Students, here are some online assessments, which include a combination of personality, interest, and aptitudes testing to help you explore careers that might be a good fit. You can gain a deeper understanding of yourself, your interests, and academic strengths by engaging in personality, interest, and aptitude testing. You can uncover potential career paths that align with your unique traits and passions. Starting early allows ample time for exploration, skill development, and informed decision-making as you progress through high school and prepare for the future. 

Login to Maialearning and under "character" tab  are 5 assessments you can complete depending on your interests.

1. Personality Assessment: MaiaLearning’s Personality assessment helps you discover your personality type, and find careers where you can use its gifts to be happy and successful. It’s fast to take and is a great basis for career planning. The assessment uses Myers’ and Briggs’ theory to evaluate four opposite pairs of characteristics:  Focus Outward or Inward: Extraversion (E) / Introversion (I)   Information Source: Sensing (S) / Intuition (N) Decision Basis: Thinking (T) / Feeling (F)  Living Your Outward Life: Judging (J) / Perceiving (P)   The result is a four-letter code indicating one of 16 possible psychological types. For example, an INFJ (Introversion, Intuitive, Feeling, Judging) is idealistic, organized, dependable, compassionate, and gentle. Such people seek harmony and cooperation, and enjoy intellectual stimulation. All types are equally valid. Students typically complete this in a Counseling Career Lesson Plan sophomore year. 

2. Interest Profiler: MaiaLearning’s Interest Profiler helps you understand how your interests relate to possible careers. It’s fast to take and is a great basis for career planning. The tool uses Holland’s theory of personality types to match you with careers categorized as: Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, Conventional.  For example, “Realistic” people like to work with "things". They’re practical and focused, good with mechanical things. They may be very athletic. They tend to approach issues by doing instead of thinking or talking. If you’re primarily Realistic, you’ll see careers involving the trades, engineering, laboratory work, and so on.  Everyone has a mix of types. The Profiler presents careers fitting your top three personality traits. All types are equally valid. 

3. Work Values: MaiaLearning’s Work Values assessment helps you clarify your beliefs about what is important in work and find careers that match. If your work aligns with your values, you’re more likely to be satisfied and confident. The assessment is fast to take and is a great basis for career planning around your values.  Work Values gages how much importance you attach to achievement, independence, recognition, relationships, support, and working conditions. It then recommends careers that fit that profile. There’s no “correct” set of work values. Some people value autonomy above all, while others think orderly, supportive environments are much more important. Here’s your chance to determine what’s important to you.

4. Learning & Productivity Assessment:  MaiaLearning’s Learning & Productivity assessment helps you understand your learning preferences. It shows how to increase your academic performance and personal satisfaction by seeking out productive learning environments. Learning and Productivity evaluates your visual, auditory, movement, and tactile learning preferences. It also gages your preferences in temperature, setting, sound, light, intake, time of day, and mobility. Finally it measures preferences in motivation, focus, collaborative/independent work, authority figure actions, and structure. The tool recommends ways to maximize your success in each area.

5. Intelligences: Intelligence comes in many forms and can always be further developed. MaiaLearning’s Intelligences assessment helps you understand your multiple intelligence strengths so you can do better in school and choose satisfying futures. It’s fast to take and is a great basis for career planning. The tool uses Howard Gardner’s theory of intelligences to evaluate your strengths in nine areas: Logical-Mathematical, Linguistic, Interpersonal, Intrapersonal, Musical, Visual-Spatial, Bodily-Kinaesthetic, Naturalist, Existential.

You’ll see your relative strengths and weaknesses, with pages about each one and how to develop it further. It can help you reach a future career that’s a perfect fit for you.

Additional tools:

1. Career Dreamer - Google. Discover your dream career with Career Dreamer. An AI-powered tool to help you uncover career potential and analyze your skills to suggest new career paths! https://grow.google/career-dreamer/home/ 

2. O*NET Interest Profiler: The O*NET Interest Profiler is a free career exploration tool developed by the U.S. Department of Labor that helps individuals identify their work-related interests and how they align with various occupations. By answering a series of questions, users receive a profile that suggests career paths suited to their interests and preferences. See how interests relate to the world of work. Website: onetonline.org

3. O*NET My Next Move: O*NET My Next Move is an interactive online tool that helps users explore careers based on their interests, search by keyword, or browse industry categories. It provides detailed information about job duties, required skills and education, salary expectations, and job outlook for hundreds of careers. Website: mynextmove.org 

4. College Board's BigFuture: College Board’s BigFuture offers career exploration tools that help students discover potential careers based on their interests, learn about required education and skills, and explore how different majors connect to career paths. It also links careers to real-world salary data and job outlooks to support informed decision-making Website: bigfuture.collegeboard.org/explore-careers

5. CareerOneStop: CareerOneStop is a comprehensive career, training, and job search resource sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor, offering tools to explore careers, find training programs, and access job market data. It supports users at all stages—students, job seekers, and career changers—with personalized guidance and local resources. Website: careeronestop.org

6. 16Personalities: A free personality assessment (based on MBTI) can help students understand their strengths and explore career suggestions. You’ll learn what really drives, inspires, and worries different personality types, helping you build more meaningful relationships.Website: 16personalities.com

7. CareerFitter: CareerFitter is an online career assessment tool that helps individuals discover careers aligned with their work personality traits. Developed by psychologists and used for over 25 years, it provides insights into optimal work environments, management styles, and career matches based on a 60-question test. (The basic version of their career assessment is FREE; do not pay for the detailed results).Website: careerfitter.com

8. The Via Character Strengths Survey: Why is it important to know your strengths? Some studies show that individuals who are highly aware of their strengths are 9 times more likely to flourish than those who are unaware. This means more positive emotions, engagement, meaning, positive relationships and achievement. Website: https://www.viacharacter.org/

9. Career Explorer by Sokanu: This platform offers a free assessment that matches users with career paths based on interests, personality, and abilities. The report is detailed and provides insights into various career options and growth opportunities. Website: https://www.careerexplorer.com/