Career Assessments

Highlands Ability Battery

The Highlands Assessment test helps determine what you do best by revealing your natural talents, gifts, and abilities. The assessment instrument shows your cognitive strengths and guides you towards your career options. It is an objective way to assess various qualities in a virtual online format. There is no pass/fail or good grades/bad scores. Most of the assessment is a series of engaging online games, called work samples.

The Highlands Ability Battery assesses the performance of objective tasks that measure natural abilities.  The Highlands reveals your approach to problem-solving, decision-making, preferences for working alone or in groups, and learning techniques that help recall pertinent information.

It’s a great tool to use for future planning efforts prior to investing in an education or career choice.

EQ-i 2.0 Emotional Intelligence

Emotional Intelligence is the skill of effectively perceiving and expressing ourselves, developing and maintaining social relationships, making good decisions, and managing stress.

When you have awareness about your self-regard, assertiveness, independence, interpersonal relationships, problem-solving, impulse control, and other Emotional Intelligence subscales, you have significantly increased the opportunity for success in school and the workplace.

Your understanding of your Emotional Intelligence:

• increases the potential for academic success
• encourages retention in a chosen area of study
• improves the experience of adjusting to school
• aids in preparation for a future career path
• and promotes successful efforts towards graduation.

EQ-i 360-Degree Emotional Intelligence Assessment

The Emotional Quotient 360 (EQ-i 360) is an Emotional Intelligence assessment test that allows you to assess yourself and receive feedback from peers, managers, and direct reports. The 360-degree process provides you with a balanced and well-rounded understanding of how others view your skills and behaviors, which has an overall impact on your personal and professional success.

Through this process, you will develop a customized development plan enabling you to implement a well-thought-out plan for development.

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)

The MBTI assessment test offers valuable insight into your personality preferences and provides a simple, positive foundation for personal development and self-awareness. Taking the MBTI will help you get to know yourself better, guide career decisions, enhance your interpersonal skills, have better relationships with family, friends, and coworkers, and make better choices in your life. It will help you become the best version of yourself that you can be.

The MBTI is based on Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung’s work, who studied

• how people experienced the world and process information (perception)
• how they evaluate their experiences and information (judgment)
• where they primarily focus their energy

These form the core of our identity. It is the most widely used assessment of personality globally and is the most reliable and valid indicator of Jungian personality. Myers and Briggs, the instrument developers, identified 16 patterns of personality that describe a dynamic energy system of interacting personality preferences expressed as pairs of opposites.

The MBTI can be used during career conversations, professional development, and for life coaching.

PRINT® Why of You

Everyone has core motivations that drive their actions and behaviors. PRINT®, created by The Paul Hertz Group, reveals what these motivators are and clarifies what is needed to bring out people’s best. PRINT® is a valuable guide to creating success and revealing what can be done to face and overcome important decisions and challenges including career exploration.

Every PRINT® exhibits Best Self, Shadow Behavior, and Triggers.  Career Requirements/Role Alignment information will be made available when appropriate.  The goal of the Why of You® program is to teach people how to diminish the frequency of Shadow behavior and increase the presence of Best Self. Shadow is people’s automatic response to the stressors in their lives. A person’s professional and personal environment plays a role, as well as their level of self-awareness.

By taking the assessment test you will:

• Identify factors that need to be in place for you to be fulfilled and successful
• Understand how you view things, how you respond to people and situations and what you need to be satisfied and at your best
• Uncover core needs that must be met in order to find a fulfilling career
• Learn how you “show up” when your core needs are met and what you might look like when the core need is not being met, what brings out your best and worst, and what you should try to minimize and maximize in your career

PRINT® is a 10 to 15 minute statistically validated, highly accurate online instrument. 

Knowing what really motivates you is not the same as knowing your strengths and interests, talents, and skills which other career assessments reveal.  The information has the power to transform a highly speculative event like job search or career choice decisions into a predictable format where you know what is going to fulfill you and where you can have confidence that your choices will allow you to perform at your peak.

“When a person’s core motivations are not being satisfied by a career or job, it’s a pretty sure bet that fulfillment, engagement, and success will be compromised.” The Paul Hertz Group

Strong Interest Inventory®

The primary purpose of the Strong Interest Inventory is to help individuals match their interests with occupational and educational choices.

To develop occupational classifications, John L. Holland proposed six basic categories of occupational interest. In our culture, people can be categorized in these six themes:

• • Realistic – practical, physical, hands-on, tool-oriented
  • Investigative – analytical, intellectual, scientific
  • Artistic – creative, original, independent, chaotic
  • Social – cooperative, supporting, helping, healing/nurturing
  • Enterprising – competitive environments, leadership, persuading
  • Conventional – detail-oriented, organizing, clerical

In theory, all possible combinations of six themes can be established and we review the top two together. These environments allow people to use their skills, interests, personality and take on problems they find satisfying and avoid responsibilities they do not prefer.

The Strong Interest Inventory is a psychometrically sound instrument, is administered online, and takes approximately 20-40 minutes to complete.

The Knowdell Values Assessment test can help you identify what is most important to you in your life. Getting to know your values will assist you with important decisions about what to do after high school and college, what type of job will feel like a fit and the best environment for you. When you become more self-aware, you can articulate to others during your college visits or in the job search what is important to you.

For example, if one of your values is “fun & humor,” but the culture of the company (or college) you are considering does not have those qualities, you can decide whether it will be a fit for you.

This instrument will help you prioritize your top eight values in less than ten minutes. The other values you ranked are included in your report under the following categories: often, sometimes, seldom, and never.