Career Assessment
Are you a college student, young professional, or high school student looking for career direction? Personalized career planning from Priority Candidates moves you from indecision to your career.
What Can I Expect from This Program?
In-Depth Career Assessment Testing
One-on-One Career Path Counseling
Targeted Career Matches
Career Coach Evaluation
Find Career Direction
There are over 900 careers to choose from. If you don’t know which path to take, you…
- Waste time pursuing jobs that aren’t a good fit
- Get frustrated, lose confidence and self-esteem
- Feel stuck because you don’t know what to do next
We don’t want that for you. Our Career Assessment Specialist is an experienced Master Career Coach who is able to identify the best job matches that give you the greatest opportunity for career success.
Our Program
Priority Candidates offers an assessment program that features career guidance tools to help students explore potential jobs by determining their interests, values, personalities, and abilities.
Our Assessment Expert guides students through the process, which includes a self-exploration phase, career exploration, and the creation of an action plan. The results are used to:
- Match students with potential career paths, matching their profile to careers
- Determine majors and minors aligned with relevant career paths
- Identify skill training gaps
How The System Works
The Assessment: Students complete an online assessment that measures their interests, values, and abilities. It is based on John Holland’s RIASEC model, which categorizes individuals into six types: Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional.
The Matching: The system compares the student’s profile to a large database of jobs (over 1,000) to identify potential career matches. It highlights the top 10% of matches, providing students with a starting point for their career exploration.
The Guidance: Our Assessment Expert is crucial to the process. They work with the student to interpret the results, using the data as a basis for a self-exploration and career exploration phase to refine the results, typically arriving at 3-5 viable options for consideration.
The Action Plan: The final step is to develop a detailed action plan for the 3-5 options selected. With this information, the client can then move forward to then make informed decisions about their education, training, and future career direction.
Our Assessment Program Will Launch Your Career
We combine a scientific data-driven approach with deep insights gained from guided career planning conversations to provide a sharp focus on your unique attributes and the careers that best match your profile.
Frequently Asked Questions
Our program helps you to increase self-awareness as well as your understanding of the job market. You will learn the skills and background required to pursue a career in the areas that align with your specific career matches. The results also help you positively present your strengths during the interview process.
Most people are familiar with career assessments that only gather information about your personality or interests. While Priority Candidates recognizes the value of these tools, we use a tool that is only available to professionals, trained on the technology; this assessment provides a better foundation for our in-depth process and have the following benefits:
- Our comprehensive assessment evaluates multiple aspects of the individual, including personality profile, behavioral traits – such as perseverance and ambition, as well as occupational interests. This is the only way to accurately match an individual with a job that is a good fit.
- We work with personalized insights regarding your values and motivators to uncover meaningful insights into the type of work that will make sense for you over the long term.
- Different from more subjective career assessments, the Priority Candidates assessment process matches you with specific jobs and aligned career families that are a high-percentage fit.
At the end of our assessment process, you will have clarity, focus, and confidence, along with a roadmap to pursue your newly envisioned direction.
Yes! The Priority Candidates Career Assessment Program combines your data with your personal preferences and interests. The Assessment Specialist spends time interpreting what your results mean for you and listening to your input.
Our Career Assessment program is an individualized, coach-guided exploration of the 800+ careers you have to choose from. Whether you are a current student, recent graduate, or a young professional considering a career pivot, our assessment process maximizes the chances that you will find the right career match so you can excel and bring passion to your work. The strong relationship between job fit and engagement is critical to identifying options that match with your profile. Our clients have leveraged this process to navigate toward careers that they succeed in and enjoy.
Many of our clients use the information from the assessment as the foundation to launch into one of our career coaching programs, allowing our coaches to build and execute a customized job search plan. Others use the assessment program as a stand-alone offering, often validating their career direction, and helping them move forward on their own. It pays to start early so that choices and decisions about academic major, extracurricular involvement, and internship planning can be thoughtfully considered. If you are already working, an assessment can help you build off your experience as you make strategic decisions about further education and career aspirations.
What Follows an Assessment?
Students
College students, use your assessment outcomes to guide your course selection, or as the foundation for our Internship Coaching Program
Graduates
Graduates, use your career matches to initiate your job search, or enter into the Priority Candidates Career Coaching Program
Pivoters
Individuals, dissatisfied and looking to change careers, use your results to move in a new direction, or begin our Career Pivot Program
Let’s talk about how you can find career success
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