Friday, 28 March 2014

Why Career Assessments are Only for Fun

Remember in high school when we all got to fill out the fun career assessment test and it would tell us the career that we were best suited for? As one who loves filling out forms, those were always the best days in class.


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But they aren’t the best to judge what would suit you as a career. First off, you can cheat the system. I used to do it all the time. I thought I knew what I wanted to be so I answered the questions accordingly to get the answer that I wanted. Granted, they are handy to give ideas to jobs that aren’t well known, or ones that you hadn’t thought of yet, but most of these test pigeon-hole you into one general ideal.

Like the Myers-Briggs test. One can relate with a lot of those things on either side of the spectrum, so it isn’t fair to put you into one box.

Do you hold a lot of value in these, or do you also think that they’re just something fun to do?


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