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The CareerOneStop Interest Assessment provides insights into your interests and matches them with potential careers. Career interest assessments are designed to help individuals understand their preferences, skills, and values. They offer a structured way to explore career options that align with your interests, making it easier to find a fulfilling and satisfying career. For students, these assessments can provide direction as they choose educational paths and career goals. For job seekers, they can open up new avenues and confirm the suitability of potential career changes.
1. Realistic (R): Hands-on, practical tasks, often involving tools, machines, or physicalactivity.
2. Investigative (I): Analytical, intellectual, and scientific pursuits, often involving researchor problem-solving.
3. Artistic (A): Creative, original, and expressive activities, including arts, writing, anddesign.
4. Social (S): Interpersonal, supportive, and helping roles, often involving teaching,counseling, or community service.
5. Enterprising (E): Leadership, persuasion, and entrepreneurial activities, often involvingbusiness, sales, or management.
6. Conventional (C): Structured, orderly tasks, often involving data management,organization, and administration.
1. Visit the CareerOneStop Website: Go to CareerOneStop.org and navigate to the Interest Assessment section.
2. Start the Assessment: You'll answer a series of questions about your interests and preferences. The questions are designed to be straightforward and easy to understand.
3. Receive Your Results: The assessment will generate a list of career options based on your interests. Each career is linked to detailed information, including job duties, required skills, education/training needed, and potential earnings.
Review the list of suggested careers and explore the ones that intrigue you. Consider how well they align with your interests, skills, and long-term goals. Career interest assessments can help you better understand the types of jobs and activities that might be a good fit for you. However, remember that the purpose is to suggest careers to consider, not to tell you a specific career to pursue. You may see suggestions that don’t seem like a good a fit, but try to keep an open mind. If you were honest while answering the questions, don’t dismiss or laugh off results too quickly. Explore all the suggestions and watch for similar skills or abilities that stand out. Use CareerPathway.com to further explore your top career interests. From your “Discover” tab, use the search field to pull up related posts, career pathways, employers, and more.
CareerOneStop has three assessments, including the Interest Assessment, Skills Match and Work Values Matcher.
Learn more at: www.careeronestop.org/ExploreCareers/Assessments/self-assessments.aspx
The CareerOneStop Interest Assessment is powered by O*NET Interest Profiler. The O*NET Interest Profiler is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Employment & Training Administration and consists of 60 questions about work-related activities (compared to the 30 questions given by CareerOneStop.org’s Interest Assessment). You may want to explore the O*NET Interest Profiler if you think refining your answers would generate more accurate results.