A career assessment is a tool designed to allow you to review yourself in relationship to career or occupational possibilities. There are several ways of assessing how a given field of work might best fit your individual characteristics.

EUREKA.org offers you three different tools for getting ideas about which occupational or career options may be best fitted to you. These assessments are based on your assessment of who you are, and are called Career Self-Assessments.

Following are the Self-Assessments included on EUREKA.org:

True Colors is a personality-based self-assessment tool that is fun and easy to use, yet extremely insightful. The assessment is based on your selecting keywords that are descriptive of your personality characteristics. The key words are age appropriate. The results give you a four color profile and a list of occupations that are compatible with your color.

MicroSkills enables you to view yourself from a transferable skills or talent perspective. Everyone has some natural abilities. So, even if you have never held a job, or gone to college, you have skills that are used on a day to day basis. MicroSkills will assist you in discovering what those skills are and how they can be used in the world or work. This on-line skills assessment has two options, a card sort and a questionnaire. You can save your sessions and come back at a later date to complete them. Skills results are motivational and informative. Through a mail in processing option, you may use your past jobs to determine which skills you may already have. Email us to request information on mail-in processing.

You will experience a "reality check" when you use Occ-U-Sort. There are 36 questions, which reflect what the labor market requires for a given job or career. Because the labor market is pretty conventional, there are combinations of desires that do not easily meet the realities of the world of work. A simple example, and one you can easily do, is if you expect to make $4,000 or more as a starting salary, but you only have a high school education, you will find that there are not many occupations that meet these criteria.

After using Occ-U-Sort, you will find that there are contradictory labor market characteristics that may severely impact the occupation or career options available to you. Therefore, your results may show zero occupations on your list. That's a "reality check"

Occ-U-Sort will also allow you to learn why a given occupation may have been eliminated from your list of career options.