Career Assessment
Measure your core intrinsic abilities – the abilities you were born with3 Great Methods
Need help figuring out your next career step?
Is your interest a hobby or a potential college major/career option?
I offer three career assessments designed to help you make informed decisions about career options and career direction. Find out which assessment will help you.
Highlands Ability Battery
The Highlands Ability Battery is an objective assessment that is taken on your computer. What’s more, the Battery does not measure the level of your achievements in specific subjects. Instead, it measures your core innate abilities – the abilities you were born with. Research shows that natural strengths and abilities are developed by age 15 and remain constant throughout all of our lives. Some of us are intuitive, quickly grasping broad concepts while others thrive on details, memorizing and understanding facts and formulae. Each of us falls somewhere along the spectrum. How do we measure all these abilities? By having you perform 19 different worksamples on your computer screen and keyboard. Each work sample asks you to do something – organize a group of related facts; find a common thread among seemingly unrelated objects; create a flow of new ideas; manipulate blocks in your mind; mentally poke holes in a piece of folded paper, unfold the paper, and find the holes; identify objects which are added or removed from a picture of common objects. The worksamples are timed, and your results are measured in part by the speed with which you perform each task. The Battery takes three hours to finish. It doesn’t have to be done at one sitting – you can log in and out after you finish a worksample.
When you finish the Battery, you will get a 32-page Report of your core abilities, including a bar chart showing your scores. Each score is expressed as a percentile which relates your score to the scores of all persons who have completed the Battery. After you review the Report, you will participate in two 1 ½ hours feedback sessions. This will help you link your abilities to the other factors that will influence your career. These other factors are skills, interests, values, goals, family history, personal style and level of schooling. In this way, I will be able to see a picture of the Whole Person, especially as the other factors help us to understand and develop our abilities. I will help you decide on the right direction and what career you will be most successful and find fulfillment. The Highlands Ability Battery helps you save valuable time, money, and heartache.
Strong Interest Inventory
The Strong Interest Inventory is designed to help anyone seeking career direction. The Strong Interest Inventory is one of the most respected and widely used career assessments in the world for over 80 years! It provides a clear picture of one’s interests, linking them to suitable career options, possible education and training programs, and satisfying work environments.
I use the Strong Interest Inventory in combination with the Highlands Ability Battery to help my clients map out their interests and innate abilities/talents. Is your interest a hobby or a potential career option?
CareerLeader Assessment for Business Professionals
CareerLeader is an essential assessment battery for helping adults find their right path in business, as well as the knowledge of why it’s the right path. Developed by Dr. Butler and Dr. Waldroop, colleagues at Harvard Business School.
CareerLeader is the world-leading assessment tool designed specifically for business students and professionals. Career Leader has been designed to:
- Provide a robust analysis of one’s interests, skills, and motivators.
- Match an individual to specific business-related career path when compared to our database of hundreds of thousands of
business professionals. - Help one understand what organizational cultures will be the best fit for them.
- Help retain top talent by sculpting a position to ultimately benefit both the employee and the company.
As a key tool in your career development process, CareerLeader provides actionable information that you can use to identify the career paths and work cultures that will suit you the best. When your career allows you to maximize the expression of your interests, skills, and motivators, you’ll find your work more engaging and interesting resulting in your increased productivity and success on the job.
Molly Smith, M.A. is known as the “Millennial Coach”
I help young adults discover the right career path, empower confidence, and help break through barriers holding you back!