Identify your career skills. What type of technical communicator career best meets your personality characteristics? Take one of the tests below to find out. Personality tests help you identify your natural strengths and preferences. Use this information to identify the ideal career path for you. Learn more about techcomm job finding in California.
Identify your career skills
- Motivational Appraisal of Personal Potential (MAPP) Test
Take the MAPP (Motivational Appraisal of Personal Potential) test that reveals your natural motivations and talents. The MAPP career test is perfect if you’re feeling burned out or are unsatisfied in your current job. Start by taking the free online career test, which will give you an overall idea of where your true career motivations lie along with your top ten vocational areas. Then, if you’re like most people, you’ll want to get some new career ideas. That’s what’s unique about the MAPP test. After you take the test, you are matched against over 1000 possible careers in the career database. - Keirsey Temperament Sorter (KTS-II)
Take the Keirsey test that uses personality profiling to help you find the career to which you are best suited. Keirsey Assessments are the product of more than seven decades of research on human behavior. The Temperament in the Workplace report is designed to you increase your effectiveness in the workplace. It provides an analysis of your personality type, leadership style, workplace preferences, and specific advice on areas of strength to emphasize, as well as areas of potential blind spots. - Queendom
Access more than 30 career tests including communication skills, coping skills and success likelihood tests. Queendom is the land of tests … so many of them that the sheer choice of topics will inspire you on the road to self-discovery. This site is an interactive venue for self-exploration with a healthy dose of fun. They offer a full range of professionally developed, high-quality, and scientifically validated psychological assessments that empower you to grow and reach your full potential. They provide insightful feedback through a detailed, custom-tailored analysis.
Leverage your temperament
Do you have introverted tendencies? Many techcomm professionals do. The current President of the STC, Ben Woelk is also an introvert and a leader in the field. Visit Ben’s podcast and Introverted leadership presentations to learn more.
