Below are various free self assessments. Read Seven Rules About Taking Career Tests – reminds us these tools just give us food for thought.

Personality

Strengths

Learning styles

• VARK -Visual, Aural, Reading/writing, Kinaesthetic
• Learning styles inventory (5 minutes)–current version
• Multiple intelligence Quiz
• Kolb’s Learning Style Inventory–
• Grergorc Learning Styles Inventory–Someone has mapped out majors based on results

Majors/Career inventories

• My Majors
• Career Interest Profile (Strong)–New York Career Zone and California Career Zone
• O-Net Interest inventory
• Career Cluster Inventory–X may not mark the spot, but rather the general direction. From Ohio.
• Minnesota State Career Cluster Inventory
• Fantastic, in depth tool: 30 minutes in Career Explorer will give you real insight. –Highly Recommended

College exploration

• College Personality Quiz from Steven Antanoff (paper version here)

• Part One: What is Your Level of School Enthusiasm?
• Part 2: Are You a Participant Learner? >>
• Part 3: How Much Do You Love Knowledge? >>
• Part 4: How Strong Are Your Academic Skills? >>
• Part 5: How Independent Are You? >>
• Part 6: How Career-Oriented Are You? >>
• Part 7: How Socially Conscious Are You? >>
• Part 8: How Well Do You Understand Yourself? >>
• Part 9: What’s Your Academic/Social Balance? >>
• Part 10: How Eager Are You for College? >>
• Part 11: Interpreting Your Scores >>

• More worksheets from Steven Antanoff on his website. Click on writing to access them.
• 10 Step College Culture Quiz by JOyce Slayton Mitchell
• Thinking Europe: College Finder & Matching Quiz

Other

• The Values Game is really useful to focus down to your core values.
• Fantastic online card deck helps you focus on your key Values. -Highly Recommended
• Check your Mindset — PDF version
• How much Grit do you have? PDF Version
• Want to learn your source code for work that makes you come alive–do the SparkType Assessment -Highly Recommended
• -Highly Recommended: Red Bull Wingfinder is a personality assessment that focuses on your strengths, the things that you’re naturally inclined to be good at, and gives you the tools and coaching to be even better. The test measures your personality in six different areas:

• Energy
• Focus
• Creativity
• Passion
• Intuition
• Resilience

• -Highly Recommended: PrinciplesYou groups 28 archetypes into 10 categories representing a larger theme. Explore types you are similar to, and those you are not, to understand yourself and others in a new way. PrinciplesYou splits its reporting into:

• Archetypes (28 in total)
• How you prefer to think
• How you engage with others
• How you apply yourself, and
• “You” in context

• Decision Style assessment measures how you make decisions when competing motivations are at play. Developed as part of an undergraduate research project at Yale University, it reveals how you prioritize differing goals, and which drives are most influential in the choices you make.
• Based on 40 years of data science, the PATH Assessment® by GoodJob identifies your work traits and behaviors.
• This emotional intelligence quiz describes situations that we all experience in our lives (like being given difficult feedback). Once you have taken the quiz, you will receive your results as well as recommendations on how you can manage your emotions and connect more skillfully with others.
• The Predictive Index measures behavioral drives (Dominance, Extraversion, Patience, and Formality). These four key factors—or key behavioral drives—provide a simple framework for understanding employees’ and candidates’ workplace behaviors.
• Emotional Intelligence Quiz by the Institute for Health and Human Potential
• Interpersonal Skills Self-Assessment by SkillsYouNeed
• Interpersonal Communication Skills Test Online by Good Therapy
• Discover the ways you Sabotage yourself. Saboteurs are the voices in your head that generate negative emotions in the way you handle life’s everyday challenges. They represent automated patterns in your mind for how to think, feel, and respond. They cause all of your stress, anxiety, self-doubt, frustration, restlessness, and unhappiness. They sabotage your performance, wellbeing, and relationships. sed on Shirzad Chamine’s New York Times bestselling book and Stanford lectures. -Highly Recommended
• Discover your PQ® Score, the measure of your mental fitness. Based on Shirzad Chamine’s New York Times bestselling book and Stanford lectures.
• Measure your wellbeing and take action with the PERMAH wellbeing tool. Free versions for adults, teens and kids! -Highly Recommended
• Leadership isn’t a position that some achieve while others don’t, it is a skill that can be mastered! Take this 5-minute quiz to discover your level of leadership, and what you need to work on to make the most positive impact in your life, your business and with others.
• We all face two kinds of expectations—outer expectations (meet work deadlines, answer a request from a friend) and inner expectations (keep a New Year’s resolution, start meditating). Our response to expectations determines our “Tendency”—that is, whether we fit into the category of Upholder, Questioner, Obliger, or Rebel.