Interest Inventories can help you determine your interests and personal references as they relate to satisfaction in the world of work.
Virginia Wesleyan students and graduates now have access to taking an Interest Inventory 24/7! The Career Services Center, in partnership with FOCUS-2 Career and Education Planning Tools, offers you the convenience of self-assessment instruments that you can access online anytime, anywhere.
Here is a list of the Assessments services on the FOCUS-2 Main Menu that you should use to help you make decisions about your career goals and major area of study.
ASSESSMENT TOOLS
Career Readiness
- Career and Educational Goals: Allows you to enter your career and educational goals.
- Academic Strengths: Allows you to specify your academic strengths and weaknesses.
- Career Planning Status: Allows you to specify where you are in your career planning.
- Personal Development Needs: Allows you to specify your personal development needs.
Self Assessment
- Work Interest Assessment: Allows you to assess your work interests and explore matching occupations
- Leisure Interest Assessment: Allows you to assess your leisure interests and explore matching occupations
- Skills Assessment: Allows you to assess your skills and explore matching occupations
- Personality Assessment: Allows you to assess information about their personality and explore matching occupations.
- Values Assessment: Allows you to assess your values and explore matching occupations.
- Combine the Results of Multiple Assessments: Allows you to combine the results from the assessments you have completed to help you narrow down your occupation results.
Explore the Possibilities
- Search by Name: Allows you to search for occupations by name.
- Search by Industry: Allows you to search for occupations by industry.
- What can I do with a major in...? Allows you to explore majors.
- Compare Two Occupations Side by Side: Allows you to compare 2 occupations of your choice
DEVELOP YOUR PERSONAL PORTFOLIO
- Review and update your saved occupations
- Review and update your saved majors
- Review and print your portfolio
- Recommended Tools & Websites: Link to helpful websites.
- Calendar of Events: See what career events are planned.
Career Services may also be able to assist you with taking one of the following assessments on an as-needed basis. Contact your career counselor for current availabilities.
Strong Interest Inventory (SII)
This inventory is a survey of self-reported skills, geared toward college students. It is designed to provide you with insight into how your interests in different areas of your life relate to occupational themes and specific jobs. You will also gain information from Personal Style Scales, which measure your preferences for work style, learning environments and leadership style.
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
This inventory measures your individual preferences in how you relate to others and the world around you, how you gather information and make decisions, the types of situations in which you feel most comfortable and the lifestyle you adopt. It has direct applications to your preferred style and interests in a major and as a career professional.
Campbell Interest & Skill Survey (CISS)
This inventory is a survey of self-reported interests and skills. It is designed to help you understand how your interests and skills relate to basic job interest orientations and specific occupations. You will receive a detailed profile based on a computer analysis of the completed inventory.
Self-Directed Search (SDS)
A self-scoring inventory, the SDS will help you understand how your interests relate to occupational themes and specific jobs and college majors.