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Career Placement Tests For An Important Decision |
By:
Rory Francis |
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When I took my very first career placement test, I could not have found it duller. I think it was called a career interest inventory, and I was in my freshman year of high school at the time. Career placement tests were furthest from a mind at that point. All I really needed in a job was something to keep me occupied for a few hours after school and to give me money to buy parts for my skateboard. I would have been interested in any job placement test that let me get a raise, but that wasn't the reality at the time. I guess that we were supposed to start thinking about our future, but can you think of anything that is harder to get a freshman in high school to do? It would be another four years – forever for a 13 year olds – before I graduated and moved into the “real world.” Needless to say, that career placement test was a complete waste of time.
Then suddenly, the real world hit me over the head. Although I didn't think about that career placement test at the time, I did think about how unguided I felt. I was going to college because I was expected to, but I had no idea what I wanted to get into. When I went to school, I took some very interesting classes, but none of them seemed quite right to me. I wish I had remembered that career placement test. At the time, I had no idea that you could take a personality test that might give you some guidance about what fields you would be suited for. All I knew was that I had four years to get it together, get a degree, and get out of that place.
Fortunately, in my sophomore year, I finally got into the career guidance counselor's office. She gave me a career placement test, and it was quite illuminating. That career placement test actually exposed me to the possibilities of fields that I had never even considered. It turns out that all along, I had wanted to work with my hands. It was the one thing that I could not learn about at college. Although I decided to finish and get my degree, I knew that the career placement tests answer was the right one. As soon as I could afford it, I enrolled in a carpentry program. I have been much happier ever since.
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