Counselor Resources

TCIDS provides career information and services to middle school, high school, and college students in preparation for a 21st century career. We have various resources available for career planning, assistance with resume development, mock interview sessions, and personality and skills assessments. Please use the links at left to search the Counselor/ Teacher Resources.

An important part of career building is knowing who you are. This online test is based on the Jung-Myers/Briggs typological approach to personality assessment. The 72-item test is a fun way to determine the strength of your personal preferences and the description of your personality type.

http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp

Complete the sample quiz to discover more about your aptitudes, values, and interests to help you plan your career. This is a preliminary quiz to the national Interest Finder associated with the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB).

http://www.myfuture.com/toolbox/workinterest.html

Developed by Dr. Tom Buchanan, University of Westminster professor of psychology, this program is based on the International Personality Item Pool representation of personality. It explores the idea that there are five main dimensions sufficient to describe human personality.

http://users.wmin.ac.uk/~buchant/wwwffi/

Functional skills worksheet

http://www.stanford.edu/dept/CDC/graphics/pdfs/TransfSk.pdf

Personality assessment worksheet

http://www.du.edu/career/handouts/Personality.pdf

Skills identification worksheet

http://www.du.edu/career/handouts/Skills.pdf

Skills worksheet

http://cardinalcareers.stanford.edu/start/assessments/Skills.pdf

The free self-evaluation, developed by Dr. Tony Alessandra, identifies dominant behavioral styles to help people improve their interpersonal skills.

http://www.platinumrule.com/free-assessment.asp

The O*NET Career Exploration Tools are a suite of assessment tools designed for career counseling, career planning and exploration. The tools are designed to assist a wide variety of individuals to gain personal insights that will help them identify occupations that they might find satisfying. These instruments will help individuals identify their work-related interests, what they consider important on the job, and their abilities in order to explore those occupations that relate most closely to those attributes. The instruments include an Ability Profiler, Interest Profiler, Computerized Interest Profiler, and a Work Importance Profiler.

http://www.onetcenter.org/dev_tools.html

The online quiz identifies a variety of different approaches to learning for students.

http://honolulu.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/FacDevCom/guidebk/teachtip/vark.htm

This site provides individuals of all ages career advice including self-assessments; job search databases by Tennessee counties; and resume writing, interviewing and job-readiness tips. No matter if you are just starting your career, changing jobs or looking for a new career direction, this site can be helpful.

http://careers.rodp.org/

Transferable skills worksheet

http://www.mu.edu/csc/students/documents/Transferable_Skills07.pdf

Work environment worksheet

http://www.du.edu/career/handouts/WorkEnvironment.pdf

Work preferences worksheet

http://www.stanford.edu/dept/CDC/graphics/pdfs/prefer.pdf

Work values worksheet

http://www.du.edu/career/handouts/Values.pdf

Work values worksheet

http://www.stanford.edu/dept/CDC/graphics/pdfs/values.pdf