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Career Aptitude Test:
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Think of it as a jumping off point for planning your career or your career change.
Now, you could hire a professional career coach or counselor to administer one of these tests to you. And, there's certainly a lot of value in taking such a step.
But not everyone can afford to hire a coach or is comfortable sharing their personal information with a stranger.
So, you might want to look into some options that could be cheaper and/or more private, and in today's world, online is the way to go!
You'll have many options when looking for a career aptitude test or other career assessment tools online.
Let's take a look at a few free career interest inventory tests...
MAPP.com
This site offers a really nice tool. It's not so much a career aptitude test as it is a more comprehensive personal assessment tool. I used it and it gave me some insights I really didn't anticipate.
The acronym "MAPP" stands for Motivational Appraisal of Personal Potential. It only takes about 15 minutes to take the test. What it does is assess your true motivations toward work, allowing you to match yourself to job categories to see where you best fit.
It's free to take this intro quiz and it gives you 5 free job matches. Once you complete your free sample, if you like what you see, you will have the option to purchase a more comprehensive assessment—for a reasonable price, of course.
They say the MAPP is based on 40 years of experience. It's a unique online assessment that seeks to guide, motivate and empower people to achieve their greatest educational and career potential.
Over 4.5 million people have taken the MAPP assessment test, so they must be doing something right!
Oh, and it's available in nine languages; Bulgarian, Chinese, English, French, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Swedish.
The only thing I didn't like about it is I found it hard to sit through the 71 questions all at one pop. But that's not really a big problem, since they allow you to save your work in progress and come back to finish up later.
Try out their free sample MAPP test now!
LiveCareer.com
At this site, you can take a free career aptitude test. LiveCareer.com offers a nice interface. First, you'll answer a few personal questions and you DO have to provide your email and address, which I wasn't thrilled about.Next, you start the actual career aptitude test part of the system. You'll be presented with 10 groups of 3 work-related activities. For each group, you'll be asked to decide which activity you like MOST, as well as which activity you like LEAST.
You'll answer 100 sets of diverse questions. It takes about 25 minutes if you put thought into each group. After you're done, you'll be "forced" to look at an advertisement, but you can just click the "No thanks" button to move to the results of your test.
It's a very comprehensive career aptitude test report, complete with...
- An Introductory Page
- Your Basic Interest Scores
- Interpreting Your Basic Interests
- Workplace Fit - Introduction
- Your Workplace Fit Graph
- Preview of Matching Careers and Educational Areas
When you view the results of your career interest inventory test, be sure to look at both the areas of low interest as well as those of high interest.
They'll also give you a bit of analysis and advice, but of course they ARE a business, so they'll ask you to upgrade to get the full report. While I love the idea of a free career aptitude test, you really can't complain too much about paying a measly $25 bucks for such a powerful career assessment tool. Click this link to take their free career interest inventory test:
College911
Another option for a career aptitude test online is College911.com. Their test is a bit different when it comes to a career assessment tool. They're more about fulfilling your life's purpose through your career.This test consists of picking your answer to imagining 4 different "dream" lives. The questions don't all seem that connected to career. Once you're done, they want you to look at ads, of course. The ads are what enable you to take the test for free, so don't begrudge them, OK?
Just click "No, I'm not interested" a few times and you'll get to your results!
The results are nothing to write home about though. There's a short analysis and then—on the pretext of offering more advice—they take you to a page of ads.
Oh well, it doesn't cost anything and it might get you thinking!
Here's the link:
College911.com
You can find many other sources of career aptitude tests by "Googling" the terms "career aptitude test" or "career interest inventory test", etc. Have fun!
