Career Services

Assessments

  What is an assessment inventory?

 An assessment inventory is a test or questionnaire that organizes information from multiple sources relating to a specific topic. They are based 

 on extensive research and data collection against which your answers or scores are measured.

 

  How can an assessment inventory help me?

 An assessment inventory can help you to better understand yourself and how your interests, preferences, or dispositions might relate to specific

 occupations.

 

 If you wish to write one (or more) assessments inventories please contact Career Services. There is a small cost for writing each assessment  inventory  

 

The following is a listing of inventories that are available to all Saint Mary's University students:

Strong Interest Inventory (SII)

  • Inquires about your level of interest in a wide variety of familiar items (e.g. occupations, occupational activities, hobbies, leisure activities, school subjects, and types of people)
  • Assists with educational and occupational choices
  • Offers a profile of the your interests (not ability)

With the Strong Interest Inventory there are five main types of information.

(Source: Strong Interest Inventory Applications & Technical Advice)

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)

  • Most widely used measure of personality dispositions and preferences
  • Based on Carl Jung's theories about perceptions and judgment
  • Provides a wealth of information regarding your personality, learning, communication and decision making styles
  • Generate value free preference scores that describe your interaction with the world on four dimensions:
  • (EI) Extroversion-Introversion
  • (SN) Sensing-Intuition
  • (TF) Thinking-Feeling
  • (JP) – Judging-Perceiving

(Source: A Guide to the Development and Use of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator)

Career Occupational Preference System, Professional Level (COPS-P)

  • Yields job activity and interest scores based on occupational clusters
  • Meets the need for an inventory of interests providing systematic measurement of job activity preferences (in clusters of related occupations at various levels)
  • Measures job activities in terms of eight broad occupational areas

(Source: COPS-P Technical Manual)

Career Orientation Placement & Evaluation Survey (COPES)

  • A measure of personal values which have been repeatedly demonstrated through research to reflect major dimensions representing the vocational motivation or value domain
  • Helps to give increased self-awareness in relation to your career development
  • Reflects dimensions that have been observed as being related to the type of work you choose and derived satisfaction
  • Facilitates career decision making by providing occupational information (in of clusters of related occupations)
  • Assists you in discovering your most important values and how these might relate to specific jobs and careers

 

(Source: COPES Examiner's Manual)

Career Exploration Inventory (CEI)

  • A self-scoring, self-interpreting interest instrument
  • Helps you to explore careers, job alternatives, and educational options based on your interests
  • Includes three major areas of interest (work, leisure, and learning) in one device
  • Provides a developmental approach that measures interests from the past, present, and anticipated in the future.

(Source: Professional Manual for The Career Exploration Inventory)


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