Not sure what you want to do after high school? Try taking one of these free assessments below! It’s not recommended that these tools be used as a firm diagnosis of fixed personality traits or career pathways. We view these tools as interesting guides for exploring facets of your personality and would encourage you to view them with curiosity, as no test, no matter how accurate, could fully capture the entirety of a person.
To learn more about the plan in English visit https://readywa.org/beyond/en/ and in Spanish visit here: https://readywa.org/beyond/es/
For the grade-specific HSBP resources website: English and Spanish
What might you enjoy or be good at?
Download this form to keep track of your results for the assessments below:
Take one or all of these free career/strengths exploration tools to learn more about your strengths and discover what pathways might be a good fit.
Career Bridges: Where are you going?
This first exploration tool is used by the school districts across our state to help guide students to careers and discover the educational pathways to achieve them.
Online access to quiz and career opportunities
16 Personality Types (Meyers Briggs)
These online tools are broadly used by counselors to help clients discover more about themselves and key into what motivates and gives them energy. Please take the results with a grain of salt and know that a spectrum exists within each category. We recommend the free versions of both Truity and 16 personalities for exploring this tool.
Truity: The TypeFinder® Personality Test
“The TypeFinder shows how the 23 facets of your personality make up your unique personality fingerprint. You'll discover how well you match up with all sixteen of the personality type profiles, the parts of your personality that are typical (and atypical) for your type, and how you can deeply understand your individual traits, characteristics, and preferences.” https://www.truity.com/
16 Personalities
“Get a concrete, accurate description of who you are and why you do things the way you do, for free. Our theory incorporates the latest advances in psychometric research, combining time-tested concepts with robust and highly accurate testing techniques.” https://www.16personalities.com/free-personality-test
Holland Codes
This online tool utilizes character traits that pair nicely with careers located in the 16 career clusters.
“Psychologist John Holland developed this inventory to match vocational interests with six personality types: Realistic (R), Investigative (I), Artistic (A), Social (S), Enterprising (E), And Conventional (C). A Holland Code is a three-letter code that ranks your traits, talents, and interests to help you find satisfying work. Crack your code today!”
This link will take you to WorkSource’s Holland Codes test: https://www.worksourcewa.com/careerprofile/careerprofile.aspx. Upon completion, WorkSource staff can help you navigate your career profile results.
This link will take you to Bellingham Technical College’s career exploration tool: https://secure2.btc.edu/HollandCodes, or you can search “Bellingham Technical College’s career exploration tool”, and you can enter the test from there.
Once you have your code, hop on over to Truity to learn more about how to use the Holland codes to discover a great career match for you.
This free online tool is a new way to discover career options and education pathways to get there based on your personality. Similar to Holland Codes it looks at six personality types: Realistic, Ivestigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional. By taking you through a guided interactive quiz it feels like a choose your own adventure and at the end shows you the personality traits that are closest to your answers and careers that match your personalities. It then provides more information on careers and the steps to make that career a reality.
This link will take you to the American Student Assistance page where you can get started on this quiz: https://asafuturescape.org/
ASA Futurescape
In addition to the many free assessments available above, we recommend watching local Career Coach Monique Stefens’ workshop recorded at a recent Options High School Learning with Leaders event. Embedded here is her worksheet so that you can follow along and participate in an asynchronous way.
Watch the recorded workshop here.
Follow along with the presentation here.
Support resources in High School and Beyond planning and pathways navigation:
For an overview of College & Career Knowledge for 9th-12th graders, offered in multiple languages, click here.
Explore Junior/Senior Workbook resources here, to help navigate your next steps in pursuing post-secondary education and training.
To download the Native Pathways, A College-Going Guidebook, from the American Indian College fund, click here.
For a digital version of the WSAC Graduation Handbook click here.
Fostering College Knowledge guidebook shares “money and resources are available to help you go to college - including vocational training, 2-, and 4-year options - for most Washington State schools. All of the resources listed in this guide are specific to youth who have been in foster care.
For caregivers: “Use this tool to have conversations with your child about what they’re learning and how you can support them.” https://readywa.org/families/fact-sheets-for-families/help-your-child-plan-their-path/
Career Exploration
Occupational Outlook Handbook: : U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
The U.S. Occupational Outlook Handbook let’s you search for careers that are in-demand, growing, high-paying, or just your favorite! Every time you look at a career, you can find information about what education/training you will need, how much the median income is, what they do, job outlook, local data, and similar occupations.
CAREER ONE STOP
“Find career, training, and job search resources just for you.” You can search by zip code, find local in-demand careers, and see the associated wages. We recommend making an account to explore jobs you’re interested in, identify your top careers, and organize all your results in one spot.
Pro tip: Enter your results into your High School and Beyond Plan.
“When you know who you are; when your mission is clear and you burn with the inner fire of unbreakable will; no cold can touch your heart; no deluge can dampen your purpose. You know that you are alive. ”