Any career ideas?

What are your talents? What education do you have? Are you ready for more school? How old are you? What do you currently do for work?

Take yourself to a local college counselling center. There are many that offer interest and aptitude tests. The interest tests will tell you the areas that appeal to you, and the aptitude tests will let you know what you are good at.

You can even take some of these tests online, although I would recommend that you take the tests at a college, where you can discuss the results with a trained professional.

http://www.discoveryourpersonality.com/Strong.html

http://www.careerexplorer.net/aptitude.asp

Have any of you ever taken one of these tests?

I have tried some test but doesn't really inspire me. I would love to get into pa or organising but find it had toget a job as i have real xperience in this field. I know i would be really good at the job but thats not enough for people anymore (somebodies word)

P3 - What's "pa"? Do you mean PR, as in Public Relations? Administrative people do a lot of organizing, but if your posts here are any indication of your ability to type and spell, I don't think you will qualify. How old are you? How much education have you had? Is English your first language? What jobs have you had so far? Have you thought about doing internships in different fields to get experience?

Personal assistant.

You should look at this map on careerbuilder, it shows what jobs people are happiest or least happiest in and it breaks it down by state.

Here's the site if you want to check it out.
http://www.careerbuilder.com/ngi/Default.aspx?cbRecursionCnt=2&cbsid=786ffbc2f8544640aac6e7ec628992be-258030520-VK-4

Interesting results from that career aptitude test, phoenix.

These were my results. I was asked to designate like, dislike or neutral interest in many job tasks and this was how close in percentage my answers matched to each industry. The industry where I have worked most of my life had zero matches while my main areas of interest for hobbies match 80% and higher.


Agriculture/Forestry 100

Technology 100

Natural Sciences 88

Education 83

Security/Criminal Justice 67

Administrative/Clerical 67

Manufacturing 60

Construction & Maintenance 50

Sales & Marketing 50

Mechanical/Electrical 33

Creative/Performing Arts 30

Visual Arts 20

Business & Management 20

Communications 14

Healthcare 14

Government/Policy 0

Finance/Accounting 0

Social Sciences/Services 0

Entrepreneurs 0

So do you think it was accurate? I like just going through the map on the careerbuilder map and seeing what jobs people are most happy in. I figure if I ever move it can help me narrow down my choices based on my career choices.