Consider your skills and explore your interests. Complete any, or all, of the interest surveys to help you find the best career path for you. Save your results, then come back to review or retake at a later time.
Explore your interests by thinking about enjoyable activities that you have done. Think about accomplishments that have made you proud. Consider these things as you begin your job search planning process. A job that allows you to work in your interest area can be rewarding and enjoyable.
Steps for taking SKILLS & Interest Profilers:
- Click on any link below to start the survey.
- When finished, click "my scores" to view and save your results (look for the gold star to save).
- Your results will be saved in your Skills tab under "View My Results". Interests can be grouped into themes and scales. Group themes include realistic, artistic, enterprising, social or organizational. Ask friends, family and co-workers what interests and passions they see in you. Ask what they believe you are good at doing. Be honest with yourself and be open to feedback from others.
A job that allows you to work in your interest area can be rewarding and enjoyable. As you begin your job-search planning process, explore your interests by reflecting upon enjoyable activities that you’ve done and accomplishments that have made you proud.
Steps for taking Skills & Interest Profilers:
- Click on any link below to complete and save results.
- Once you have finished, click on "my scores" and save your results (look for the gold star at top of page).
- Your results will be saved in your Illinois workNet toolbox which appears on your "My Skills and Interests" page.
Interests can be grouped into themes and scales, such as realistic, artistic, enterprising, social or organizational. Ask friends, family and co-workers what interests and passions they see in you, and what they believe you are good at doing. Be honest with yourself and be open to feedback from others.
To help you identify the best career path, complete these interest profilers and store them in a personal portfolio for future reference
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Interest Profiler
Duration : 10-20 minutes
Profiler can help you identify your interests and match them with a wide variety of careers. It doesn't tell you what you should be but organizes your interests in six broad categories of work. For each activity presented in the assessment, choose if you would like or dislike the activity.
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SKILLS Profiler
Duration : 10-20 minutes
SKILLS helps you identify occupations that use the skills you like. It also helps you recognize skills that transfer between occupations. SKILLS rates the skills you select and matches skills to clusters of occupations. You can use SKILLS to select occupations to explore, identify ways to modify your career direction, or prepare for a job interview. From a list, choose skills that you find very satisfying, moderately satisfying and somewhat satisfying.
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Work Importance Locator
Duration : 5-15 minutes
The Work Importance Locator can help you learn more about your work values and help you decide what kinds of jobs and careers you might want to explore.
The Work Importance Locator is different from other surveys you may have taken in the past. Instead of questions, the Work Importance Locator uses statements about different aspects of work. You sort the statement into groups, based on how important the work aspect is to you on your ideal job - the kind of job you would most like to have. Upon completion, you will be directed to a list of occupations that are linked with your work values. This list can help you explore career options. The more a job agrees with your work values, the more likely you are to be satisfied in that job.
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Career Cluster Inventory
Duration : 5-25 minutes
A Career Cluster is a grouping of occupations and broad industries, based on what they have in common. The sixteen Clusters provide learners who are unsure of their career goals an avenue to explore a wide variety of options.
The 16 Career Clusters include:
- Agriculture, Food & Natural Resources
- Architecture & Construction
- Arts, Audio/Video Technology & Communications
- Business Management & Administration
- Education & Training
- Finance
- Government & Public Administration
- Health Science
- Hospitality & Tourism
- Human Services
- Information Technology
- Law, Public Safety, Corrections & Security
- Manufacturing
- Marketing
- Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics
- Transportation, Distribution & Logistics
You can learn more about Career Clusters at http://www.careerclusters.org/#
The States' Career Clusters Initiative (SCCI) is a national initiative, and has three major objectives: 1) Increase learner awareness of career options so that they may make better informed decisions; 2) Increase learner understanding of the structure and function of businesses so they can be more productive, value-added employees; and 3) Increase learner achievement by setting high standards of expectations and by teaching academics in a context that interests learners.
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SKILLS Profiler help you identify your present job skills, identify occupations
that match those skills, understanding what skills are required for a given occupation,
and determining what training and skills you need for a particular job.
For a more comprehensive evaluation of your occupational interests, check out the Interest Profiler. It is designed to assist you in identifying our occupational interests and how those interests relate to work. The Interest Profiler helps to
identify individuals’ strongest work-related interests and match occupations to job-related interests.
To help you learn more about your
work values and help you decide what is important to you in a job, examine the
Work Importance Locator. Knowing your
work values can help you decide what kinds of jobs and career you might want to
explore.
When you complete the Work Importance
Locator, you will get scores for six work values. These scores show how important
each of the work values is to you. In addition to your scores, you will be directed
to a list of occupations that are linked with your work values. The more a job agrees
with your work values, the more likely you are to be satisfied with that job.
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