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An interest assessment can help you identify careers that meet your interests. Interest assessments usually ask you a series of questions about what you like and don't like to do. Then they match your likes and dislikes to careers.

When you choose a career that matches your overall interests, you're more likely to enjoy your job. You're also more likely to be successful.

    • Interest Inventories

      • Keirsy Interest Inventory: This test helps you to understand your personality type and discover what type of temperament you have. Test results suggest a predominant personality type https://profile.keirsey.com/#/b2c/assessment/start

      • 1 2 3 Career Test: Based on a characterization of your personality in terms of Holland Code personality types, you will learn what kind of work environments and occupations suit you best. https://www.123test.com/career-test/

      • 16 Personality: Using the Myers-Briggs Model this is a site designed to help you understand yourself, contribute valuable data to researchers, and take tangible steps in your personal and professional relationships https://www.16personalities.com/

      • CareerExplorer is a free platform for users to assess their interests, personality types, abilities, career values, and preferred work and social environments in order to find matches that will lead to satisfying careers. https://www.careerexplorer.com/

      • CISS (Campbell Interest and Skill Inventory) Whether you're a student, re-entering the workforce, a displaced worker, or simply looking for a change, the CISS (Campbell Interest and Skill Survey) assessment can help point you in the right direction. If you're interested in a job or career that requires some post-secondary education, the CISS assessment can help you understand how you fit into the world of work. Available on the Internet for $20.75 (plus tax)

https://www.profiler.com/cgi-bin/ciss/moreform.pl?client=ncs&page=intro&referrer=assessmentssite

We're excited to be leveraging our 27 years of experience organizing student fairs to host a free Fall Virtual Education Fair on Thursday, Sept 24th, offering educators and students an opportunity to meet online, and for students to start planning their next step in education, whether it be at home or abroad. The fair will feature universities, professional schools and colleges from USA and around the world, offering short-term and long-term programs, including whole undergraduate and postgraduate degrees, diplomas and certificate programs.

Similar to a regular fair, visitors to the virtual fair are able to visit booths, chat live with university representatives, download brochures, watch videos and attend webinars. Students will learn about scholarships, admission requirements and a full range of program options; Law, Medicine, Engineering, Sciences, Fine Arts and more.

Sent on behalf of Julian Parrott, Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs

Dear College Counselor:

Thank you for your support of the annual Salute to Academic Achievement (SAA) Program and College Fair hosted by the University of Illinois System. This invitation-only event honors talented high school seniors from underrepresented groups, or from low-spending Illinois counties, for their academic achievements. These students could be in the mix for admission to one or more of our universities, as well as for consideration for a variety of financial awards, including the President’s Award Program.

Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, we will hold this 37th annual SAA event in a virtual format, on Wednesday, October 14, 2020, from 6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Invited students will hear from and interact with UI System leadership, and from current honors students and college representatives at each of our three universities.

Historically, students are eligible to attend SAA if they have scored an SAT of 1160 or higher (or ACT 24) and have at least a “B” GPA, and are from a historically underrepresented group (African American, Latino/a/x, or Native American) or from a low-spending county in the state of Illinois. We have leased available data from the College Board this year. However, without the statewide SAT, we are relying more than ever on high school counselors to assist in nominating additional qualified high school seniors. Note: We also sent an email in May about this nomination process, and if you have already submitted nominations, we thank you!

For those students who have not taken the SAT, we adjusted the nomination criteria to require that a student have a 3.25 unweighted GPA, AND be from a historically underrepresented group (African American, Latino/a/x, or Native American) or from a low-spending county in the state of Illinois. Our nomination website is now open at www.uaps.uillinois.edu/nomination. Please use your school’s ACT code and the following password for login: pf5qhl

When you log in, you will find a list of already invited students from your high school. They will receive an SAA invitation with instructions for online registration next week. Please nominate additional qualified students based on the above criteria. The nomination process closes on October 1, 2020. Please contact us at: SAA-info@uillinois.edu or 217-333-2030 with questions.

Invited students WHO ATTEND this virtual event will receive fee waivers for future applications for admission for all three UI System universities, and a Certificate of Academic Achievement.

Please note that our universities use holistic admissions processes and that an invitation to SAA is not an indicator of admission or financial awards.

We are excited to honor your students. Your help is invaluable to us. Thank you!

Sincerely,

Julian Parrott

Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs

University of Illinois System

Sent via Becky White: rswhite1@uillinois.edu