The Boise State Career Center offers several career assessments designed to assist you in your career exploration. Assessments help you explore and clarify your career choices by providing information about YOU and CAREERS. While you might think of them as “tests,” they are called “assessments” because there are no right or wrong answers.
Career assessments are tools used in the career counseling process, and therefore, an appointment with a career counselor is necessary prior to career assessment use. Make an appointment here.
Sigi 3 is our most popular assessment. It takes an introductory look at all the major factors affecting your career choice – your interests, abilities, values, and personality. It then uses that information about you to provide you with a fairly long list of potential career options to explore.
Sigi 3 is both a career assessment and a career information database, integrating self-assessment with in-depth and up-to-date career information to help you make well-informed decisions about your career path. For every career option you are provided with, you can learn about the work tasks, the work environment, what types of organizations you might work for, what the educational requirements and common majors are, how much money you might make, and what the job outlook is like.
Additional tools are provided to help you evaluate your options, narrow them down, and learn how to prepare for your chosen career.
This assessment is offered free of charge.
The MBTI is an assessment that helps you understand your personality type, personality preferences, and how those preferences affect your career choice. For this assessment, you don’t need to know what work tasks you like or are good at – the questions you’ll answer are simply about who you are and how you do basic things in your daily life.
You’ll be provided with a report of your results, which will be interpreted for you by your Career Counselor. The report will provide detailed information about your personality preferences and how those preferences impact your career choice. It will also provide information on the career fields other people with your same personality type are most likely to be working in.
This assessment has a cost associated with it. Contact the Career Center for information about current pricing.
The Strong Interest Inventory is a well researched and validated career assessment that focuses on what you enjoy doing. While it only considers interests and does not specifically assess abilities or values, it takes a very in-depth look at your interests.
You’ll be provided with a report of your results, which will be interpreted for you by your Career Counselor. The report will provide information on personality traits that align with your interests. It will also provide a detailed breakdown of how similar your interests are to the interests of professionals working in a variety of career fields.
This assessment has a cost associated with it. Contact the Career Center for information about current pricing.
The CliftonStrengths for Students assessment uncovers which talents you rely on to build relationships, think strategically, execute plans and influence others to accomplish goals. This assessment can help you discover what you bring to the table so that you can maximize your performance in school, work, and beyond.
Well researched and utilized by a variety of universities around the nation, CliftonStrengths for Students gives you insight into your unique talents through quick reaction response questions (about 15 seconds for each question). Once these questions are complete, you’ll receive a personalized report from your Career Counselor on your Top 5 Strengths, how they all work together within you, and an action planning guide for ideas on how to take advantage of your Strengths to live up to your ultimate potential. Your Career Counselor can help and support you as you Name, Claim, and Aim your Strengths to achieve your goals.
This assessment has a cost associated with it. Contact the Career Center for information about current pricing.