The tools below are great resources for self-exploration. Starting your career journey with self-exploration will help you to more effectively explore career options based on your interests, skills, and goals you already have!

Why take time for Self-Exploration? It can help you identify:

  • Your current skillset and skills you want to improve
  • Your core values and what motivates and inspires you
  • Skills and career possibilities that don't interest you
  • and more!

Lightcast Career Coach

Career Coach is a career planning platform to help you explore careers and find the right education and training. It offers a variety of features, including a personalized career assessment, a searchable database of careers and educational programs. Take a career survey to find a program that matches your skills and interests. These tools provide insights to help you make informed career decisions.

Roadtrip Nation

Roadtrip Nation Roadmap empowers individuals to identify your interests and discover career pathways aligned with your unique ambitions and skills. Explore content and resources to help you answer the question, “What should I do with my life?” in order to find fulfilling career possibilities based on what matters to you. 

16 Personalities 

The 16 Personalities assessment creates insights into who you are and why you do things the way you do. You will learn what really drives, inspire, and worries different personality types, helping you build more meaningful relationships. 

 

Enneagram

This free Enneagram personality test will show you which of the 9 personality types suit you best. See how you score for all 9 Enneagram types, and understand where you fit in the Enneagram personality system.

 

Meaningful Work Kit

The Meaningful Work Kit was designed by Stanford Career Education to help you understand and prioritize what makes you thrive in a work environment: work culture, your core values, and skills you enjoy using. This is a practical tool that will give you concrete information you can use to understand and tell your story.