How well do you know yourself? Want to know more about your personality, your skills, your values, and your interests?

Self assessment is the first step of the career planning process. It is the process of gathering information about you in order to make an informed career decision. A self assessment should include a look at your values, interests, personality, and skills.

The Career and Volunteer Service Center offers a variety of tests and assessments to help you determine which careers are best suited for your personality and interests.

Our range of tests and assesments include:

CISS (Campbell Interest & Skills Survey) - Measures interests and skills; reflects the individual's degree of attraction to specific occupational areas and provides a comparison to individuals employed in those occupations. Adds a parallel skill scale that estimates the individual's confidence in his or her ability to perform various occupational activities.

With the CISS®, students and adults learn how their likes, dislikes, and self-reported skills compare to those of individuals who are happily and successfully employed in occupations that require post-secondary education. This test is offered at the testing center on the CEU campus.

Career Clues Inventory - This is a short 24 question self-administered inventory that indicates your interest in one of three work styles: Hands-on person, people person, or information person. Your preferences are then matched to various occupations.

CHOICES 2000 - Choices 2000 is a computer assisted program that allows users to identify their transferable skills with the on-line interest checklist. Reports show related occupations.

SIGGI - is a computerized assessment that allows the user to identify interests, skills, and values through a series of inventory questions.

Myers-Briggs Type Inventory - There are no right or wrong answers on this test. Your answers will help show how you make decisions and look at the world. Knowing your own preference and learning about other people's can help you understand where your special strengths are, what kind of work you might enjoy and be successful doing, and how people with different preferences can relate to each other and be valuable to society. The MBTI is a great personality examination.
Testing materials available at the Career and Volunteer Center. This test takes around 45 minutes and costs $14.00.

Holland Personality and Work Environment Assessment - Dr. John Holland created a system of placing people's interests into groups. He believed every person's interests fit into at least one group; most fit into two or three groups. Your personal combination of Holland groups is your Holland Code. These codes may help you identify careers in which you might have interest.
This short inventory can be taken on-line or with pencil anytime at the Career and Volunteer Center.

Kiersey Temperament Sorter - The Kiersey Temperament Sorter was developed by David Kiersey, and is based upon the ideas of psychologists Carl Jung and Elizabeth Myers-Briggs. This test divides people into 16 basic categories or temperaments. People in any one group will tend to act and think more like each other than like people in other groups.
This test can be taken anytime at the Career and Volunteer Center using a paper and pencil and consists of 70 questions.

Other Assessments - Arrangements may be made for assessment and testing services provided by the State Department of Workforce Services as required. Testing and Assessment is by appointment only and the individual must be referred by a career counselor. Assessments include the following:

COPS - California Occupational Preference System

Career Occupational Preference System

Self-Directed Search (SDS) - Holland Codes

USES Interest Inventory

There is no charge for most career tests and assessments. Some of the tests are self-administered and self-scored; others require professional interpretation and administration.

Visit the testing center website for more information on what tests are offered to students.