Career Assessment
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Career Assessment Tools & Tests
Help envision and plan your future with these self-assessment and career discovery
tests. Spend some time here and take one or more of the following self-assessment
tests to give you a better idea of your attitudes and interests as they relate to possible
career choices.
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Employability Checkup
The employability checkup provides a snapshot of your ability to find employment with a
specific occupation at a specific wage and location. In the following pages, select an
occupation and industry, a state and locality, an education level, and a wage level. This
information will be used to create your employability profile.
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CareerPath by CareerBuilder
CareerPath.com is a career resource center that will assist you in making the right career decisions. Assistance is provided with career tests, advice and resources. |
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7 New Skills Every Worker Needs
Specific needs vary by company and industry, of course, but some key commonalities apply to many firms. Here are some of the attributes that workers will need to thrive in an austere economy. |
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Assess Yourself Before Job Hunting
If you’re a 50+ job seeker, you might be tempted to rush into action, frantically answering
job ads or posting your resume online. Don’t. Your job search has a better chance of
succeeding if you step back and assess yourself first.
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Use the Skills Profiler to create a list of your skills and match them to job types that
need those skills. You can use this profile to identify occupations that use your current
skills, find gaps you need to fill, or polish your resume. When your skills profile is
complete, you can print it, or save it as a Microsoft Word, HTML or XML file, or as a Bookmark
in your browser.
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What Color Is Your Parachute? 2009: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and
Career-Changers
Still the best-selling job-hunting book in the world, WHAT COLOR IS YOUR PARACHUTE? is the most
complete guide for first-time job seekers as well as second and encore careers changers. The
2009 edition is an even more useful book, with its updated, inspiring, and detailed plan for
changing readers' lives. With new examples, instructions, and cautionary advice, PARACHUTE is,
to quote Fortune magazine, "the gold standard of career guides."
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| For hundreds of different types of jobs—such as teacher, lawyer, and nurse—the Occupational Outlook Handbook tells you: the training and education needed, earnings, expected job prospects, what workers do on the job, working conditions. In addition, the Handbook gives you job search tips, links to information about the job market in each State, and more. |
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