What career(s) would be a good fit for you?

One great strategy to find out is to try online assessments. These tests are used to determine a person’s strengths and interests to help guide their career path.

Some of the most common work assessment test categories are:

  • Personality assessments
  • Skill assessments
  • Career assessments

Benefits of these tests include:

  • Increasing your self-awareness
  • Providing an opportunity for self-reflection
  • Identifying and guiding future career paths
  • Gaining an outside perspective for critical reflection

Therefore, if you want to identify new strengths and interests, consider trying one of the attached assessments!

Disclaimer – Readers should use the following assessment tests linked in this article at their own discretion and with a critical understanding of biased self-assessment, and possible statistical reliability and validity concerns. These tests do not serve as career advice, and instead are meant to only prompt career-based self-reflection. Additionally, the following tests are free as of the publication of this article, and CharityVillage cannot speak to data collection policies based on each site and encourages readers to access online quizzes such as these at their own judgement and with proper precautions if this makes you comfortable (e.g., using an Incognito browsing tab).

Personality assessment

Multiple Intelligences Quiz

There are 8 commonly understood ways that people can express intelligence. For the below quiz, they are identified as follows:

  • body intelligence
  • people intelligence
  • number intelligence
  • nature intelligence
  • self-intelligence
  • sound intelligence
  • picture intelligence
  • word intelligence

Take this quiz to determine which areas are your strength.

  • WorkBC – 10 minutes, 64 questions

Skill assessments

Ability Quiz

Some people will naturally find certain tasks easier to perform than others. Whether these tasks are verbal, spatial, involve fine-motor skills, or are of a different nature, this assessment will help identify what tasks you might be most suited for and what possible careers correlate to them.

Career assessments

Career Cluster Interest survey

Many industries can be categorized into distinct groups such as education and training, finance, health science, hospitality and tourism, marketing, sales, and more. Use this test to determine which career clusters might interest you.

Career Path and Options Quiz

This self-guided questionnaire prompts you to reflect on your current and potential future career paths.

Work Preference Quiz

This quiz helps to identify interests and working preferences to suggest possible careers.

Interest Quiz

Having a job that you are passionate about is essential. Take this quiz to help identify your interests and how they might correlate to potential careers.

Work Value Quiz

We all value different things related to work. Use this quiz to identify what you value most about your work.

  • Work BC – 10 minutes, 33 questions

Final thoughts

Careers can be overwhelming. That is why taking a moment to gain an outside perspective can be invaluable. Hopefully, through taking some of these tests, you can better identify your own aptitudes and values to help guide you into your ideal future career!