Career Exploration is a fun and exciting journey and our career center is here to help! O*Net Interest Profiler and Career One Stop offer great resources to explore career based on your interests, personality, and more! Both websites offer career assessments both in English and Spanish and can be a great tool to use for career exploration.
MHS students have access to California Colleges which holds three different career assessment tools.
The Career Search Tool and assessment tools help students discover how their strengths, interests and work values connect to fulfilling career paths. Students use these tools to research job duties, salary, growth potential and the education required to achieve their goals.
The Interest Profiler helps students discover how their personal interests connect to potential career paths. By asking students to rate how much they like or dislike various work activities, the assessment generates a customized list of matched occupations and career clusters.
The Work Values Assessment helps students identify workplace preferences, such as compensation, coworker relationships and independence. It matches these priorities with specific career paths to ensure long-term job satisfaction, guiding students toward majors that align with that they value most.
The Intelligences assessment helps students identify their natural cognitive strengths and preferred problem-solving styles. By analyzing these traits, the tool generates personalized career matches and shows students how to develop their skills for future employment.
The Personality Assessment helps students discover their unique character traits and work preferences, similar to Myers-Briggs assessment. It matches these traits with specific careers and educational paths, guiding students toward fulfulling jobs that align with their strengths and natural behavioral styles.
The Skills Assessment evaluates student strengths acress five categories: Conscientiousness, Creativity, Critical Thinking, Leadership, and Social-Emotional Ways. It matches students with compatible careers, helps them build individual strengths and provides a vocabulary they can use in future resumes and job interviews.