Students & alumni are encouraged to check out our free career assessment tool AWATO!
If you have questions regarding your AWATO career assessment results, contact our SNHU Career Services team for help.
- A career assessment is a test that features various questions, and the answers you provide can help you discover more about your professional goals.
- This test may involve factors like your personality, interests, strengths and values.
- Understanding how to use career assessments can help you find a career that you enjoy!
- Interests
- Interests are the hobbies and passions you want to pursue in life. This aspect of a career assessment is important because it helps determine which careers and tasks you may enjoy. When you enjoy the work you do, you can remain more attentive and productive and experience higher job satisfaction.
- Personality
- Consider how your behaviors reflect on your activities throughout the day. Some career assessments evaluate your personality. Knowing which traits you have is not necessarily a guiding factor in determining your career, but it can help you get a better idea of which jobs suit your personality the best. For example, if you enjoy communicating with people and have more extroverted traits you may want to pursue a career as an event planner, mediator or sales manager. If you have more introverted traits you may want to pursue a career as a data scientist or nature photographer.
- Aptitude and Skills
- Many career assessments measure aptitude, which is your ability to perform a task without practice. You may be intuitively effective at solving problems or building things and have been this way since childhood. Some people are great analytical thinkers who thrive on working with numbers and data, while others crave creativity and being able to make something unique. Career assessments can also measure how well you perform learned skills like communication, typing and coding. The skills and aptitude you have may help determine the industry in which you can apply yourself best.
- Values
- Your personality is the result of your values. The way that you interact with others and handle situations depends on the values that you develop early in life and how you maintain them as you grow older. Career assessments can help you learn which careers best fit your current values. Demanding careers may not work well for someone who values a healthy work-life balance. If you enjoy helping people, you may want to work in a service-oriented career that benefits a specific group of people or the general public.
- The results of a career assessment can help you learn which careers may suit you best and which areas of your professional development require improvement.
- You may not realize which strengths or weaknesses you have until you’ve taken one of these tests.
- After taking a career assessment, you may be able to view a list of jobs that match your personality and interests.
