Repairing 
    • Caring and Helping
    • Creative



Go to the JobTips website

DETERMINING INTERESTS

  • Find the section called Determining Interests.
  • Read the Overview.


SOCIAL SKILLS ASSESSMENTS

  • Read the Social Skills Assessments section.
  • Save the document Social Skills Assessment to your network account.
  • Complete the document.


TRUSTED PERSON ASSESSMENT

  • Save the document Trusted Person Assessment to your network account. 
  • Ask someone that you trust to complete the Trusted Person Assessment about you. 
  • Email them the document and ask them to send it back to you when you are done.


WHAT'S YOUR SCENE


INTERESTS QUIZ

  • Take the Interests Quiz on the JobTips website and press submit.
  • Copy and paste the list of jobs that is created personally for you into a Word document. 
  • Save the Word document to your network account called Interests Quiz Results.

OTHER INTERESTS QUIZ INCLUDE:



  Casey Life Skills Assessment

  COPS - Career Occupational Preference Survey
      (pick up a copy from your teacher)

  
RESOURCES
www.do2learn.com

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