Career Assessments

Learning about your interests, skills, values, and personality is part of the college experience and foundational to the career exploration process. Career assessments are a way to support academic and career exploration and to gain a better understanding of personal attributes that may lead to greater career satisfaction. The CDI offers the Strong Interest Inventory and Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) to Winthrop students and alumni; read below to learn more! 

  1. You must first schedule a Career Coaching appointment to discuss your goals and what you hope to learn.
    1. If the assessment is part of a class assignment, your faculty member will provide specific instructions.
  2. During the appointment, the Career Coach will recommend which assessment(s) - if any - will best support your goals and will provide you with instructions to purchase the assessment(s) that you will complete. The Strong Interest Inventory costs $13 and the MBTI costs $20.
  3. After your purchase, the Career Coach will send you instructions on how to complete the assessment(s).
  4. You must schedule a Results Interpretation appointment (Strong or MBTI) to discuss your assessment with a Coach; each assessment requires an individual 60-minute appointment. 

 

Strong Interest Inventory

  • The Strong provides robust insight into your interests, to help you consider potential careers and educational pathways.
  • Built on psychologist John Holland’s theory, the Strong is backed by more than 80 years of research into how people of similar interests are employed, and what motivates them in the workplace.
  • The Strong provides data on your strength of interest in six General Occupational Themes; it helps you gain a better understanding of personal descriptors, academic interests, leisure activities, and career motivators.
  • Your report results include detailed information on academic and occupational interest areas, using O*NET classifications for easy research and follow-up (O*NET is the primary source of occupational information in the U.S.)

AFTER COMPLETING THE STRONG INTEREST INVENTORY, YOU MUST MAKE AN APPOINTMENT TO RECEIVE YOUR RESULTS.

 

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) 

  • The MBTI is one of the world’s most popular personality tools and enriches people’s understanding of themselves and others.
  • Through a series of forced-choice questions, the MBTI helps you identify your preferences in four areas of personality.  Understanding your personality characteristics gives you insight you can use to enhance your professional and personal relationships, as well as your direction, focus, and choices. 
  • With decades of science-based, research-based insight, the MBTI provides positive language for understanding and valuing individual differences.
  • The MBTI has helped thousands of organizations and millions of people improve how they communicate, learn, and work. It explains how your preferences may affect what you may like about a given career or work setting.
  • The MBTI uses O*NET classifications for easy research and follow-up (O*NET is the primary source of occupational information in the U.S.)

AFTER COMPLETING THE MBTI, YOU MUST MAKE AN APPOINTMENT TO RECEIVE YOUR RESULTS.

 

TO EXPLORE CAREER ASSESSMENTS, BEGIN WITH A CAREER COACHING APPOINTMENT:

SCHEDULE AN APPOINTMENT