Steps to Career/Life Planning Success - Career Development Manual
The first step covered by the University of Waterloo's manual is self-assessment. They include Personality & Attitudes, Skills & Achievements, Knowledge & Learning Style, Values, Interests, Entrepreneurism, and a Personal Career Profile.

Birkman Career Summary
Uses 24 questions to develop interest and style "colours". Provides a general description of the user's interests, most-effective style and lists some jobs that may match interests.

What are Employers Looking for?
This site can help you identify both transferable and non-transferable skills. This section of WorkSearch provides you with a self-assessment quiz and links to other helpful sites to assist you in determining the traits and skills that most employers are looking for.

Essential Skills
Essential Skills are the skills needed for work, learning and life. They provide the foundation for learning all other skills and enable people to evolve with their jobs and adapt to workplace change. This site will help you learn about essential skills and the important role they play in career planning.

Transferable Skills Survey
This site provides an on-line transferability skills survey focussing on Communication, Research & Planning, Human Relations, Organization, Management & Leadership, and Work Survival. This information can help you identify where your potential strengths might be and offers another way to evaluate potential career options.

Skills & Achievements
The Career Development Manual from the University of Waterloo includes a section to assist you in determining your skills.

The Keirsey Temperament Sorter II
Keirsey Temperament Sorter by David Keirsey is a personality test similar to the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). Like the MBTI, the Keirsey Temperament Sorter measures personality using four different scales.

How Do I Learn Best
Everyone has a unique way of learning. This site can provide you with information about your personal learning style. Take this Seeing, Hearing, Doing quiz to determine which of the three learning styles you prefer: Hearing, Doing, or Visual. The higher your score in a particular area, the higher your preference for that learning style.

What’s Your Emotional Intelligence Quotient?
This is a questionnaire consisting of 10 situations where you are asked to choose one of four possible answers. The explanation given in your results identifies Emotional Intelligence as the following:

Behavioural Style Survey
This site provides an informal survey to determine how you usually interact with others in everyday situations

Personal Traits
Try some of these exercises to identify key elements to your personality.

Personality Typing

The Career Key
This assessment instrument measures your personality, finds the job ideas that fit your personality and gives you information about these jobs. The Career Key can increase your career options, give you a clearer picture of your personality type; and provide you with (U.S. based) information about occupations.

Career Biography Template
Designed to help you review your life experiences and identify common themes and patterns. Intended to help individuals gain greater career focus. Recommended for people who have a fair amount of life and/or work experience. This link takes you to a companies web site that lists all of the questions involved in putting together a Career Biography Template. You may want to print a copy of the web page and answers as you go along.

Career Explorations
Provides links to a variety of online self-assessment tools and career exploration programs.