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Understanding Career Planning and Testing
Career planning is the exciting process of finding your ideal career, based upon your intrinsic interests, motivational traits, personality, values, skills, aptitudes, personal work style, and work environment preferences. Studies show people who are working in a career that supports their intrinsic interests are happier, and more successful and fulfilled. Career planning is ideal for changing careers, selecting a field of study or major, and beginning a new career.
Career tests (also known as inventories or assessments) assess your values, interests, motivational traits, personal work style, personality, skills, and aptitudes. Each type of inventory/test is designed to gather data and provide you with meaningful feedback to help ensure that you will land in a career you will love, and in which you will be most successful!
The most effective career planning process utilizes the various types of career tests (inventories) together with decision-making tools.
To understand the major types of tests (inventories) used in career planning, click for a description of each:
Whether a first career or a career change, millions of people are using career planning and testing to find the perfect career for optimum success and happiness!
Why Use CareerDesign™ by CareerPerfect®?
- Our self-directed career planning and testing programs are so effective and well respected that they are used worldwide by individuals, in universities for students, in Fortune 500 companies and government agencies for employees, and in nonprofit agencies.
- CareerDesign™ — the #1 online program — is a complete self-directed career planning program that is easy to use and understand and quick to complete. It has been recognized as the most complete virtual career counseling program.
- CareerDesign™ is NOT a single test with various reports or simply a collection of articles or resources. It consists of five steps and three complete career tests plus important decision-making tools in an easy-to-use, self-directed program.
- Much more than a career test, CareerDesign™ is based upon our live career planning & testing course, bringing our expertise right to your home or office anywhere in the world.
- Validity: CareerDesign™'s personality/interest inventory has been used by 22 million people worldwide, and results have been supported by over 500 research studies.
- As experts in online and offline career guidance practices — with more than twenty-five years' experience in career guidance and counseling — we have successfully helped tens of thousands of clients reach their career goals.
- We wrote and successfully passed legislation to set standards for career guidance and employment services, and developed a new employment model for Washington State.
About CareerDesign™
Discover Your Potential for Career Success with the #1 Online Program!
CareerDesign™ was developed as the most effective self-directed online career testing process to guide you through a suite of three career inventories (tests), plus decision-making tools designed to work together in one easy-to-use and understand program.
CareerDesign™ includes the following three tests (inventories) and decision-making steps and tools:
1. Career Interest Inventory
Your results are processed online and available immediately, providing you with a comprehensive, easy-to-understand confidential eight-to-twelve page interpretive report — from the most widely used interest inventory in the world — that includes:
- A complete list of top occupations that are best for you from the largest interest inventory occupations database
- Your matching personal career code with an explanation of your results
- A description of your personality type as it relates to careers
- A list of top fields of study that are best for you for further education
- Information for using your results in career planning
2. Values Inventory
Your results are generated immediately, providing you with a complete confidential report that includes:
- 64 work-related Values and Characteristics grouped into 10 categories
- Clarification and prioritization of your career-related values
- A better understanding of your values and priorities for improved career decision making
3. Skills Inventory
Your results are generated immediately, providing you with a complete confidential report that includes:
- Identification of your marketable and transferable skills (Vocational, Academic, Military, Volunteer, Avocational, or Life Experience skills) in order to transfer relevant skills from one environment, application, level of responsibility, or field to another
- Prioritization of your transferable skills
- Clarification of your accomplishments
4. Decision-Making Tools
In live career counseling, decision making is facilitated by a Counselor typically on a costly hourly basis. We have included this type of decision making in a virtual model in CareerDesign™:
- The Career Decision Helper™
- Step-by-step guidelines to evaluate your options
- Access to the latest occupational information for your career interest inventory results, including:
- Job Descriptions and Work Environment
- Compensation
- Training and Advancement Opportunities
- Employment Trends and Job Outlook
- Related Occupations
- Guidelines and sample questions for Informational Interviewing
- Questions to ask yourself for quality decision making
Start Career Planning Now — with Quick Results!
Order CareerDesign™ online, 24 hours a day on our secure Career Store.
After placing your order, you will be taken to a page where you can simply click on a link to immediately start the online version of CareerDesign™.
You will have easy, step-by-step instructions on how to use CareerDesign™ and take all of the included inventories/tests. To our knowledge, it is the most complete and comprehensive career planning solution available online — for only $29.95.
Organizations: Contact us for career planning in organizations or for virtual outplacement.
CareerDesign™ is designed to run in your Web browser, so you can use it on virtually any computer platform with any recent Web browser. You can download a current browser for FREE from our download page — and get started immediately!
If you wish to place an order by telephone, call during business hours (9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. PT) Monday through Friday:
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