Career & Vocational Interest Tests
Assessments for coaches, counsellors, youth, students, ex-offenders, people with disabilities, seminar participants and individuals seeking career direction, career guidance, career exploration, career transition, vocational exploration, identifying educational barriers, entrepreneurial readiness, and more.
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Ability Explorer, Second Edition
The Ability Explorer, Second Edition (AE) is a paper-based, self-scoring assessment designed for career development and vocational planning. Taking under 30 minutes to complete, the 120-statement inventory evaluates proficiency across 14 core workplace abilities, featuring a built-in finder to match results with suitable occupations and STEM careers.
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Assessment of Transferable Skills – Revised
The Assessment of Transferable Skills – Revised is an online screening tool designed to evaluate core workplace behaviors and soft skills that carry over easily from school to the professional world, or from one role to another. Taking 45 to 60 minutes to complete, this comprehensive 134-question situational self-assessment helps employers look beyond formal resumes to measure how an individual handles daily work realities before making a hiring or promotion commitment.
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Barriers to Employment Success Inventory – 4th Edition
The Barriers to Employment Success Inventory – 4th Edition (BESI) is a widely trusted, 20-minute screening tool designed to help individuals quickly pinpoint the personal and professional roadblocks preventing them from finding or keeping a job. With over 800,000 copies in print, this powerful inventory requires users to rate 50 simple statements to map out their core struggles. The assessment is completely self-scoring and self-interpreting, and it can be completed either online or on paper. (Note: While the 4th edition remains available, a modernized 5th Edition featuring updated 21st-century workplace language is also available.)
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Barriers to Employment Success Inventory – 5th Edition
The Barriers to Employment Success Inventory – 5th Edition (BESI) is a quick, 20-to-30-minute self-assessment designed to help individuals identify the hurdles and obstacles that stand in the way of a successful job search and long-term career growth. To ensure an easy and stress-free user experience, individuals simply rate 50 straightforward statements regarding their current levels of concern. The inventory can be administered online or on paper and scored by hand or via an automated online report.
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Barriers to Reentry Success Inventory
The Barriers to Reentry Success Inventory (BRSI) – 3rd Edition (formerly known as the Offender Reintegration Scale) is a 25-minute paper-based self-assessment designed to help justice-involved individuals plan their transition back into society. Using a highly accessible and inclusive format, individuals review and score simple statements to map out their core personal and professional concerns.
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Career & Life Explorer 3rd Ed.
The Career & Life Explorer (3rd Edition) is an engaging, paper-based self-assessment designed to guide young students through career discovery and vocational planning. Taking under 30 minutes to complete, this highly visual, six-panel device encourages middle school and early high school students to explore their future options, map out their personal interests, and discover paths that motivate them to stay in school.
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Career Advancement Profile – Revised
The Career Advancement Profile – Revised is a fast, 15-minute online screening assessment designed to evaluate how prepared an employee or job applicant is to take on higher-level roles. Comprising 46 situational, self-report questions, this highly reliable Class A assessment helps organizations look beyond current performance to measure the exact mindsets and behaviors required to move up the corporate ladder.
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Career Attitudes & Strategies Inventory (CASI)
The Career Attitudes & Strategies Inventory (CASI) is a comprehensive, 35-minute paper-based assessment designed to serve as a practical “career checkup” by surveying the core beliefs, coping strategies, and everyday pressures affecting an individual’s professional development. Comprising 130 items, this time-saving tool is fully self-administered and self-scored by hand, making it highly efficient for both individuals and group settings.
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Career Decision Scale (CDS)
The Career Decision Scale (CDS) is a concise, 19-item paper-based assessment designed to measure educational and occupational indecision in high school and college students. Taking under 30 minutes to complete, this 4-page test booklet provides an estimate of career uncertainty and helps counselors track the impact of their academic interventions.
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Career Exploration Inventory – EZ 2nd Edition (CEI-Easy)
The Career Exploration Inventory – EZ 2nd Edition (CEI-Easy) is a quick, 20-minute interest inventory designed to help job seekers discover, map, and plan their future educational, work, and leisure paths. Consisting of 96 distinct activity items, this streamlined assessment features a highly accessible, easy-to-read format that makes it an excellent choice for individuals or group settings with limited time.
