Career Exploration Inventory – EZ 2nd Edition (CEI-Easy)

The Career Exploration Inventory – EZ 2nd Edition (CEI-Easy) guides job seekers in exploring and planning life, work and leisure activities and identify their major interests.  See the Career Exploration Inventory 5th Edition too.

The Career Exploration Inventory – EZ 2nd Edition (CEI-Easy) is the perfect interest inventory if you have limited administration time or work with individuals who need an easy-to-read format. Like the best-selling Career Exploration Inventory, the CEI EZ guides students and job seekers in exploring and planning three major areas of life-work, leisure activities, and learning. But the CEI EZ has fewer items and five steps, making the benefits of the CEI accessible to everyone.

With the Career Exploration Inventory – EZ 2nd Edition (CEI-Easy) individuals reflect on 96 activities and consider their past, present, and future interest in them. Scores connect to 16 career interest areas based on the U.S. Department of Education career clusters. Related jobs, education and training options, and leisure activities are listed for each interest area. An action plan helps individuals focus on their top interest areas and consider short- and long-range goals.

What It’s Best Used For

This inventory is best used by teachers, career counselors, and workforce development administrators to guide students or clients who need a simple, fast-paced roadmap to align their hobbies and talents with realistic job pathways.

• Evaluating 3 Core Life Pillars: The inventory uniquely links three critical areas of an individual’s life—work preferences, leisure activities, and learning options—into a single evaluation.
• Tracking 16 Career Clusters: Taker scores automatically connect to 16 distinct career interest fields modeled after the U.S. Department of Education career clusters, providing lists of relevant occupations and training programs.
• Measuring a Unique Interest Timeline: It uses a specialized developmental layout that prompts users to reflect on their past, present, and future interests to see how their passions have evolved over time.
• Building a Goal-Oriented Action Plan: The tool guides test-takers through a five-step self-interpretation framework to establish clear, concrete short- and long-term professional milestones.

The evaluation is available in online and paper formats, utilizes a fully self-scoring/self-interpreting setup that requires no outside hardware, and is entirely legal for use in Canada.

For the new edition, the items have been revised to reflect changes in technology and society, job titles have been updated, and steps and wording have been streamlined for even easier reading.

Key Features and Benefits

• The CEI-EZ offers the distinct advantage of including three major interest areas (work, leisure, and learning) in one device.
• Allows people to identify their major interest clusters; explore a variety of work, leisure, and education options; and develop a career action plan.
• Quick and easy to use. This is the interest inventory of choice for teachers, counselors, and administrators who don’t have a lot of time to devote to the assessment process.
• Can be completed in 20 minutes.
• Incorporates a developmental format not used in other interest inventories. The CEI-EZ measures individuals’ past, present, and future interests. By reflecting on the interests they have developed over time, individuals are able to plan for the future.
• Can be given to groups or to individuals.

Package of 25 Self-scoring/self-interpreting booklets, consumable, no other components needed.

Includes free Administrator’s Guide in each package.