Top Ten Things to Remember about Career Tests
1. Know Yourself, Know Your Career
Self-Assessment Is Your Personal Checkup
Your Readiness for Change
Why Take Self-Assessment Tests?
What You Can Learn from These Tests
2. Values and Your Career
Values and Career Satisfaction
A Short History of the Study of Values
3. Skills and Your Career
4. Interests and Your Career
A Short History of Interests Tests
5. Personality and Your Career
What Does Personality Have to Do with Careers?
A Short History of the Study of Personality
Types, Traits, and Temperaments
6. Work Environment and Your Career
Find the Environment That Suits You
What Your Work Space Looks Like
How Flexible Do You Want to Be?
The Right Perks Can Perk Up Your Career
Dressing for Career Success
7. Location and Your Career
Live Where the Surroundings Please You
Live Where You Have Support
Live in an Area You Can Afford
8. Work/Life Balance and Your Career
Not Your Grandpa's Workplace
To Balance or Not to Balance?
9. Entrepreneurial Readiness and Your Career
A Short History of Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurs Are Made, Not Born
Entrepreneurial Qualities
Entrepreneurial Readiness Test
10. Managerial Suitability and Your Career
Good Managers Are Made, Not Born
Managerial Suitability Test
11. Emtional Intelligience and Your Career
What Is Emotional Intelligence?
Emotional Intelligence Test
What Your Chart Tells You
Appendix A. Published and Online Career Resources
Appendix B. Career Counseling Services and Other Instruments
