We use five top-notch tests to combine 5 aspects of you: your personality, your interests, your aptitudes and abilities, your values, and the types of tasks you prefer to do.

Test Name

Focus

Results
16PF Personality Inventory Predicts occupational groups where your personality will be the best fit, how people might see you at work, etc
Strong Interest Inventory Interests Survey Matches your interest pattern to many occupational groups; suggests job titles which will likely match your likes and dislikes
Comprehensive Ability Battery Aptitudes and Abilities Test
Tests 14 widely divergent aptitudes and abilities; compares your results for each test with results of others who have written the CAB; provides lists for each ability of occupational areas in which that ability is crucial.
Values Scale A Measure of Your Values
Surveys relative importance of 20 common values
Interests Checklist Types of Tasks Surveys which of 12 types of tasks you like best; provides job titles which contain those tasks
 
   
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                                    16PF Test

1. It would be more interesting to be an artist than an electrician.
     a) True      b) Not sure       c) False

 

2. I’m very good at looking after my things.
      a) True      b) Not Sure      c) False

 

3. I enjoy lots of things going on at once with lots of excitement.
      a) True      b) Not Sure      c) False

 

            Strong Interest Inventory Test

Do you think you would enjoy doing this kind of work if you knew how, the pay was good, etc.?

1. football player     a) Like      b) Indifferent      c) Dislike

2. writer                    a) Like      b) Indifferent      c) Dislike

3. plastic surgeon   a) Like       b) Indifferent      c) Dislike

 

      Comprehensive Abilities Battery Test

Verbal

Choose a word which means the same as the word in capital letters.

1. MISTAKE     a) falter      b) blunder      c) difficulty

Numerical

1. Multiply 3 x 281

     a) 643      b) 813      c) 900      d) 843

Spelling

Which word is not spelled correctly?

1.    a) casuel    b) portion     c) tongue

Inductive Reasoning

Find the set of letters that doesn’t belong with the other sets.

1.    a) cdef       b) mnpo        c) hikj        d) vwyx

                              Values Scale

Give each sentence a score from 1 to 4 indicating how important it is to you right now.

1=little or no importance
2=of some importance
3=important
4=very important

 

How important is it to you to:

1. be physically active at work? ______
2. be in charge of others at work? ______
 3. have time and money to indulge your hobbies? ______

Interest Checklist

Which type of tasks would you prefer?
1. a) Artistic-Expressive Tasks    

2. a) Plant & Animals Tasks   

3. a) Business-Detailing tasks 		 b) Scientific-Analytic Tasks

b) Technical-Manufacturing
  
b) Performing-AthleticTask
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We start the testing session with a short interview to find out likes and dislikes in work and in school, etc.

You write the 4 inventories in about 2 hours. The two larger ones are done directly on the computer, the remaining two on paper for later computer analysis. For the most part, there are no correct answers.

At the second testing session, also two hours long, you write the Comprehensive Ability Battery. It consists of 14 short, timed tests.

We get together for a third time to go over the 75-page report binder together.
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This two-hour interview is recorded on tape or CD for your convenience so you won’t have to take notes. After reviewing the entire binder, we complete a summary page for you to use in evaluating career possibilities. Job descriptions are available also.