The Strong Interest Inventory is one of the most widely used work interest inventories. IAM represented Boeing employees are a diverse group - they vary widely in age, personal background, and work history - so the STRONG can be useful when considering a job move, a complete career change, or when choosing a training program or a college major.
The STRONG can help you to:
- explore occupations for the high school graduate to four year college graduate
- explore a range of work alternatives
- narrow choices to a few possibilities
- suggest new options you have not thought of before
- support a choice you have already made
The STRONG is used to help you understand your work interests and to show you different kinds of occupations in which you might be comfortable. Your answers will be compared with the answers given by people already working in a wide range of jobs, and your score will show how similar your interests are to the interests of these people. The STRONG is not a test of your abilities; it is an inventory of your interests.
Your results will be given to you in a feedback appointment with a QTTP Career Advisor. Your Advisor will help you understand and use your results.
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is a personality inventory designed to give you information about your personal style preferences. MBTI results show your preferences for:
- Where you get your energy (within yourself or outside yourself)
- How you gather information about your world
- How you prefer to make decisions
- How you deal with your outside world
Uses of the MBTI
- Self-understanding and personal development
- Career exploration
- Team building
- Improving problem solving
- Management training
- Leadership development
- Organization development
- Diversity and multicultural training
CAPS is used to measure aptitudes, which are your learning abilities. Aptitudes are natural talents, special abilities for doing, or learning to do, certain kinds of things easily and quickly. The CAPS can help you find where your aptitudes lie, what type of work uses those aptitudes, and why certain occupations may be more rewarding for you than others.
COPS is an interest inventory that shows how your interest patterns compare to workers in 14 different occupational groups. Your scores will show how similar your interests are to the interests of people in these groups.
COPES measures your work related values. It is necessary to have some criteria to apply when you are looking for another job or choosing a training program. When you ask the question, "What do I want in a career?" you will find it helpful to clarify what you want with questions such as:
- Where do I want to live and work?
- What salary level in important for me to attain?
- What level of responsibility do I feel comfortable handling?
Vocational Version
The Career Assessment Inventory (CAI), is an interest inventory that helps identify occupational interests for individuals. Your pattern of interests is compared to the interest patterns of workers already in a wide range of jobs.
The CAI is especially helpful if you plan to enter careers that require less then two years of training after high school. The CAI can help you focus on your pattern of interests. Your interests are important in making educational and occupational choices.
A QTTP Career Advisor can help you apply your CAI results to decisions you are making.
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