50 Tools to Change Your Career Path
I just read a great blog article at Bootstrapper, a resource for any small business owner operating on a shoestring budget, and provides tips on financing, cash flow, low-cost marketing and small business loans. They posted a list of more than 50 tools for candidates to change their career paths by helping those job seekers find the best careers for them and how they can get there.
The article is divided into sections for assessment, career exploration, advice, getting (re)hired, and transitioning. Want a taste? Here's what they wrote about assessment:
First things first, find out whether or not a career change is right for you, and what's best for you if you decide to start out in a new field.
- Quiz: Should You Make a Career Change?: Determine if the time is right for a career change with this quiz.
- A Guide to Going Online for Self-Assessment Tools: Get advice about using online assessment tools from this article.
- What Color is Your Parachute: Learn what career paths are best for you with this book.
- The Princeton Review Career Quiz: This 24-question quiz from The Princeton Review should offer some good suggestions.
- What's Important to You?: Find out what beliefs and values are important to you, and consider how they affect your career choices.
- The Career Interests Game: Play this game to get a broad view of your ideal career.
- The Career Key: With this test, you'll get a good look at yourself and your career options.
- O*NET Ability Profiler: Consider your abilities in nine categories to determine careers that are best for what you can do.
- Transferable Skills Survey: Use this survey to determine what skills you'll bring to your new career.
- Finding The Perfect Job: Learn about the latest research devoted to matching your interests with a fulfilling career.
- The Career Values Test: Check out this test to determine the things that are most important to you in a career.
- O*NET Interest Profiler: Determine your level of interest in six different categories with this profiler.
Hi Steven, this is an excellent roster of tools, thank you so much! I have a new book that's coming out this April called How'd You Score That Gig? - a Guide to the Coolest Jobs and How to Get Them. It starts off with a job personality quiz and then goes on to offer different dream careers that match your unique "passion profile." I would love for you to take a look if you're game.
Best,
Alexandra Levit
Author, How'd You Score That Gig? (Random House 2008)
Blogger, Water Cooler Wisdom
http://alexandralevit.typepad.com
I would be happy to do so. Please send it to my attention at:
CollegeRecruiter.com
3109 W 50 St Ste 121
Minneapolis, MN 55410-2102