Guide to Job-Hunting on the Internet |
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Step 1: Career Exploration Tools
What if you’re not sure of what you want to do after you
graduate? You can take interactive tests on the Internet
or use noninteractive career exploration tools. Someday,
the Internet will probably have lots of interactive
areas that will help you find the right career for you.
In the meantime, here are a few helpful sites:
Princeton Review: So You Want to get a Career…. This
site contains the
Birkman Career Style Summary.
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Fill out a short questionnaire, which is automatically
scored on the Web. You will be given a profile of your
career styles and interests that can help match you
with a career in which others with similar styles have
been both happy and successful.
Keirsey Temperament Sorter.
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Fill in a questionnaire of about 70 questions, which is
automatically scored on the Web. Your results will be
in the form of Myers-Briggs Types, and
suggestions of appropriate careers are made.
Work Preference Inventory
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Based on the premise that the process of values clarification is very
important in career planning. The more you are able to incorporate your
most highly regarded values into your work, the happier and more fulfilled
you are likely to be. The Work Preference Inventory gives you a small
glimpse that helps you to clarify what you value in terms of work style to
assist you in making more fulfilling and rewarding career and employment
decisions. For best results, use Java-script-enabled browser.
Career Questionnaire.
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A 34-question exercise that returns with the careers that best match your interests
and strengths.
Career Development Manual from the University of
Waterloo.
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This site is not interactive, but it does have
plenty of self-assessment forms and exercises that you
can print out and work on by hand.
