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Ngee Ann Polytechnic Career Portal : JobsFactory. A one-stop job search portal for NP alumni and current students. Users need to register to be able to search for jobs from various companies, find out more about employers, learn about the job opportunities, build their resumes online and read up on career-related advice. It will also inform and update registered jobseekers via email the suitable job and training matches as indicated in their preferences through the Job Agent.
The Career Key : Lawrence K. Jones, Ph.D., North Carolina State University. The Career Key is to help one with career choices, career changes, and career planning, job search, and choosing a college major or training program. Apparently, more than 5,000 people visit the website daily for professional career guidance.
Cognitive Styles : www.cognitivestyles.com. The website offers a graphical approach by allowing one to click on the desired locations of the cognitive aspects of the brain, as well as with one first identifying one's trait. There is interactive navigation for the user with the pop-up boxes presenting a personality test to help one determine one's own particular cognitive style, and the cumulative scoring is depicted in a graph. There is also the option of the textual form of the assessment.
Enneagram : Eclectice Energies. The Enneagram is a personality typing system that consists of nine different types (or "enneatypes", "ennea" means "nine") . Everyone is considered to be one single type, although one can have traits belonging to the other types. The nine types identified in their respective order, from Type 1 to Type 9, are namely, Reformer, Helper, Achiever, Individualist, Investigator, Loyalist, Enthusiastic, Challenger, Peacemaker.
Five Personality Factor Test : Dr Tom Buchanan, Department of Pschology, University of Westminster. This online personality test is based on an International Personality Item Pool representation of the Five Factor Model of personality. The Five Factor Model (also known as the "Big 5") is derived from the idea that five main dimensions are necessary and sufficient for broadly describing human personality, namely, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Neuroticism and Openness.
Holland Occupational Themes : US Department of Interior. This assessment instrument measures self-reporting vocational interests and skills. It is based on the belief that interests and skills are closely intertwined, that people tend to perform well in areas they find interesting. The instrument organizes interests and skills into the following six categories, namely, Realistic (R), Investigative (I), Artistic (A), Social (S), Enterprising (E), Conventional (C). In turn, they code occupations using three of the six categories, e.g. ACE, SIR, etc.
Jung Topology Test : Humanmetrics. This assessment tool is based on the Jung- Myers-Briggs typological approach to personality. Upon test completion, the users will know their type formula according to Jung-Myers-Briggs typology, strength of the preferences and the description of their personality types. The indicator categories sixteen different combinations from four pairs of scales which represent two ends of a continuum of two preference namely, extraversion (E) or introversion (I), sensing (S) or intuitive (N), feeling (F) or thinking (T), and judging (J) or perceiving (P). The resulting personality types are depcited by four letters, eg., ENTJ or ISFP, etc.
Keirsey Temperament Sorter : AdvisorTeam. The official online provider of the Temperament Sorter II for organizational, career and personal development. It aims to help people gain new understanding of their traits, motivations, and behaviors by analysing one particular aspect of personality: temperament.The assessment results classify the users into four categories of temperaments: artisans, guardians, idealists and rationals.
Personality Assessment : Hippy's Happy Home Pages. A user will be presented with two sets of twenty questions each relating to the user's strengths and a further twenty questions relating to his/her weaknesses. Thereafter, the user's personality will be profiled and anlaysed in the four categorises of choleric, melancholic, sanguine and phelgmatic.
The Princeton Review Career Quiz : The Princeton Review. This is a forced-choice test, asking one for the most part to choose between two categories. There are interesting aspects of the test, for examples, that it is fast, with only 24 questions to answer, and also that it often presents one with some interesting career suggestions.
Queendom.com : QueenDom. This assessement instrument claims to be the world's largest testing centre, with 114 professionally developed and validated psychological tests, 111 Just-for-Fun tests, 230 mind games and quizzes. Free registration is available online; there are also other tests which are credit-based and chargeable.
Socionics Type Assistant v 1.6 : Socionics.com. Socionics is a branch of psychology based on Carl Jung's work on psychological types, Sigmund Freud's theory of the conscious and subconscious and Antoni Kepinski's theory of Information Metabolism. Socionics is based upon the idea that we are all different in fundamental ways. One's ability to process different information is limited by their particular type. A person's behaviour is dependent on a set of blocks called "psychological functions". Different ways of combining and chaining these functions result in different ways of accepting and producing information, which in turn results in different character types.
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