Discover your career interests
What motivates you? How do you define success? Career satisfaction stems from a clearer understanding of what you want. This understanding can take time to develop, and what you want might be a moving target. It’s important to start your career with some self-awareness and to make time throughout your life to reassess what you want and what makes you happy. Career self-assessment involves the following four components:
- Values: What’s important to you
- Interests: What you love
- Personality: What motivates you and makes you happy
- Skills: What you’re good at
Taking time to reflect on these things will help you to build stronger resumes, write more compelling cover letters, and interview with focus and confidence.
How to self-assess
Self-assessment is about more than discovering your motivations, needs, interests, values and skills. It’s also about prioritizing them. Regardless of the type of assessment you decide to take, we encourage you to take time to reflect on what the results mean to you. You might also want to talk with friends, family members, supporters, advisors or other people you trust to get their insight on how you are reflected in the results. We’ve got tools to help you and experienced staff to walk you through the process.