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Career Intake & Counselling Scale
The Career Intake & Counselling Scale (CICS) is a highly structured, 20-minute paper-based assessment designed to identify an individual’s most significant and urgent career development needs. By evaluating 50 distinct concern statements on a simple three-point scale, this tool isolates the specific personal or professional deficiencies that actively prevent people from finding or keeping a job.
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Career Motivation Profile
The Career Motivation Profile – 2nd Revision is a fast, 20-minute online screening assessment engineered to uncover what truly drives your workforce to build a highly engaging and thriving corporate environment. This comprehensive 102-question situational inventory evaluates core professional triggers, helping management design better retention strategies, realistic reward structures, and well-aligned roles for individuals aged 18 and older.
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Career Personality Inventory
The Career Personality Inventory (CPI) is a fast, under-30-minute paper assessment designed to match an individual’s distinct personality type with their long-term career and workplace preferences. Based on the classic psychological personality types created by Carl Jung, this budget-friendly inventory provides a reliable, highly cost-effective alternative to much more expensive corporate personality testing systems.
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Career Priorities Profile 3rd Ed.
The Career Priorities Profile 3rd Ed. (CPP) is a structured, under-30-minute paper assessment designed to help individuals map out their personal and professional work preferences, rank their top priorities, and see if their target career paths are truly compatible with their lifestyle goals. Rather than generating a simple score, this interactive, by-hand tool guides users through self-reflection steps that culminate in active goal planning.
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Career Thoughts Inventory (CTI)
The Career Thoughts Inventory (CTI) is a fast, 7-to-15-minute paper-based assessment designed to identify, challenge, and alter negative career thoughts that block effective decision-making. This efficient 48-item inventory can be hand-scored in about 5 minutes, providing a single global indicator of a client’s negative thinking patterns alongside three target construct metrics.
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Career Values Scale
The Career Values Scale® is a fast, 15-minute vocational assessment designed to measure the underlying work-related values that dictate an individual’s job satisfaction or dissatisfaction. Consisting of 88 items, this highly accessible test can be administered in an online or paper format to help people clarify what is truly important to them in a career.
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Computer Career Assessment Test
The Computer Career Assessment Test is a comprehensive 1-hour and 30-minute vocational screening tool designed to evaluate an individual’s natural aptitude and technical potential for computer-related occupations. Created by Bruce A. Winrow, this self-instructive assessment is available in both online and paper formats, requires only basic clerical supervision to administer, and is fully legal for use in Canada.
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Earning Capacity Assessment Form
The Earning Capacity Assessment Form™-2nd Edition (ECAF-2) is a paper-based, hand-scored evaluation tool designed to standardize, objectify, and guide the process of estimating an individual’s future loss of earning capacity following an injury or accident. Taking less than 30 minutes for an examiner to complete outside of active clinical time, this 14-item rating form helps vocational rehabilitation professionals systematically weigh the factors that either help or hinder a client’s occupational recovery. Because it is a B-Level product, buyers must submit a User Qualification Form before purchasing.
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Employability Skills Inventory
The Employability Skills Inventory (ESI) is an 80-item self-report assessment designed to help individuals quickly evaluate their own workplace strengths and weaknesses to improve their job readiness. Taking only 20 minutes to complete in either online or paper formats, this self-scoring and self-interpreting questionnaire evaluates critical skills directly mapped to federal SCANS requirements. It provides administrators with a fast snapshot of a client’s core capabilities while giving individuals clear improvement strategies and action worksheets to build their professional value.
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Entrepreneurial Aptitude Profile
The Entrepreneurial Aptitude Profile is an online pre-employment and skills training assessment designed to determine whether an individual possesses the core psychological traits needed to succeed in an entrepreneurial or high-drive business role. Taking approximately 25 minutes to complete, this 131-question self-report inventory evaluates candidates across four main performance factors divided into 14 distinct scales, including risk-taking, passion, and innovation. Fully ATS compatible and compliant with APA and EEOC standards, it compares results directly against general population and business owner benchmarks to deliver immediate graphical reporting and tailored interview prompts.
