Self-Assessment Resources

CWS Library Holdings on Self-Assessment

The Traditional:

What Color Is Your Parachute?: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters & Career Changers. Richard Nelson Bolles. Ten Speed Press, 1995. (HF5383 .B56 2005) JS

What's Your Type of Career?: Unlock the Secrets of Your Personality To Find Your Perfect Career Path.Donna Dunning. Davies-Black, 2001. (HF5381 .D88 2001) CP

New Traditions:

Free To Succeed: Designing the Life You Want in the New Free Agent Economy. Barbara B. Reinhold. Plume, 2001. (HF5549.5.J63 R37 2001) CP

Now, Discover Your Strengths. Marcus Buckingham, Donald O. Clifton. Free Press, 2001. (HF5549.5.M63 B83 2001) CP

Hand-Me-Down Dreams: How Families Influence Our Career Paths and How We Can Reclaim Them. Mary H. Jacobsen. Harmony Books, 1999. (HF5381 .J42 1999) CP

Discover the Best Jobs for You. Ronald L. Krannich, Caryl Rae Krannich. Manassas Park, VA: Impact, 2001. (HF5382 .K69 2001) CP

MBTI Follow-Up: (The MBTI can be administered free of charge through the CWS.)

Type Talk: The 16 Personality Types That Determine How We Live, Love, and Work. Otto Kroeger and Janet M. Thuesen. New York: Dell, 1998. (BF698.3 .K76 1998) CP

Do What You Are: Discover the Perfect Career for You Through the Secrets of Personality Type. Paul D. Tieger and Barbara Barron-Tieger. Boston: Little, Brown, 2001. (BF698.9.O3 T54 200) CP

WORKTypes. Jean M. Kummerow, Nancy J. Barger, Linda K. Kirby. New York: Warner Books, 1997. (HF5548.8 .K85 1997) CP

Career Planning with Web Resources:

Deborah L. Knox and Sandra S. Butzel. Life Work Transitions.com. "Putting Your Spirit Online."
http://www.lifeworktransitions.com

For “Questers” or a Spiritual Approach:

Dare to Change Your Job and Your Life. Carole Kanchier. Indianapolis, IN: Jist, 2000. (HF5384 .K35 2000) CP

Find Your Purpose, Change Your Life: Getting to the Heart of Your Life's Mission. Carol Adrienne. New York: Quill, 2001. (BL629 .A369 2001) CP

How to Find the Work You Love. Laurence G. Boldt. New York, N.Y.: Penguin/Compass, 2004. (HF5381.5 .B65 2004) CP

Your Life's Work: A Guide to Creating a Spiritual and Successful Work Life. Tami Coyne. New York: Berkley Books, 1998. (BL65.W67 C68 1998) CP

For Creative Types:

The Career Guide for Creative and Unconventional People. Carol Eikleberry. Berkeley, CA: Ten Speed Press, 1999. (HF5381 .E485 1999) CP

For Mid-Life:

It's Only Too Late If You Don't Start Now: How to Create Your Second Life at Any Age. Barbara Sher. New York: Dell, 1999. (BF724.6 .S48 1999) CP

Don't Stop the Career Clock: Rejecting the Myths of Aging for a New Way to Work in the 21st Century. Helen Harkness. Palo Alto, Calif.: Davies-Black Pub., 1999. (HF5384 .H372 1999) CP

Getting Unstuck: Moving Ahead With Your Career. Betsy Kyte Newman. Needham Heights, MA Pearson Custom Pub., 2000. (HF5384 .N48 2000) CP

Helpful Web Sites for Self-Assessment

Great Overall Sites:

University of Waterloo - provides an excellent range of resources, including the Career Development eManual
http://careerservicws.uwaterloo.ca

JobHuntersBible.com - Official site for the book What Color is Your Parachute?
http://www.jobhuntersbible.com (click the “Counseling” link)

Specific Self-Assessment Tools:

Ansir® Communications Inc. - access to "The 3 Sides of You® Self Perception System™"
http://personal.ansir.com/test.htm.

The Career Key™ - Holland Interests assessment with a link to the Occupational Outlook Handbook
http://www.careerkey.org

Focus - a program that takes you through a series of exercises to help create career possibilities.
http://www.wellesley.edu/cws/focusregistering.html

Guide to Your Career - approaches self-assessment from the perspective of career change
http://www.guidetoyourcareer.com

JobWeb.com - a series of career interest links located on the University of Waterloo’s Career Center Web site.
http://www.jobweb.com/experiential/interest.htm

Keirsey Temperament Web site - The Keirsey™ Temperament Sorter®-II: An online personality assessment.
http://www.keirsey.com

The Princeton Review Career Quiz - A twenty-four question self-assessment tool sponsored by Princeton Review
http://princetonreview.com/cte/quiz/career_quiz1.asp

Quintessential Careers - a selection of self-assessment tools, most have a basic report for free, but some are fee based; click on Quintessential Careers: Online Career Assessment Review for a table comparing features of the various tools http://www.quintcareers.com/career_assessment.html

Type for Youth - sponsored by the Myers & Briggs Foundation and the Center for Applications of Psychological Type, this site explores psychological type for a young audience
http://www.typecan.com