Your career coach can help you discover who you are through asking about your values, interests, personality, and skills. Not sure where to start? We have some assessments that we can guide you through. Meet with your career coach to learn more!
Discover who you are
- Skills
Choosing a career path that aligns with your skills will help you be successful in your professional life.
- Values
Your job satisfaction depends on how well your career choice aligns with your values.
- Personality
Personality preferences determine how you respond to the outside world, take in information, make decisions, and structure your environments.
- Interests
Your interests determine whether you’re bored or engaged by your surroundings.
Values
Your values shape your thoughts, influence your worldview, and help you decide what actions to take.
- What's important to you?
- What issues and causes do you care about?
- How do you spend extra time and/or money?
Interests
The secret to finding a fulfilling career lies in identifying the things you already like to do— your interests.
- What topics could you talk endlessly about?
- What do you do when you have free time?
- What do you want to learn more about?
Personality
By exploring your personality, you will learn more about how you prefer to derive your energy, process new information, make decisions, and which environments are best suited for you.
- Are you an introvert or an extravert?
- Do you make decisions with your head or your heart?
- Do you prefer things to be scheduled or are you more flexible?
Skills
You already have many of the skills you need to have a rewarding career. Do you know what they are? Your career coach can help you learn about:
- Your strengths and weaknesses
- The skills you enjoy and want to use in a career
- What skills you should focus on developing
- What your natural talents are
All-in-One Assessment
Check out Focus™ 2 for a free assessment to help you explore your VIPS and how they relate to majors and careers. Take your results to your meeting with a career coach to best understand how to interpret your findings. Scroll down the page to find the Self Assessments and learn more about yourself!
Other self-assessments
No assessment can perfectly capture all of what makes you unique. Taking multiple assessments can help us understand more about ourselves and our VIPS. Here are some other assessments that you can access for a small price if you would like to learn more. If interested, please complete the form below or reach out to your career coach.
This inventory was developed to help individuals clarify their values and serve as blueprint for effective decision-making and optimal functioning. You can access the Life Values Inventory for free through their website. You will get your results back right away but can hold onto these results to discuss with your career coach further.
This assessment is one of the world's most widely respected and frequently used career planning tools. Reach out to your career coach to learn more about how to sign up for this assessment.
Knowing your personality type, as measured through this instrument, can help you with career planning at every stage. Personality type is a practical tool for investigating what works for you, then looking for and recognizing work that satisfies your preferences. Reach out to your career coach to learn more about how to sign up for this assessment.
SkillScan will help you learn about your strengths and weaknesses, the skills you enjoy and want to use in a career, and those skills needing development. Reach out to your career coach to learn more about how to sign up for this assessment.
Discover your CliftonStrengths to gain insight into your natural talents and reflect on how you can develop them during college. Reach out to your career coach to learn more about how to sign up for this assessment.
Indiana Career Explorer
Indiana Career Explorer is an online education and career planning system that gives you the tools you need to build a foundation for lifelong career success. With your free account, you can take assessments that will help you determine which careers are likely to suit you the best, and then see recommendations tailored specifically to you.
Want to dive deeper?
Take deeper dive into who you are by learning about aptitudes through YouScience. The power of YouScience lies in its performance measures of aptitudes and its ability to connect natural talent with in-demand careers. The thorough assessment cuts through social noise and gender biases to create more equity and access – matching users to their best-fit careers and giving them the confidence and data to make informed decisions about their futures.