Big Five

Big Five personality assessments divide people into five personality traits: openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. The assessment identifies a preference out of the five and can help you identify learning styles as well as work preferences.

These results are simply applicable in different areas of your life including leadership.

DiSC Personality Assessment

This free online DiSC personality test lets you determine your DISC type and personality profile quickly. Find out how the DISC factors, Dominance, Influence, Steadiness and Compliance predict your behavior towards others and the everyday things you do.

This personality assessment is designed to test personality by calculating your personal DISC profile based on your everyday typical behavior. Simply fill out the inventory like you would with other online personality tests. It's quick and without any obligations. The DISC test is, together with the Jung test and Big Five personality test, one of the most well known personality tests worldwide. Based on your interpretation, this could be your leadership assessment, interpersonal behaviors assessment or simply a personality assessment.

16 personalities

This simple 12 minute personality assessment starts with Myers-Briggs dichotomies and adds archetypes from Jungian theory as well as some from the Big Five. Which is a psychobabble way of saying, you’ll learn whether you’re an introvert or extrovert if you take this test— and at the end, you’ll be labeled with one of 16 personality types with names like “Mediator,” “Commander” and “Defender.”

Work values test

Want to know what makes you happy or unhappy in your work and career? While some people are content with uneventful jobs, others thrive on action and excitement. With this free online work value assessment you can determine the work values you value most. Take this free work values test online right now and find out what truly motivates you.

Competency test

Assess your competencies with this free Competency test

• "What are my strengths?" Compare yourself with others in the labor force
• Measurement of the 16 most common and work-related competencies
• With development tips for each competence
• It takes 15-20 minutes to complete this test

Holland Code

This self-assessment examines your suitability with different careers based on six occupational themes: Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional. The test identifies your top interest area and how it compares to the other areas, and what this means for your career interests.

Sorry in advance, but this test clocks in at 20 minutes, with a whopping 87 questions.

Careers Clusters Interest Survey (CCIS)

This assessment matches your interests to career fields based on the activities you like most. Using fun emojis, more than a hundred questions are answered quickly and easily in a most-to-least-liked ranking. Once results are tabulated, learn how compatible you are to a particular cluster and then follow the links to explore each one through our day-in-life job shadowing videos.

MAPP Test

More than 8 million people around the world have taken this career assessment at Assessment.com. It tells you what you love to do and what you don’t love to do. It also uses the O*Net job list to identify which jobs might be good fits.

You’ll have to fork over $90 for their “starter package,” in which you’ll see your top 20 general career matches. Their “executive package” costs $149.95 where you’ll get a 30-page assessment and ranked matching to 900 careers. But if you just want to try it for free, you’ll be matched with five potential careers.

MyNextMove

This interest-based assessment tool with 60 questions (color coded) uses information from O*Net, which is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor, to help determine your interests as they relate to work. Unlike the other tests, this one asks you how to rate how much you’d enjoy performing very specific work tasks like “building kitchen cabinets,” “laying brick” and “buying and selling stocks and bonds.” Give it a shot, if you'd like to get closer to a career of your interest of simply lead a career move.