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Opening conversation: Thinking about your life and future career involves more than just daydreaming about large salaries. Many careers require years of schooling, certain training, and internships or apprenticeships. In order to become more acquainted with a career, you will create a career research presentation.

Fill out this organizer with as much information as possible. This is the first step of your research. The more information you can find, the easier it will be for you to create your presentation.

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What career best fits your personality? This free career aptitude test can give you insight into your job personality. Based on a characterization of your personality in terms of Holland Code personality types, you will learn what kind of work environments, occupations and skills suit you best. The results of this career assessment test provide you with a list of professions and occupations that fit your career personality and will guide you on your career path.

Choose a career that matches your skills and preferences. You will increase your chances of being successful! Take this career quiz and get your results right now!
(We also offer practice aptitude tests for assessment training if that's what you are looking for.)
Career test instructions

It takes five to ten minutes to complete this free career test. You will see fifteen sets of four pictures that show specific work activities. You must choose only one work activity that appeals to you the most and one that appeals to you the least.

Do not choose a work activity based on the status or money associated with it. Do not make your choice based on gender or race. Just imagine yourself performing the task shown and decide if you would like to do it or not.

If you like doing the activity, click the on the picture. If you do not like doing the activity, click the on the picture. You must choose a like and dislike for each set.

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Career test (2023) - Free online aptitude test - 123test.com

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This career test will help you find out what professions fit your personality. Take this free online test right now at 123test.com and work on your career!

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You hear it all the time: in order to be successful in your career (and life), you've got to be passionate about what you do. However, passions won't get you anywhere if, well, you're not very good at them, or if you're lacking in the kinds of supporting skills and competencies you'll need to help you realize your dream.

Here are a few more reasons why passion is crucial for career success, and some concrete steps you can take to find a job you love:

Why You Should Love What You Do

The people in your life will give you countless good reasons for following your passion, but the truth is, it all comes down to one thing: energy. As any harried professional knows, the demands of adult life are exhausting, and if you hate your career, you're devoting the majority of your waking hours to something that's draining your energy away from the things that actually give you meaning.

Loving what you do means having more energy for:

1. Health and Relationships

After a soul-deadening eight to 10 hours in the office and a good two-hour commute, the last thing you'll want to do is head to the gym or connect with your family over dinner. In contrast, a career you love will fill you with energy and give you plenty to discuss over the dinner table.

2. Other Interests and Passions

Even if you love your job, it shouldn't define all of who you are. Instead, it should fuel you with energy so you can explore your other interests, whether that's traveling, taking classes or attending lectures. Doing these extra activities will get you thinking about the world in different ways, which just might translate into the kind of creative thinking and insight that will give you a leg up on the job.

3. Your Career

When you love what you do, you'll be engaged at a very deep level, which will in turn help you develop the truly creative and innovative ideas that will really help you rise in your career. As an example, think about it in terms of cooking. Most of us (in theory) can follow a recipe, but only master chefs - who engage deeply with ingredients and are passionate about experimentation and excellence - really please their audiences and move the culinary arts forward. In your career, you want to be the master chef, not the person who's hacking at vegetables and tossing them in a pot. ( Click here to tweet this thought.)

Using Your Strengths to Find a Career You Love

Perhaps you already have your passion, but following it seems a sure route to financial ruin. Or maybe you've got lots of interests and really want to do something inspiring, but you're having trouble determining which path would be "perfect." (Here's a hint: there's no such thing.) And how are you even to know what you're really good at it, anyway?

Here are a few key strategies for doing just that:

1. Take a Career Aptitude Test

The hunt for your passions and skills begins first and foremost with a career aptitude test and a skills and interests inventory, which will help you not only determine what you're good at and what you enjoy, but also the difference between your core versus supporting passions and talents. This is important, because you might have a skill that would make you miserable if it were the focus of your career but will empower your passions if placed in a supporting role.

Let's say, for example, that you have great organizational and interpersonal skills, but your true passion is making artisan bath products. These skills may make you an excellent administrative assistant, but you'll feel even happier using them as you create your own business plan, network, market and manage to really get your passion product off the ground. A skills and interests inventory will help you identify and align your passions with your talents.

2. Give a Few Things a Try

The best way to discover where your passions and strengths will be most valuable is to give a few things a try. If you're fresh out of college and just starting out, that could mean everything from taking on internships, to changing roles every 18 months, to even working a certain amount of hours for free for someone whose career you want to emulate.

If you're already in the work world, consider shadowing other people in the office and moving laterally between positions to really determine what you love and what you're great at.

3. Follow Your Curiosity

While passions should drive your major career moves, it's actually your natural curiosity that will help you find your niche. After all, the Einsteins and Steve Jobses of the world didn't get where they were without a deep engagement with their subject matter and constantly asking questions. This is all the more important if your strengths don't match up exactly with your passions.

You may, for example, not be so great at cycling, but your passion for the sport may lead you into becoming a sports journalist or even an engineer who studies ergonomics and designs the very bikes those riders use to set world records. By following your natural curiosity and asking the right people the right questions, you're far more likely to land in a destination you find intrinsically fascinating.

