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Below are descriptions of the four types of career planning assessments you will encounter when accessing assessments links: 

1) Career Interest Inventories	2) Personality Inventories
3) Values Inventories	4) Skills Inventories

1. Career Interest Inventories (I)
A career interest inventory surveys a student's interests, aptitudes, and preferences and matches the results to occupations that are best suited for the student. A well designed interest inventory will help the student find out more about himself/herself and how these choices relate to different careers, including making matches with occupational groups and specific occupations. This opens doors to previously unidentified career options.

2. Personality Inventories (P)
A personality inventory surveys a student's unique traits, key strengths, and personal work and communication styles, providing the student with valuable personal insight. For example, a student can learn how he/she functions naturally, responds to demands from the environment, interacts with others, leadership style, and motivators/ demotivators.

3. Values Inventories (V)
A well designed values inventory helps to clarify and prioritize work-related values, enabling the student to make better career or job choices. Values are unique to each person and typically change over time; thus, values clarification is an ongoing process throughout life and career. It is important to periodically review values and priorities.

4. Skills Inventories (S)
A skills inventory surveys a student's skills, identifying those skills that are transferable as well as preferences in using certain combinations of skills. All occupations can be classified according to the use of skills in three areas: 1) Skills with Things, 2) Skills with Information, and 3) Skills with People. Most occupations use skills in each of these three areas; however, the complexity of skills in each area differs. Many skills are transferable to entirely different environments, industries, or applications.