{"id":774492,"date":"2012-05-09T18:02:52","date_gmt":"2012-05-09T18:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodwill.org\/blog\/general\/advance-your-career-with-free-online-testing-resources\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T13:57:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T13:57:44","slug":"advance-your-career-with-free-online-testing-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goodwill.org\/blog\/career-and-financial-advice\/advance-your-career-with-free-online-testing-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Advance Your Career with Free Online Testing Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4>Question<\/h4>\n\u201cWhere can I get career testing that helps me find a job that suits me best?\u201d \u2013 Maurice from Charleston, SC\n<h4>Answer<\/h4>\nThese days it seems people are making a living in more and more creative ways. Ivy-league college drop-outs strike it rich thanks to some caffeine-fueled website idea.\u00a0 Some people make careers out of posting videos periodically on YouTube to inform or entertain the masses.\n\nSo what about the rest of us, who don\u2019t excel at comedic timing, aren\u2019t incredible at video games or can\u2019t speak the language of the computers?\n\nIf you don\u2019t know what you want to do, you\u2019re not the only one; the fact is, a lot of us have no idea what jobs best suit our skills. Unfortunately, in today\u2019s economy the good ol\u2019 trial-and-error method of trying different jobs over the span of many years could be career suicide.\n\nLucky for those who don\u2019t have a clear career vision, there are many free resources online for clearing up this vision. While these sites are by no means all that\u2019s out there, the following two sites are ones I\u2019ve had personal experience with and can confidently preach the legitimacy of.\n<ul>\n\t<li>First is <strong><a title=\"MyNextMove website opens in a new window\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mynextmove.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mynextmove.org<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0 This is a fantastic resource that starts out strong by asking the question, \u201cWhat do you want to do for a living?\u201d If you already know, you can search for specific careers using keywords.\u00a0 If you have a general idea, you can browse by industry. And if you have no idea, you can take a short assessment where you answer questions about what you like to do.The website will use these answers to suggest different types of careers, as well as tell you whether those careers have a bright outlook, are environmentally friendly jobs or require a registered apprenticeship.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n\t<li>The next website is <strong><a title=\"CareerOneStop website opens in a new window. \" href=\"http:\/\/www.careeronestop.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">careeronestop.org<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0 Under the job seeker section there is an area called \u201cassess yourself\u201d where you can chose from multiple options designed to lead you onto a suitable career path.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nSo if you\u2019re lost and need a little guidance try those resources, or look around for yourself until you find something you\u2019re comfortable with.\u00a0 You can also check in with your <a title=\"Goodwill locator opens in the same window\" href=\"http:\/\/locator.www.goodwill.org\/\">local Goodwill<\/a> headquarters to find out about career assessment and preparation options available in your area.\n\nYou never know, if you take an assessment on a website it might just tell you that YouTube Star is the perfect career choice.\u00a0 We can dream can\u2019t we?\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maurice from Charleston, SC, asks, \u201cWhere can I get career testing that helps me find a job that suits me best?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":767395,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[106],"class_list":["post-774492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-career-and-financial-advice","tag-start-your-job-search"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodwill.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodwill.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodwill.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodwill.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodwill.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=774492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodwill.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":778729,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodwill.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774492\/revisions\/778729"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodwill.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/767395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodwill.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodwill.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodwill.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}