4. Just Choose

The most successful individuals constantly soul-search and explore throughout their career, especially as they follow their evolving interests. However, doing so isn't the same thing as flitting from one thing to another and never really settling down. After an initial period of exploration, it's important to just choose, knowing that there will never be such a thing as the perfect role that's always fun to do.

For instance, if you are interested in digital marketing, after basic research about SEO, link building tools, learning to formulate strategies, or content writing. You can choose the one area that appeals to you the most.

Think of your job as the steady base from which you can adventure throughout your life. Eventually, you may leap up and away from that base, but you need it there as the anchor from which you can explore. And, you know... to eat.

The Takeaway

Being passionate about what you do is key to your happiness, both in your career and in your life at large. However, it's important to line those passions up with your strengths and the market demand so that you can really reach your maximum potential. Good luck!

How did you find your passion? Or are you still on the road to discovery?

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You hear it all the time: in order to be successful in your career (and life), you've got to be passionate about what you do. However, passions won't get you anywhere if, well, you're not very good at them, or if you're lacking in the kinds of supporting skills and competencies you'll need to help you realize your dream.

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https://bigfuture.collegeboard.org/explore-careers

Explore Careers

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Tools, quizzes and videos designed to help you explore career possibilities.

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College Board Career Quiz

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College Search - BigFuture | College Board

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Take this friendly quiz to help discover what careers might be a good choice for you.

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Shmoop gives it to you straight when it comes to careers. Find the best career for you, see how much money you can make, and get insider details on what it takes to get there.

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One assignment we did for 10th grade was to complete an interest profiler and career assessment using Thrively. In SUHSD, we all access through our district accounts. It is easy to navigate and provides a lot of context for career and educational requirments.

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Thrively - Strengths Assessments & Project-Based Learning for Students

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Discover students’ unique strengths, interests, and aspirations to build the skills they need for success in the K-12 classroom and beyond.

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SDSU Academic Programs

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List of academic programs including majors, minors, certificates, credentials, undergraduate and graduate degrees.

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Linking college majors to careers : Career Outlook: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (bls.gov)  Jessica Vargas

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Linking college majors to careers : Career Outlook: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (bls.gov)  Jessica Vargas

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Cornell Notes examples for careers/majors with links: *Jessica Vargas

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Cornell Notes examples for careers/majors with links: *Jessica Vargas

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Create a new document and edit with others at the same time -- from your computer, phone or tablet. Get stuff done with or without an internet connection. Use Docs to edit Word files. Free from Google.

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One approach I use when having my students explore college and career readiness is having my students take this test.

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Discover your top career matches using CareerExplorer's cutting-edge science

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Measure who you are

We ask you a series of questions that correspond to 150+ personality traits and learn about your career interests, skills, and goals.

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We produce detailed profiles of 1,500+ careers and degrees based on labor market data, psychometric profiles, and other users' reported happiness in them.

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We compare these two datasets to determine your compatibility with the careers and degrees in our database.

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We have more data and tools to optimize our career predictions than any other career test on the planet. This means your results are accurate, thorough, and nuanced, not a quick, generic snapshot like so many other career tests.

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Personality insights paired with career relevance

How much does it cost?

We want to help everyone learn more about themselves and make informed career decisions, so we've made our entire experience free. You'll get your career and degree matches, insights, and even reports for free.

How long will the test take?

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Why should I trust my career results?

We are very good at predicting the right career matches. During the test, we ask you for your general interest in a handful of randomly selected careers, as well as how satisfied you were in any previous careers. Our models use this information to get a baseline understanding of who you are and what you're interested in, but it's also anonymously combined with all the data we have from other users on their interests, as well as their satisfaction with their previous careers and degrees. We train ever better models from this growing dataset to better identify how your interests, work and education history, and personality inform what careers you'd be a good fit in. The predictions are unique to you but validated against millions of other users.

Can I retake the career test?

Yes, you can reset your account to take the career test more than once. Many people take the test on a semi-regular basis to see how their interests and results evolve over time.

Why do my results change?

Our career matching system updates in real-time, meaning that whenever you give us a new piece of relevant information, we will automatically update all of our recommendations for you. As we gather more data and create better models, it's also possible that your results might change as we better understand what makes a career the right fit for someone.

Who developed this career test?

Our career test items were developed by a team of I/O psychologists with years of experience in the field of psychometrics. Career data comes from numerous sources, including the the US Department of Labour's O*Net Database, US Bureau of Statistics, UK government, CareerExplorer user data, and Sokanu's proprietary in-house content team.

The career test platform is developed and maintained by the Sokanu team.

Who is this career test designed for?

People start new careers at many different stages of life, and nothing about our assessment is age-specific. We've designed a career test that works for adults as well as high school and college students.

Does your test discriminate?

We don't use race or gender when generating matches, and we work hard to make sure that our test doesn't discriminate where relevant.

How is my personal data handled?

We firmly believe that you own your data, not us. We never sell your personal data to third parties and we use industry-standard best practices, making sure your private information is always encrypted and secure. We are also happy to delete your data upon request.

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Take the free test now to discover your top careers and detailed personality traits using advanced machine learning, psychometrics, and cutting-edge science.

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Free personality test - take it to find out why our readers say that this personality test is so accurate, "it's a little bit creepy." No registration required!