Career Resources
Destination U: Career Planning in the Age of AI
Presentation February 2025
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Career Assessments
A few short notes on Career assessments
The results reflect not just how the test was deigned, but how you answered on that particular day. They tell you about possibilities; they do not offer a prescription. Wise people will take more than one and compare the results. We like to triangulate: Take three different tests and look for overlaps. Perhaps, there is something there that speaks more to you. Taking the assessment is not the nard work: Reflecting on the results is. Click here for some great questions to ponder.
Career Explorer
Our favorite Career Assessment that combines the Holland Codes, Personality and Temperment into a robust AI powered Engine. Completely free.
Take one minute to answer three questions and you will get a currated set of videos from housands of video interviews with people who are passionate about their work will open your eyes to what a career can truly be. They also have a self-paced career planning course.
Based on the MBTI, this assessment will give you more than just your four letter personality type.
In just five minutes, this brilliant little tool will help you define what you are looking for while connecting it to specific roles and post secondary options.
Best paid assessments
Many will find the above free assessments sufficient for their needs. You may wish to get a more invovled assessment and insight. These are our favorites.
Find a career you’ll love and succeed at with YouScience® Aptitude & Career Discovery. Learn precisely how you’re wired through fun, science-based brain games. Your unique aptitudes are then AI-matched with best-fitting careers so you can play to your strengths and pursue a fulfilling career you’re passionate about.
$49 dollars
Morrisby Profile
Objective psychometric assessments that link individual potential to future career and education pathways.
Deciding what you want to do after you leave school/college is not always easy but Morrisby is here to inspire and guide you.
With our information about subjects, courses, apprenticeships, colleges and universities, we’ll work with you to discover your future goals and help you to create a step-by-step career plan to get you there.
£96 includes 30 minute interview
Strengths Profile
Receive an in-depth, downloadable report of your Expert Profile, to reveal:
All 60 strengths across the 4 quadrants of realised and unrealised strengths, learned behaviours and weaknesses
All 60 strengths within the 5 Strengths Families of Being, Communicating, Motivating, Relating, and thinking
A FREE Strengths Profile Career Guide recommending 8 job sectors that match your strengths
How to take action with your unrealised strengths using the Your Potential suggestions
£ 40
“Approach your work like a craftsman. Honing your ability, and then leveraging your value, once good, to shape your working life toward the type of lifestyle that resonates with you…True passion arises after you’ve put in the long hours to really become a craftsman in your field and can then leverage this value to really have an impact, to gain autonomy and respect, to control your occupational destiny.”
Cal Newport, Author of So Good, They Cannot Ignore You. Source.
You have already been building skills that are useful in the world of work. What are yours? Use this AI Enhanced tool to discover yours.
Very cool tool that guides you through some selections then generates career possibilities.
Country Specific Resources
Canada
6 Career Quizes to explore yourself and what you might do in the world.
Work BC also has six different quizes
Canada Labour Market information
Internships
KL Based company specializing in placements for High school and University Students.
Other resources
Futurescape Introducing ASA Futurescape, the mobile-first experience that lets you explore thousands of education and career paths on your own terms.
Career OneStop offers several assessments for free:
The Interest Assessment is a quick 30-question assessment that identifies your interests and matches them to careers
The Skills Matcher identifies your skills and matches them to careers that use those skills
The Work Values Matcher is a card sort that helps you identify the qualities that are most important to you in a career and the place you work
Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce ○
Making the Bachelor's degree more Valuable by Jeff Selingo ○
MyMajors ○
College guides
TuitionFit - Crowdsourced financial aid data ○
MeritMore - Search by information reported in CDS