Personality and Interest Inventories

During the hiring process, many employers utilize personality and interest inventories to determine whether a potential hire is going to fit well with the organization or if they demonstrate the appropriate skills necessary. Personality and interest inventories can also be beneficial for job seekers to understand their own information both professionally and personally. Here are a few inventories and assessments that you can take at home to see what are your identified strengths!

1.) O*NET: O*NET is one of the largest career resource sites, used by career centers all over and updated regularly with information on thousands of jobs every day. Using their “My Next Move” page, you can take a quick questionnaire based on the Holland method to help identify potential fields of interest and associated careers. Additionally, this site provides a snapshot of education and skill requirements as well as projected growth and salaries of positions. https://www.mynextmove.org/

2.) Myers-Briggs Personality Test: One of the best-known personality assessments, the MBTI categorizes participants into one of sixteen personality archetypes made up of four-letter combinations. Each letter represents one of the four-axis of personality and helps identify strengths and weaknesses for individuals. The official assessment costs $50 dollars to order at https://www.mbtionline.com/, but smaller, free versions can easily be found online.

3.) The Big-Five Personality Assessment: Another well-known and popular assessment, the Big-Five provides information about personality preferences and strengths related to openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. These facets are further broken down into factors associated with each of the five and serves more as a general personality assessment. A version of this assessment can be accessed at https://openpsychometrics.org/tests/IPIP-BFFM/.

4.) The Holland Code: While used by O*NET, this assessment can also be done individually to identify a specific three-letter code representing six broad areas into which all careers can be classified. This assessment takes approximately 20 minutes to complete and can be done here: https://www.truity.com/test/holland-code-career-test.

5.) The PI Behavioral Assessment: This assessment has been widely used by businesses over the past 60 years to identify potential hires’ motivations and determine potential roles of strength. This assessment has no time limit and can be easily accessed at https://www.predictiveindex.com/assessments/behavioral-assessment/.

6.) Enneagram Personality Test: This assessment categorizes test-takers into one of nine personality types based on core emotions, fears, and beliefs and identifies their primary type along with a secondary type. You can take the official test for $12 at https://www.enneagraminstitute.com/, but like the MBTI there are free versions available elsewhere on the internet.