Identify Your Interest Areas

Start off by identifying your career interest areas - the types of things you enjoy doing, the skills you like to use and would like to develop, and the talents you have. The career exploration quizzes listed below can help you find occupations that match the skills and interests that you have. These career quizzes give adequate guidance for career exploration; therefore, it is neither encouraged nor necessary to pay for the detailed searches or results.

CIS Oregon Career Information System- http://oregoncis.uoregon.edu/

• To begin using CIS, obtain a user name and password from your school
• Become aware of education and work options
• Connect education and work
• Make successful education and work decisions

OLMIS Skill Explorer - www.olmis.org

• Review the listed skills
• Choose skills that reflect your experiences and abilities
• Your skills will be matched with possible occupations

Career Key - www.careerkey.org

• Measures your skills, abilities, values, interests, and personality
• Identifies promising careers and information about them

Princeton Review Career Quiz - www.princetonreview.com/cte/quiz/quizoverview.asp

• The Career Quiz defines four behaviors to find careers that could be a good match
• The Advanced School Search lists schools that match your needs and preferences
• School Match fits you with schools to have contact you

Jung Typology/Myers-Briggs Indicator - www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/jtypes2.asp

• All people can be classified using four criteria
• Get your type formula, strength of the preferences, and type description

Career Options with Myers-Briggs Type Indicator - www.discoveryourpersonality.com/careerreport.html

• Certain personality types are generally very successful within specific career types
• List of careers people of various personality types tend to enjoy doing

ASVAB - Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery - asvabprogram.com/

• Talk to your counselor to find out about ASVAB testing at your school
• Consists of eight short tests
• Scores ranking your current strengths in verbal, math, and science and technical skills
• ASVAB scores are commonly used for military enlistment purposes