Identifying your skills, interests, and work values will help you to find a more satisfying and rewarding career. You will also find this information helpful when you are in the process of choosing a major. The Gerri Ripp Center for Career Development offers both on-line and paper-based assessment services to assist you in identifying your strengths and interests. It is important to meet with a Career Advisor to select the appropriate assessment tool. A Career Advisor can also help you understand the results of the assessment tool and explore career options.

Career Assessment Tools
(Available to current Iona students)

On-Line

• The Kiersey Temperament Sorter II - Helps you to discover your personality and preferences for work careers.

• The Mapp Assessment - Reveals your motivations for work.

Paper-Based

• Self-Directed Search - A self-administered and self-scored career counseling tool to help you explore your occupational activities and competencies in relation to occupational clusters based on the theory of psychologist, John Holland.

• Strong Interest Inventory - A questionnaire that will help you determine your level of interest in a wide variety of occupations, occupational activities, hobbies, leisure activities, school subjects and types of people.

• Strong Interest Explorer - A self-scored assessment in workbook form that examines interests and highlights steps to help identify appropriate education and career options.

• Values Clarification - A questionnaire designed to help you identify your work related values and how they influence career choices.

• Skills Inventory - A questionnaire designed to identify your skills and how they influence career choices.

• Career Decision Making Pyramid - Activity that helps you to determine where you are in the career decision-making process and identify appropriate next steps.