Testing and Assessment

How well do you know yourself? Want to know more about your personality, your skills, your values, and your interests?

Self assessment is the first step of the career planning process. It is the process of gathering information about yourself in order to make an informed career decision. A self assessment should include a look at your values, interests, personality, and skills.

The Career Planning and Placement Center offers a variety of tests and assessments to help you determine which careers are best suited for your personality and interests.

There is no charge for most career tests and assessments. Some of the tests are self-administered and self-scored; others require professional interpretation and administration.

Self-Awareness Assessments

• Myers-Briggs Type Inventory - There are no right or wrong answers on this test. Your answers will help show how you make decisions and look at the world. Knowing your own preference and learning about other people's can help you understand where your special strengths are, what kind of work you might enjoy and be successful doing, and how people with different preferences can relate to each other and be valuable to society. The MBTI is a great personality examination.
  
  Testing Materials Available at 210 Browning Learning Center at Dixie State College. This test takes around 45 minutes and costs $25.00.
  
  
• Holland Code - Dr. John Holland created a system of placing people's interests into groups. He believed every person's interests fit into at least one group; most fit into two or three groups. Your personal combination of Holland groups is your Holland Code. These codes may help you identify careers in which you might have interest.
  
  This short inventory can be taken with pencil anytime at the Career Planning and Placement Center.
  
  
• Kiersey Temperament Sorter - The Kiersey Temperament Sorter was developed by David Kiersey and is based upon the ideas of psychologists Carl Jung and Elizabeth Myers-Briggs. This test divides people into 16 basic categories or temperaments. People in any one group will tend to act and think more like each other than like people in other groups.
  
  This test can be taken anytime at the Career Planning and Placement Center using a paper and pencil and consists of 70 questions.
  
  
• Other Assessments - Arrangements may be made for assessment and testing services provided by the State Department of Workforce Services as required. Testing and assessment is by appointment only, and the individual must be referred by a career counselor. Assessments include the following:
  
  

Licensing Tests
The Career Center offers several State Licensing tests for students and the General Public as follows:

• ASE (Automotive Service Excellence) - Auto Mechanics are certified in all eight areas by the National Institute for Automotive Excellence (ASE) and certificates of competency may be earned in any or all of the ASE areas. Application for testing must be at least one month in advance. For more information on registration for testing, visit www.asecert.org.
  
  
• CNA - (Certified Nurses Aid)  Used to be given in the Career center. Now located in the nursing department in the Taylor Health Sciences Building. Call 435-879-4810.