Career Assessments The more objective you are about your skills, strengths, interests, and values, the more informed and empowering your career/academic decisions will be. Process recommendations: Choose assessments that match up with your main questions or priorities. Compare results: Between different career assessments In relation to what you know about yourself - i.e. through experience To feedback received from people you respect Use career assessment results to: Inform (vs. replace) your current understanding of yourself Form new questions about: who you are, what is possible, and what career direction(s) could serve you best Inform your next career development steps Write down action steps that will help you test, confirm, rule out, or build upon career assessment results. Review your assessment results at a later time to gain additional insights. Retake assessments in the future, as needed. Interests & Values CareerOneStop Work Values Matcher CareerOneStop Interest Assessment Career Cluster Interest Survey Free Personality Test VIA Character Strengths Assessment Keirsey Temperament Sorter Your Skills & Employ-ability MySkills myFuture Assessment CareerOneStop Skills Matcher Assessment Job Skills Transfer Assessment Tool (JOBSTAT) Occupation Mobility Explorer – Find out if your current skills could be used in a higher paying job. Agile Work Profiler – Ranks your top 10 competencies, which are universal to all occupations. More Marketable Skills information Take Career / Finances / Lifestyle Assessments Visit the Reality Check webpage for assessments, calculators, and other tools that will help you determine what your financial and lifestyle goals – and how they relate to your career interests. Explore Careers & Education Options MassHire360 (previously MassCIS) is free for all Massachusetts residents and highly recommended for: career assessments, occupation research, and education research. If you are not a GCC student, use the "Massachusetts Resident" tab to login. If you are a GCC student, use the following credentials the first time you log into the MassHire360 site. Username: greenfieldcommc Password: MassHire2025 Then fill in the short form to create your own MassHire360 account. This will make it possible for you to save and refer to useful information within the MassCIS360 dashboard. Click 'Yes, it is ok for the school counselor to view my comments.' so GCC Career Readiness Services can do more to assist you. Additional tools: Education Research – What education options will inform and help you achieve your career/life goals? Occupational Research – What do occupations involve and which is the best fit for you? Expand & Deepen the Exploration Reality Checking Assessments – Do current qualifications and financial/life-style goals match career aspirations? Marketable Skills – Which skills can you market or need to obtain? Labor Market Information Research (LMI) – How can work-related data and analysis inform career choices? Experiential Research – What hands-on and real-world experiences will reveal which jobs are the best “fit”? Career Planning – Tips and graphic organizers