What do you think is the best career interest assessment tool?

Question

There are lots of tools out there that are supposed to help you to find your professional calling - e.g., what color is your parachute, the myers-briggs personality inventory, the strong interest inventory, etc.

What do you think is the most useful and accurate? Anyone have any data on which has the most effectiveness on helping people to figure out what career path to pursue?

Answer 1

you win the "thoughtful question of the day" award.


unfortunately, I know of no comparative studies of the various tests available -- AND I've looked. There are a lot more assessments than those you're listed. [See the reference desk of your local college for a dictionary size volume just listing all the known tests and their main features.]

That said, I'm somewhat familiar with the outfit at the link below ... I like their material because it lists specific career goals that my personality fits and seems to be unbiased [for the usual race, color, creed, gender angles].

{disclosure: I have no business relationship with the Kolbe firm and receive nothing from them.}

This does not mean that I think their discussions of human personalities and change are the best, nor likely the most accurate {they aren't, imho} ... just that I don't know of any superior, unbiased assessments for career purposes.