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Career Assessment

Take advantage of the professional tools to help you clarify what you want for yourself and your future career. Career assessments can help you self-assess and recognize your personal strengths, interests, and skills. Career counsellors will help you to understand your assessment results and apply them to your career and education decisions. 

Career assessments can help you evaluate and recognize your personal strengths, interests, and skills. Take advantage of the professional tools to help you clarify what you want for yourself and your future career.

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator®(MBTI): A personality assessment that will help you learn about your natural preferences and strengths. An individual debrief with a career counsellor is required.  Watch this short video on the MBTI.

Strong Interest Inventory®: An interest assessment that gives you a detailed report on your interest themes, and offers career suggestions. An individual debrief with a career counsellor is required. Watch: Strong Interest Inventory 

SkillScan: A self-directed skills assessment tool that features a comprehensive profile of your transferrable skills and preferences. Your report will include detailed information about your strengths, practical ideas for developing skills and suggested career and education options. An individual debrief with a career counsellor is recommended. Sample SkillScan report

Digital Challenge Cards:A career discovery and assessment tool that can help you consider your career options based on what has purpose and meaning for you. All you have to do is think about which challenges you want to explore. Learn more and get started with Digital Challenge Cards.

Type Focus: To help you avoid spending endless hours sifting through the good from the bad online tests, we have purchased a tool called TypeFocus to help you quickly assess your natural strengths and preferences and connect them to a range of career options. Access personality, interests and values assessments. An individual debrief by Career Counsellor is recommended. Please email acs@mcmaster.ca for free login information.

Online Storyteller:  Experience a self-directed story-based assessment and collaborative tool for effective self-discovery and career management. Learn more about Online Storyteller.

Have questions about career assessments? : Book a career counselling appointment to access our career assessments and tools. Register on OSCARplus > Student Success Centre > Appointments > Career Counselling and Job Search Coaching or email acs@mcmaster.ca with questions.

We support your career growth. The costs of the career assessments are generously provided by the McMaster Alumni Association and the Student Success Centre.