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Self-Assessment
Use this section to help identify how your interests, abilities and values can be related to occupations. There are several ways for you to do this.
You can use a self-assessment tool developed by OLN called Putting It Together. Your interest, ability and value assessment will be recorded on a form you can send to an OLN Regional Coordinator to begin a conversation as to your next steps.
Our three self-assessments can be accessed by clicking on their names below:
- Interests: What do you like to do?
- Abilities and Skills: What can you do well?
- Values: What is most important to you?
The Career Voyages' Career Site has also developed an interest inventory you may want to consider using. On their site, their interest inventory is called Career Compass. The Career Voyages' Career Compass is compatible with Dr. John Holland's R-I-A-S-E-C (1959, 1997) model of work related interests. In short, Holland's model identifies six major interest patterns. Of the six, most people have three that dominate. Since interests are things we like to do, by focusing on the relationship between what we like to do and occupations that share these traits, you can consider one of several important perspectives in the career decision making process. The O*NET program has developed a system for linking these interest areas to occupations. This system of grouping interests is used by O*NET, the New York Careerzone, and the Delaware Career Resource Network, all of which served as resources in the creation of the Career Voyages Compass.
