I have customers who are looking help with figuring out how to change careers. How do I help them?

There are a lot of free online career assessment tools available for library customers to use. They can range from skills assessments, personality tests, and career assessments. Try recommending a few of these:

• The Skills Profiler identifies skills and matches them to jobs.
• O*NET's Ability Profiler matches strengths with occupations.
• O*NET's Interest Profiler identifies broad interest areas.
• O*NET's Work Importance Locator identifies job features that are important to you.
• Employability Checkup provides a snapshot of your employability.
• Enneagram Test will find your personality type.

Don't forget about books! There are also quite a few popular books that you can suggest to customers to find out more about their career possibilities. Here's a couple good ones:

Do What You Are : Discover the Perfect Career for You Through the Secrets of Personality Type by Paul D. Tieger and Barbara Barron-Tieger (2001)

Uses the Myers-Briggs personality types to link to possible careers. Career advice is provided and each strengths and pitfalls of each personality type is highlighted with real-life examples.



The Everything Career Tests Book by A. Bronwyn Llewellyn (2007)

Take ten different tests to reveal work habits, affinities, and interests. Emphasis on "finding your passion" to be able to find the career path that you were destined for.