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Entrepreneurial EDGE
The Entrepreneurial EDGE™ is an intermediate-level self-report assessment designed to measure the vital competencies and behavioral patterns needed to succeed in business ventures and innovative roles. Taking 20 to 30 minutes to complete via a physical paper booklet, this instrument scores individuals across 12 key competencies grouped into four primary action modes: Mindset, Self-Management, Dealing with Others, and Business Orientation. Backed by over 20 years of research, it helps both individuals and organizations look past standard professional backgrounds to evaluate a person’s natural suitability for business ownership versus a conventional career path, providing targeted development guides and tailored report tracks for both independent business owners and internal company innovators.
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Entrepreneurial Personality Assessment
The Entrepreneurial Personality Assessment is a rapid, 10-minute online screening tool designed to evaluate which aspects of an individual’s personality are well-suited for running a business and which traits could pose an operational risk. This 60-question self-report inventory scores candidates across seven distinct scales—including self-sufficiency, risk-taking, and networking ability—to highlight an individual’s unique behavioral strengths and limitations. Fully compliant with APA and EEOC standards, it compares results directly against general population and seasoned entrepreneur benchmarks to generate an immediate online report complete with custom interview prompts and tailored advice.
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Entrepreneurial Style & Success Indicator
The Entrepreneurial Style & Success Indicator (ESSI) is a self-administered assessment designed to identify an individual’s inherent entrepreneurial tendencies, motivations, and professional propensities. Taking less than one hour to complete, this tool is available in both online and paper formats and can be scored by hand or automatically through an online portal. The evaluation is split into two parts: a style assessment that maps the test-taker to one of 21 proprietary style patterns, and a benchmarking section where individuals rank themselves against 28 top entrepreneurial success factors derived from research on 4,000 successful entrepreneurs.
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Financial Literacy Inventory Test
The Financial Literacy Inventory (FLI) is a paper-based, self-scoring evaluation tool designed to benchmark a person’s basic knowledge of personal money management. Taking approximately 20 minutes to complete, this 60-item assessment is based on prominent national financial standards, including the FDIC’s Money Smart program and the JumpStart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy. Because it is entirely hand-scored and self-interpreting, it functions as an all-in-one consumable booklet that does not require additional software components, making it an excellent resource for counseling, coaching, and educational guidance.
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Franchisee Personality Profile
The Franchisee Personality Profile (FPP) is an online screening assessment designed to evaluate how well a prospective buyer’s personality, attitudes, and management skills match the ideal profile for running a successful franchise. Taking an average of 35 minutes to complete, this situational self-report inventory measures vital traits—such as leadership, self-efficacy, and risk-taking—across four specialized industry versions. Fully ATS compatible and compliant with APA and EEOC standards, it compares results directly against established corporate benchmarks to generate an immediate online profile, complete with tailored interview prompts and a fraud-detecting “Impression Management” metric.
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Hairstylist Aptitude Personality & Attitude Profile
The Hairstylist Aptitude Personality & Attitude Profile evaluates whether a person has the skills and traits to be successful in the Hairdressing field.
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Job Style Indicator
The Job Style Indicator helps measure the work style requirements of a specific job, role, or responsibility.
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Security Guard Career Test
The Security Guard Career Test assesses whether a person has the personality traits and abilities required to succeed in a career in security.
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Tests of Dyslexia
The Tests of Dyslexia is a comprehensive battery of tests and resources designed to help identify and plan interventions for individuals of all ages with dyslexia.
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Transferable Skills Scale Inventory
Use the Transferable Skills Scale Inventory to help identify an individual’s strongest transferable skills across 96 task areas.
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Transition-to-Work Inventory
Use the Transition-to-Work Inventory to help individuals with little or no work experience can identify their job options and make their career transitions more effective and rewarding.
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Values Profile
The Values Profile – 4th Revision will determine the personal work values that matter most to an individual.
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Vocational Preference Inventory
Use the Vocational Preference Inventory to help to quickly assess career interests in youth, young and mature adults.
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Vocational Style & Personality Assessment
The Vocational Style & Personality Assessment – Revised is designed to assess a person’s interests, values, and preferences surrounding his or her career.
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Vocational Style & Personality Assessment – For Students
The Vocational Style & Personality Assessment – For Students is designed to assess a student’s interests, values, and preferences surrounding his or her career.
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