Career Assessments

Career assessments are a great starting step for career explorers, job seekers, and students at all stages of the career exploration process. Career Services offers several free and fee-based assessments designed to help you discover yourself and your career options. Please note, these independent tests have not been fully evaluated for reliability and validity. We strongly encourage you to make a counseling appointment to discuss your assessment results.

Have questions about assessments? Email Dr. Greg Hill at gh15@txstate.edu to learn more.

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Show more about Career Decision-Making Difficulties Questionnaire (CDDQ)

This independent online assessment locates career decision-making difficulties and recommends ways to overcome them.

Show more about Emotional Intelligence (Body Language)

• 20 questions
• About 10 minutes
• Assesses your ability to correctly perceive and interpret facial expressions

Show more about Focus2

• Focus2 helps you discover where you are in the career decision-making process. Other assessments then build on this knowledge, addressing your interests, values, and personality.
• Your responses generate specific career possibilities, which you can research more fully within the site’s impressive database of occupational information.
• Get started by registering your profile using the access code “bobcats”. Returning users use the Focus Portal Login page.

Show more about InSight™ Values / Work Characteristics Inventory

• 64 questions
• About 15 minutes
• Provides information about the importance of specific values, in rank order

Show more about Jung Typology Test

• 72 questions
• About 20 minutes
• Based on the Jung-Myers-Briggs typological approach and similar to the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator®
• Categorizes personality using four criteria categories

Show more about Learning Style Inventory

• 20 questions
• About 10 minutes
• Assesses your learning style to determine to determine what kind of learner you are (auditory, tactile, or visual), and shares steps to enhance your learning experience.

Show more about Life Values Inventory

• 50 questions
• About 15 minutes
• Provides information about the importance of specific values, in rank order

Show more about Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®)

• Classic, multiple-choice personality inventory
• Assesses personality based on 4 criteria categories
• Based on Jung's theory of Psychological Types
• Please Note: Due to the nature of the fee-based assessment inventories, test-takers must pay a nominal fee ($15) up front. Upon proof of payment, Career Services will provide the instructions to access the assessment. To review your results a follow up appointment must be made with a career counselor.

Show more about MyMajors

• 15 minutes
• Receive a list of 10 TXST majors that most align with your history of academic achievement, aptitude, work interests, and personal preferences.

Show more about O*Net's Interest Profiler

• 60 questions
• About 10 minutes
• Assesses your interests and how they relate to the world of work to help you find out what you like to do.

Show more about Reality Check

• Number of questions and amount of time to complete varies.
• Explores lifestyle and salary requirements and introduces occupations that enable you to meet them.

Show more about The Self-Directed Search

• Helps individuals at all stages of the career development process make sound career decisions
• It's results have been supported by more than 500 research studies
• Please Note: Due to the nature of the fee-based assessment inventories, test-takers must pay a nominal fee ($10) up front. Upon proof of payment, Career Services will provide the instructions to access the assessment. To review your results a follow up appointment must be made with a career counselor.

Show more about Strong Interest Inventory®

• Provides information about yourself and your relationship with the working world
• Leads to greater self-understanding and better decisions about your career and life decisions
• Please Note: Due to the nature of the fee-based assessment inventories, test-takers must pay a nominal fee ($15) up front. Upon proof of payment, Career Services will provide the instructions to access the assessment. To review your results a follow up appointment must be made with a career counselor.