Research Guides: Career Exploration: Discover Career Ideas

Free Skills/Interest Profilers

You'll do the AchieveWorks assessment as part of the EDUC 1300 class. If you want a second (or third) opinion for more ideas, try these out.

Roadtrip Nation
Connect your top interests with careers, including profiles of people in those professions and how they got to where they are.
O*Net Interest Profiler
This tool will help you reflect on and identify your priorities for what you want to get out of your job. It will then suggest career clusters that relate to your values.
Skills Matcher
From CareerOneStop, this tool will help you catalog your skills and match them to job types.
Career Star: Assessment
Try the Quick Start Assessment (6 questions) or the Detailed Assessment (60 questions).
Roadmap to Careers (CollegeBoard)
Create a free account to go through an interest profiler, get suggested careers, view profiles of career leaders, and discover majors.
Career Personality & Aptitude Test
This Psychology Today assessment has 240 questions; estimated 40 minutes to complete.
Career Aptitude Test
Complete a 4-part assessment to rank your values and interests, as well as how much education you want to attain & minimum salary you'd like, to get career suggestions.

Job & Career Accelerator (part of Learning Express Library) This link opens in a new window
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Provides help with matching skills to a career, current job listings, and cover letter and resume preparation. Requires free login so you can save work online. If you are unable to register off campus, please try again using an on-campus computer.

Federal occupations by college major
list of academic majors and some Federal occupations directly related to those majors. Occupations with an asterisk (*) require an academic degree or coursework in a particular area of study for entry into the occupation.

LSC Career Services
Career Services helps you explore college major and associated careers, research employers, and prepare for interviews. Their services are free to Lone Star College students and Lone Star College alumni.