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Assessing your interests and skills

What interests you?

What are you good at?

The answers to these questions are critically important in finding the right career path for you!

If you need help answering these questions take either or both of the assessments below. They take about 10 minutes a piece to complete. When you are done, you’ll see a results page listing career fields and specific occupations that may be a good fit for you based on your answers.

  • Take an interest assessment – Considering a career change? Just starting out in the work world? Knowing what interests you can help you find the right career path. The CareerForce Interest Profiler will show you which occupations match the interest categories you score strongest in
  • Take a skills assessment – Wondering what skills areas you are strongest in? Need to know more about how past experience could prepare you for future work? The CareerForce Skills Matcher will show you which occupations match the skills categories you score strongest in.

More about how assessments help find the right career path for you

When you complete an assessment, you will see a results page that shows you occupations that may be a good fit for you. You don’t need a CareerForceMN.com account to take the assessments, but if you want to save your results and use them to set career goals, you will need an account.

  • The interest assessment results page shows how much your responses match with each of the six Holland RIASEC types, which are: Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising and Conventional. Your matches will be displayed in order of strongest match to weakest match. And further down on the page you will see a list of specific occupations that are a good match for your interests or skills, along with the following information for each recommended occupation: demand, wage ranges for Minnesota and the typical level of education required.
  • The skills assessment results page shows you a listing of 10 occupations that are a good match based on how you completed the skills assessment. The page also shows the following information for each recommended occupation: demand, wage ranges for Minnesota and the typical level of education required.