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.

• View a sample MBTI® Career Report (PDF)
• Take the MBTI®
• The MBTI® is only available to current U of S students and alumni, and is offered at a cost recovery fee of $20. MBTI® results are provided through a 1.5 hr workshop held regularly at the SECC. Contact the SECC to register for a workshop.

MBTI profile overviews

• ISTJ
• ISFJ
• INFJ
• INTJ
• ISTP
• ISFP
• INFP
• INTP
• ESTP
• ESFP
• ENFP
• ENTP
• ESTJ
• ESFJ
• ENFJ
• ENTJ

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.

• View a sample SII® Report (PDF)
• Take the SII®
• The SII® is only available to current U of S students and alumni, and is offered at a cost recovery fee of $20. SII® results are provided through a 1.5 hr workshop held regularly at the SECC. Contact the SECC to register for a workshop.

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.

• Take the CHOICES® Planner Interest Profiler
• The CHOICES® Planner is only available to current U of S students and alumni.

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.

• Take the CHOICES® Planner Work Values Sorter®
• The CHOICES® Planner is only available to current U of S students and alumni.

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.

• Take the CHOICES® Planner Transferable Skills Checklist®
• The CHOICES® Planner is only available to current U of S students and alumni.

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.

• Take the CHOICES® Planner Ability Profiler®
• The CHOICES® Planner is only available to current U of S students and alumni.