If you are considering career exploration or career transition, I recommend the following resources:
The Centered Career Self-Awareness Workbook
I spent years compiling these exercises, assessments, and activities to help my clients learn about courage, find power in failure, and hone and trust their intuition. It’s my proven process for helping clients to look within as they embark on their job search. All clients working with me for self-aware career coaching receive this workbook at the start of our project.
Do you negotiate your salary? 70% of employers expect you to. The American Association of University Women has created a free online course to help candidates learn how to successfully negotiate their salaries and benefits with employers.
This fun site provides the same basic analysis as the Myers-Briggs Type Inventory.
This assessment focuses on character and personality traits, and will help those who take it to understand the sorts of work they are best at and the kinds of environments where they will thrive. This assessment is free for a high-level analysis, and a deeper dive is available for a fee.
Learn more about your character and values with this free assessment. This 20-minute assessment will help you to understand what's uniquely important to you, and how you might incorporate this information in your job search for a more fulfilling career.
Start off with these core books in my Bookshop. I base my practice on exercises and teachings gleaned from each of them, and recommend them all highly. Disclosure: I am an affiliate of Bookshop.org and I will earn a commission if you click through and make a purchase.
If you like the Clifton Strengths, but don't have the budget to pay for the official assessment, this is a good approximation for it.
This free assessment is an excellent complement to the other assessments listed on this page.
This assessment costs $50, but provides you with a detailed analysis of your unique strengths. This information is key for helping you to understand the top five parts of your personality that are crucial to who you are, and that must be satisfied for you to be happy in a job.
It may seem as though this should be obvious, but as the saying goes: A fish doesn’t know what water is.
Sometimes what you are good at comes so easily for you that you don’t even realize it’s a gift.
The Enneagram is another system of personality typing that describes patterns in how people interpret the world and manage their emotions, much like the MBTI. In fact, there are some overlaps between the two. A free Enneagram assessment can help to shed light on your strengths and weaknesses.
