Each year of full-time work equates to around 2,000 hours of our life – a considerable chunk of time. It’s not surprising then that being unhappy or unsatisfied in a job can profoundly affect our lives.
As well as providing financial security, jobs are a chance to gain fulfillment, meaning, and connection with others, and offer an important means of identity expression (Lent & Brown, 2013).
Career counselors are trained professionals who help people explore, understand, and execute career-related decisions. Career counseling also offers a supportive space to help people navigate the complex and ever-changing world of work, enabling people to find their own solutions to a variety of job challenges.
Career Counseling Assessments
Self Directed Search
Self Direct Search (SDS) is based on a theory developed by John Holland, known as RIASEC theory, that both people and work environments can be classified according to six basic types: Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising and Conventional. These personality types are knows together as RIASEC. The assessment asks questions about an individuals aspirations, activities, competencies, interests, and other self-estimates. It takes only about 20 minutes to complete.
Clifton Strengths Finder
Use this assessment to discover your greatest talents. It only takes 177 questions to uncover the one true you. Your answers are sorted into 4 domains that is the culmination of decades of research by Don Clifton to study and categorize talents of the world’s most successful people. Individually, each theme gives you a way to describe what you naturally do best or what you might need help from others to accomplish. Together, the themes explain a simple but profound element of human behavior: what's right with people. The 34 Clifton Strengths explains your talent DNA.