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Are you trying to find career direction? The Career Center offers many assessments. To utilize some of the career assessments, inventories and surveys you may need a referral from a Saddleback College Counselor. 

The Career Center sales an assessment package to assess your interests, values, skills and personality type called Take Charge Self-Directed Assessments. This battery of assessments includes the Please Understand Me (personality), Sigi 3 (Values, Interests and Activities) and Eureka (Skills and career exploration).  The Take Charge packet is $35.00 for current students and $50.00 for alumni and community members.  Speak to a Saddleback College Counselor or the Staff of the Center for Career and Life Development for more information.

Other tests offered by the Career Guidance Services include: Sigi, Eureka MicroSkills, Please Understand Me, Strong Interest Inventory® tool, and Choice Planner (this is a partial list). Students are encouraged to review the results from any assessment with a counselor.  During the Fall and Spring semesters, career counselors will be assigned to the Career Center on an appointment basis. Call 949-582-4575 to schedule an appointment.

Sigi

This program asks you to identify and prioritize the values that are most important to you. You will also pick some areas of interest and activities that you enjoy and find rewarding. Then you will use combinations of these selections to come up with careers best suited to you

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Eureka MicroSkills

Identify and prioritize the 35 skills that you would most like to use in your life's work. The computer will match these skills to the skill set required in more than 250 careers, and identify those careers in which the skills needed most closely match the ones you have chosen. You will then have an opportunity to learn more about these careers so that you can evaluate which careers might be the best choice for you.

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Please Understand Me

Answer 72 questions that will indicate your personality type. Computer printouts will tell you how being this type effects your personal and professional life, what your career strengths and weaknesses are, and how you should best go about the career search process.

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Strong Interest Inventory® Tool

The Strong provides you an opportunity to assess your interests in a wide range of occupations, work activities, leisure activities and school subjects. Test results provide you with a RIASEC code and diagram based on your interests, which helps you identify career options and possible academic majors. A list of possible careers is provided.

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Choices Planner

Choices Planner is an online career information delivery system.  It helps students compare, connect, and choose from a vast network of work and education options, effortlessly building powerful plans using the Career Plan Builder.  All work is securely stored in Your Portfolio.

Career Cruising (Career Cruising.com)

Career Cruising is offered free to all registered students during during academic years of 2007-10, due to a generous grant from the college's foundation office.  Contact the Career Center for more information. 

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Other Assessments are offered by the CCLD, typically through a Saddleback College counselors referral only.

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