Understanding your strengths, interests, and goals is crucial for making informed decisions and navigating your professional path. Whether exploring new career options, seeking to enhance your current role, or planning for advancement, self-assessments can provide valuable insights to guide your career choices. Take the first step towards self-discovery and unlock your full potential.
There are a variety of assessment tools to develop a greater understanding of your skills, strengths, interests, and values. Knowledge gained during the self-assessment process translates into:
- Enhanced self-confidence and more compelling responses during interviews
- The ability to rule out career paths that aren't a suitable match
- Heightened self-awareness
True career fulfillment may not always come from salary bumps and title changes. What moves the needle for you?
Embark on a self-discovery and career exploration journey by checking out the resources below. Start by downloading the Career Planning Guide, which acts as a workbook to help you visualize your path, develop goals, and develop a plan for your development:
Remember, self-assessments are just the starting point. They offer valuable insights to inform your career decisions, but they should be complemented with further research, exploration, and professional guidance. Use the knowledge gained from these assessments to make informed choices, develop targeted career plans, and unlock a fulfilling and prosperous future.
Whether you're exploring new career paths, seeking to enhance your current role, or planning for long-term advancement, the guides below will help you reflect on your career. Where are you now? Where do you want to be? What matters most to you? The guides below are designed to help you develop your roadmap to career development.
- Career Planning Guide: Reflection & goal setting are essential to personal and professional development. Use this guide to help you discover your likes, dislikes, skills, and abilities and how to apply them all to advance your career.
- Identifying Your Strengths & Areas for Improvement: Self-awareness can help you leverage your strengths, enhance your skills, and address areas that need development.
- Write Your Personal Mission Statement: Human beings are driven by purpose. So, what's yours? Defining your mission statement can give your work, family, and life powerful direction.
- Unlocking Career Success: Harnessing the Power of AI: Watch this Tulane Alumni Professional Development Series video in which Linda Greenfield discusses different ways you can use AI to enhance your career.
Enhance your career trajectory by utilizing free skills assessments. These assessments provide a systematic approach to identifying strengths and areas for development, facilitating targeted skill enhancement. You position yourself as a competitive asset by aligning your professional development with market demands. Engage with free skills assessments to strategically navigate your career advancement.
- O*Net Interest Profiler: a family of self-assessment career exploration tools that can help clients discover the type of work activities and occupations they would like and find exciting. Clients identify and learn about broad interest areas most relevant to themselves.
- The CareerOneStop.org Skills Assessment: Review examples of technical and soft skills, identify your skills, and see what careers match the best
- What Career is Right For Me?: Take the most popular career aptitude test on the internet and discover the careers that are best for you
- Work Values Matcher | Careers | CareerOneStop: Learn about work values and identify the ones most important to you.
- Motivational Assessment of Personal Potential: This assessment will help you find the right career that matches your unique assessment profile.
- Work Preference Inventory: A quick assessment to compare your work style preferences.
Embark on a journey of self-discovery and team empowerment with the Tulane University Leadership Institute's favorite assessments—the Emergenetics Profile® and CliftonStrengths® 34 Report. These robust assessments, available to all Tulane University faculty and staff, unravel your team members' unique strengths and thinking styles. The Emergenetics Profile delves into individual preferences that emerge from your genetics and life experiences, while the CliftonStrengths 34 report unveils innate talents. Through engaging workshops led by certified facilitators, these assessments pave the way for improved communication, enhanced collaboration, and optimized team dynamics.
These interactive workshops bring both the CliftonStrengths and Emergenetics assessments to life. Facilitated by certified professionals, these sessions are designed to help participants apply their insights to personal development and team enhancement. You'll engage in hands-on activities, group discussions, and personal and team action planning to implement your newfound knowledge in real-world scenarios.
Both assessments have an associated fee. Check out the TULI Assessments website for more information and how you can schedule a workshop for your team.
