About CareerPath

CareerPath.com is designed to assist you in making the right career decision - a decision that meets your unique interests and personality.

CareerPath.com offers the following services to lead you down the right path...

Self-Assessment Testing
Career Guidance Resources
Professional Development Resources
Perspectives on Work/Life Balance

Career assessment used to be a process of simply following your gut feelings and doing a little research into your fields of interest. Today, career assessment is much more refined and looks not only at job fields but also spotlights the focus on you, the individual. This is critical to finding a career that will bring you happiness and satisfaction.

Testing is an integral part of the process. Each of us is unique and career assessment tests help us identify personal traits that match up with skills and competencies for various fields of work. Your talents, abilities, values, likes and dislikes are all measured to narrow down the choices to jobs that fit your lifestyle interests. As a result, the feedback will give you an opportunity to explore careers that you'll enjoy and find highly motivating and personally rewarding.

Testing methodologies vary in general but career tests ask a myriad of questions that attempt to:

Clarify your interests

Match your skills and competencies to specific fields and job types

Identify your strong points and individual work style

Direct you to jobs specific to your interests and skill set

Guide you in your career path or educational pursuit

Personality testing enables you to assess your interests and direct you down a career path that fits your unique lifestyle and personality.


About The Career Planner Report^TM

A guide to personal and professional potential, The Career Planner Report^TM is the first of many smart career decisions. The report consists of 33 pages of personalized career information and will give you the edge to:

Find your ideal career

Boost your productivity

Reduce stress

If you are interested in making a career change, The Career Planner Report^TM will help you identify your strengths to build on and improve your professional potential.

The Career Planner Quiz^TM and Career Planner Report^TM are property and copyright of SSI, Inc. and are licensed to CareerBuilder.

About the Color Career Counselor^TM

The Color Career Counselor is the world's first non-language test to define occupational interests. It uses color preference to determine successful career paths. The test is based on the multi-patented Dewey Color System, which is the world's only scientifically validated color-based personality test - published in the North American Journal of Psychology.

Want more information? Read the Color Career Counselor FAQ.

About the Career Vision Job Satisfaction Quiz^TM

Nationally, over 20% of adults express a high level of dissatisfaction with their current position, and more than 50% of adults look for a new job each year. If you can relate to these statistics then you should complete the free Career Vision Job Satisfaction Quiz^TM.

The Career Vision Job Satisfaction Quiz^TM uniquely captures your level of satisfaction with aspects of your actual work and your work environment. You will receive a personalized report that ranks your satisfaction with several key contributors to job satisfaction. These results will help provide insight into what is contributing to your job satisfaction/dissatisfaction. This information will be useful for conversations with your manager or as you consider a job redesign or change. The Career Vision Job Satisfaction Quiz^TM and Career Vision Job Satisfaction Report^TM are property and copyright of The Ball Foundation/Career Vision and are licensed to CareerBuilder.

The Ball Foundation, a not-for-profit organization based in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, was established in 1975 by G. Carl and Vivian Elledge Ball. Career Vision^SM was established in 1989 as the service and career consulting division of The Ball Foundation. The Foundation's research and development efforts led to the development of the Ball Aptitude Battery®, a valid and reliable series of tests that are used to identify an individual's unique profile of strengths.

About the Job Discovery Wizard

A career exploration tool, the Job Discovery Wizard assists you in discovering jobs that that are a fit based on your skills and knowledge. Learn about new or different job opportunities and what the next steps are along your career path.

Sources of Data:

The Job Discovery Wizard was created with O*NET™ Career Exploration Tools. O*NET™ is a trademark of the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration. Information regarding modifications and DOL/EDTA disclaimers is available here.

The training and growth data is provided by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and was last updated on December 18, 2007. Read more about the training and growth data here.