- Plan your career
- Discover who I am
- Learn about your personality, interests, values, skills, and abilities; start to define your career goals; and begin to shortlist your options
- Explore my options
- Learn how to conduct occupational research, options for studying and working, and trends in the world of work
- Choose my direction
- Learn how to evaluate your options, make a decision, and take action
- Achieve my goals
- Learn how to define and reach your goals through goal setting exercises, work and volunteer opportunities, extracurricular involvement, networking, and professional development activities.
- Join the workforce
- Learn how to write a resume, develop your interview skills, network like a pro, and find the hidden (and not-so-hidden) job market
- Continue to develop
- Learn about re-careering, relocating, leaving a job, losing a job, and professional development
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- Go to the Plan My Career home page
Discover Who I Am
Download the Plan My Career Workbook for a complete collection of the exercises offered here.
What type of work would I enjoy? What type of people do I like to be around? How do I define success? These are all important (and sometimes difficult) questions!
Discover Who I Am provides career assessment tools to help you understand your background, personality, interests, values, and skills. The information you learn about yourself will help you establish clear career goals and make informed career decisions.
Take a Career Assessment
My Story So Far
"My Story So Far" is like a career assessment warm-up—it gives you a chance to look back at the events of your life that have shaped you and gets you started on thinking ahead to what you want your journey to look like from here!
Download "My Story So Far" (PDF)
Personality
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI®)
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI®) is one of the most widely used personality inventories in the world. The MBTI® uses 16 personality types to help you understand individual differences and how these differences affect the way you think, communicate, and interact.
MBTI profile overviews
Personal Style Survey
The Personal Style Survey gives you a chance to reflect on the way you think, act, and feel; and how these define who you are. The survey offers you a list of different qualities and asks you to choose which ones you feel best describe the real you.
Download the Personality Style Survey (PDF)
Interests
The Strong Interest Inventory (SII®)
The Strong Interest Inventory (SII®) is designed to help you clarify your interests and identify specific occupational, educational, and recreational activities that would be most compatible with these interests.
The CHOICES® Planner Interest Profiler
The CHOICES® Planner Interest Profiler allows you to explore your interests through a list of 179 multiple choices items asking you to rank your interest in different activities. Based on how you answer these questions, the Interest Profiler will indicate where your interests fall within six different categories and will link you to a list of occupations that match those interests.
Interests Survey
The Interests Survey uses six broad areas of interest and over 80 specific interest descriptors to help you explore the activities and tasks that you find appealing. Use this information to summarize your key interests and create a list of potential careers that complement these interests.
Download the Interests Survey (PDF)
Values
The Values Survey
The Values Survey helps you identify and clarify what you believe in by asking you to rate 34 different values in terms of their importance to you. Based on your ratings, you will be given an opportunity to identify your most important values as well as some career options that complement them.
Download the Values Survey (PDF)
The CHOICES® Planner Work Values Sorter
The CHOICES® Planner Work Values Sorter® is designed to help you clarify your values and decide what is important to you in your work. Based on how you rank 20 value statements, the instrument will provide you with scores on six core work values and give you a list of occupations that match the core work values you scored highest on.
Skills & Abilities
The Skills Survey
To choose a realistic career direction, you need to be able to identify the things you are good at and have the ability to do well. The Skills Survey gives you an opportunity to evaluate your skill level in nine distinct areas and then develop a list of your specific areas of strength.
Download the Skills Survey (PDF)
The CHOICES® Planner Transferable Skills Checklist®
The CHOICES® Planner Transferable Skills Checklist® is particularly useful for those with work experience who are exploring a change in their career direction. The Transferable Skills Checklist® examines over 230 transferable skills across 25 skill sets and provides lists of occupations that match each of the transferable skills you identified.
The CHOICES® Planner Ability Profiler®
The Ability Profiler® is an aptitude assessment that can help you understand your general abilities in arithmetic reasoning, computation, vocabulary, three-dimensional space, name comparison and object matching. You can then relate your results to the world of work by comparing your aptitude scores to suggested occupational aptitudes.
Create My Career Blueprint
A Career Blueprint is designed to help you use the information you have gathered to define specific career related goals and develop a list of careers you would like to explore. When you have completed your Career Blueprint, you will have essentially developed a template, or ‘blueprint’, of your best fit career and life plan!
Download "Create My Career Blueprint" (PDF)
Additional Career Assessment Sites
Each user of our site is unique and may like to use a variety of assessment resources. Similar to our site, the following links offer online and downloadable career assessment tools. Out of the hundreds of such websites available, these sites were chosen as they offer Canadian content, are easy to access, and are free!
What next?
Now that you have completed the assessments and created your Career Blueprint, get ready to Explore
My Options!
