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Online career assessment tools
How self-assessments can help
Career self-assessments support your career development by helping you build self-awareness and a strong professional identity, so you can make more informed career choices.
As you progress through your studies, you’ll gain a deeper understanding of your discipline, along with your strengths and areas for development. Completing online career self-assessments can help you clarify your skills, interests, aptitudes and strengths, giving you greater confidence about your next steps.
By completing career self-assessments, you can:
- Make informed decisions about your degree choices
- Make the most of learning opportunities and elective subjects, including workâintegrated learning
- Identify your key skills and strengths, and understand how to leverage them
- Recognise skill or knowledge gaps and develop strategies to address them
- Better understand how you work with others in different contexts, such as teamwork, leadership and social situations
Book a Career Coach+ appointment
To discuss your results with a Career Coach, select the Appointments tab on the CareerSuccess webpage.
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Take a careers assessment
Go to CareerSuccess Central to explore our career self-assessment tools and build your professional identity.
We recommend starting with the following:
- Myers Briggs Type Dynamic Indicator – Assists with understanding your preferences and how these relate to your strengths and areas for development
- Career Interest Inventory – Helps with career choices
- Other career assessment and psychometric aptitude assessments* – Assist in preparing for common recruitment screening tests and processes
* Studies show that practicing these assessments will improve your results and chances of reaching the next stage in an employer’s recruitment process.