by Susan Guarneri, The Academy’s Career Assessment Expert
Combining career assessments with your career coaching practice can sometimes feel daunting. I recommend reading about different career assessments, as well as taking them yourselves. One site that does have useful information about assessments is www.16types.com – a relatively new website. In the Learning Center of this site you can locate reading resources: books and in-depth articles, such as “Using the Eight Functions to Prepare and Give MBTI® Step II One-on-One Feedback.”. It explains, via Myers-Briggs typology, how to best explain assessment results to various clients (based on the MBTI – or Kiersey – scores). The Community Center lists upcoming conferences and workshops related specifically to career assessments. For a complete listing of topic areas, go to the General Catalog tab.
Finally, in the Resource Center, several assessments are listed. Be careful – not all of these have a longstanding reputation or history. For example, the Psychological Type Indicator (PTI) was first published in 1997 and has not yet acquired sufficient reliability and validity statistics to appraise its value. However, assessments such as the Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument (TKI) and the Employee Aptitude Survey (EAS) are well-established and widely used career assessments.