Career Planning Part 1

Career Assessments created by psychologists and career counselors based on their research:

• Formal Assessments
• Informal Assessments
• There are no such things
• Can be both Formal & Informal Assessments

Measure how well you perform specific tasks

• Interest Inventories
• Ability Assessments
• Personality Assessments
• Work Value Assessments

Ability Assessments can determine whether or not you can master certain skills in the future.

• True as true can be
• Wouldn't that be great, but you can't predict the future

Assessments that help you find the aspects about a career that are important to you:

• Interest Inventories
• Ability Assessments
• Personality Assessments
• Work Value Assessments

It is important to take several career assessments because

• No one assessment is completely accurate
• Different assessments appeal to different people
• Both are correct
• This is wrong there is no reason to take more than one assessment

You know more about yourself than any career assessment can tell you.

• True
• False

Informal Career Assessments are

• tests you take
• activities you do
• online quizzes you take
• none of these

Following someone around on their job and watching what they do, is:

• Career Day
• Career Fair
• Job Shadowing
• Informational Interviewing

Listening to different speakers talk about their jobs during school is

• Career Day
• Internship
• Job Shadowing
• Informational Interviewing

The A+ Program pays for tuition and general fees after all available, non-loan federal assistance funding sources have been applied if you attend any college after high school.

• True
• False