Career assessments help you understand more about your strengths, preferences, and interests and how they might relate to different careers.They can be a critical part in picking the career that fits best with your personality and abilities.  A good career "fit" should enable you to work happily in your career choice for many years.

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Although no assessment is perfect, their value is in helping you understand a bit more about yourself.  By understanding more about yourself, you should be able to make better decisions regarding your career.

Unfortunately, choosing, understanding, and appropriately interpreting assessments is not as simple as we might wish.  Many "instruments" are available, with varying degrees of complexity, validity, and applicability.

In this section of Job-Hunt, Susan Guarneri, the Assessment Goddess, will help you understand your options and how to effectively use career assessments to choose the best career for you.

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