Self-Assessment

 

What major is the best choice for you?


What do you like to do? Which careers are right for you?

What if you don't know where to start?

Self-Assessment Tools

If you aren’t sure what you want to do, or just want a little reassurance about the decisions you are making, there are a wide variety of tools and resources at MSU that can help.

Assessment tools help you make career decisions, and aren’t a precise measure.

No assessment can tell you which job is best for you! They only help you identify good choices.

That's something only you can make a decision about.  Your skills, abilities, values, interests, and personality all determine what careers you will enjoy. Knowing what you like to do and what your values are is the key to determining your career interests, and deciding on a major.

 

Think outside the box!

  

“I tested strongly as having interests in medicine, but I knew I’d be miserable living the life of an ER doctor—I like sleep, peace and quiet, and love working outdoors. I ended up studying medical entomology—I still got to work in a medical field, and I was able to work outside with nature. Parasites are cool!”

Assessments you can take for free in the Career Services Network:
The Career Learning Center offers three different self-assessments. Each is appropriate for a different stage of your career development.

  • The Holland Self-Directed Search is a good starting point. It helps you determine your strengths and interests. You will get a list of MSU majors that you may want to consider, based on your Holland personality type.
  • BRIDGES- Choices Planner helps you assess and examine interests, work values, and beliefs about work skills. It provides nformation about occupations and related majors.

Additional, and more complex assessments, are available for a fee.  Talk to the CLC student mentors or your career advisor to determine which of these will work best for you.

Assessments you can take online:
In general, you will get more out of these sorts of assessments if you come and discuss your results with someone in the Career Learning Center. Having said that, we realize some people prefer to do things online. Here are some resources you might find useful: