Work your way through each of the assessments described below.
 

Your interests	Your motivators
Your preferred skills	Your personality
Your preferred work values	Your educational aspirations

Personality Strengths Assessment

(Print this worksheet to complete this exercise)

To help you sharpen your focus on who you are, work through this checklist of personal characteristics. First, read each word and underline the ones that describe you as you are now. Then, look back over the list and place a check to the left of the words that are most highly descriptive of you. Later, when you are exploring the personal strengths that are tapped by different careers and career roles, your responses to these words will help you make appropriate choices of direction.

As you respond to the list, try to recognize all the qualities you possess - irrespective of whether they have been expressed until now. Now glance again over this long list and see if you used few checks, that is, if you identified only a few adjectives as highly descriptive of you. Check any you missed at your first evaluation. Many people fail to identify their strengths adequately.

Your strengths are important to know about yourself, but your weaknesses matter too. Knowing your weak spots will help steer you away from certain career activities or fields, or may suggest areas which you wish to change by education, experience, or some kind of "restyling" of yourself. For example, "I am impatient" or "I am confused by any work that involves numbers."

Sampling of Personality Strengths
 

Academic	Dignified	Loyal	Retiring
Active	Discreet	Mature	Robust
Accurate	Dominant	Methodical	Self-confident
Adaptable	Eager	Meticulous	Self-controlled
Adventurous	Easygoing	Mild	Sensible
Affectionate	Efficient	Moderate	Sensitive
Aggressive	Emotional	Modest	Serious
Alert	Energetic	Natural	Sincere
Ambitious	Fair-minded	Obliging	Sociable
Artistic	Farsighted	Open-minded	Spontaneous
Attractive	Firm	Opportunistic	Spunky
Bold	Flexible	Original	Stable
Broad-minded	Forceful	Outgoing	Steady
Businesslike	Formal	Painstaking	Strong
Calm	Frank	Patient	Strong-minded
Capable	Friendly	Peaceable	Sympathetic
Careful	Generous	Persevering	Tactful
Cautious	Gentle	Pleasant	Teachable
Charming	Good-natured	Poised	Tenacious
Cheerful	Healthy	Polite	Thorough
Clear-thinking	Helpful	Practical	Tolerant
Clever	Honest	Precise	Tough
Competent	Humorous	Progressive	Trusting
Competitive	Idealistic	Prudent	Trustworthy
Confident	Imaginative	Purposeful	Unaffected
Conscientious	Independent	Quick	Unassuming
Conservative	Individualistic	Quiet	Understanding
Considerate	Informal	Rational	Unexcitable
Cool	Intellectual	Realistic	Uninhibited
Cooperative	Intelligent	Reflective	Verbal
Courageous	Inventive	Relaxed	Versatile
Curious	Kind	Reliable	Warm
Caring	Leisurely	Reserved	Wholesome
Deliberate	Likeable	Resourceful	Wise