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  Career assessment tools help a person identify her skills, personality traits, qualifications, work-related interests, and occupational objectives. As a result, she sees the types of careers that correlate with her attributes and are most likely suitable for her lifestyle. There are various online career assessment tools which may help pinpoint the particular lines of work an individual is most likely to thrive in.
  
  

Career Assessment Categories

• Career assessments can serve many purposes and focus on a range of areas. Your individual circumstances and what you're looking to get out of the assessment is a way to identify the one(s) that apply to you. According to The Riley Guide, a career and employment sources directory, career assessments are divided into the following categories: personality and type Indicators, interest inventories, skill surveys and values inventories. Personality and type indicators are centered on a person's psychological type. Interest inventories seek to calculate what a person finds most intriguing and careers that tie in with those interests. Skill surveys aim to help a person identify their aptitudes and qualifications, then illustrate the numerous job areas where those skills are needed. Finally, values inventories are individual assessments, concerning what a person finds important and what stimulates or motivates her.
  
  

Additional Tools

• Online sites also may offer career assessment plans and development. These tools help you evaluate and compare the results of your assessment tests to the profiles of different careers to gain insight into the specifics of a profession and whether or not it's right for you. Using sites that are devoted to creating personal career profiles (sometimes referred to as personal career inventories) are another way to outline your skills, experiences, interests, and future professional goals.