Career Interest Inventory/Assessments
BRIEF SUMMARY
Career interest inventories are a great way to generate curiosity about a variety of careers. Be sure whatever tool you use includes “out of the box” careers to expose your students to all of their options. Career interest inventories align your students’ interests with careers they are also likely to be interested in. Taking a career interest inventory when beginning career exploration can help the student to develop a focus point of where to begin learning about careers. Be cautious and only use career interest inventories that are developmentally appropriate for your student and that have good reliability and validity. These types of inventories or assessments are ideally taken once per year, as student interest may change over time.
KEY POINTS
RESOURCES
- (Added 12/5/23, IDOE Update):CAREER GIRLS: Career Exploration Program – Career Girls is founded on the dream that every girl around the world has access to diverse and accomplished women role models to learn from their experiences and discover their own path to empowerment. The program has educator resources, career exploration and college prep. Visit the website or contact Aisha Ali for more information.
- Indiana Career Explorer
- Holland Code Career Test
- 14 Career Resources from Indiana School Counselor Survey 1-10-14
- Ready Up Career Assessments and Interest Inventories used in IN
- The Occupational Outlook Handbook (click here) has statistics on salary and demand.
- Virginia Career View http://vacareerview.org/k5/ has games and other activities for elementary students to explore careers.
SHARED WISDOM
- (CounselorTalk January, 2023) Q: I am getting ready to do the Truity career test with all of my 4th graders. I have a kiddo who just arrived from Cuba. Does anyone know where I can find a career interest inventory (online or paper/pencil) in Spanish? Google has not been helpful.
- A: Google Chrome can translate websites into other languages if set up correctly on their laptop/desktop computer.
- Details here: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/173424?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop
- You could set the student up on Indiana Career Explorer, translate the page, and then they could use it.
- A: O*Net and My Next Move (English versions) have website resources in Spanish without a need to translate:
- https://www.onetcenter.org/spanish.html — explains options in English with links out to Spanish
- https://www.miproximopaso.org/ — is the Spanish version The link at the top right corner that says “Intereses” with human icon is the link to the assessment.
- A: Google Chrome can translate websites into other languages if set up correctly on their laptop/desktop computer.
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