The following assessments can help you generate career options based on your interests, skills, values, and personality traits. The Career Center’s individualized interpretation format will add clarity to your results.

To find out if assessments are right for you, please schedule an appointment with a career counselor or stop by walk-in hours (Lory Student Center, Room 116) for an initial screening and to receive a login and password.

Strong Interest Inventory

• Choose a career
• Increase your job satisfaction
• Make a career change
• Choose appropriate academic majors and training
• Find a balance between work and leisure

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator

• Understand your personality type and how you relate and interact with others
• Understand those you work with or for
• Improve work and personal relationships
• Increase productivity
• Identify leadership and interpersonal communication preferences
• Identify optimum career choice based on your personality type

Campbell Interest & Skill Survey

• Understand how you fit into the world of work.
• Pinpoint areas of academic study that can build skills and, as a result, increase career options.
• Assist employees who have been displaced by organizational restructuring and are faced with a job transition.

CareerLeader - College Edition

• Provide an assessment of business-relevant interests, values and abilities.
• Provide you with in-depth views into 27 business career paths.
• Rate entrepreneurial attributes.
• Understand key elements of corporate culture and how you will fit in with each.

StrengthsQuest/StrengthsFinder®

• An online assessment tool that reveals a student's Signature Themes, or five greatest areas of talent

Values Sort

• Identify and prioritize values that can influence satisfaction with potential jobs.

On Your Own resources

Would you like to start this exploration process on your own? CSU students have access 24/7 to several on-line assessment and career exploration program. You can work through the following programs on your own.

Choices® CIC-Advancer for Adults - 

Take surveys about your interests and skills or use previous job titles and desired job characteristics to obtain occupational suggestions. Compare comprehensive information about these careers, and then chart a path to obtain the necessary education and skills to obtain a job in that field.

Career Zone -Excellent site for exploring interests related to various occupational titles. To learn more select "Assess Yourself."

Career Interest Game - Lists occupations corresponding to six occupational categories and includes brief occuaptional descriptions.

Career Counselors are available to talk with you about your assessment results and help you develop your next steps.