Self Assessment

o find a career that fits you, you need to know know about yourself.  Self-assessment – or identifying what’s important to you – is the first step toward making effective career decisions.  Your career foundation is based on:.

  1. Who you are
  2. What you do best
  3. The places (environments) and people that give you energy
  4. The things that motivate you

Using the sites below you will complete many different interest inventories that will help discover who you are.  As you complete the surveys, keep the following questions in mind, as you will have to summarize and review all of your results using these questions.

  1. What were the top results of the quiz/survey?
  2. Do similar finding continue to come up?  Describe what they are.
  3. Do you agree with the results?
  4. Did anything surprise you?

When you complete each task you will write a blog post entitled Self Assessment.  Here you will answer the questions after you have completed each of the websites tasks.

TASKS:

  1. Go to scwea.com select ONLINE RESOURCES from the left hand menu.
  2. Under Career and Personality Assessments select Alberta Learning Information Services.
  3. Click on CAREERinsite Interests and Abilities Quizzes
  4. Create an account using your school email
  5. Go to the KNOW YOURSELF SECTION and complete the following quizzes.
Interests Exercise Interests Exercise
Create your career doing things you enjoy.		 ABILITIES-M Abilities Exercise
Identify the skills and talents that come naturally to you.
Values Quiz Work Values Quiz
Base your career plan on what’s important to you.		 Significant Experiences Exercise Significant Experiences Exercise
Use good things from your past to shape your future.
Preferred Working Conditions Quiz Preferred Working Conditions Quiz
Consider the impact of where you work and who you work with.		 MULTI_INTELL-M Multiple Intelligences Quiz
Discover the ways you are smart – your many intelligences.
Vision Exercise Vision Exercise
Identify your best possible future so you can help it come true.

6. Summarize your finding in a post.

7. Go to scwea.com select ONLINE RESOURCES from the left hand menu.

  • Under Career and Personality Assessments select Alberta Learning Information Services.
  • Click on the Holland Code Quiz
  • Complete the quiz and summarize your findings in a separate post called “Holland Code”

Make sure that you save all of your results, as you will need them for your portfolio.

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