Testing and Assessment
How well do you know yourself? Want to know more about your personality, your skills, your values, and your interests?
Self assessment is the first step of the career planning process. It is the process of gathering information about yourself in order to make an informed career decision. A self assessment should include a look at your values, interests, personality, and skills.
The Career Planning and Placement Center offers a variety of tests and assessments to help you determine which careers are best suited for your personality and interests.
There is no charge for most career tests and assessments. Some of the tests are self-administered and self-scored; others require professional interpretation and administration. 
Career Interest Assessments
- VIESA (Vocational Interest, Experience & Skills Survey) - This assessment contains 8 units or activities designed to help you find occupations in line with your interests, experiences and skills.
This self-administered test takes about 40 minutes.
- CISS (Campbell Interest & Skills Survey - Measures interests and skills; reflects the individual's degree of attraction to specific occupational areas and provides a comparison to individuals employed in those occupations. Adds a parallel skill scale that estimates the individual's confidence in his or her ability to perform various occupational activities.
With the CISS®, students and adults learn how their likes, dislikes, and self-reported skills compare to those of individuals who are happily and successfully employed in occupations that require post-secondary education.
Testing Materials are available at 210 Browning Learning Center at Dixie State College. This test takes around 45 minutes and costs $14.00.
- Career Clues Inventory - This is a short 24 question self-administered inventory that indicates your interest in one of three work styles: Hands-on person, people person, or information person. Your preferences are then matched to various occupations.
- Choices 2003 - Choices 2003 is a computer-assisted program that allows users to identify their transferable skills with the on-line interest checklist. Reports show related occupations.
- DISCOVER - is a computerized assessment that allows the user to identify interests, skills and values through a series of inventory questions.
Self-Awareness Assessments
- Myers-Briggs Type Inventory - There are no right or wrong answers on this test. Your answers will help show how you make decisions and look at the world. Knowing your own preference and learning about other people's can help you understand where your special strengths are, what kind of work you might enjoy and be successful doing, and how people with different preferences can relate to each other and be valuable to society. The MBTI is a great personality examination.
Testing Materials Available at 210 Browning Learning Center at Dixie State College. This test takes around 45 minutes and costs $14.00.
- Holland Personality and Work Environment Assessment - Dr. John Holland created a system of placing people's interests into groups. He believed every person's interests fit into at least one group; most fit into two or three groups. Your personal combination of Holland groups is your Holland Code. These codes may help you identify careers in which you might have interest.
This short inventory can be taken on-line or with pencil anytime at the Career Planning and Placement Center.
- Learning Styles Inventory - This is a computerized inventory which determines how individuals prefer to learn and ways in which individuals learn best.
This is an on-line inventory and can be taken anytime at the Career Planning and Placement Center computer stations.
- Kiersey Temperament Sorter - The Kiersey Temperament Sorter was developed by David Kiersey and is based upon the ideas of psychologists Carl Jung and Elizabeth Myers-Briggs. This test divides people into 16 basic categories or temperaments. People in any one group will tend to act and think more like each other than like people in other groups.
This test can be taken anytime at the Career Planning and Placement Center using a paper and pencil and consists of 70 questions.
- Other Assessments - Arrangements may be made for assessment and testing services provided by the State Department of Workforce Services as required. Testing and assessment is by appointment only, and the individual must be referred by a career counselor. Assessments include the following:
- COPS - California Occupational Preference System
- Career Occupational Preference System
- Self-Directed Search (SDS) - Holland Codes
- USES Interest Inventory
Licensing Tests
The Career Planning and Placement Center offers several State Licensing tests for students and the General Public as follows:
- ASE (Automotive Service Excellence) - Auto Mechanics are certified in all eight areas by the National Institute for Automotive Excellence (ASE) and certificates of competency may be earned in any or all of the ASE areas. Application for testing must be at least one month in advance. For more information on registration for testing, visit www.asecert.org.
- CNA - (Certified Nurses Aid) - Individuals desiring to become certified as a CNA must apply for a voucher through Utah Health Technology Certification Center (UTHCC) at (801) 593-2552.
There is no time limit for the test, but the average time is about 45 minutes to an hour. There are 100 multiple choice questions, and 80% is required to pass the test. Additionally, a 45-minute skills test is also required. Test results will be mailed to the applicant, or to the applicant's place of employment, within one week of testing.
The test is given by appointment every Tuesday. If you have been issued your voucher and are ready to take the test, call the Career Planning and Placement Center for an appointment at (435) 652-7737. For more information about the CNA program, visit www.datc.tec.ut.us/cna
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