Getting Additional Guidance on Self-Assessment

You may decide you want to get additional assistance with the self-assessment process. There are several places you can go that will provide counseling and advice as well as administer teststo help you further clarify your career options:

• A high school counselor's office
• A college or university career counseling department
• A local vocational rehabilitation office (see Appendix G)
• A professional career or vocational rehabilitation counselor's office

• Aptitude/intelligence tests: Multi-dimensional Aptitude Battery (MAB), Differential Aptitude Test(DAT)
• Interest inventories: Career Directions Inventory(CDI), Career Assessment Inventory(CAI),Strong Interest Inventory(SII), Jackson Vocational Interest Inventory(JVIS)
• Personality inventories: Life Styles Inventory(LSI), Myers-Briggs Type Indicator(MBTI)

There are excellent books that can also helpwith self-assessment and career exploration. The following two are especially helpful: What

Color Is Your Parachute?
By Richard Nelson Bolles
Published in 1999

The Pathfinder: How to Choose or Change Your Career for a Lifetime of Satisfaction and Success
By Nicholas Lore
Published in 1998