The U.S. Department of Labor has released a set of self-directed career exploration / assessment tools to help workers consider and plan career options, preparation, and transitions more effectively. They also are designed for use by students who are exploring the school to work transition. The Interest Profiler, Work Importance Locator / Profiler, and Ability Profiler are now available.

Each of these tools is based on a "whole-person" assessment concept. The tools will help individuals identify their work-related interests, what they consider important on the job, and their abilities in order to explore those occupations that relate most closely to those attributes. Users of the tools may link directly to the more than 900 occupations described by the O*NET database, as well as to occupational information in CareerOneStop, America's Career InfoNet, and CareerVoyages, thus making a seamless transition from assessing their interests, work values and abilities to matching their job skills with the requirements of occupations in their local labor market.

More information on the set of Career Exploration Tools may be found at the O*NET Resource Center tools page.

O*NET Testing & Assessment Guides

The O*NET team has also developed a series of Testing & Assessment Guides:

Testing and Assessment: An Employer's Guide to Good Practices
This Guide can help managers and workforce development professionals understand and use employment testing and assessment practices to meet their organization's human resources goals. It conveys the essential concepts of employment testing in easy-to-understand terms.

Tests and Other Assessments: Helping You Make Better Career Decisions This Guide is designed to help individuals better understand the different types of career assessments and how to use them in making career decisions.

More information on the series of testing & assessment guides is available from the O*NET Resource Center guides page.