Career and Vocational Assessments

Career/Vocational Assessments: Assessments that evaluate the student’s interests, skills and abilities. The results are utilized to assist students to choose a rewarding, lasting career and to evaluate transition needs. 

Several Types of Assessments May Include the Following:

• Formal Assessments are typically in one of the following categories: 

  1. • Aptitude/Ability Tests—measures overall abilities, general intelligence, achievement, aptitude.

     • Interest Inventories—helps individuals identify their preferences for a particular activity.

     • Personality Surveys—matches types of interests to the Holland Code (Self Directed Search) or Myers Briggs.

     • Values Assessments—assists individuals in identifying characteristics of occupations of value to them.

     • Career Development Assessments—determines where a person is in the career development process.

• Informal Assessments: Card sorts, interviews, individual and group discussions, job shadowing, and situational assessments. 

• Self-Assessment: a self-inventory that requires students to reflect on their personal traits, skills, interests and aptitudes to identify their natural talents and abilities. 

• Computerized Information Systems: Matches data assessment, data for research, and exploration. 

• Special Vocational Assessments: May include a diagnostic process to identify learning styles, vocational interests, skills, talents and aptitudes, and/or the student’s need for accommodation(s).

• Pictorial Assessments

• Pictorial Interest Inventory

• Picture Job Exploration

• Vocational Employability Assessments