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 Process Works
Evaluation: 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.
Career Matching: The system compares the student’s profile to a large database of 900+ jobs to identify potential career matches. It highlights the top 10% of matches, providing students with a starting point for their career exploration.
Professional Guidance: Our Assessment Expert plays a central role. They work with the student to interpret the results, using the data as a basis for self-reflection and career exploration. Together, they refine the findings into 3–5 strong career paths for deeper consideration.
Action Plan: The final step is to develop a detailed action plan for the career options selected. With this information, the client can then move forward to then make informed decisions about their future career direction, education, or training.
Once you finish the program, what are the next steps?
Many clients use the assessment as a starting point for our broader coaching programs, where we build a tailored job-search plan. Others take it as a stand-alone tool to confirm their direction and move forward independently. Starting early helps you make intentional choices about majors, activities, and internships. For those already working, the assessment offers clarity to guide decisions about further education and long-term career goals.
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 900+ 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.
Let’s talk about how you can find career success
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