Assessment is the First Step to Building a Successful Career!

When you plan your next vacation, you begin with a destination. From there, you work backwards by putting together the details of travel, lodging, meals, etc. Similarly, the development of the career component of your “Life Map” begins with a destination. Your ‘Life Map’ becomes a real way for you to get to your objective. Unfortunately, today’s Academic Administrators and Career Counselors are increasingly challenged to facilitate your journey toward your career objectives. That is where career builder assessment tools come in.

Assessment tools have evolved into a highly effective and efficient way to choose your destination and get assistance developing your ‘Life Map’. The variables that determine what makes a successful placement are often difficult to measure and discern. The areas of interests, values, transferable (soft) skills and knowledge (hard) skills and others have tremendous impact on your satisfaction with a chosen vocation. As long as the emphasis on work in our culture continues to grow, happiness becomes more dependent on your ability to make correct decisions regarding your passion and preference for it. The proper assessment tool provides easy to understand and immediate scientific data in these areas.

Today’s career builder assessment tools are inexpensive, quick (30 minutes or less) and highly user friendly. Advances in technology now allow for paperless administration/scoring, immediately available results ‘flying’ over the Internet and linkages with exhaustive databases designed to enhance many forms of career exploration. With these tools, you now have vast resources available to you to ensure your ‘map’ takes you down the road you had planned.

Thomas Buonomo MS, LMHC, CAP
(Chief of Design)