Deciding on your career is a like taking a journey: it is difficult to decide where to go to if you don't know where you are. In career counselling, "where you are" is known as your vocational identity. It has four main components
- Abilities - What are you able to do? Skills you have learned so far in life and your areas of potential.
- Interests - What do you like to do? What catches your interests, efforts and energies.
- Personality - How do you tend to interact with the people, data and things in the world around you?
- Work Values - What do you want from your work? Both tangible (e.g., money) and intangible things.
- What are you able to do? Skills you have learned so far in life and your areas of potential. Career tests don't provide a magic answer. However, interest tests are a good way to generate options and the other types of tests can be helpful to narrow down those options.
How can the Career Centre help?
We offer a variety of professional, standardized career assessments that are more refined than anything you will find online for free. All tests include a personalized interpretation session with a Career Counsellor. Some tests have a nominal materials fee of $20, others are available at no charge*.
Consult with a Career Counsellor to discuss your situation and determine which test(s) will best fit your needs. Some of our most commonly used tests are listed on the FAQs page.
**Career Centre services are available to current students in full-time programs as well as alumni up to one year from grad date.**
For more detail on this service/topic, see the FAQs. For additional resources:
- check out many immediately useful links in the Online Resources section
- view and print a variety of related Career Centre documents in the downloads section