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myfuture's personalised career guidance tool.

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CareerNavigator is an Australian online career exploration program which will help you to clarify your job-related interests, explore suitable career options, and develop your own career plans. This software is ideal for use in career development programs.

Job and career planning
The Queensland Department of Employment and Training has information online to help you in your job and career planning

Self-Assessments (From RMIT University website)
Career decisions start with a process of self-assessment. What are you good at? What do you like and dislike? What are your principal achievements? And so on. The Assessment Centre will help you self-assess online – take a personality test, audit your skills, consider different decision making styles and much more. Work your way through the Assessment Centre to conduct a personal inventory that will open your eyes to new options, help you understand your decisions and give you the insight to act appropriately.

The LiveCareer Test, An American site, also known as the Career Directions Inventory, was created by Douglas N. Jackson, Ph.D., a world authority in human assessment. Over the course of his long and prolific career, he published over 200 journal articles and several dozen book chapters. He was the former chair of the American Psychological Association's Committee on Psychological Tests and Assessments. He served as President of the Society for Multivariate Experimental Psychology and as President of the American Psychological Association's Division of Measurement, Evaluation and Statistics. They are able to provide this free service due to the willingness of their users to learn about career opportunities, educational options, and other offers.

MAPP is a personal assessment that takes 15 minutes to complete. MAPP identifies your true motivations toward work and allows you to match yourself to job categories to see where you best fit.

Career Exploration Canadian site
Look at your skills and interests, look at the world of work, make a plan, and manage your career.

Last updated 15 November, 2007
What is a career.