Self Discovery and Career Exploration

Self-Assessments

Self-assessments help you identify your unique strengths, skills, interests, and personality so that you can make informed career decisions. UMass Career Services utilizes a range of self-assessment tools to guide you throughout your academic career.

Self-Assessment Tools

Via Strengths

The Via Strengths survey measures 24 character traits such as curiosity, creativity, fairness, humor, perspective, and perseverance that can be applied across a range of interactions including work, home, school, and social. Users of Via Strengths assert that the tool helps boost self-awareness and confidence and find greater well-being.

Clifton Strengths

Clifton Strengths is a performance-based assessment that helps you understand your innate strengths, especially in the workplace or on teams, such as strategic thinking or relationship-building. Over 90% of Fortune 500 companies use Clifton Strength assessments in their workplace. Access to Clifton Strengths is for currently enrolled students looking to explore career related advising, as well as career programming.

Focus 2 Career

Focus 2 Career is an assessment tool that helps you explore your interests, values, personality, and skills, and then map them to possible careers that best suit you. To use FOCUS2, you will need to set up a FREE account using UMass access code, "Goodell". Once you have completed your FOCUS2 assessment, schedule an appointment with your career advisor to go over the results.

16 Personalities

16 Personalities is an assessment based on the Myers-Briggs and Carl Jung typological approach. This assessment can help you understand your own personality as well as how others' personalities affect workplace culture and teams. Understanding your personality can help you discover careers that are most suitable to you. Users of 16 Personalities describe it as, "freakishly accurate!"

Career Exploration

Career Exploration is the process of researching and learning about modern work opportunities and then evaluating how those opportunities would match with your own personality, interests, and skills.