For Job Seekers and Career Changers

Career Interest Assessment

The Alumni Career Center offers an assessment package to help Alumni Association members increase their self-knowledge and discover new options for career satisfaction. Interest and personality preference inventories can provide valuable new insights into how one fits in the "world of work" and can validate impressions already gained through life experiences. Although these instruments will not always provide definite answers as to what career is the absolute best, they go far in aiding the decision process.

The Career Interest Assessment package is now available to individuals via Internet administration. Alumni who do not have access to the Internet can call Claudia Delestowicz at 312/575-7837 to make alternate arrangements.

The assessment package consists of:

• The Strong Interest Inventory and Skills Confidence Inventory
  The most commonly administered career assessment, the Strong Interest Inventory compares occupational, leisure and educational interests with people who are happily employed in a variety of careers. The Skills Confidence Inventory reports how well you believe you can perform different work activities needed for various occupations.
• The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
  This personality preference inventory shows how understanding individual differences can lead to more satisfying occupational choices, work roles and professional environments.

Members may complete the assessments at their convenience. After completing the instruments and submitting them for scoring, individuals will be contacted to schedule an interpretation session at the Alumni Career Center. Those who live outside the Chicagoland area will receive an interpretation session by telephone. The assessment fee also covers up to two additional advising sessions within one year of taking the assessments, to discuss career exploration and decision-making in conjunction with the assessment results and other questions and concerns that are important to you.

Members interested in registering and paying by credit card should call the Alumni Career Center at 312/575-7830. Those who wish to register and submit payment by cash or check may stop in at the Alumni Career Center during regular business hours and make payment to: University of Illinois Alumni Career Center, 200 South Wacker Dr., First Floor, MC-200, Chicago, IL 60606. Your registration will be processed within two business days. We will acknowledge your registration and provide you with instructions and the password for access to the assessment Web site.

For answers to additional questions about the career interest assessment program please contact Claudia Delestowicz at the Alumni Career Center, 312/575-7837 or e-mail careers@uillinois.edu

Career Interest Assessment / Career Exploration Package: $150
$100 for UIAA members with a package of services
(Estimated market value: $300)

• Take the Strong Interest Inventory and Skills Confidence Inventory and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator™ online
• Extensive interpretation session with a professional adviser and up to two follow-up appointments within six months
• Assessment reports and a folder of supplemental information and exercises to use in researching occupations

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