Evaluating your values, motivations, and needs

There's more to figuring out what makes you tick in the working world than reading 'What Color is your Parachute?' so we solicited suggestions from a few degreed Career Counselors. Here are their picks of resources to help you assess and explore your career.

Free Career Assessment and Exploration Resources

• Identify your interests
• Isolate your motivations
• Specify your values
• Consider your readiness for advancement, team vs individual orientation, organizational skills, communications skills, mental toughness, social skills, and management skills
• Enter the Advanced Multidimensional Personality Matrix

Inexpensive Career Assessment and Exploration Resources

• Career Key test ($7.95)
• Enneagram ($10)
• Career Planner test (starting at $19.95)
• Myers-Briggs Personality and Strong Interest Inventory tests (starting at $65)

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