Assessments

Career and personality assessments can help you decide what to major in at college, your ideal career based on your interests and personality. All career and personality assessments are affordable, statistically reliable, valid and available online with several personalized reports to choose from.  Prices include the cost of the assessment, resulting report and telephone counseling session.  Individuals seeking career change and career enrichment or students trying to decide on a college major or vocation please review the Strong Interest Inventory® instrument, Myers Briggs Type Indicator, MBTI®, and 16PF.  Careers By Design® offers teleconferencing to corporate clients as a cost and time effective alternative to traditional team development meetings. Team members take the Myers Briggs Type Indicator, MBTI®, or FIRO-B® on-line and results are reviewed by phone or by your qualified personnel.  Results are used for selection, team development, leadership and management style.

Take the Strong Interest Inventory® instrument online and choose the Strong and High School Student Report if you are a student deciding on occupation, educational programs, or volunteer positions.  The Strong College Profile and Interpretive Report is also available for college students deciding on college majors, graduate or first job career options.  If you are an adult in career transition choose the Strong Interpretive and MBTI Report.

Myers Briggs Type Indicator ®  (MBTI®): Use for Career Change, Personality Type, Team Building, and Organizational Development.
The MBTI® assessment is the most widely used personality inventory in history.  The MBTI® instrument can help individuals understand personality and the attributes of personality that make you a unique person.  The MBTI® inventory can help individuals improve work and personal relationships, increase productivity, and identify leadership and interpersonal communication. The MBTI® inventory can help individuals, groups and teams understand how they interact with others and are perceived by others.

Take the MBTI® assessment online and choose the Expanded Interpretive Report for an in-depth, personalized account of personality preferences. The MBTI® Interpretive Report offers a summary of personality type. The MBTI® Interpretive Report for Organizations identifies employee's strengths, identifies leadership style, explores a preferred work environment, and highlights areas for further development. The MBTI® Team Report can help a manager or group leader develop a cohesive and cooperative team.

Harness the power of both the Strong Interest Inventory® instrument and MBTI®™ instruments to identify optimum career options based on both your interests and personality type. The Strong and MBTI® Career Report provides focused information about career choice and career search issues using a combination of Strong and MBTI® results. The Strong and MBTI® Entrepreneur Report provides an in-depth analysis of entrepreneurial potential.

FIROB™: Use for Team Building, Leadership Style, Management Development
The FIRO-B®(Fundamental Interpersonal Relations Orientation-Behavior™) is used by by individuals and organizations to help employees understand their behavior in a working environment. The assessment evaluates how personal needs affects behavior toward other people. The FIRO-B®can offer insight into your capability with other people for management development, team building and personal growth.

The FIRO-B® Interpretive Report for Organizations provides a narrative report for individuals looking for ways to improve themselves in a business setting.  The Leadership Report using FIRO-B®and MBTI® can help individuals understand their leadership style and how others may perceive and react to them.

The 16PF Questionnaire®: Use for Selection, Corporate Career Development
Used by organizations and human resource professionals to assesses the 16 personality factors identified forty years ago by Dr. Cattell. The 16PF® has a fifth grade reading level and administration time is approximately 35 - 50 minutes.  The 16PF® Personal Profile Plus provides insights for selection decisions and on-the-job performance effectiveness planning along with Self-Review and Planning exercises for employees.  The 16PF® Human Resources Development Report addresses an individual's management style, offers valuable support in management development decisions and serves as an effective management tool.