Free, online services
The following tests are available for free online and can be a good start to identifying
your next career.
Human Metrics: Using both Jung’s Typology and Myers-Briggs insights (see below), Human Metrics takes
you through 64 questions to rate you on both scales. The results explain to you how
each piece relates to your personality type.
Career Key: Another career aptitude test that costs a fee is Career Key. This online career assessment
tool determines how similar you are to six different personality types. The results
are linked to occupational choices.
CareerOneStop Interest Assessment: Answer 30 quick questions online to get a list of careers that might be a good fit
for your interests.
CareerOneStop Work Values Matcher: Answer questions about different aspects of a job or workplace to help you find
your ideal work environment.
O*NET Interests Profiler: My Next Move’s O*NET Interest Profiler is administered by the United States Department
of Labor. Users take a 60-question interest inventory that yields a profile of interest
tendencies, including six areas: Realistic, Investigative, Social, Enterprising, Conventional,
and Artistic.
Skills Matcher: The Department of Labor has developed this resource to enable users to assess the
skills they want to incorporate into their careers. You will rate basic skills like
reading, writing, speaking, scientific reasoning, and critical thinking, as well as
more specialized social, technical, analytical, computer, problem-solving, and resource
management skills.
CareerExplorer: CareerExplorer is a free platform for users to assess their interests, personality
types, abilities, career values, and preferred work and social environments in order
to find matches that will lead to satisfying careers. The assessment suggests careers
after users respond to a series of questions. There's detailed information available
on each of the suggested career options. In addition, users can browse occupations
by clusters like health and nutrition, law, arts and entertainment, animals, food
and drink, politics and law, sports, travel, music, engineering, and science.
Identify your skills and interests, explore occupations and local job/employer needs.
NC Careers
Identify your skills and interests, explore occupations and local job/employer needs,
identify education and training opportunities, and prepare to enter the job market.
Career Resources
CareerOneStop
Learn about different careers, find information about the employment outlook and salaries,
access job-search tools as well as employment and training programs, and locate a
variety of other career resources. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor.
Career OneStop
O-NET Online
The Occupational Information Network (O*NET) is a free online database that contains
hundreds of descriptions of occupations to help you understand today's world of work.
O-Net
Resources to connect you to the perfect career!
College Central Network
Register with College Central Network and begin searching for part-time, full-time,
and temporary employment. Want more exposure? Consider uploading your resume for recruiters.
There are approximately 3,000 registered employers on College Central Network (CCN).
Visit CCN
To register:
- Visit the College Central Network
- Select "Sign Up"
- Use your HCC student ID for your user ID
- Create an 8-10 character password
LinkedIn
LinkedIn is the world's largest professional network on the internet. You can use
LinkedIn to find the right job or internship, connect and strengthen professional
relationships, and learn the skills you need to succeed in your career.
LinkedIn
